Mystery & Detective

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'The most successful novelist on Planet Earth' Washington Post Liz Palmer runs a dive business in the quiet tranquillity of a Caribbean island. Tranquil, that is, until...

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...

Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans, but now she's looking for an even bigger challenge.So Dara and her right-hand man Xavier head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to tackle...

On the morning after Boat Race Day, a man's body is found in a nature reserve beside the Thames. He has been viciously stabbed, his tongue cut out, and an Oxford college scarf stuffed in his mouth. The body is identified as that of Nick Bellamy, last...

Brighton,1957Mirabelle Bevan can't resist a cry for help, be it the little girl at a seaside sanatorium who is getting bullied or the strange behaviour of Uma, the Indian nurse who is looking after her. Intrigued she soon finds herself drawn into a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316498951Author Robert GalbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Mulholland BooksPublisher Mulholland BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164587Author Ellery QueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 384gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'A fantastic whodunnit' HEAT MAGAZINE 'Sensational' CRIME MONTHLY'This is not the usual story of vulnerable women in jeopardy ... but one in which the victims fight back.' SUNDAY TIMES____________________Some women just can't take a joke.At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425197530Author Ann PurserFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

'On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier' won the CWA Dagger for best short story.'The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository' won the 2014 Anthony award for best short story.Fans of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and NOCTURNES...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. Is it a phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table to...

Before Jack Reacher . . . there was Mike Hammer'Spillane is a master at compelling you always to turn the next page' NEW YORK TIMESOut-of-town salesman Chester Wheeler is an old war buddy of PI Mike Hammer's. Now he's dead, supposedly having shot himself...

A terrifyingly vivid portrayal of the murderous impulses hiding in the squalor of North London from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will be hooked...'Rendell weaves the...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915475312Author R.A.J. WallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press

Kimihiko Kimizuka was once the assistant to two ace detectives, and after achieving a miracle, the sequel was ordinary life. The Ritual of Sacred Return was supposed to be the moment world peace was achieved-but instead, it was discovered that this was a...

As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell - formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and narrow to help her country - is approached by British intelligence officer Major Ramsey with a new assignment...

The gripping second instalment in Anne Holt's Vik/Stubo series. Johanne Vik and Adam Stubo set out to solve a series of celebrity killings in this chilling thriller from Norway's bestselling female crime writer.A TV talk-show star is found murdered in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727890856Author Cynthia Harrod-EaglesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

The third Jack Brady case - a gritty murder mystery perfect for fans of Peter James and Tania Carver.'A powerful and intelligent thriller from a must-read writer' David MarkThree brutal attacks. One near-fatal beating. And a deadly score to settle. DI...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916511Author Peter MorfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2020 Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916184Author Peter MorfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

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...

THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018BOOKS IN THE MEDIA BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2018FEATURED ON CRIME TIME BEST OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER'[A] brilliant debut' Sunday Times Crime Club'A fresh and exciting...

A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN.In LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike...Paul...

__________HE THOUGHT HE CAUGHT THE KILLER, BUT THEN THE KILLING DIDN'T STOPJaap Rykel is on the brink, his dark past driving him to breaking point and ending his police career. Visiting the station one last time, he stumbles across an investigation into...

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING, I DIDN'T DO IT.I DON'T HAVE AN ALIBI, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT...With her husband's dead body still warm, Tanya Dubois has only one option: run. When the police figure out that she doesn't officially exist,...

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn't everyone . . . ?1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall.At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father's pub and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series. An explosive conspiracy sets the ocean roiling for a deep-diving investigator in a riveting thriller by the author of the Amazon Charts bestseller The Girl Beneath the Sea. A distress call draws rescuers...

From the Master of Horror, James Herbert's Others, private investigator Nicholas Dismas is hired to track down a missing baby stolen away at birth, he finds himself immersed in a grim underworld of lies and deceit. His investigations ultimately lead him...

The eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyLondon, 1888. Though Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband's assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. However, the jury sentence her to hang. Miriam then says her...

A young girl is found dead in a house on Stanley Street... but it's just the start of a complex puzzle which Wycliffe must unravel.A dubious cul-de-sac just off the busy main road in a sprawling West Country port, Stanley Street is definitely not a...

'This fast paced, electric thriller races from page to page and keeps you guessing until the very end' NetGalley review He knows your name. Where you live. The car you drive. If you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538761472Author David BaldacciFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Victim or assassin - the lines are blurred...A badly beaten woman walks into A&E and is promptly arrested by the Home Office on suspicion of being an illegal alien. However, she is neither illegal, nor a victim. After she escapes detention, the bodies of...

The first book featuring Ben, the lovable, humorous ex-sailor and down-at-heels rascal who can't help running into trouble. Ben is back home from the Merchant Navy, penniless as usual and looking for digs in fog-bound London. Taking shelter in...

'Fresh, compelling and compassionate' AMANDA JENNINGS'An unusually gripping and authentic police procedural.' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB, selected for Paperback of the Week __________________________A gritty, heart-stopping crime thriller that will have you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295893Author Michael JecksFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...