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Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley 9780316584470
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316584470Author Walter MosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Mulholland BooksPublisher... -
Another Kind of Eden James Lee Burke (Author) 9781398704718
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears... -
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 'Thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'An expertly plotted... -
Whispers From a Troubled Heart by Rique Johnson 9781593090203
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26New from the author of Love and Justice comes the continuing story of Virginia City's detective Jason Jerrard, who must track down a ruthless murderer while he pieces together the remains of his own... -
Plot Thickens by Mary Higgins Clark 9781476747507
Booksplease Price: £12.52Intrigue abounds in this fun, sexy story about a debutante in disguise and a handsome race car driver who must solve a murder, save a life, and fall in love before they spin out of control.He's fast... -
Rhode Island Red Charlotte Carter 9781399803885
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78**A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year**'This year's most original fictional detective - a sassy, black intellectual and saxophonist who is plunged into mayhem when an undercover cop gets... -
Coq au Vin Charlotte Carter 9781399803908
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78**A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year**'This year's most original fictional detective' Good Housekeeping'The love affair between jazz, black musicians and Paris is an eternal story;... -
Drumsticks Charlotte Carter 9781399803922
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05**A New York Times Best Crime Mystery of the Year**'Nanette Hayes may be the most charismatic crime-fiction heroine to appear in the last decade' BooklistIn the third book in the Nanette Hayes... -
My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice...add S. A. Cosby to that list.' STEVE CAVANAGH'S. A. Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature.' DENNIS... -
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Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.88'Extraordinary . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet... -
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.88'Extraordinary . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet... -
All The Sinners Bleed: the new thriller from the award-winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS by S. A. Cosby 9781472299154
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26***GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2023*** THE TIMES - THRILLER OF THE MONTH****** MAIL ON SUNDAY - BEST NEW FICTION*** FINANCIAL TIMES - BEST NEW CRIME BOOKS***'A crackling good police... -
Ozark Dogs: the acclaimed US crime thriller from the award-nominated author by Eli Cranor 9781035401741
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02***THE GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2023***THE TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE MONTH*** ***MAIL ON SUNDAY BEST NEW FICTION***FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW THRILLERS***'Powerful' THE GUARDIAN 'A... -
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 9781857152623
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and... -
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler 9780141182247
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a... -
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner 9780099154518
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
Blue Light 9781574782332
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574782332Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 385Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher... -
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers... -
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Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell 9780099502708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.94Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself... -
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell 9780099502708
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself... -
The Chill by Ross Macdonald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer... -
The Submission by Amy Waldman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous... -
IQ: 'The Holmes of the 21st century' (Daily Mail) Joe Ide 9781474607186
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Joe Ide is the best new discovery I've come across in a long time. And Isaiah Quintabe is the kind of sleuth not seen on the mystery landscape before.' MICHAEL CONNELLYTHE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE... -
Every Cloak Rolled In Blood by James Lee Burke 9781398707894
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.09In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws... -
Flags on the Bayou James Lee Burke (Author) 9781398715509
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £11.00In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause - an idle spectator since New... -
Every Cloak Rolled In Blood James Lee Burke (Author) 9781398707870
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £8.14'One of the finest American writers' GUARDIAN--------Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered by the sudden death of his daughter Fannie Mae. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young... -
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke 9781398715523
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are... -
Righteous: An IQ novel by Joe Ide 9781474607209
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'The best discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael ConnellyWhen the beautiful woman you've longed for since boyhood calls and asks you to find her missing sister, what do you do? If you are... -
Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction by John Lennard 9781847601735
RRP: £27.85Booksplease Price: £26.30Taking up where the author's book Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fiction of recent decades,... -
The Book of Numbers by Robert Deane Pharr 9780813920467
Booksplease Price: £25.14In the tradition of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley, Robert Deane Pharr's novel tells the tale of two black men, Dave and Blueboy, traveling waiters who establish themselves as numbers runners in a... -
New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s by LeRoy Lad Panek 9780879728205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.61With an eye towards the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, Panek comments both on the way it has changed since the 1970s and examines the work of ten significant contemporary... -
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction by Scott McCracken
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories... -
Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems by Regina Austin 9780393319781
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.78From Spike Lee's encouragement of independent, community fundraising to Joycelyn Elders's warning about the failings of our "sick-care" system to Stanley Crouch's disputation on "heroic" versus... -
Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home by Mary Lou Emery 9781476680255
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating... -
The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes 9780679725725
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.57From "one of the most important American writers of the 20th century" (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into... -
The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative by Julie E. Moody-Freeman 9781433112423
RRP: £102.60Booksplease Price: £90.35This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and... -
The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative by Julie E. Moody-Freeman 9781433112416
RRP: £28.10Booksplease Price: £26.21This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and... -
Blacktop Wasteland: the acclaimed and award-winning crime hit of the year S. A. Cosby 9781472273758
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.33*GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2020**LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER 2020*'BLACKTOP WASTELAND may be the book of the year.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'Sensationally good' LEE CHILD'I loved BLACKTOP... -
Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies by Ronda C. Henry Anthony 9781628461800
Booksplease Price: £28.57Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's...