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The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime read for fans of Richard Osman and S. J. Bennett.A crime gone unsolved for five years . . .The life of Lulu Lewis, a retired police detective, took an unforgettable turn when Conrad...

One priceless artefact. Two unlikely sleuths.A murder stranger than fiction.In the shadow of Lewes castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead.Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist...

Justine Poole takes her job as a security agent seriously. When she prevents a brazen theft at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients - killing two of the five armed robbers in the process - she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But...

***GIVE THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS EARLY WITH THIS DELICIOUSLY DARK CHRISTMAS MYSTERY FOR FANS OF CLEVER, PUZZLING CRIME. THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER*** THIS CHRISTMAS, A KILLER TAKES FAMILY GAMES TO A MURDEROUS NEW LEVEL. On 19th of December, renowned puzzle...

NO ONE IS EVER INNOCENT IN PARADISE.**THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH**A small town. A closely guarded secret, stretching back decades. And blood in the water.'A masterful, stunning thriller. A twisting mystery epic in scale yet intricate in detail...

For those far-from-over-the-hill senior sleuths, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate, the murder of the gardener at posh Camden-sur-Mer retirement complex is a delightful break in their rather dull routine. Unfortunately, a bad-tempered police officer...

Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate and two reluctant pals in their retirement community shrug off their infirmities and take to the investigative trail when one of their own, a not-so-sweet busybody named “Sweetie”, is found murdered on the beach. The...

WHAT CAN SEE WATCHES, WHAT CAN HEAR LISTENS, WHAT CAN BE FOLLOWED IS TRACKED… Praise for Lou Gilmond’s Dirty Geese series: ‘Compelling from the outset’ —PRECARIOUS GOTHIC ‘The constant presence of AI creates a foreboding atmosphere’ —CRIME FICTION LOVER...

Two days before an auction of the contents of High Gates House in Borrowdale, Christopher Henderson bumps into Jennifer Reade, the heir to the entire estate, and the expected recipient of the proceeds of the house clearance sale. She discovers a dead man...

‘Immersive story, sublime storytelling... top-class’ Andrea Mara, author of No One Saw a Thing What you see isn’t always what you get.Elle Littlewood can barely believe her luck when her producer tells her about the chance to get her hands on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496743091Author Joanne FlukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496744258Author Lee HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

When a body is discovered in the water at the Falls of Lora, it looks like a straightforward suicide to DCI Christine Caplan. But when her superior officer alerts her to similarities with a locked case - and a legal minefield - she discovers that darker...

September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family in the French countryside. But when they arrive at Damian's...

He was the troubled face of rock 'n' roll . . . until he disappeared without a trace.Jane Pyre was once part of the famous rock 'n' roll duo, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she's the most hated-and least understood-woman in music. She was never as...

Leona, an internationally renowned Sudanese-Nigerian model is asked by her father to marry Akinola, a billionaire and son of his rival and kill him afterwards, to avenge her mother. 'An eye for an eye,' he says.But now on her deathbed, Leona is required...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740274Author Carlene O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Inspector Jian and his daughter Weiwei just want to go back to their home in China: but Jian is facing a corruption charge in his absence and risks arrest. Instead he tries to scrape a living on London's meanest streets as an illegal immigrant, reduced...

In this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as he makes his way through war-ravaged Europe to the German capital. He...

The debut linguistic mystery novel from Dictionary Corner's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent.**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEUTHS AND CRIME FANS ALIKE' Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Appeal'KEPT...

He thought the nightmare was over, but nearly twenty years later, “the most terrible Mafioso in Ukraine” was back. This book is not just a memoir, but a confession. In 1994, author Sergey Maidukov accepted an “exciting business offer” from Samvel...

Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to? Alice knows her father is guilty of many things. He's guilty of abandoning her. He's guilty of being unfaithful to her mother. But is he guilty of murder? Now on Death...

Locked away for over a century, this machine holds an alluring secret. After remaining sealed for generations, a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate. Within the musty, decaying confines of the hidden room, a large...

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's joined them...As new...

Brought to you by Penguin.From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in FranceSadie Smith - a...

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of literary suspense about two young working men who forge a friendship despite secrets in their past, and whose actions ignite the passions and violence of a...

IT'S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN...Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling - and lucrative - reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the depths of winter. With a...

The truth isn't the only thing that's dead and buried...Following recent changes to Dewstow's local police force, The Dinner Lady Detectives, Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker, have been warned off interfering in investigations. When a body is found...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againA Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.For...

Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett’s uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.A BATTLE OF...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163653Author Val McDermidFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Drones, gangland vendettas, a missing choir singer, disturbances in the cemetery, PTSD, panpsychism, and secrets from the past … This can ONLY mean one thing! The Skelfs are back, and things are as nail-biting, tense and warmly funny as ever! ‘Hurroo!...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662511868Author Kendra ElliotFormat HardbackImprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

A haunting historical mystery perfect for readers of The London Seance Society and A History of FearEdinburgh, 1826. Isobel Tait does her best to raise her young son Thomas alone, but yellow fever has left him with a scarred heart. Even a specialist, the...

At the American research lab known as the birthplace of nuclear weapons, a scientific breakthrough sparks a mysterious disease. Devoted to his belief in the power of science, renowned physicist Dr. Alek Spray and his team scramble for a solution to this...

Murder is juicier with a side of barbecue sauce. Private Investigator Tori Swenson gets a strange accidental death case that looks like murder at one of her uncle's drive-ins and decides it's time to get revenge on her estranged family. Pretending to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906375133Author Chris DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Pagoda Tree BooksPublisher Broomfield Books Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593640722Author Jessica FletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime - working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate's work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory could transform millions of lives, but his...

An acclaimed story collection from the author of the Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel The Hole Six elephants bolt from an amusement park and vanish; where they’re found brings back memories of a forgotten dictator. A car ride on a foggy highway at...