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The case of Jack the Ripper and his savage serial killing and horrendous mutilation of five women in the East End of Victorian London is the greatest of all unsolved murder mysteries. For over 100 years the long line of candidates for the bloodstained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842435984Author Peter MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Bedford Square Publishers

"You've only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people's lives, just like that." Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet his small acts of kindness,...

Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. Armed with only her wits, courage and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780290850Author Michael JecksFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 416gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 142mm *...

Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour's house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo - a photo of...

On Christmas Eve in snow-covered Santa Fe, New Mexico, tens of thousands of pedestrians stroll through its festively decorated streets. Among them is Paul Kagan, a spy on the run trying desperately to protect a special package; a baby who just might be...

Bravo Shaw always knew his father had secrets, he just didn't realise how dangerous they were... When Bravo's father dies in mysterious circumstances, his hidden life is laid bare. Dexter Shaw belonged to a secret religious order long thought extinct...

How to Be a Good Wife is a haunting and unforgettable literary thriller about the 'perfect marriage', by Emma Chapman.Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife.But now Hector has come...

'On September 11, we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon.' A nuclear warhead disappears. A chilling broadcast follows. A country waits in fear. Yet the broadcast deceives. And, with the world's eyes fixed on America, the true target is...

'One of those books that just won't let you go ... An exhilarating and kaleidoscopic novel that will also break your heart.' STAV SHEREZ author of A Dark Redemption and The Intrusions 'Beautifully plotted, with excellent characterisation and a highly...

Soon after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a unique symbol - a carving of a hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it...

A new president. A new life. Orphan Alli Carson has taken up a post at Fearington, the elite covert training school. Now she fears that the people who worked relentlessly to undermine her father - ultimately causing his death - are targeting her too. ...

Kick Lannigan, 21, is a survivor. Abducted at age six in broad daylight, the police, the public, perhaps even her family assumed the worst had occurred. And then Kathleen Lannigan was found, alive, six years later. In the early months following her...

You love him. You'll do anything for him. But do you really know him?This is the story of Lucy and Paul.They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married.Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted.Until she found the photograph from Paul's past...

Former police sergeant Maria Kallio gladly left her tiny Finnish hometown of Arpikyla without looking back. But even though Maria despises the small town and the acrid smell from its now-closed copper mine, when Arpikyla's sheriff asks her to serve as...

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...

From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a new novel featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. Two people are murdered in one night... in the same hotel. The first victim is a cleaner, and the second turns out to be the wife of the American...

A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come. A body is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night; headless,...

Previously published as Rain Fall Name: John Rain. Vocation: Assassin. Specialty: Natural Causes. Base of operations: Tokyo. Availability: Worldwide. Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is...

Leonid McGill is back, in the most enthralling and ambitious instalment of Mosley's latest NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series.The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to...

An amnesiac on the edge of death presents a challenge much too close to home for Jason Bourne 'The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum' GQ'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake -...

'Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carre' Daily Express ___________________The railway station is heaving with rush-hour commuters when the bomb goes off.In the subsequent enquiry, serious questions are asked of Jake Winter, the British...

'A mesmerising, beautifully-written domestic thriller that really stands out from the crowd. I flew through it.' Mark Edwards, author of HERE TO STAY'A domestic noir to race through' Sunday Mirror'Enjoyably twisty, this is most impressive for its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538761519Author David BaldacciFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man's head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn't hear. It's 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of...

She could have stopped an awful crime. She could have saved a life. She tried to forget about it. But now, the truth is out. The terrifying new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little Things. GIRLS...

'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, bestselling author of Bridgertons The first book in the New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgertons and Eloisa's Wildes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805036374Author Sue GraftonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney's office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again-this time, accused of murder. Jalen Jordan retained Street for...

When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father's...

A master of historical and crime fiction, James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law...

It's summer in Stockholm, and the city is sweltering in the grip of a rare heatwave while fascists and communists beat each other bloody in the streets. Harry Kvist has had enough. It's time for him to leave. But first he has some business to take care...

'Absolutely splendid storytelling, a book to entertain, to immerse, and to challenge' AJ FINN'Wendy Walker at her best!' B.A. PARIS'I was gripped from the first page' ALICE FEENEY 'What Remains starts with a bang - literally - and doesn't let you go...

An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy. Sure to appeal to fans of GONE GIRL, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and ROOM Meet the Hurst Family. Meet Violet Hurst...

'The plot is twisty, edgy and dynamic enough to keep us hanging on until the chilling denouement' DAILY MAILAn edge-of-your-seat thriller that merges the twists of a psychological-mystery with the investigative layers of a procedural . . .THEY KNOW WHAT...

Two casino owners from Las Vegas plot to acquire a group of British racecourses for their Supercasino scam - and nothing is going to get in their way, certainly not someone like racehorse owner Jay Jessop. Meanwhile, Jay's world is beset with problems,...

Betty Stash is not a Beloved - one of those lucky people for whom nothing ever goes wrong. Everything falls into their laps without effort: happiness, beauty, good fortune, allure. Her little sister, the delightful Gloria, is. She's the one with...

Superb new CIA thriller featuring black ops expert Milo Weaver and acclaimed by Lee Child as `first class - the kind of thing John le Carre might have written'. In today's CIA, there are hotspots everywhere. And wherever there's trouble, there's a...

Dead Ringer is the latest crime novel from Mary Burton, America's Queen of Crime. SOME NIGHTMARESBeside each body, the killer leaves a simple charm bearing a woman's name. The victims are strangers to each other, but they have been chosen with the...