International Crime & Mystery

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...

MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN 'A gripping evocative thriller set in Berlin's seedy underworld during the roaring Twenties.' -Mail on Sunday Babylon Berlin is the first book in the...

He raised the chalice, they prayed and they sang. He was dead the moment he drank the blood.A crowd gathers for a funeral at a downtown New York church. As Father Flores smiles down on his congregation and drinks from the chalice of Christ's blood, he...

Enthralling and fast-paced, Shall We Tell the President? is the finale to Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel trilogy is a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty.6 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes to go . . ...

*As seen on The One Show**Dead Good 14 Best Thrillers of All Time 2023*'Thrilling . . . a terrific series' Sunday TimesSomeone has an appetite for murderKamil Rahman used to be a detective in Kolkata. Now he's a cook in London's East End.Yet trouble...

'Brilliant.' New York Times'Remarkable.' Irish TimesAugust 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of...

Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide"Expertly told, the plot crackles with life" Daily MailTHE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO HAS FRESH OUTRAGE TO AVENGEAs Salander follows the scorched trail of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Shamus Award for Best PI Novel 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781616959760Author Sujata MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho...

Stratos Gazis hates being called a hit man. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done provided he concludes the targets deserve their fate. The story centers...

WAKE UP TO TRUE EVIL The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. ONE GIRL IS DEADAt a home for troubled girls, a young...

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter...

Former Secret Service Agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, return in their most surprising, personal and dangerous case to date. King and Maxwell is the explosive finale to David Baldacci's phenomenal series.A family...

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*'An incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with multiple problems' IndependentThe contract killer.Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally -...

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'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience'SUNDAY TIMES'Succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality'SUNDAY EXPRESS__________When Lotte Meerman...

Jesse Stone is an ex LA cop who has taken the job of police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts. His drinking and his damaged relationship with his wife, define him as much as his supreme skill at policing his patch. When Crow, an Apache hitman, turns up in...

__________________Keeping it in the family...After her painful divorce four years ago, Lotte Meerman has kept well away from Arjen, her ex-husband, and his new wife Nadia. So when they both visit her at central Amsterdam's police station to report...

A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels.In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondness for...

From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author, David Baldacci, The Escape is the third title in this fast-paced, breathtaking series. CID investigator, John Puller, has returned from his latest case in Florida to learn that his brother, Bobby, on...

A missing person report is not usually something that Hamish Macbeth sees as cause for undue distress.Should a child or a vulnerable person vanish, it's an urgent matter that needs to be treated seriously, but in Macbeth's experience, most other people...

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A SEVERED HEAD ON A STAKE. A BODY IN THE LAKE . . . THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER JORN LIER HORST, NOW A MAJOR BBC 4 TV SHOW'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054432Author Pascal EngmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

*WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2023 FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR*The apotheosis of Southern Gothic Noir' NEIL GAIMAN'Compelling characters and vivid settings make this impressive Southern narrative stand out among the best . . . not to be...

Death Benefit is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999497500Author Tom MorrisseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 5th Palace PublishingPublisher 5th Palace PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

THE SPINE-TINGLING AND GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH, BREATHLESS'Enthralling. Combines an intricate murder mystery with lyrical passages describing ice cliffs and spectacular skies' SUNDAY TIMES'Chillingly...

Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his...

'Full of twists, the emphasis is on comedy . . . but the extraordinary Holmes can pull the heartstrings too.' THE TIMESThe McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts - a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Terrific . . . Intelligent and gripping' The Times'Tense, thrilling and genuinely scary' Heat'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times'The plot is scalpel sharp... utterly...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more...

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FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLERS SINCE 1945 Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose...

*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDSummer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task...

**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** TWELEVE DARK GRIPPING TWISTS FROM THE KING OF SCANDI CRIME Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance...

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Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home.Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hakan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hakan...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER The twisty and darkly compelling thriller, European bestseller and RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK that will keep you up all night.'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don't let...