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Summer. 1930. The hottest day of the year. And Dr Bickleigh has murder in mind. A classic crime masterpiece from 'One of crime fiction's greatest innovators' Independent On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991173591Author Iris BeagleholeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Te Ra Aroha PressPublisher Te Ra Aroha PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

High Island Blues is the eighth and final mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Swarms of migrating birds fall from the sky seeking shelter as the spring storms begin,...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelClarice Beech has two passions in life: animal rescue and Detective Inspector Rick Beech. She is devoted to the...

She couldn't paint to save her life - so someone's given her a lesson by taking it!Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh - usually boredom, dampness and nosy locals drive them out. But it looks as if artist Effie Garrard has come to stay...

FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES TO WATCH RICH PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY . . .'Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE'The perfect page-turning summer read' GRAZIA BOOK CLUB'Think Succession by the sea' RED MAGAZINE'Wicked,...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelWhen Clarice Beech finds her friend Peter Ramsey dead in his kitchen, she believes he's succumbed to a fatal...

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984802354Author Sofie RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

The latest instalment from the beloved THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY seriesCatch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in this new instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.As the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984802330Author Ryan SofieFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

An enthralling family mystery from bestselling novelist and national treasure Alan Titchmarsh.It seems a perfect afternoon in the Highlands. Standing at the door of the lochside castle that has been his family's home for generations, Charlie Stuart...

Leading a double life can be deadly...Lawyer Penhallow is found murdered in his garden the morning after Mitchell drops off a secretive hitchhiker to the property in Call the Dead Again, the eleventh compelling English village mystery in the Mitchell &...

As spring returns to the Cotswolds, so too does Thea Slocombe to house-sitting. She has agreed to look after Lucy Sinclair's new home in Northleach while she is away, and Thea is glad of the change of scene. She soon meets several of the locals who seem...

A busman's holiday for Hamish . . . After losing both his promotion and the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish Macbeth decides the best cure for a broken heart is a week's break at the charming coastal village of Skag. When he arrives at the...

September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of...

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593549124Author Jenn McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

___________________________________The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international #1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.In the searing heat...

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring. When a...

The original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence in this tale perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times'One of the great...

Not bored to death but murder most foul . . . Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he's found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451465252Author Donald BainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Obsidian MysteriesPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 150g

Thea Osborne, Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime, is determined to avoid trouble this time. Her latest commission in the village of Daglingworth seems straightforward, with most of her time spent looking after...

#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorStephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. When Stephanie Plum is woken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732060609Author R D SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Bright Aurora MediaPublisher Bright Aurora MediaWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'Even more thrilling than the plot is the atmosphere of shuddering suspense . . . No one brews it better than Agatha Christie' Daily ExpressFor more than 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the...

Thea Osborne's latest house-sitting assignment is a little different to the rest. Along with her spaniel, Hepzie, Thea finds herself in the village of Chedworth. She is tasked with creating an inventory of Rita Wilshire's possessions, requested by her...

As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nightfall lingers and a sun-drenched picnic can end in panic. No matter how murderously high the temperatures rise, these stories will chill you to the bone...

A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, edited by respected anthologist George Mann. Stories are told from the point of view of famous associates of the great detective,...

First published in 1972, this is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of secrecy, duplicity and twisted loyalties. The Todds, governed by the widowed matriarch, Mrs Todd, are well-known in Fordinghurst. When Heck, the philandering youngest...

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack. His GP is convinced that this is the case but trainee...

Don't miss Faith Martin's fiendishly clever new novel, Murder by Candlelight, set in the 1920s and described as 'the perfect village mystery' by J.M. Hall 'A beautifully crafted crime mystery I could not put down.' Anita Davison,...

Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows...

Organising a wedding can be murder...The entire O'Sullivan brood have gathered at St. Mary's Church for the wedding of Siobhan O'Sullivan and Macdara Flannery. It's not every day you see two garda marrying each other. Only Siobhan's brother James is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425276037Author Ellery AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981313Author Nancy AthertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm...

A brand-new collection of twelve short stories, featuring the popular characters from Rebecca Tope's Cotswold mystery novels. A suspicious funeral, a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places, and a country walk marred by the discovery of a...

_______________ 'If you love the TV series Grantchester, don't miss this captivating prequel. It reveals the backstory of how a young Sidney Chambers, carefree in London just before the Second World War, came to be the charming crime-fighting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916294707Author Karen Baugh MenuhinFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Little Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Little Dog Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...