Mystery & Detective

________________________ 'A thriller with a difference. The plot is as taught as the prose is tight - both qualities reminiscent of Graham Greene' - Sunday Express 'Once you have opened its first page you won't be able to stop reading. A superbly...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727889959Author David MarkFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 145mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149017Author Kathy ReichsFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural "A master storyteller" Barry Forshaw, IndependentA few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost and fog, Ghitta Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439140222Author Martin Cruz SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Alcoholic Albie may not be a reliable witness, but his claims might just be true... When Fran Varady meets a down-and-out who has witnessed a kidnapping, she is soon on the case in Keeping Bad Company, the second book in Ann Granger's Fran Varady series...

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to...

Isabella, Queen of England, has been dispatched to France in an attempt to bring about peace between the two countries, and Baldwin must accompany her. But the day after their arrival, a servant is found murdered, with Baldwin's dagger lying next to the...

A twelve-year-old boy runs into his local police station claiming to have seen a brutally dismembered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was spotted at the scene before he disappeared into the woods. The next...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416592723Author Kinky FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series. Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on his face, he automatically smiled. 'What's in the trunk?' Livia asked. 'Nothing. It's empty...

From acclaimed author Tracy Clark comes a page-turning mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who's on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads. When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892962419Author Eric AmblerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416565147Author Stephen HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 187mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446525800Author David BaldacciFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

'A deftly-plotted, gripping, pulse-racing rollercoaster of a thriller . . . you're in for a treat' HARLAN COBEN'Claustrophobic, ominous, and one hell of a ride' STUART MACBRIDETHE TENSE NEW THRILLER FROM THE 'MASTER OF SINISTER' (ANGELA CLARKE), FOR FANS...

The fifth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series. In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by SS-Chief Himmler. All the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804563Author Peter MayleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Lieutenant Eve Dallas's search for a precious fortune leads her into untold danger in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb. In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone...

Is a killer still on the loose? The thirtieth gritty mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, not to be missed by readers of Ian Rankin and Peter May. Praise for Jardine's gripping mysteries: 'Well constructed, fast-paced, Jardine's...

Everyone in the family had decided that changing the trust arrangement seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes. However, when dreary cousin Deirdre has a mysterious accident after demanding a fee for her signature, the young London...

An expert thief outwits foes old and new to defeat a sinister summoning, in this hair-raising noir-thriller from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artefacts she stole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984819598Author Susan Elia MacnealFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Reputation is everything. When a packed commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as 'Suicide Mile', it soon transpires that the man was a victim of a calculated murder. As the investigation evolves and a pattern of murders is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613162002Author Cornell WoolrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

Dense fog masks foul play in the streets of London, as Ann Granger brings us her seventh Victorian mystery featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie.It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's...

A dazzling mixture of crime, romance, magic and myth from the author of the bestselling The Psychology of Time Travel. The Kendricks have been making world-famous dolls for over 200 years. But their dolls aren't coveted for the craftmanship alone. Each...

What do you do when you find a severed head on the beach? With her former cop grandfather as back up, crime reporter Jimm Juree sets out to discover how the poor fellow got there. On their journey they uncover gruesome tales of piracy, slavery, violence...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838120009Author Emily OrganFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 17mm

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes a bold combination of true crime, psychology and a hint of the metaphysical. 'A novel of both great sadness and great...

'A literary celebrity with few rivals ... she wrote more bestselling novels ... over a longer period than almost any other American writer' WASHINGTON POSTEveryone agrees that Herbert Wynne wasn't the type to commit suicide. But he has been found, shot...

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences, but coming...

FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING KNITTING MYSTERY SERIES!Despite the fact that her aunt was an expert knitter, Kelly Flynn never picked up a pair of knitting needles she liked-until she strolled into House of Lambspun. Now, Kelly is about to learn...

Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along...

The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life. Perfect for fans of dark academia and historical feminist fiction.'A wonderfully rich and absorbing tale'...

In the course of a routine police raid Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny...

In post-Depression America, an amateur sleuth uncovers a small town's dark side in "the best mystery produced by Ellery Queen" (The New York Times). At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than...

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. BoltonFollowing her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict...