Amateur Sleuth

A grand old London hotel A series of alarming coincidences Danger lurking down every corridor Impeccable service. Luxurious rooms. Eccentric guests. There are worse places for Canon Pennyfather to find himself stranded...

A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with...

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 winter of 1353 has been...

'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting...

GET READY FOR THE SCARIEST READ OF 2024 - a gripping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases*********April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn.They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead,...

'Quite simply the best debut novel I've ever read' Tess GerritsenMemories define us.So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448312900Author Chris NicksonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 145mm *...

London, 1785. When the body of a former West Indies planter is found outside St Paul's Cathedral, suspicion abounds. But talk is not only of the man's death. His past brings a tide of fear directly to Harriet Westerman's door where William Geddings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593102718Author C.S. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593334768Author Laura BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of...

ONE ROOM. FIVE SUSPECTS. THREE HOURS TO FIND A KILLER.'An impressive debut' James Oswald**************GUESS WHO A waitress. A cleaner. An actress. A lawyer. A student. Everyone is a suspect.WHERE In a locked room - with no escape, and no idea how they...

ONE ROOM. FIVE SUSPECTS. THREE HOURS TO FIND A KILLER.'An impressive debut' James Oswald**************GUESS WHO A waitress. A cleaner. An actress. A lawyer. A student. Everyone is a suspect.WHERE In a locked room - with no escape, and no idea how they...

For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful expose of the powerful connections between media, the establishment and what people choose to...

The good people of Pickax are agog with anticipation. Not only is the new bookstore, The Pirate's Chest, about to open, but the Theatre Club is set to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The play does not continue past opening night,...

Two trains Side by side for a brief moment In that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a man strangling a woman to death. But it was only the merest glimpse through a carriage window...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850676Author Simon BrettFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 25mm

Motherland meets Midsomer Murders in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there's a murder at their antenatal class. 'Cosy crime at its finest!' JANICE HALLETT'A sharply witty debut' SIMON BRETT'The...

The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club. *A New York Times Book Review Best Crime Novel of...

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as...

Lord Westfield's Men, the most successful troupe in London and a prime target for jealousy and resentment, are plagued by a series of practical jokes. But when one of their actors is murdered, the humour turns distinctly sour. Appalling events continue:...

'Absolutely fantastic, had me gripped!!! Loved it!' 5 stars, NetGalley reviewer When human remains are discovered under Bradford's derelict Odeon car park, DS Nikita Parekh and her team are immediately called to the scene. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164655Author Hake TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - one of the first to feature a serial killer - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author. Investigating the disappearance...

It takes a village to save a child in this pulse-pounding standalone thriller from the acclaimed author of The Man on the Street.'Fast-paced and gripping' Harriet Tyce'A propulsive page-turner' Vaseem KhanIt wasn't her dad they were after. It was her...

'A true master of British crime writing' RICHARD OSMAN 'The brilliant Savernake is a fascinatingly enigmatic character.' WASHINGTON POST A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 ENGLAND, 1930...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451414717Author Sofie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Obsidian MysteriesPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 160g

The thrilling new standalone suspense novel from Sweden's answer to Val McDermid and Sunday Times Book of the Month author, Anders de la Motte.**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Tightly plotted and dark with psychological...

'Glamorous, compelling and completely addictive, this sparkling page-turner is a total joy to read' B.P. WalterYou know she has been murdered. Can you stop it happening twice?Two very different lives...It is 2019 and Lily Jones is living her dream in LA...

When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home.But when her battered body is found, Nayir feels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496713278Author Peggy EhrhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings,...

'An excellent read! So original and clever that I was completely absorbed in the story. Gripping, tense and twisty with an unexpected ending. Phenomenal.' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of Local Girl Missing and Last Seen AliveWhen Laura wakes up...

'Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising' ALAN CUMMING A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. A father who is trying...

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, professor and amateur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306565Author David HewsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 455gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593102688Author C.S. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and important about the crime fiction genre' Irish Times1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496735652Author Maddie DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington CoziesPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Every full moon a Ripper runs amok on the streets of Brentford. Masters Simon and Keith Innes set out to catch the killer under the disturbing guidance of the repellently delightful and now immortal sleuth, Mrs Bradley. Full of the very British eccentric...