Amateur Sleuth

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...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'A galloping good yarn, as fast paced as any horse race an utterly entertaining' 5***** Reader Review'Fast paced action from start to finish, Dick Francis is...

Famous solo violinist Lucy Carless is making a guest appearance with the provincial Markshire Orchestra, only to be found strangled with a silk stocking part-way through the concert. Everyone in the orchestra had access to the scene of the crime, and the...

'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...

'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 9781496713278Author Peggy EhrhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

'I defy you not to fall in love with Milo ...a future classic' Clare Mackintosh, author of number one bestseller I See You 'If you loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is for you' Heat 'Warm, wise and insightful' Good...

'England's funniest crime writer' The Times'Charming and full of surprises' BooklistStrange things happen in the picture-postcard English village of Lindsay Carfax. When a young man falls into a quarry, it takes nine days to find the body. When rowdy...

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 *...

A missing filmmaker. A stolen antique. Someone will kill to stop them being found. . . FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONVICTION COMES AN ESCAPIST THRILLER*A Scotsman Book of the Year*When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a...

A missing filmmaker. A stolen antique. Someone will kill to stop them being found. . . FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONVICTION COMES AN ESCAPIST THRILLER*A Scotsman Book of the Year*When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a...

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...

'One of the best in the genre' THE SUN'A fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime' DAILY EXPRESS'A delicious adventure' DAILY MAIL on The Riviera Express *** X marks the spot for murder....

In the deep midwinter, there's a murder to solve... Christmas is coming and the snow is falling, but with the de Luce family finances in a parlous state, Colonel de Luce has been forced to rent out the family home to a film company.For Flavia and her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496713896Author Lee HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425245002Author Ellery AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

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 seventeenth chronicle in the...

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...

The perfect gripping, twisty suspense for fans of Netflix's You and Lisa Jewell's Watching You This is not a love story... Watching sunrises together should have been romantic. But you were...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'This ambitious account of a sudden coming of age reminded me strongly of To Kill a Mockingbird - and is every bit as moving and satisfying' Daily TelegraphIn the long hot summer of 1972, three events shattered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639105410Author Lucy ConnellyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Crooked Lane BooksPublisher Crooked Lane Books

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Modiano is a pure original' Adam Thirlwell'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062955456Author Anthony HorowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESMiss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die -...

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:...

Glasgow, 1946. The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the...

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,...

From the #1 bestselling author of My Sister's Secret and No Turning Back For the first time in your life, she is going to tell you the truth... Then: A trip to the beach tore...

Scott King investigates allegations of demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered by two young children. Book six in the spine-tingling, award-winning Six Stories series.'Matt's books are fantastic' Ian Rankin'An...

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:...

Rita, a small, tough Scottish make-up artist, is on Madeira investigating who killed Kim-Jim, an American make-up supremo. Also anchored off the island is Dolly, the yacht of Johnson Johnson with whom Rita teams up to get to the bottom of this foul deed...

It changed her life. But can she remember everything?On a cold evening Zeb, a single mum in her thirties, is found wandering aimlessly on a remote road. She is dazed, confused and bloodied.She doesn't know where she is, or how she got there. She has...

"The Perfect Lie will pin you to your seat until you reach the last page" - Jane Casey"Another twisty and intense thriller from the great Jo Spain" - Adrian McKinty********He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder...

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESSParis, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman is saved from the waters of the Seine. She is naked, doesn't remember her name or how she...

Scott King investigates allegations of demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered by two young children. Book six in the spine-tingling, award-winning Six Stories series.'Matt's books are fantastic' Ian Rankin'An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593547427Author Laurie CassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift swaps the sporting summer in England for a British expat enclave in Spain, where everyone has a mysterious reason for leaving the UK. Amidst the sun and sangria, something sinister is lurking on the Spanish coast... It's...

A game of spies, a brutal murder, the fate of an Empire...The North Sea, October 1904 - When Russian warships bombard the Hull trawler fleet, killing innocent fishermen, public outrage pushes Britain and Russia to the brink of war, the sparks from which...