International Crime & Mystery

Helsinki, March 1953. An unusually long and cold winter, everywhere frozen sea, ice-covered lakes and rivers. In a port city flooded with refugees, who cares if a young woman goes missing? An up-and-coming inspector who views this as an opportunity to...

Ten years ago, intelligence officer Jordan Weiss's life was turned upside down when her college boyfriend Jared drowned. But in a shocking discovery, Jordan realises that she has been lied to and betrayed by those closest to her.Reeling from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316590969Author Guillaume MussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

'I love the voice. I love the dark streets. I love the story.' Harlan CobenDan, an Irishman who's ended up in New Jersey, finds himself embroiled in a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops.Dan works as a bouncer in a seedy club, half in love with...

THE ACTION-PACKED THRILLER THAT FUSES BRAWN AND BRAINSOxford University has never employed a man like Leo Black before.Now an adored lecturer destined for tenure among the gleaming spires, Leo Black served the SAS for twenty years with distinction.When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898616Author Eva Garcia SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage Crime/Black LizardPublisher Penguin Random House LLC

A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway. 'An expertly...

Stockholm Delete is a superbly gritty thriller which gets right to the heart of the Stockholm criminal world.Emilie Jansson has just been made partner at a prestigious law firm when she is asked to work with an unusual partner. Teddy is an ex-con trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898630Author Eva Garcia SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The story is set in Uruguay, it starts in a Montevideo prison where Diego waits for his lawyer, the slick Dr Antinucci, always raybanned, chain-smoking, never frisked by the prison guards. Diego, betrayed by his partner in crime, was arrested for...

PRE-ORDER RETURN TO BLOOD, THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE ACCLAIMED CRIME DEBUT BETTER THE BLOOD, COMING SPRING 2024 'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Maori culture' Val McDermidA DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780298160Author Xiaolong QiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Creme de la CrimePublisher Canongate Books LtdWeight(grams) 138g

'Black delivers a powerhouse of a thriller.' Lisa GardnerThe second spine-chilling serial-killer thriller featuring homicide detective Valerie Hart from the author of the critically-acclaimed THE KILLING LESSONS.REMEMBER HER FACE. IT WILL BE THE LAST ONE...

Baghdad, November 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his...

By the bestselling author of The Killing, Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth novel in David Hewson's gripping Detective Pieter Vos series set in Amsterdam.Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market...

'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...

She'd cycled this way hundreds of times before, every twist and turn familiar. She didn't know this would be the last. When the body of architect James McCallum is found hanging in the grounds of his former school...

'Japrisot is the most welcome talent since the early Simenons' New York Times Car mechanic Fiorimond is irresistibly drawn to beautiful, provocative Elle, a recent arrival in his sleepy Provence village. Their relationship develops quickly,...

How far would you go for family?Anna's done bad things before. Neglected and unloved as a child, she had to do whatever it took to keep herself and her little sister, Birdie, safe. But the worst thing she's ever done is let her sister walk out of a diner...

Human freedom has one last hope to survive the information revolution in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller Daemon.The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world,...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2019****LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD 2019**What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?During a weekend spree in Cape Town...

A festive house party takes a sinister turn...Victor Narraway and his wife, Lady Vespasia, are invited to spend Christmas at Cavendish Hall with a gathering of old acquaintances, but it is not the quiet, rather stiff house party they had expected. While...

THE THRILLING FOURTH JACK IRISH NOVEL, FROM THE FIVE-TIME NED KELLY WINNER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.'Peter Temple's fourth Jack Irish thriller is like slipping into deliciously dangerous quicksand . . . demands to...

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RAGDOLL - SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES'Brilliant' M.J. Arlidge'Exciting' Linwood BarclayA locked room. A dead body. A secret that went to the grave.When retired police officer Finlay Shaw is found dead in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542019699Author Loreth Anne WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MontlakePublisher Amazon Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294805Author Ed LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.SEASON OF SHADOWS"The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this."...

A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Boni."Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday TimesIn a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random...

Spellbinding multi-layered crime novel set in a fascinating period and place. Set in the first months of 1944, Rome is declared an 'open city' as the Allies steadily get closer. The German occupying forces know their days are numbered and yet the SS, the...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed, bonded, insured; white, female, age thirty-two, unmarried, and physically fit. That Monday morning, I was sitting in my office with my feet up, wondering what life would bring, when a...

The No.1 bestseller in France, NIGHT is the thrilling new novel from award-winner Bernard Minier. The Commandant Servaz series The Frozen Dead is available now on Netflix.A woman murdered in a church in Norway.A collection of photographs on an oil rig in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306572Author David HewsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 495gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143113003Author Andrea CamilleriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

For fans of Scandinavian crime, Intrigo is the gripping collection of Hakan Nesser's best novellas and short stories, three of which have been adapted into major motion pictures.Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of...

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An autopsy reveals that, although he's clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949980882Author NisiOisiNFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.

Freshly trained detective Johannes "Hannes" Niehaus is brand-new to the Criminal Investigation Department. And his partner, unconventional veteran detective Fritz Janssen, isn't the least bit thrilled to train a rookie. When a woman's body washes up...

'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' Catriona McphersonSu Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a 'local girl' can't be trusted with...

*THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*'Nerve-wracking dark suspense with a masterly resolution. Anders Roslund is a marvellously talented author' Erik Axl Sund, bestselling author of THE CROW GIRL'A perfect example of Scandi noir' The Times***Two little girls go...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud,...