Hard-Boiled

When a young woman vanishes from an exclusive oceanfront community in the middle of the night, Detective Casey Wray's takes on a case that leads her in chilling, unexpected directions ... A twisty, breath-taking police procedural. First in a...

'An enthralling, powerful and incredibly moving novel' Irish Times'Blood Ties is a compulsive police procedural, but it's so much more than that: thought-provoking, compassionate and beautifully-written. McGilloway is one of the finest crime-writers...

Can Skinner penetrate multiple layers of intrigue to unearth a killer? An exhilarating installment in this hugely popular Scottish crime series.Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has witnessed the aftermath of murder countless times. Yet nothing could...

'A compulsive police procedural, but it's so much more than that: thought-provoking, compassionate and beautifully-written. McGilloway is one of the finest crime-writers working today' Ann Cleeves'Blood Ties is one of those rare gems; a beautifully...

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home.It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh when Deputy Chief...

New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of...

One street, ten doors, who's the killer? The street that contains No.4 is a dark place, secrets linger and whispers of a murder haunt it. The residents have learnt to live with its sinister past, but when one of...

Wycliffe tackles a case which reaches back down the generations ...When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. But the case against him is strong:...

The 7th Dave Robicheaux novel from Sunday Times bestselling author James Lee BurkeWhen a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering...

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You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few...

A case involving a dead woman with a deformed foot and a mysterious past requires all Superintendent Wycliffe's investigative skills.The peace of the village of Kergwyns in Cornwall has been shattered by a bizarre murder. A beautiful young woman has been...

S is for Silence is the nineteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and...

She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies...'A work of art - terrifyingly believable' NEW YORK TIMES'Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Millar was the master of the...

Q is for Quarry is the seventeenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton and is based on a true crime.She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The...

In the latest Spenser thriller, the legendary Boston PI and his young protege Mattie Sullivan take on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named...

Robert B. Parker's beloved PI Sunny Randall returns on a case that blurs the line between friend and foe... and if Sunny can't tell the difference, the consequences may be deadly. When Sunny's long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for...

F is for Fugitive is the sixth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm thirty-two years old, twice married, no kids, currently unattached and likely to remain so given my disposition, which is cautious at best...

'[A] scorchingly good thriller' - Lisa Hall, bestselling author of mega-hit Between You and Me 'A tantalising and taut thriller with more twists and turns than a corkscrew. Red herrings swim all the way through it. An excellent page turner' -...

Meet Davie McCall - not your average henchman. Abused and tormented by his father for fifteen years, there is a darkness in him searching for a way out. Under the wing of Glasgow's Godfather, Joe 'the Tailor' Klein, he flourishes. Joe the Tailor may be a...

Modesty Blaise's loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, is kidnapped and brainwashed into believing that Modesty is dead and that he must kill her murderer - a woman who looks exactly like Modesty herself. Pawns in a deadly game, Modesty and Willie must...

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESDashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The...

'Perfectly plotted, sharply sophisticated and the most original thriller I've read this year. I couldn't put it down!' Jane IsaacIs murder in her DNA?My mother lied to me. My family is not my own. If it wasn't for the genealogy test, I would never have...

The tenth Logan McRae novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author. Scottish crime fiction at its very best. Some things just won't stay buried... ...

Parker, the ruthless anti-hero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hard-boiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style - and adored by fans...

A body has been found in the trunk of a Cadillac. Jesse's investigation takes him to the neighboring homes of two 'retired' gangsters. But it isn't the mobsters who fascinate Jesse - it's their wives: two completely identical twin sisters, who not even...

BEFORE PRIME SUSPECT THERE WAS TENNISON.Every legend has a beginning . . . During 1974 and 1975 the IRA subjected London to a terrifying bombing campaign. In one day alone, they planted seven bombs at locations across central London. Some were defused -...

One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's...

He looked at his hands, covered with her blood, at the wild spatters of it on the walls. An artist, he mused. Maybe he should be an artist.Murder doesn't stop for Thanksgiving. As NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke prepare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944520182Author Lou CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Stark House PressPublisher Stark House PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

D is for Deadbeat is the fourth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator . . . female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when...

Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and...

Two violent deaths shatter a small community. And to solve the case, Wycliffe must untangle a complex network of secrecy within the quiet of Paul's Court . . .The Cornish Detective series'First-class, old-time, hyper-ingenious whodunit OBSERVERPaul's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250856913Author Kjell ErikssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Minotaur BooksPublisher Minotaur BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 142mm...

Four charred bodies. One killer. A race against time...DI Joe Faraday is convalescing after a serious injury - but four deaths in a suspicious fire drag him back to work before he's truly fit. His partner, meanwhile, wants to adopt a child who was badly...

'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur SmithA Financial Times Book of the Year 2022One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit...

'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York TimesMuriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table...

No writer chronicles the battles of misfits, underdogs and renegades like Elmore Leonard ...VALDEZ IS COMING is a stunning stale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer - and begins a long journey of revenge...

A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story.The streets of New York are never safe, but the release of James Leo Motley, a psychopath who went down swearing revenge on PI Matt Scudder, means death is out there. No one is safe: friends, lovers, or just those...

'Hugely confident ... harrowing, visceral ... recommended' Ian Rankin 'Kept me hooked' Angela Marsons 'An excellent read' Martina Cole ...