Mystery & Detective

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...

'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...

** Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020 **'Haunting . . . Superlative.' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month'A terrific novel.' A. N. WilsonSummer, 1915: a young woman falls to her death at Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954123274Author Gary McAvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Literati EditionsPublisher Literati EditionsWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198601Author Celia DaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Tommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses. It's the early nineties and the elite he is now...

Private investigator Cork O'Connor finds himself caught in the middle of a racial gang war that's turning picturesque Tamarack County, Minnesota, into a battlefield.When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her...

'A glorious debut' - SUNDAY EXPRESS 'An affectionate homage to classic murder mysteries' - DAILY MAIL 'Recommended reading for a long winter night' - GUARDIAN A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It's going to be murder... Torben...

*** THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'A master storyteller ' - GUARDIAN 'A writer at the top of his game... Sanctuary is a superlative chase thriller' - THE TIMES 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' - CHRIS HAMMER NO ONE CAN RUN...

Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The Times'I've never before read a crime novel in which archaeology and...

And now, in this low and critical moment, something in Penelope, something which had understood courage and resource and action, though she herself had never been brave or resourceful or active, stirred and shook itself. Penelope Shadow is quite hopeless...

THE BESTSELLING GLOBAL PHENOMENONMeet Lisbeth Salander - the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide."As vivid as bloodstains on snow . . . a perfect introduction to the unique strengths ofScandinavian crime fiction"LEE...

After all, under its gaiety and brilliance Vienna has always been a centre of intrigue.The distinguished industrialist, the fair girl and the aggressive young man – although Superintendent McDonald tried to avoid studying his fellow-passengers, he simply...

A malicious letter A tragic death A village filled with suspects Nothing ever happens in the sleepy village of Lymstock. Until letters accusing the villagers of unspeakable acts start to appear. They...

Preorder the BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series set in gorgeous Tuscany - it's murder in paradise!A tragic accident?When Italy's greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the...

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ... an atmospheric, darkly funny, twisty debut thriller, first in an addictive new...

Long lives are being cut short in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a routine unexplained death and a simple referral to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371993Author Alfred DoblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613165720Author Otto PenzlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler Publishers

She could imagine the headlines all too well... DEATH ON POSSETT ISLANDWell-known Playwright Found Dead on Christmas Tree.Dimpson McCabe – Dimpsie – has invited all of his closest friends of the theatre world to join him for Christmas at his castle on a...

The latest instalment from the beloved THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY seriesCatch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in this new instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.As the...

* THE SMASH-HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * * A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2023 * 'A great deal of festive fun' - GUARDIAN 'Sharp, witty and suspenseful' - SUNDAY EXPRESS One dead Santa. A town full of suspects. Will you discover the truth? Christmas...

Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards;...

*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on SundayFrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that...

A bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, Chief of Police and France's favourite cop, all set in the beautiful Dordogne valley and the ravishing Perigord region of the south west. Here is a landscape of meandering rivers with medieval...

The new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage, available to pre-order in paperback! Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250068736Author Louise PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

'While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl' Daily MailThe Whitstable Pearl Mystery is the first book in Julie Wassmer's popular crime series - now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private...

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about. Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame...

The Final Curtain brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists with a confounding murder in Tokyo connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother.A decade ago,...

'A thoroughly enjoyable book and the introduction to a great series' 5* READER REVIEWCrime fiction fans worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. In the first book in this beloved series, read and discover why, and what dark secrets are...

PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical...

'A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader's appetite' Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries Jodie 'Nosey' Parker is back! When popular TV baking contest and...

Twenty years ago, four teenagers disappeared in the woods at a summercamp. Now, two decades later, everything is changing...Paul Copeland's sister went missing 20 years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, Cope balances family life with a career as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Novel Suspects and A USA Today bestseller and Wall Street Journal bestseller.Book InformationISBN 9798212882439Author Marshall KarpFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294072Author Fuminori NakamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing... Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer,...

**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.'FINANCIAL TIMESThe richly atmospheric new Strafford and...

Trick or treat? No one believes Joyce Reynolds when she boasts she once witnessed a murder. Until, that is, she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub. What exactly was it she saw? Then the victim's brother...