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The Watcher Charlotte Link 9781409121220
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An atmospheric crime novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling Charlotte Link.Carla Roberts lives alone in a high-rise in Hackney. The lift keeps stopping on her floor, but nobody gets out. Days... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in... -
A Place of Safety by Natasha Cooper 9781509825585
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42How can a ravishing art collection be built on so much blood and pain?In the fifth novel in the series, London barrister Trish Maguire brings her forensic intelligence to bear on the dark secrets... -
Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Christmas is a season of overindulgence. For most of us, that means an extra mince pie, a second helping of turkey, or perhaps a third glass of mulled wine. But for some, the festive season is a time... -
Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel Elizabeth George 9781529390834
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one of my novels as an example of each step of my... -
Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various... -
The Other Child Charlotte Link 9781409121213
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A suspenseful psychological crime novel from one of Germany's No.1 bestselling authors.In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators... -
Oxford Knot Veronica Stallwood 9780747259909
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more than a little... -
Death and the Oxford Box Veronica Stallwood 9780747244783
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dawn on a cold February morning and a mist hangs over Oxford, shrouding spires and domes. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging group. It gets her... -
Oxford Double Veronica Stallwood 9780747268451
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and Edward Foster who are... -
An Uncommon Murder Anabel Donald 9781509813353
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25'I'm twenty-eight. I'm a freelance TV researcher. And last November I investigated my first murder ...' Alex Tanner is always on the lookout for work - mortgages on flats in Notting Hill do not come... -
A Greater Evil by Natasha Cooper 9781509825660
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Can you ever trust anyone, however much you care about them? Things aren't always what they seem . . .In the eighth Trish Maguire novel, Abandoned as a baby and brutalised in care,sculptor Sam... -
A Greater Evil by Natasha Cooper 9781509825677
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Can you ever trust anyone, however much you care about them? Things aren't always what they seem . . .In the eighth Trish Maguire novel, Abandoned as a baby and brutalised in care,sculptor Sam... -
Oxford Exit Veronica Stallwood 9780747248088
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When novelist Kate Ivory is offered a special assignment by her friend at Oxford's famous Bodleian Library, she decides to accept. For the University's libraries have a serious problem: valuable... -
Oxford Shift Veronica Stallwood 9780747260097
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Joyce Fielding walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a respectable widow in her sixties and there is... -
Oxford Shadows by Veronica Stallwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Oxfordshire appeared to be a haven of safety for many children sent away from the bombs falling on London in 1944, but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes, the result was death. Over 50 years later,... -
Oxford Mourning Veronica Stallwood 9780747253433
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When novelist Kate Ivory first meets Dr Olivia Blacket, an academic at Leicester College, Oxford, the atmosphere is far from amicable. Olivia refuses to show Kate the fascinating material she is... -
Oxford Blue Veronica Stallwood 9780747260080
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here, in the peace of the countryside, she hopes... -
Boys Who Hurt by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir 9781916788206
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma investigates complex case of a man murdered in a holiday cottage, while Saevar discovers something in a discarded box that could help crack the case. The... -
Gender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works by Heather Duerre Humann 9781476668208
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently... -
Murder Most Delectable: Savory Tales of Culinary Crimes by Martin Harry Greenberg 9781581821192
Booksplease Price: £15.90Murder Most Delectable is an anthology of short crime stories whose common elements include food, restaurants, and food preparation. Included are stories by Ruth Rendell, M. D. Lake, Edward Hoch,... -
Oxford Fall Veronica Stallwood 9780747255130
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Christopher Townsend, Development Officer of Bartlemas College, was reportedly drunk when he plunged from the top of the Tower of Grace. His tragic death does, however, lead to an offer of work for... -
Oxford Remains Veronica Stallwood 9780755300747
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Tensions are running high at Bartlemas College, Oxford. Daisy Tompkins, a bright, attractive student has put in a formal complaint about her tutor, the odd and unpopular Joseph Fechan. Faith Beeton,... -
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories by Ed Gorman 9780765302359
Booksplease Price: £15.03Edgar and Bram Stoker Award nominated editor Ed Gorman has once again selected the very best mystery and crime stories from the world over, and packed them into this comprehensive volume, including... -
Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel Elizabeth George 9781529390810
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.50'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one of my novels as an example of each step of my... -
Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer Various 9781788165754
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The summer holidays are a chance to escape from it all, to shrug off the troubles and cares of everyday life, and lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the... -
Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'When she's writing about her beloved Venice, Donna Leon can do no wrong. And Earthly Remains, her new mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, is one of her best. It's also one of her saddest,... -
Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love... -
The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The House of Stairs - an unputdownable crime classic from bestselling author Barbara VineLizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
Dead End: A Bill Slider Mystery (4) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575361
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery A call-out to a murder saves Detective Inspector Bill Slider from having to finish his canteen lunch, but it presents him with... -
Blind Defence by John Fairfax 9780349142517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Vivid and exciting' The TimesWINNER OF THE PRIX DU MASQUEShe was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or much of a... -
Gone Tomorrow: A Bill Slider Mystery (9) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575408
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery The stabbed body of a well-dressed man is found slumped on a swing in a children's playground in the heart of Detective... -
Death Watch: A Bill Slider Mystery (2) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575347
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery The lot of the working copper is getting harder: new regulations, regular rousting by the top brass, a budget tighter than a... -
Killing Time: A Bill Slider Mystery (6) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9781405542142
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider is back at work with a thumping headache, courtesy of the last villain he apprehended. But he... -
Orchestrated Death: A Bill Slider Mystery (1) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMESA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider - middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road - is never going to make it to Scotland Yard. He's... -
Blood Sinister: A Bill Slider Mystery (8) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575392
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Award-winning ex-Guardian hack Phoebe Agnew has a reputation for attacking the police in print. So when her strangled body is... -
Blood Lines: A Bill Slider Mystery (5) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575378
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.20'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery With his on-off lover Joanna away with work, Detective Inspector Bill Slider almost welcomes a call-out to the BBC TV Centre at... -
Shallow Grave: A Bill Slider Mystery (7) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575385
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture, and The Old Rectory is the kind of house he would give... -
Necrochip: A Bill Slider Mystery (3) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751575354
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery There's a changing of the guard at Shepherd's Bush police station. But unfortunately for Bill Slider, incoming Detective...