International Crime & Mystery

Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2023'A rich, gut-punch of a crime thriller' Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The PushIt's every mother's worst fearOn a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missing...

Discover the nail-biting new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans'Gorgeous writing, interesting characters, a unique setting, and an unsettling, surprising mystery. We Are All the Same in the Dark has it all' AMY ENGEL,...

A GRIPPING, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT ADDITION TO THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TEMPERANCE BRENNAN SERIES 'I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell' JAMES PATTERSON 'Over the...

The Scent of the Night is the sixth comic detective novel in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.Montalbano learned how hard it was to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that wasn't exactly calm. Mimi, at the helm,...

______________________NOW THE HIT 2020 MOVIE THE POSTCARD KILLINGS STARRING JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN AND FAMKE JANSSEN______________________Murder is on the cards...NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But it's not for...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAPITAL CRIME AWARDS MYSTERY BOOK OF THE YEARBeneath the beauty of Havana, she will find a bed of lies...'Transports us to another time and place. I loved it' PRIMA MAGAZINE'Iris is a heroine you'll absolutely root for in this...

A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series.On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father...

A death at a funfair, and Bourne must face his nemesis...The third Jason Bourne novel from internationally bestselling author Robert Ludlum.'The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum' GQ'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesIt...

France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions, the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and escapism.The event of the Perigord tourist season is...

ONE MURDER. TWELVE SUSPECTS. TWELVE MOTIVES FOR MURDER . . .Sit back and become a real armchair detective.A murder mystery told entirely through interviews.Private Investigator Elizabeth Chalice needs YOU to help her solve this case.It's a beautiful...

'One of our finest thriller writers' Evening StandardA BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 2021'Oliver Harris is always pure quality' Ian Rankin'A fascinating tale of modern espionage in a unique setting' Irish IndependentThree friends from a mission...

___________________________Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control over America's most exciting city: Miami.Miami is Detective Tom Moon's home and heartland. When he's asked to...

'Clever, pacey, compulsive' Sunday Mirror********One family. One night. Ten years of lies.It's June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.Ten years later,...

OUT NOW IN CINEMAS AND NOMINATED FOR FOUR OSCARS A cool, cruel, rediscovered classic of American noir adapted for cinemas by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara 'Read and shudder. And relish' Guardian 'A...

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself-a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls...

U is for Undertow is the twenty-first in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned . . . When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts...

ONE TWIN LIED. ONE TWIN DIED.'Dean handles his plot with skill ... Molly is an intriguing protagonist and Dean has plenty of surprises for the unwary reader' OBSERVER'The talented Mr Ripley would have enjoyed every moment of its tortuous plot. There is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613164792Author Ken BruenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 455gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she's in far deeper trouble than he bargained for... Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: crippling claustrophobia due to PTSD. After years of living...

Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company. Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second...

The stunning new thriller from 'the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre' (LEE CHILD)'An espionage master' CHARLES CUMMING'Timely and terrific' MICK HERRON on Firefly'Epic ... remarkable ... his best book yet' Sunday Times on...

Murder was always an insult. But the murder, bloody and brutal, of an entire family in their own home, was a different form of evil.Nixie Swisher crept down the stairs for a drink - and saved her own life. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur IndridasonTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as 'the shadow...

If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise... 'Exceptional' A.J. Finn 'A smart thriller' Gillian McAllister 'Creepy, absorbing and unnerving'...

Evil lurks in the city streets.A man is discovered on a leafy North London street, fighting for life after a brutal beating. DI Matthew Denning and his team are quickly called in to track down the monster responsible. Except the victim is hiding secrets...

A dizzying tale oflust and murder, from one of Japan's greatest mysterywriters. A hunter prowls the night spotsof Shinjuku But he's the one walking into a trap... IchiroHonda leads a double life: by day a devoted husband and a diligent worker,...

'The later Renko novels are stark, spare and beautiful, like trees in winter. Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON ARKADY RENKO IS BACK . . . Renko has been confined to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616953706Author Fuminori NakamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 424g

Paris: city of art. City of culture. City of death.When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty when one of his...

'Bold, gritty and deeply immersive, the compelling plotline, richly drawn characters and authentic sense of place wrapped up in taut heartfelt prose, drew me in and had me racing through the pages well into the night. A stunning and hugely suspenseful...

A secluded hut in the middle of the woods. A double life that could be his downfall. The Secret Life of Mr Roos is the third Inspector Barbarotti novel from the 'Godfather of Swedish crime' (Metro), Hakan Nesser. At fifty-nine years old, Valdemar Roos is...

A dark murder. A secret brought to light...June, 1797. From his headquarters at the Villa Mombello near Milan, the French revolutionary army's young general, one Napoleon Bonaparte, dictates peace terms to Europe's monarchies with breath-taking ease and...

'While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl' Daily MailMurder on the Downs is the seventh book in Julie Wassmer's popular crime series - now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private...

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon...

She ran from the truth. She will do whatever it takes to hide it.Jessica returns home one day to find her husband, Patrick, dead. It's unclear what caused his death and though the shock is huge, she cannot pretend it's entirely unexpected. The police...

The electrifying new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne. Only one boy can see the darkness. Only one man can save him from it. 'Perfect for fans of Lee Child' Sun A...

A devilishly disturbing new case for Lieutenant Eve Dallas from the Sunday Times bestseller J.D. Robb. The perfect entry point into the compelling In Death police procedural series. New York at night. A young woman - dazed, naked and bloody - stumbles...

Sometimes, when the nightmare ends, the terror follows . . .For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private - the world's most exclusive detective agency -...

There is nothing unusual about billionaire Roarke supervising work on his new property - but when he takes a ceremonial swing at the first wall to be knocked down, he uncovers the body of a girl. And then another - in fact, twelve dead girls concealed...

Lady Emily must stop a serial killer whose sights are set on the new king . . .Lying on her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted royal agent Colin Hargreaves, slipping him a letter with her last command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere...