Mystery & Detective

'Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer' DAILY TELEGRAPHLucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland...

On July 17 convicted serial killer Ronald Jeffreys was executed for the murders of three innocent boys. Three months after his death, the body of a boy is found butchered in the same style as Jeffrey's victims. While the small town is paralyzed with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954852948Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 411Imprint Gone Walkabout BooksPublisher Gone Walkabout BooksWeight(grams) 152g

***THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DETECTIVE SERIES***Don't miss the thrilling new Lorimer novel from Alex Gray. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is available to pre-order now'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' Alexander McCall Smith A murder on their doorstepA case...

Ben Schroeder, a talented young man from an East End Jewish family, has been accepted as a pupil into the Chambers of Bernard Wesley QC. But Schroeder is an outsider, not part of this privileged society, where wealth and an Oxbridge education are...

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.SEASON OF SHADOWS"The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this."...

'Wow! I loved this book. So much suspense!... Many twists and turns! I highly recommend reading this book!' NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars Seven days until the killer strikes again - but who is next? DCI...

The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furore in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is engaged to discover the...

A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of the motley collection of cops known as the 'bastards' of the Pizzofalcone precinct against their superiors, the press, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061474279Author Katherine Hall PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm)...

A novel faithfully based on a sensational real case in Kincardineshire in 1968 the salacious details of which, with naked parties, sex orgies, drugs, alcohol, fast cars and violence gripped Scotland. The narrative seeks to uncover the truth regarding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448311866Author Katherine Bolger HydeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

'A perfect literary treat for a rainy Sunday afternoon.' RedIt's the breezy Scottish summer of 1936 and aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver, along with trusted colleague Alec Osborne, has been called to solve the strange case of the Cramond Ferrywoman, on...

A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Boni."Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday TimesIn a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800805064Author J M DalglieshFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hamilton PressPublisher Hamilton PressWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from...

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, one of The Times Best Crime Novels of 2021, The Sunday Times Crime Club Book of the Week and one of the Observers thrillers of the month!'Riveting . . . Shindler's second novel displays an acute understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949841084Author Nell GoddinFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Goddin BooksPublisher Goddin BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 19mm

A drug deal gone bad. A daughter gone missing. A hit man on the loose. And five days to find the answers. As journalist Siobhan Fallon embarks on a hunt for a missing girl, DI Mike Mulcahy uncovers a link between Ireland's largest-ever drugs haul and the...

'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn the final page' HARLAN COBEN***The fast-paced, addictive No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Over one million copies sold.***PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF ALMOST ANYTHING.You...

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind...

An unsolved crime pits a desperate woman against a relentless killer in New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton's heart-stopping novel of psychological suspense... Fourteen years ago, Kaitlin Roe was the lone witness to the abduction of her...

Spellbinding multi-layered crime novel set in a fascinating period and place. Set in the first months of 1944, Rome is declared an 'open city' as the Allies steadily get closer. The German occupying forces know their days are numbered and yet the SS, the...

A wedding day turns into a far darker affair in the idyllic Lake District. On a glorious July morning in the pretty Lake District village of Threlkeld, Simmy Brown and Christopher Henderson celebrate their wedding day. While the event passes off...

Book 10 in the Chief Inspector George Gently case files finds Gently dodging bullets when he investigates the murder of a trucker who died in a hail of gunfire.Murdered in a lonely lay-by in the heart of the countryside, the trucker is identified as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095854Author John VerdonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

"This riveting, original, and powerful mother-daughter story kept me glued to the pages." Colleen Hoover"Filled with buried secrets and jaw-dropping deception, Sarah Pekkanen's GONE TONIGHT is a page-turning thriller about a mother-daughter you won't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773361086Author Dale MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Valley Publishing Inc.Publisher Valley Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed, bonded, insured; white, female, age thirty-two, unmarried, and physically fit. That Monday morning, I was sitting in my office with my feet up, wondering what life would bring, when a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913383589Author Howard of WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint The Funny Book CompanyPublisher The Funny Book Company

*** LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD **One day. One woman. One chance to get everyone out alive.'TELL JACK BAUER HE HAS BEEN SUPPLANTED... A taut hostage scenario' iPAPER'A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines...

The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel.If you slept with a stranger for money, who'd really end up paying?'A page-turning thriller with heart' Renee Knight, author of DisclaimerWe all think we know who we are.What we're...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739676605Author Emily OrganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander comes the second Lady Emily mystery set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves an audacious cat burglar and a brewing scandal for Lady Emily . . . London's...

1217: England has been invaded. Much of the country is in the iron grip of Louis of France and his collaborators, and civil war rages as the forces of the boy king try to fight off the French. Most of this means nothing to Edwin Weaver, son of the...

The No.1 bestseller in France, NIGHT is the thrilling new novel from award-winner Bernard Minier. The Commandant Servaz series The Frozen Dead is available now on Netflix.A woman murdered in a church in Norway.A collection of photographs on an oil rig in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528997980Author David McCaddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Death might be commonplace in 1857 in the Royal Free Hospital in London's Gray's Inn Road, but murder certainly isn't. When the body of Prudence Barrymore, a gently bred, dedicated and passionate nurse, is discovered stuffed into a laundry chute no one -...

A TELEGRAPH THRILLER OF THE YEAR 'A wild ride' Ian Rankin'Tough and uncompromising: you'll be glad you read it' Lee Child'Hilarious, gripping, poetic. I loved it' Adrian McKinty, author of The Chain 'Gripping from beginning to end'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954525047Author Maurice LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...