Mystery & Detective

'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in...

The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft collide.About the AuthorJames Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He has...

A crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING. Eve...

The kingdom teeters on a knife edge, and one man would throw it into chaos...Autumn, 1379. The power of the crown is invested in John of Gaunt, and the kingdom is seething with discontent. The French are attacking the southern ports and the peasants are...

THRILLERS THAT RACE FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE . . .'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy - a new case for Sid Halley... Sid...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was...

A letter from beyond the grave One last request An unsolvable crime When Miss Marple receives a letter from the recently deceased millionaire Jason Rafiel, she's not sure what to make of it. Knowing her...

Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to his victims appals Dr Siri and his morgue team and they vow revenge. But they're...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780298177Author Rosemary RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm *...

One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime... The NUMBER ONE ebook bestseller! 'Amuses and intrigues in equal measure... a splendid start to what promises to be a long-running series' Daily Mail ...

Innocent people are dying. Who will be next? Find out in the second Detective Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg from #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch. A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his...

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea.The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, destroys the...

A PERILOUS INVESTIGATION IN THE HEART OF LONDON RAVAGED BY THE GREAT FIRE September 1666. Meeting in the ashes of a devastated London, Christopher Redmayne, an architect with Cavalier instincts, and Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly...

Incomer Gloria French is at first welcomed in the Cotswold village of Piddlebury. She seems like a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she has a bad habit of borrowing things and not giving them...

Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry...The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole...

1947. Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440216414Author Nancy PickardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The complete stories from the last 3 Rumpole volumes ("Angel Of Death", A La Carte" and Age Of Miracles") which were published respectively in 1995, 1990 and 1988. "I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole" - Clive James.About the...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEADSir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties...

'Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant'CJ Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'Chilling . . . compulsive and deeply thought-provoking'Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home**********"There's something I have to explain, my love," he says, taking your hand in...

***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series*** ***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is available to...

When a university student is murdered in Dunedin's university district, newly transferred young female police officer Sam Shephard is drawn into the investigation ... The heart-stoppingly tense next instalment in the page-turning, international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743283984Author Mark GatissFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN '[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction.' -The New York Times Following international bestseller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782958039226Author Pj FitzsimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Phillip FitzsimmonsPublisher Phillip FitzsimmonsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down' Daily MailLos Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a...

***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series*** ***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is available to...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLER 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott Even when ex-SAS major Ben Hope is taking a holiday, trouble...

'An engrossing read that kept me guessing throughout’ Patricia Gibney 'Breathtaking… Had me guessing until the very end… Utterly compelling’ Rachel Lynch 'Razor-sharp thriller-writing… a gripping and emotional story that built to a shocking ending’ B P...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771513807Author Iona WhishawFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Touchwood EditionsPublisher Touchwood EditionsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'A remarkable achievement' Independent'One of the leading names in crime fiction.' Stylist Magazine___The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been replaced...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021. As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club'The novel I've enjoyed most this year' - Hilary Mantel'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. Wonderful' - S J WatsonCornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from...

A typist uncovers a man's body from behind the sofa... As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living...

New York Times bestselling author Mike Omer returns with chilling twists and turns for a hostage negotiator with a dark past in this explosive second installment of the Abby Mullen Thrillers. As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult...

Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.'Highsmith...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt. This wasn't a case for him. He was out of his depth...

First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the...

'Hay sets a cracking pace... with plenty of twists and a great deal of fun, this is the perfect holiday read' Guardian'Delightfully mischievous' The Times'Punch-the-air good, the Edwardian heist novel you never knew you needed. Flawless, lawless fun'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780296074Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 138mm *...