Amateur Sleuth

A mesmerizing World War II mystery about a Londoner who flees the city to write a novel and finds a truth stranger than fiction. England, 1940. Literature student Ruth Gladstone evacuates Cambridge University for Martynsborough, a tiny English village...

A CURSED PLACE. A COLD CASE. A KILLER WHO LEFT NO TRACE.The huge International bestseller.Gripping, unputdownable and packed with twists, The Mountain is a thriller that you will never forget."Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King...

You'd kill to protect your child - wouldn't you? From the #1 bestselling author of My Sister's Secret... When radio presenter Anna Graves and her baby are attacked on the beach by a crazed teenager, Anna reacts instinctively to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593470633Author Alice BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm...

For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have been rumours. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an...

It was meant to be the perfect holiday for six British gradates. But then she arrived, lithe and tanned, by the pool one hot afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. As her beauty captivates each of them, tensions begin to boil over, and years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164464Author Andrew KlavanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

A spate of petty thefts threatens the holiday spirit in Pickax. First it's just a pair of sunglasses and gloves that disappear - but then the entire charity collection of the Indian Village Bridge Club is found missing. And unfortunately the worst is...

'Exceptionally good... A frighteningly plausible nightmare'Observer, Thrillers of the month 'Extraordinary: a unique blend of thriller, post-Covid dystopia and paean to the healing properties of nature'Guardian'Peter Heller's thrillers unfurl like...

The Great Food Explo is scheduled to open in Pickax with a bang, introducing new restaurants, country inns and food speciality shops. Unfortunately the 'bang' takes the form of a bomb which wrecks a hotel, killing the housekeeper and causing extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425192139Author Cleo CoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Prime CrimePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 169mm *...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series. 'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buried When Ropa Moyo...

When obscure crime writer Ethelred Tressider vanishes from his home, his indefatigable agent, Elsie Thirkettle, is soon on his trail. Finding him proves surprisingly easy. Bringing him home is another matter. Having followed Ethelred to a hotel in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740557Author Maddie DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

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,...

The second installment in the Marion Lane mysteries series. The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: "One of the new recruits is not to be trusted..." It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard...

'Prepare for your heart rate to rise reading this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller!' The Sun'If you're looking for a page-turner, this is it!' Hello!'The perfect choice for fans of C.L. Taylor and Louise Candlish' Woman's Weekly'A superbly pacy...

Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child. One is alive. One is dead. It is one of the most harrowing cases to hit D.C. Charlie Stafford's department in years. Then more pairs of mothers and children go missing - and it's Charlie's job to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838057916Author Ivan PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Hookline BooksPublisher Bookline and Thinker Ltd

'Murder most enjoyable' Colin DexterEx-Princess Etheline, daughter of the exiled king of Mitteleuropia, has been kidnapped during a visit to Tawcester Towers, ancestral seat of the Dukes of Tawcester, and ducal family honour demands that she should be...

'For me the true heart of the book was Min, and his search for a sense of belonging that neither America nor Korea is quite able offer him. His story is truly unforgettable' Abi Dare, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding...

A PhD student uncovers dark secrets in this 'richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable' (Joyce Carol Oates) mystery set in Scotland, Italy, and France. For fans of Donna Tartt and Elizabeth Kostova. Fleeing a disastrous love affair, Isabel Henley...

It's a Thursday evening in 1936. Clive Staples Lewis (known to all his friends as "Jack") is hosting a gathering of that well-known literary group, The Inklings. Among the regulars are his brother Warnie, J. R. R. Tolkien, Neville Coghill, Hugo Dyson and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425283530Author Rhys BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Never underestimate a librarian. Intelligent cosy crime with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark "So funny." Lynne Truss Shona McMonagle is back, once again personally selected by Marcia Blaine, founder...

Dido Kent's sister-in-law Margaret is attempting to marry her off to the ghastly clergyman Doctor Prowdlee, with his abominable side-whiskers. Dido, however, is determined to refuse him. As punishment she is sent on a journey as companion to her rich,...

'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players...'When an undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees prostitute Lizzie Hardwicke trade Ma Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a theatre seamstress on Drury Lane, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727850126Author Sarah RayneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496734631Author Amanda FlowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

An ancient tomb...a very modern murder When the tomb of St Tancred is opened, no one expects to find the body of the organist, lying in a pool of blood, his handsome features covered by a gas mask.Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is intrigued. Why would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425252123Author Emily BrightwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

They say you can't choose your family . . . But what if they're wrong?Chloe lives a quiet life. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and taking care of her nan in the evening, she's happy simply to read about the lives of others as she files the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451489647Author Childs LauraFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway. 'An expertly...

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four unlikely vigilantes whose decision to take justice into their own hands pits them against the villain behind California's coldest case."Fresh, exciting, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847519412Author Glenn CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

A wedding day turns into a far darker affair in the idyllic Lake District. On a glorious July morning in the pretty Lake District village of Threlkeld, Simmy Brown and Christopher Henderson celebrate their wedding day. While the event passes off...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home... Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her...

For everyone nostalgic for the Obama/Biden administration, HOPE NEVER DIES re-casts the president and vice-president as amateur sleuths in a quirky mystery-adventure. He s an honest man in a city of thieves. He has no patience for guff, foolishness, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451415462Author Laurie CassFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...