Mystery & Detective

MURDERA millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she?MYSTERYA crime writer's violent fictions start to come chillingly true. Has he unwittingly inspired a murderer?SUSPENSEA young woman is...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud,...

The first in a page-turning new cosy crime series from Glenda Young, this unputdownable whodunnit is perfect for fans of Julia Chapman's sixth Dales Detective Agency, Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, Betty Rowlands and Helen Cox. In the charming...

It's summertime in Plummergen and cricket madness has overtaken Miss Emily Seeton's pretty village. The pavilion urgently needs repairs, but there's a needle match coming up against arch rivals Murreystone. Miss S's chums Sir George Colveston and his son...

March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the...

Read the stunning, psychologically acute new thriller from the Queen of Norwegian crime fiction. ...

HELLO!'s 'Pick of the Week' A whirlwind mystery and unravelling love story set in a little bookshop in the heart of Paris. 'Heartbreaking, moving and completely riveting.' 'Quirky and unusual.' ...

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansThe rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits...

A TRAGIC HOUSE FIRE A GRIEVING FATHER LEFT BEHIND But is Christopher Chatman all that he seems? While neighbours insist that the family was living the dream, Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton quickly discovers that the flames of...

SILENT PARTNER is a sophisticated, multi-layered and absorbing thriller from international bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN, perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and James Patterson. 'A complex and haunting story of tangled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244919979Author Daphne NevilleFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets. Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant...so why would she kill herself? When...

Sister Fidelma must find the link that connects the mysterious crimes in MASTER OF SOULS, Peter Tremayne's brilliant sixteenth novel in the ever-popular Sister Fidelma mystery series.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'A compulsive readable whodunit...

London, 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built, which she names as The Victoria and Albert Museum. Shortly after, Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are called to the site because the dead body of a man,...

'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685491833Author Bea GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Rough Edges PressPublisher Rough Edges PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions. When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside...

Perfect for fans of Richard and Judy picks The Silent Patient and He Said/She Said.What if the people you trust are the ones you should fear most?We all recognise them: those who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers, the liars, the...

Some victims leave clues to their killers...A Hidden ClueA victim reaches out from the grave to the SIO who will investigate her death. This not what DCI Kate Daniels expects to find concealed at a crime scene.A Desperate PleaThe note contains a last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786811455Author Robert BryndzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 354g

1930's London: Poor Lady Georgiana - thirty-fourth in line to the throne - has been sent home due to a little scandal. Now she must keep the entirely unsuitable Mrs. Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales - and help Scotland Yard by preventing...

Turkey: the police are called to the scene of what seems to be the honour killing of a young girl. Burnt alive, she is not the first girl to suffer such an horrific death in Istanbul. Further investigations by Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman...

Reasons to read Janet Evanovich's bestselling novels: 'Hilarious' (Mail on Sunday); 'The funniest, sassiest crime writer going' (Good Book Guide); 'A laugh-out-loud page turner' (Heat)Chaos. Curses. And a possible apocalypse. Lizzy Tucker leads a quiet...

The pulse-pounding new thriller from Marnie Riches. For anyone who loves Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, this book is for you! When the mutilated bodies of two sex-workers are found in Amsterdam, Chief Inspector van den Bergen must find a brutal...

A long-dead climber who comes in from the cold brings murder to the mountain air.Mountaineer Reginald Kincaid was believed to have died during an expedition to climb Mount Everest. It comes as a shock to his fellow climbers when he turns up again 22...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394757650Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first novel in the grittily authentic Karen Sharpe series.The 8th April 1996 was a bad day for Karen Sharpe, the eighth anniversary of something so deeply buried she had hoped to forget it ever happened. Each year she tries to cope in whatever way...

If Liane Moriarty had written Friend Request . . .'It's Jenna,' Ark says. 'She's - 'His voice tears off.'She's dead.'One ordinary afternoon, Fairlie Winter receives a devastating phone call - her best friend is dead.Jenna Rudolph was a devoted mother and...

Lucas Davenport investigates an anonymous threat to the children of US politicians in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a US Senator is monitoring her social media presence when...

It is Autumn in Linkoeping and the heavens have opened, but not even these biblical rains can wash away the blood of crimes past and present.Then the brutally-stabbed body of self-made Internet billionaire Jerry Petersson is discovered floating facedown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425239728Author Victoria ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733642903Author James KirklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Meathouse PublishingPublisher Meathouse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series. Clues to a hidden treasure. Clues to a family secret. Both lead to murder in a twisting novel of suspense by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot. A national treasure hunt...

One of the most iconic and memorable of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. A terrible beast, a house wreathed in fog, treacherous moorland and a cold-blooded murder - these are the things Sherlock and his faithful assistant Dr Watson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668009819Author Stephen HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm * 28mm

A fifteen-year-old boy firebombs a building as he listens to Vivaldi's Winter Concerto splicing behind a red hot R 'n' B track. A veteran musician is found dead in an alley with the pulse of an old time reggae classic playing in his pocket. Rap sensation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250007346Author Louise PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm *...

Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, the inviting murmurs of working girls. Here, people can disappear, and the lacklustre efforts of the guard ensure they are never found...

PERFECT FOR FANS OF SUSIE STEINER You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead, and the desperate living.When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to a new division, it should be a turning point for her. But if...

Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, one of the most popular crime series in Britain, with this beautiful special edition.START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKEDDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of...