Crime

AN INTENSELY CREEPY SERIAL KILLER THRILLER DEBUT, FOR FANS OF CHRIS CARTER AND M. W. CRAVEN.'A truly extraordinary crime novel' - Lynda La Plante'Written with a clear grasp of social media, the story simply bristles with invention - though it is not for...

'No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' ELLY GRIFFITHSThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.It's the height of summer, and the wealthy Finney family have...

'Well into MARTINA COLE territory' Independent'A cracking good read' JESSIE KEANEWHO CAN YOU TRUST, WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST FAMILY?Sheltered and naive Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life...

DI Clare Mackay starts the new year with a death... It is the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay when Alison Reid admits a caller to her home. When her death is later reported, DI Clare Mackay attends the scene. The initial evidence does not rule out murder,...

A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace's happy new life in Love You Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first,...

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLHow do you catch a killer who doesn't exist? One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is...

THE HUNTERS return in their third brilliant novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author Chris Kuzneski, whose writing James Patterson says has 'raw power'. The team are hunting Marco Polo's hidden treasure, but who is on their tail? THE...

'Pacy, dark and highly entertaining, with a real sense of menace' Sunday Times bestseller, T.M. Logan 'The very definition of a white-knuckle ride' Sunday Times bestseller, B P Walter 'Brilliant . . . a proper page-turner' Sunday...

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with a gripping, atmospheric new crime thriller series set on the Isle of Anglesey. Will there be blood in the water? Three years ago,...

The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired...

'Opens with a terrific hook' IRISH TIMES'Absolutely absorbing' SAM BLAKE'A chilling, magical read' PATRICIA GIBNEY'Breathtakingly paced' S. A. DUNPHY'Truly gripping' SINEAD CROWLEYTHE DEAD WON'T STAY SILENT FOREVER...It's a crisp spring morning when...

THE GRIPPING DI HELEN GRACE THRILLER BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR M. J. ARLIDGE'Nailbiting . . . full of twists and turns' 5***** READER REVIEW'The writing grabs you and pulls you straight into an action-packed read' 5***** READER REVIEW'Read...

`A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT `A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES A stranger is just a killer you haven't met yet... The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller returns with the next big thing to hit the shelves. If you haven't discovered Paul Finch...

What secrets lie in the past? Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner's first husband was tried as a spy, sentenced to death, and then escaped, only to die in a train crash. So how is he sending her death...

CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailWhen the menacing Gregory Porlock...

Edinburgh's toughest cop, Bob Skinner, looks into his past to assuage his demons in Quintin Jardine's thrilling new mystery.Skinner revisits his nightmares: old but not forgotten. Fifteen years in the past, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Bob...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect...

'A captivating read.' Mel Sherratt 'She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done ...' No one can touch Del Williams - the hardest gangster in Soho. He's got the monopoly...

___________________________________The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.A...

*** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ***'A brilliant historical crime read' Bella'This thrilling and twisty crime novel is perfect for fans of Martina Cole' My Weekly'A rollercoaster of crime, revenge and murder' The SunBEHIND EVERY STRONG WOMAN IS AN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916051812Author David LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint David B. LyonsPublisher David B. Lyons

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Ends with one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction' The Sunday Times 'A dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail 'A work of genius... Stunning' Daily Express Jerome Morval has...

Almost unbearably tense, chilling and addictive . . . Exceptional' - Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the TrainA mother knows best . . . doesn't she?Talented and determined, Devon is the centre of her ambitious parents' world, and the lynchpin of their...

Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery book of all time, celebrates its 80th birthday with this gorgeous hardback Special Edition. 'We're not going to leave the island. None of us will ever leave. It's...

'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The TimesFrom multi-million-copy number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case.How do you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316440868Author Fonda LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint OrbitPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm * 43mm

'Britain's No.1 crime writer' Mirror * * * * *A CASE THAT WON'T DIEJohn Rebus can't close the door on the death of glamorous socialite Maria Turquand. Brutally murdered in her hotel room forty years ago, her killer has never been found.Meanwhile,...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Ill-fated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic saga' JAKE ARNOTT, GUARDIAN 'Huge, epic, immersive and absorbing . . . certain to be a book of the year' LEE CHILD, NEW...

'If you haven't read Jane Casey, start immediately' Marian Keyes, the Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller A Times best crime book of 2023 Suburban bliss The new neighbours seem just right for Jellicoe Close, a pretty street...

EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.It is 1997, and a serial killer is on the loose in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD...

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES 'An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist' IAN RANKIN ____________ A body is found off the coast of Iceland.A cursory police investigation calls it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805080589Author Jane JesmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT HURTS...'This is crime-writing at its nerve-tingling best'Harlan CobenA killer is targeting lone women, torturing and murdering them. The precision of his methods leads Detective Jane Rizzoli to suspect he is medically trained...

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life...

'Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife' (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer...

Sugar and cream?Or a lethal dose of poison? The inventor of a powerful new explosive,Sir Claud Amory, is somewhat disconcerted when the chemical formula goes missing - the situation worsened by the knowledge that the thief is one...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers,...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEADSir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties...

The first in a series from bestselling author Kerry Kaya - The Carters are back!The Carter Family are back and this time they mean trouble...One wrong move...As the current head of the family firm, Jimmy Carter has decided it's time for him to step down...

`Gripping' - IAN RANKIN; The RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK that sends pulses pounding, Marked for Death will grip fans of David Baldacci and Peter James until the very last page.; A deadly secret. A chilling game. A past you can't escape.; When...