Mystery & Detective

'Mesmerising' Sunday TimesAs an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2003 and Triangle Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2004. Commended for Stonewall Book Award (Literature) 2004. Short-listed for...

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. And one of Carver's targets has got away.Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Russia, the government have...

When a Turkish labourer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district the local police see no reason to work overtime. Kemal Kayankaya, however has a different attitude. He is 26, born in Turkey, raised in Germany and now working as a Private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847516947Author Rosemary RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Anthony Awards (Paperback Original) 2012 and Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Paperback Original) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780812981001Author Frank TallisFormat...

Contains: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages and The Island of SheepAbout the AuthorJohn Buchan (1875-1940) was born in Perth, Scotland and educated at Oxford where he published five books and won several awards,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802146120Author Mo HayderFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641295055Author Stephanie BarronFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425277751Author Miranda JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he also has an unshakable faith in his own righteousness, and a real talent for rubbing people up the wrong way. ...

The gripping noir thriller from the bestselling author of The Last. They want the truth. They'll kill to get it. Eli and Ronnie are two lawless Brits on the road in America. Their mission is to find Trent, a guy who screwed Eli over and disappeared...

Traveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza accompanied by her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, The Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802120540Author Joseph WambaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692513118Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Sugar Skull PressPublisher Sugar Skull PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780296319Author Michael JecksFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250190932Author Julia KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804240144Author David MarcumFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 794g

Critically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a...

The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553237214Author Rex StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

Tripoli, 1960s. During the years in which post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling greed of the West, Michele Balistreri suffered a succession of blows that would scar him for life. The death of his mother; the unspeakable horror that befell his...

Dying well is an art . . . the rest is just murderInspector John Carlyle is waiting for his father to die of a terminal illness. Meanwhile, others are dropping like flies.An elderly professor is found dead in his Bloomsbury flat. The verdict is that of...

Welsh Constable Evan Evans plumbs the past and present to search for connections between two troubling crimes in the eighth novel in this "consistently satisfying mystery series."*Evans has found the most delightful shepherd's cottage. At the moment it's...

Wedding bells are sounding for Guido the Jinx, but as always he's in over his head and Modesty and Willie must fight to save him, and the world, from bio-terrorists in'The Last Aristocrat'. Modesty and Willie are forced to become quarry in a big game...

Something Hidden is the thrilling second novel in the Andrew Hunter series, from bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson.Everyone hates Fiona Methodist.Her war veteran father shot a young couple in broad daylight before killing himself. The engaged pair had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496733900Author Peggy EhrhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846537905Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd

In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge-the widowed Gwen's father-in-law and legal guardian-returns from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101987094Author Victoria ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint 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 9780451491411Author Kate CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint 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 9781448306817Author Glenis WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *...

In the mob-choked Chicago of 1932, private detective Nathan Heller may be willing to risk his life to earn a Depression dollar, but he never sacrifices his sardonic wit. Now, author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) reissues the contemporary classic...

By the author of McIlvanney-prize-listed Cross Purpose. "My husband is trying to kill me": a new client gets straight to the point. This is a whole new ball game for Maggie Laird, who is trying to rebuild her late husband's detective agency and clear his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613161609Author Mary Roberts RinehartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

In the space of five days the college town of Davenport is rocked by four brutal murders: two couples - students - their bodies found tied and staked out on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more bodies are discovered. This time the victims are Abbott...

MAIL ON SUNDAY THRILLER OF THE MONTH Sao Paulo, 20 March 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo in her support.On the same day, a young man from a wealthy...

In an all-consuming novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the shocking truth about a fateful night that left her forever marked . . .All her life, she's been the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062301826Author Aline TempletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616958671Author Pola OloixaracFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc