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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984118Author John D. MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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...

While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown. When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realises the...

"If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully." When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong. But Detective Kay Hunter isn't...

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

'Everyone, and that means everyone is hiding secrets. . . ' NetGalley reviewer THE NUMBER 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Don't miss this spine tingling thriller about a daring pilot caught in a race against timeRye Mallett, a fearless 'freight dog' pilot...

'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...

Set before the events of the Reichenbach Falls, the formidable Sherlock Holmes is back. Tested to the extreme by cyphers, cryptic clues, and Professor James Moriarty - his greatest adversary. This is the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels.About the...

Book Riot "12 Best Graphic Novels and Comics of 2022" List Easton Newburn is a private detective without loyalties, investigating conflicts between rival crime factions. With his assistant Emily, Newburn follows murderers, arsonists, and corrupt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163822Author Robert CraisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 104mm * 23mm

Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel from bestselling ROAD TO PERDITION author Max Allan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684540143Author Karline SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Black Sapphire PressPublisher Black Sapphire PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312359812Author Simon KernickFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm)...

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's "haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller"* that introduced Lucas Davenport... The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627551113Author James Hadley ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Black Curtain PressPublisher Black Curtain PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959005Author Cara BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc

When two bodies are found brutally murdered at a building site in Battersea, DS Cal Drake is first to the scene. He sees an opportunity: to solve a high-profile case and to repair his reputation after a botched undercover operation almost ended his...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942633167Author Diane CapriFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint AugustbooksPublisher AugustbooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

'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...

'Well plotted and page turning' - Patricia Gibney'A tense, fast-paced, and deftly plotted thriller, which kept me guessing right to the end. I'm already looking forward to the next outing for Detective Sergeant Lucy Golden and her crew!'- Andrea...

'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...

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...

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 9780593596609Author John WyndhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

"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...

'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...

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...

'Wonderful. . . properly noir' Ian Rankin 'Devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times 'Happiness for those unused to it is like food for the starving - a little too much can be fatal.' Writer Jeff Colombier is not accustomed to success. Twice...

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 *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451477156Author Sara ParetskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

'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 9780316403986Author Jim ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

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...