Mystery & Detective

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFIN 'Du Maurier is a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile' NEW YORK TIMES'Du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH' . . . one of her best novels, ingeniously contrived as to plot,...

'The gripping new page-turner from the Queen of Gangland Crime' Bella MEET THE BOND BROTHERS. You don't want to be on the wrong side of this family... ...

'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesNamed by the CWAs as one of 'The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time', The Killings at Badger's Drift is the first spectacular novel in the Midsomer Murders series by Caroline Graham,...

'A brilliant, shrewd, satirical novel - gimlet-eyed, funny, very clever and a searchingly profound look at the state of this strange country of ours' William Boyd'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' Bob Mortimer ---Post-university life doesn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740571Author Maddie DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a...

What price will he pay to get his old life back...?From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'This is British crime-writing of the finest, lasting quality' DAILY MAIL'Genius ... Rankin once again proves himself to be the consummate...

THE GRIPPING THRILLER THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES********'A sizzling summer read fans won't want to miss' - Bustle'Sink into this book like a hot, scented bath . . . a delicious, relaxing pleasure. And a clever whodunit at the same time' -...

A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. ...

BOOK 2 OF THE TOWER - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA'Sensational... A brilliant, high-octane crime novel' Tony ParsonsOctober 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later...

Find the truth. Solve the murder. Never reveal your secret.Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Murder Masquerade Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, but they were always fictional - until their...

A heart-stopping crime thriller and the fourth consecutive No. 1 Bestseller from the author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead. He's back... Eight years ago, 'The Inside Man' murdered four...

People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I am careful,...

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside...

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.She's drawn into simmering personal dramas...

When the wife of one of Istanbul's best known popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly promoted Inspector Suleyman, scion of one of Turkey's most aristocratic families, finds himself plunged into the magnificently vulgar,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '...we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.' When...

The thirteenth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'No one in Britain writes better crime novels' Evening Standard'This is Rankin at his best, and, boy, that's saying something' TIME OUTRebus is off the case...

As amateur sleuth Juno Browne's Sunday dawns chilly and bright in the delightful Devon town of Ashburton, a murder is brewing. Juno is in the wrong place at the wrong time when she discovers the body of Bob the Blacksmith, his dead hands clutching a...

**NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA SERIES**'A gentle comic crime story' The Guardian'Poised and perceptive' Sunday Times'a beautiful piece of writing with a great story and fantastic, full bodied characters. All this with glorious West Cork as its setting.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573011825Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'Shaw's novels combine a strong central character with an atmospheric setting and original plots' Sunday TimesIf only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman.Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoe who...

THE PERFECT CURL-UP READ FOR CAT LOVERS*** Includes a sneak preview from the author's new bestseller, The Goodbye Cat *** 'Bewitching... as self-possessed and comforting as - well, a cat' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A book about kindness and love, and how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451227331Author Lee GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Obsidian MysteriesPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 148g

DO NOT DISTURB. WHODUNNIT IN PROGRESS... 'So many twists and turns' 'Full of such charm! 'Had me gripped from the beginning' _______________ DO NOT DISTURB...

A stunning novel of death and destiny. Bereft of the three people she has held most dear - her mother, her husband and her daughter - Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait...

PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants 'You will love this quasi-Christie locked-room mystery' The...

A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favourite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen.'Billed as Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter . . . Sometimes you just need an entertaining, escapist read to while away the hours' CULTURE FLYIt's...

As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon's massive countenance. He was thinking: Le Touquet again! With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable aunt Gwenny for...

The tenth Logan McRae novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author. Scottish crime fiction at its very best. Some things just won't stay buried... ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593130056Author Rita Mae BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The twenty third chronicle of Matthew...

'A funny, frantic, utterly refreshing brew' - Sunday TelegraphDetective Inspector Jack Frost, officially on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking...

The brand-new crime thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, J, D. Robb.Keep your friends close and your enemies closerOn a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas is called to a downtown club, where a joint bachelorette party full of love, friendship and...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series...It's murder in paradise!A much-needed holiday...Dan Armstrong hasn't done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private...

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again.Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers'Kees...

'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesDiscover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions.Death of a Hollow Man is the second instalment in the Midsomer Murders series,...

The gripping new thriller from C.S. Green - featuring Detective Rose Gifford 'A fascinating, eerie, and compelling police procedural with a creepy edge, and a knockout protagonist.' Neil Lancaster 'I loved...