Crime

Be careful what you dig up...Still recovering from tragedy, Inspector Elisenda Domenech takes on a new case involving a body discovered on an archaeological dig. Seemingly executed as part of an ancient tribal ritual, it soon becomes clear that this body...

The sequel to the viral TikTok sensation Stone Maidens From Lloyd Devereux Richards comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his...

No good deed goes unpunished...When a police raid in Edinburgh goes horribly wrong, the only silver lining for Inspector Tony McLean is a discovery that could lead to a long-lost girl from his early days on the beat. Haunted by the mystery of what...

'Count to three,' her mother told her, the last words she would ever speak. An Impossible Crime SceneA wealthy woman is found brutally murdered in the locked fortress of her London mansion. Surrounding her are four mysterious objects,...

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers are acquitted following the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives,...

'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' - Stephen KingFrom the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes The Hanging Valley, book four in Peter...

The fifth in Andrea Camilleri's hit Italian crime series, Excursion to Tindari is another darkly comic detective story featuring Inspector Montalbano.Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man - the mystery, the power, the freedom." ...

The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014.At first the prisoner scratches at the...

'I loved CLEAR MY NAME. It features two strong women, one in prison for murder, one working to reinvestigate the case. Add in secrets, lies, and family drama and it's an immediate page turner.' Lisa Gardner, bestselling author of WHEN YOU SEE ME'The UK's...

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone... Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer...

A chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance to find the real killer . . . The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jorn Lier HorstINSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING'Up there with the best of the Nordic...

COMING IN JUNE 2023: KATHERINE FAULKNER'S BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL, THE OTHER MOTHERS THE TOP TWENTY BESTSELLER WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'If you like Louise Candlish, then you'll want to take a walk in Greenwich Park' RED 'A twisty,...

The 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller. 'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all the more so for being at least partly true' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail 'Dark, chilling and full of clever...

How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks: If you had the power between life and death, what would you do? Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching...

_________________________Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she's inmate 3329.Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person...

TO PROTECT HER SECRETS, SHE MUST EXPOSE THEIRS... 'A shocker of a twist' BELLA'As hard to predict as it is to put aside' THE MORNING STAR'A pacy thriller' WOMAN'S WEEKLYAmy Mackenzie is on the up. Her florist business is thriving, with a roll call of...

A TIMES CRIME CLUB STAR PICK and AMAZON and KINDLE BESTSELLER! 'Fantastic. Excellent. Incredible. I could not put this one down for the life of me.' Reader Review 'A stunner! Without a doubt, one of...

Gamble is the latest Dick Francis novel and the first solo novel by Felix Francis.Nick Foxton once won the Grand National, but a terrible accident cut his racing career short. Years later, he is returning to Aintree - as a spectator - when he once more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838887377Author Angela MarsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm

'Crime writing of the highest order' GUARDIAN'Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti' Val McDermidThe gifted Venetian detective returns in his 31st case - this time, investigating...

On a late summer evening, the train from Malmo to Ystad is involved in a crash. The deaths at the scene seem straightforward until one of the bodies is identified as a well-known conman. It's someone who had crossed swords with Chief Inspector Moberg in...

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to...

It's a race against time as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to stop a grieving mother from taking the law into her own hands in Dead Man's Grip, by award winning crime writer Peter James.A university student is killed in a tragic traffic...

'Brave and unflinching, dark and unsentimental' LIZ NUGENT'Truly first class' C. J. TUDOR'Positively hums with authenticity' DAILY MAIL'So atmospheric' CAZ FREAR'A total triumph' RACHEL EDWARDSDCS Frankie Sheehan does not wish to linger on the grisly...

'Fabulous cosy murder/mystery with an unforgettable crime-fighting trio. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.' Angela Marsons, author of Stolen OnesA fete worse than death...After finding the killer of Lucy Roth six months ago, life has settled...

From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! A time of terrible danger...The Great Fire has ravaged London. Now, guided by...

You made a mistake . . .But they're saying it's murder.----------'Thrilling, emotional and pacy with a clever twist I didn't expect' Claire Douglas'Sensitive and thought-provoking' Adele Parks'Fearsomely good' Nicci FrenchEvery Monday, 49-year-old Ellie...

'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self Five people die in an unexplained house fire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family...

She thinks the island will keep her safe-she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter...

The Interview is a gripping locked-room thriller from C. M. Ewan, the acclaimed author of A Window Breaks and the half-a-million-copy bestseller Safe House.It's 5 p.m. on a Friday.You have been called to an interview for your dream job.In a stunning...

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place... The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916453500Author Jim AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Planet JimbotPublisher Planet JimbotWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Buy Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now!_______________'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' Independent'No one can tell a story like she can' Daily Express'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review'We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788750011Author Andrew TurpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint The Write Direction PublishingPublisher The Write Direction Publishing

Some scars never heal . . . An addictive thriller from the author of the mega bestseller GONE GIRL.When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes.Long-haunted by a...

SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL AMAZON PRIME SERIES_______________________________________The twenty-eighth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series______________________________'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what...

When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman...

THE RUNAWAY SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMILY BLUNT'Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect' STEPHEN KINGRachel catches the same commuter train...