Mystery & Detective

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared...From the Richard & Judy Book Club-selected author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS.On a summer evening in 1954, 16-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods...

A terrifying serial killer thriller which fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and Karin Slaughter will love. 'Like Patterson or Cornwell, Hoffman creates vivid, engrossing crime investigations' Time Out __________ Two years ago William Bantling...

A fast-paced historical mystery with breath-taking twists and turns that takes us from the bohemian world of late 19th-Century Paris to a deadly secret at the heart of the British Empire.March 1881, London's East End. Kitty Peck, a spirited but...

'Danger, intrigue and glamour. My job's got the lot. If it wasn't for the hitmen paid to kill me and this ticking bomb of a case I should have never accepted, who knows? I might even enjoy it . . .'Private detective Marc Novak is given one week to find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451491114Author Miranda JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Superbly written and utterly gripping' Daily Mail After an acclaimed career in ceramics, Jay herself has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the north of England, where they find and fall in love...

"Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of characters that gives off great eighties vibes. I was absolutely dazzled by this unputdownable genre-bending novel that's equal parts coming-of-age suspense and emotional...

If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .'The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of...

Dead Man's HandBy B.J. Daniels All their cards are on the table DJ Diamond's partnership with Sadie Montclair is purely professional. But when a high-stakes poker game turns violent, Sadie refuses to leave...

The Liar's Chair is Rebecca Whitney's stunning psychological thriller debut set in Brighton.Who can she trustIf she can't trust herself?Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527303498Author Razor FistFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312277055Author John RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Some games can be deadlyAt first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game's contents, she notices a striking...

April, 1145. Thorgar the Ploughman is found by the bloodied body of Father Edmund, a village priest in Ripple, and is summarily hanged for being caught at the scene of the crime, despite his pleas of innocence. When his sister goes to Worcester to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780924489Author Peter BevelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, retired Inspector John Madden returns in Rennie Airth's The Dead of Winter.During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850690Author Simon BrettFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 145mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913603274Author Peter JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint BOTH PressPublisher BOTH Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913419752Author McGarvey BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Bloodhound BooksPublisher Bloodhound Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995748446Author Jane SteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Aspidistra PressPublisher Aspidistra PressWeight(grams) 435g

A high-profile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland.Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from a psychiatric hospital after being convicted of indecent assault, he had...

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728238388Author Linda ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Poisoned Pen PressPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

Brighton 1956When Mirabelle's on-off boyfriend, Superintendent Alan McGregor, is taken off a gruesome murder case because the key suspect is an old school friend, Mirabelle steps in to unravel the tangle of poisoned gin, call girls and high stakes...

A Crime In the Land of 7,000 Islands is a powerhouse crime thriller fused with folk tales and the influence of anime. This psychological literary fiction tells the tale of Ikigai Johnson, a Special Agent working out of the FBI's Portland, Oregon field...

Linkoeping's top detective, Malin Fors, is about to take on a case that's a little too close for comfort. Her daughter has just discovered a dead body. It is that of a 79-year-old resident at the nursing home where she works. He's been hung by his own...

'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times __________________Keeping it in the family...After her painful divorce four years ago, Lotte Meerman has kept well away from Arjen, her...

A brilliant novel of love and consequences from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph]Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174951Author Dorothy B. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496712387Author Ellery AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever. Roger...

When a magistrate rules Harlan Westover's death a suicide, something smells fishy. Amidst a sea of unanswered questions, the clever Mrs. Jeffries wants to get to the bottom of it - and make sure someone doesn't stage another "suicide" . . .Praise for...

____________________Extraordinary crimes require extraordinary detectives. Welcome to Private.When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency.In a city of over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593336700Author Iris YamashitaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036425Author Craig JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616955830Author Mick HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 276g

ANNA CAMERON is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job she discovers she'll be working with her ex, Jamie. In at the deep end emotionally, she's also plunged headlong into the violent underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496738011Author Darcie WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

The search for a serial killer leads a woman into the twisted tangle of her own family tree in a chilling novel by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Missing Sister and Lies We Bury. Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909823747Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited