Mystery & Detective

Detective Kubu's world is shattered when his father is violently murdered. Defying orders, he sets off on the killers' trail ... with shocking consequences... 'This fifth mystery featuring Detective Kubu is another fast-moving procedural notable for...

Catching the Carling Lake KillerBy K.D. Richards A killer knows her secret... Journalist Simone Jarrett and Sherriff Lance Webb have hidden their casual affair to avoid gossip. But as his feelings for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Agatha Awards (Best Contemporary Novel) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593437612Author Ellen ByronFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing...

With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is given a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of...

When a double murder takes place in a Norwegian village high school, a teenager finds himself subject to trial by social media ... and in the dock. Bestselling, highly emotive and award-winning Nordic Noir... 'One of the finest writers of the Nordic Noir...

Longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown 2020_________________________________From the bestselling e-book sensation of The Thief Taker series comes a thrilling and sumptuous novel set during the early days of the French Revolution.'A rip-roaring adventure.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781094071329Author Brian FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Blackstone PublishingPublisher Blackstone PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Tony Chu - the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats - has been kidnapped! He was ambushed, knocked out, brought to a remote location, and bound securely. His captor intends to feed Tony from a menu of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306831Author Glenis WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 14mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780296722Author Robin BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 137mm *...

The Saint never asks for adventures, but they will keep happening to him, and these three classic stories force him into action once more. In The Spanish Civil War, a GBP10 debt leads to a dead body, a large quantity of bearers' bonds, and another tussle...

When Mike Wakefield's business partner absconded with their printing firm's money, Mike and his wife Stephanie feared bankruptcy. Detective Inspector Sloan is at first tasked with what appears to be a cut-and-dry case of embezzlement, but that is before...

'The godfather of Scandinavian crime fiction' Jo NesboChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalised being drunk, even in private at home, and where the city centres have been demolished to...

'A dark gothic delight' JANICE HALLETT, author of THE TWYFORD CODE 'Inventive, lavish, twisty... will keep you guessing until the very end' ALISON LITTLEWOOD, author of MISTLETOE Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper...

Arthur Skelton has gone from unassuming Yorkshire barrister to front-page sensation, having won the case of the century. But January 1929 brings another high-profile case. Mary Dutton is accused of murdering her husband, although there are few people who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786046423Author Charlie DonleaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pinnacle Books,U.S.Publisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457256Author Diarmid MacArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sparsile Books LtdPublisher Sparsile Books Ltd

From the creator of BBC drama Silent Witness, comes the gripping sixth instalment in the acclaimed DCI Mark Lapslie series.When Isabel, a British university student, travels to a remote Spanish town it isn't only to enjoy the atmosphere. It's also to...

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Titan Gold Award 2020.Book InformationISBN 9788469795774Author Paul S BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Paul BradleyPublisher Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496736062Author Joanne FlukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating, and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45. Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York. But trouble...

FBI agent Ren Bryce takes on her most heart-wrenching case yet when a father's work places his young daughter in terrible danger... OUT OF SIGHTWhen a teenage girl is found beaten and raped in the grounds of a derelict asylum, FBI agent Ren...

The year is 1940 and the British have their backs to the wall. Everyone is preparing for the battle that, as Winston Churchill said, would see the "whole fury and might of the enemy turned upon us." Everyone including the young Miss Emily Seeton, London...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. NowCollins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language...

'I'm completely hooked. Adams is a skilled and engaging writer' Alex MarwoodTHREE GENERATIONS OF SECRETSSocial worker Kit Goddard is convinced that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured seventeen-year-old boy down, just like they'd done to her...

A must-read mystery from the bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series.A Lily Bard Mystery: 3Lily Bard has worked hard to leave her old life behind. So she's uneasy about returning to her home town for her sister's Christmas Eve wedding. And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859477Author Joe CoomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her new sidekick Ivo investigate the case of newspaper executives who have been caged and tortured outside their offices ... on a trail that leads them to the hothouse world of boarding schools and some...

'Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh' Jeffery DeaverA talk-show host confesses to the brutal murder of his young wife.The evidence is cast iron.But when a determined detective, an ambitious rookie prosecutor and a defence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425197509Author Margaret CoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Winter is savage and cold in Lapland. When a priceless local relic is stolen from Kautokeino, a village in the middle of the isolated snowy tundra, detectives Klemet Nango - a familiar face in the rural community - and Nina Nansen, fresh out of the local...

The heat is on once again for troubled rugby league star Greg Duggan when he takes up the offer to join new club Lanzarote Eruption in the hot summer on the Canary Islands. Eruption are destined for Super League and Greg's life, in tatters from a broken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847518132Author Glenis WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

This is the second book in the murder-mystery series about Cremona violin maker, Gianni Castiglione, and his detective friend, Antonio Guastafeste. A dazzling young Russian virtuoso performs a sell-out recital on Paganini's violin in the cathedral in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992939328Author Howard of WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The Funny Book CompanyPublisher The Funny Book Company

Dublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats. When a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451471178Author C. S. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint 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 9780451414816Author Jessica FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Evil never truly dies...and some legends live forever. The dark heart of Bram Stoker's classic is reborn; capturing the voice, tone, style and characters of the original yet with a modern sensibility this novel is perfect for fans of Dracula and...