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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...

Breslau in the 1920s is haunt of marquises and merchants, gamblers and gutter-rats. Eberhard Mock, the hardened Criminal Councillor, fits right in as he sways from the basements of grubby casinos to his beautiful young wife in their palatial mansion. But...

She was just 17, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job...

The 9th breakneck thriller in the Matt Scudder series, from a master of the genre.To Matt Scudder, no one can rise above the law.But when the ex-cop is privately hired to investigate the murder of a beautiful pregnant woman, he finds himself pushed to...

'Gibson is having tremendous fun' Independent --------------THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ PATTERN RECOGNITION AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Hubertus Bigend, the Machiavellian head of global ad-agency Blue Ant, wants to uncover the maker of...

'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony Horowitz'Just keeps getting better . . . buy the whole series right away' Peter Robinson, No.1 bestselling author of Sleeping in the GroundNo sooner has Akyl Borubaev been...

'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony Horowitz'Just keeps getting better . . . buy the whole series right away' Peter Robinson, No.1 bestselling author of Sleeping in the GroundNo sooner has Akyl Borubaev been...

'Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true 'understory' of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking' David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A speculative...

'Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true 'understory' of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking' David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A speculative...

No one is going to miss Larinda Mars. A ruthless gossip queen with a lucrative sideline in blackmail, there's no lack of suspects when she's murdered in a fashionable New York bar. With so many people wanting her dead, it's going to be a tough case to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279040Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a...

"Wow, a totally gripping, fantastic book . . . I was captured . . . twists and turns that keep you engrossed . . . you won't want to put it down." -Amazon reviewer, five starsA morbid discovery and a missing daughter set an ex-cop and her PI partner on a...

Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past - not as a porn star, but as a killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past won't stay buried. When a former co-star is gunned down, it's up to Angel...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278982Author Ross MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging to someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively. This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow...

The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging to someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively. This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow...

'Atkins's Quinn Colson series is, quite simply, the best in crime fiction today - and also so much more . . . unforgettable' Megan Abbott The Pritchards had never been worth a damn - an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and...

'Wow just incredible... The killer's identity just took my breath away... Breathtaking suspense and mystery that will blow you away... Outstanding. ' Surjit's Book Blog In the golden afternoon light, the young woman lies perfectly still, her...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164051Author David GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 402gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613162026Author Dorothy B. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316403986Author Jim ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

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

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...

And now I stood here, on a desolate airfield in the Arkansas wilderness, a stone's throw from Texarkana. Darkness drawing in on me. Cross country to see a man I never imagined seeing again. On the strength of one desperate telephone call...'Having left...

And now I stood here, on a desolate airfield in the Arkansas wilderness, a stone's throw from Texarkana. Darkness drawing in on me. Cross country to see a man I never imagined seeing again. On the strength of one desperate telephone call...'Having left...

With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is given a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of...

The sixteenth Parker novel, "Butcher's Moon" is more than twice as long as most of the master heister's adventures and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where he...

A black comedy and high-school noir from a critically acclaimed writer"A darkly comic and original mystery novel filled with Raymond Chandleresque noir dialogue" - The Telegraph Someone is on a killing spree - slaughtering the school pets with a...

Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General 'Fighting Joe' Campbell, when her body was found - naked and bound - on the firing range of Fort Hadley. This political powder keg of a case goes directly...

'Enthralling from the first page to the last. Devoured in one sitting. Noelle Holten has become one of my must-read authors' Angela Marsons, bestselling author of the Detective Kim Stone series Psychopaths can take...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618274748Author Will MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Black MaskPublisher Black MaskWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

'Brilliant.' The TimesA riveting new mystery from the award winning author...When Henry Farrell took a job policing Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, he was recently widowed and still trying to find his feet.His first big cases put Officer Farrell face to face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490315645Author Richard PitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Stephen King's #1 Bestseller As You've Never Seen It BeforeFeaturing more than 20 illustrations by acclaimed artists Pat Kinsella, Robert McGinnis, and Mark Summers, this brand new edition of JOYLAND brings the carny world to life in all its bright and...

'Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true 'understory' of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking' David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A speculative...