Women Sleuths

Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range and the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie...

As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood over what had once been a woman, she wondered when she would see worse than this.Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy. The worst murderers in history and a new madman's inspiration. In the lost hours of the...

THE GRIPPING, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, AND INSPIRATION BEHIND THE GLOBAL NO. 1 NETFLIX SHOW THE SNOW GIRL'I literally couldn't put this book down' 5***** reader review'A well-layered, pacy thriller' MARI...

A gripping new crime series for fans of Val McDermid, Jane Casey and Cara Hunter 'Gold-standard crime writing' Erin Kinsley 'An impressive start in an exciting new series' The Sun ...

It all began with that awful business about my mother...Flavia de Luce's world is turned upside down when she is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother Harriet's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress,...

In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end.The...

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'Laetitia Rodd is a warm and engaging heroine' The Times For readers of The Thursday Murder Club, M.C. Beaton and James Runcie, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden is the charming third mystery in Kate Saunder's series about Laetitia Rodd, the...

The first thrilling standalone crime novel from the international number one bestseller and Sweden's answer to Val McDermid, Anders de la Motte.'Enthralling...De la Motte juxtaposes the horrors of war with age-old superstitions to superb effect' Joan...

K is for Killer is the eleventh in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls...

'Compulsive, twisty and deliciously dark' 5* reader review'Another brilliant book by Charlotte Duckworth!' 5* reader review'A fabulous twisty thriller' 5* reader review'Tense and gripping' 5* reader review'Addictive and devourable and I loved every...

THERE'S A BAFFLING MYSTERY IN THE VILLAGE OF STEEPLE MARTIN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE.'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' Katie FfordeTen years ago, a missing person story causes a furore in Kent -...

'Vivid, amusing and immensely enjoyable . . . A triumph' Alexander McCall SmithMeet Tannie Maria: the loveable writer of recipes in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.One Sunday morning, as Maria stirs apricot jam, she hears her editor Harriet on...

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Dark, clever, terrifying' Paula Hawkins 'Gripping and moving' Erin Kelly 'You won't want to eat, sleep or blink' Tammy Cohen Imagine your doorbell rings in the middle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838493196Author Emily OrganFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Emily OrganPublisher Emily OrganWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

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'Vera Morris is one of those unexpected gems who turn up occasionally on the crime fiction scene' Mystery PeopleYou can run but you can't hide . . .Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for CrimeFest - Last Laugh Award 2022 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781780298054Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Severn HousePublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956258724Author Marjorie OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HORME PublishingPublisher HORME Publishing

Murphy's Law is the captivating first entry of Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling Molly Murphy series.Meet Molly Murphy, a resourceful young woman who lives by her own set of laws...Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her...

THE UNMISSABLE BRAND NEW THRILLER FROM RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER SHARON BOLTON - POLICE OFFICER LACEY FLINT FACES HER MOST DANGEROUS CASE YET. When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is...

In the first of a thrilling new Victorian detective series, Eliza Mace, on the cusp of adulthood, is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house in the Welsh borders in the 1870s, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect,...

When faced with superstitious townsfolk, she must keep her head to find a killer. When Macdara's cousin Jane frantically calls for his help, Siobhan is at his side. The two garda rush from Kilbane to the rural village where Jane and her mother have...

The third gripping novel in the Polish detective series featuring DI Dania Gorska.In the north of Dundee, DI Dania Gorska is leading the search for a missing girl, with the police and volunteers combing the dramatic landscape in hope of finding the child...

Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools...

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane,...

She smelled it, fresh death. Both metallic and fruity. Easing the door all the way open, she found it . . .It's Christmas-time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. Finding a woman strangled to...

No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord, something waits to be discovered. Yet all six residents have something to hide. Collette and Cher are on the run; Thomas is a reluctant loner; while a...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR BEST SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARAs the house burns, the hunt for a killer begins...In the dead of night someone starts a fire in a home for underprivileged children in Aberdeen. The flames spread quickly,...

'The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite.' Mail on SundayCURIOUSITY WON'T KILL THIS CAT...Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness.Forbidden from visiting...

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A murderer is at large on the streets of Lincolnshire. But why?When the body of a well-known local thug is discovered carrying a personal message for Detective Sergeant Catherine Bishop neither she, nor her team, can figure out why.Soon, a second victim...

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'Peppered with revelations that will keep you reading into the night' Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the Freyja and Huldar series THREE MISTAKES. TWO MURDERS. ONE MORE VICTIM TO GO . . .Annabelle speeds along a deserted mountain road in the Scottish...

When criminal justice lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of Zelasny & McVay's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time. Assisted by average law graduate and the firm's newest mentee, Kordian Orynski, they find himself in a...

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The Special Dead is the thrilling tenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.When Mark is invited back to Leila's flat and ordered to strip, he thinks he's about to have the experience of his life. Waking later he finds...

DISCOVER THE GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING TWIN CITIES SERIES'Supercharged storytelling' DAILY MAIL________ A young woman is murdered in a park in Minneapolis. When detectives Gino and Magozzi discover a playing card near the...

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Epoque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart ... FIRST in a bewitching new series ...