Hard-Boiled

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be...

He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless - voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345483935Author Lorenzo CarcaterraFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451203526Author Mickey SpillaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 513Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627551106Author James Hadley ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Black Curtain PressPublisher Black Curtain PressWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm)...

A murder at an artists' colony - but not everyone wants Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to investigate . . .The artists' colony is at the site of a disused mine working on the moor west of St Ives, and it's run by Archer and his wife Lina, according to...

This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In."* * *Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722618Author Dashiell HammettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Douglas Brodie is dead. The Glasgow Gazette announced the tragic death on 26 June 1947 of their chief crime reporter. Just three weeks before, life was rosy. After a tumultuous winter chasing war criminals across Glasgow, Douglas Brodie was revelling in...

'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939038555Author Cj LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Edgy ReadsPublisher Edgy ReadsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

'Hugely confident ... harrowing, visceral ... recommended' Ian Rankin on Dead Inside A brutal murder... When a burned body is found with its teeth missing, DC Maggie Jamieson discovers that the victim may...

'A deftly-plotted, gripping, pulse-racing rollercoaster of a thriller . . . you're in for a treat' HARLAN COBEN'Claustrophobic, ominous, and one hell of a ride' STUART MACBRIDETHE TENSE NEW THRILLER FROM THE 'MASTER OF SINISTER' (ANGELA CLARKE), FOR FANS...

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences, but coming...

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences, but coming...

A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again ... Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949783Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage Crime/Black LizardPublisher Penguin Random House LLCWeight(grams)...

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

It is normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they're dead bodies and the cast and crew discover they're trapped in a house with a serial killer Quarry hass got his work cut out for him. NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES! The...

It is normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they're dead bodies and the cast and crew discover they're trapped in a house with a serial killer Quarry hass got his work cut out for him. NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES! The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456506650Author Blake CrouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He sketches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307740779Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244g

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Krimi, Simone Buchholz, returns with the emotive fifth instalment in the electrifying Chastity Riley series .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843447382Author Ace AtkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books LtdWeight(grams) 168g

"One of the strongest in Sandford's Prey series."-Entertainment Weekly"Good, dark, perverse, bloody fun."-The Washington Post Book WorldTheories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior-shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But...

Having the wrong client can be murder...The voice was smooth, cultured, almost tender as it oozed from the phone into Connor Fraser's ear. "I've heard about you, Mr Fraser, and I'm very impressed by your work. So I've decided to employ you. I am going to...

A snatched child, a cryptic message and a secret that will tear two lives apart.Twenty years ago, one-year-old Lauren disappeared.Now, ex-policeman Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from an heiress, Sara. She wants him to fly to her private island, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708664Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! WHO PUT QUARRY IN THE CROSSHAIRS? Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known...

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! WHO PUT QUARRY IN THE CROSSHAIRS? Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250111432Author Mr Arnaldur IndridasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence.Atlanta, 1956.When Arthur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765327406Author F Paul WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm * 28mm

A gripping high-concept thriller for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne from the author of The Genesis Secret and The Marks of Cain. In the silent caves of deepest France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull, with a hole...

Two crimes, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love...From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADA man is chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning...

'In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly' A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window_____________Former homicide detective Kosuke Iwata is on the run from his past . . . Five years ago, he lost his family. Now he...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)A "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he...

How does a man escape from himself...? A classic masterpiece of American noir fiction.George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth's media empire. And he's involved with the wrong woman - his...