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Literature and Race in Los Angeles by Julian Murphet 9780521805353
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticized city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its... -
L.A. Confidential by Manohla Dargis 9780851709444
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51L.A. Confidential was released in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and it went on to be nominated for nine Academy Awards. Its reputation has since grown to the point that the film is now widely seen as... -
The Children's Crusade: Only one man stands in their way . . . Elliott Hall 9781848540767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40PI Felix Strange is working his last case. The woman he loves has been taken by Fisher Partners - America's for-profit secret police - and, though he suspects he won't find her, he's going to do the... -
Grave Secrets in Goa by Kathleen McCaul
Booksplease Price: £20.70Ruby Jones just needed to relax and take a holiday. She made a bad decision when she headed for Goa... Famed for beaches and full moon parties, Goa is also home to one of the most famous Christian... -
Crime Fiction by John Scaggs 9780415318259
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series,... -
Easy Money by Jens Lapidus 9781509888733
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.77EASY MONEY - the Swedish bestselling sensation, a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. Jorge knows one thing - he's never going back inside. Mrado knows one thing - he's not going to... -
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.67'Brilliant.' New York Times'Remarkable.' Irish TimesAugust 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.Against this extraordinary... -
Crime Fiction by John Scaggs 9780415318242
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series,... -
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette 9781529977288
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'The French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now’ LitHubMurder isn’t always ugly.Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool... -
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City John Buntin 9781409154150
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB CITY.Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as... -
A Cold Death (A Rocco Schiavone Mystery) by Antonio Manzini 9780008124335
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian crime maestro... -
Crime Uncovered: Anti-Hero by Fiona Peters
Booksplease Price: £23.65There are few figures as captivating as the antihero: the character we can't help but root for, even as we turn away in revulsion from many of the things they do. What is it that draws us to... -
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... -
Solea by Jean-Claude Izzo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67"Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep." -Time Out New York The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo), Solea continues Jean-Claude Izzo's... -
The Butchers of Berlin Chris Petit 9781471143434
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE 'An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOORE A dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and... -
Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers John L Williams 9780857306265
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In the summer of 1989 John Williams embarked on an epic journey through a deeply troubled USA. A right-wing Republican administration seemed bent on rolling back the advances of the civil rights era;... -
Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham
Booksplease Price: £11.78Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic, kick-butt, Muslim American heroine, ready to take on crime in her hometown of Las Almas. When a new case finds the private eye caught up in a centuries-old battle... -
The Rosary Girls: (Byrne & Balzano 1) by Richard Montanari 9780099486886
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78God Help Them ... In the most brutal killing crusade Philadelphia has seen in years, a series of young Catholic women are found dead, their bodies mutilated and their hands bolted together. Each... -
Blood Wedding Pierre Lemaitre 9781848666009
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what... -
Stalking The Angel by Robert Crais 9781409136538
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of RACING THE LIGHT'Brilliant... read this, then read all his others' MirrorBradley Warren had lost something very valuable,... -
Ross Macdonald by Ross Macdonald 9781598533767
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £26.26At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collector's edition: Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald... -
Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo 9781787702240
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The second novel in Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author's beloved city, in all its colour and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of... -
The Dain Curse Dashiell Hammett 9781409138051
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESMiss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an... -
Never Screw Up by Jens Lapidus 9781509891665
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Niklas, a weapons expert, has returned home after years as a mercenary. His world has no laws. His life has made him a violence fanatic and an adrenaline junkie. He is haunted by traumatic childhood... -
White City Dominic Nolan 9781035416752
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54'I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year' IAN RANKIN'Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer' CHRIS WHITAKER'Incredibly good... one of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers... -
Dr. Knox by Peter Spiegelman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Dr Adam Knox returns from serving with an NGO in the Central African Republic in disgrace. His attempt to protect patients from a brutal militia ended in disaster. he's a little rougher, a little... -
Rough Trade Dominique Manotti 9781900850872
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop... -
Pale Horse Riding by Chris Petit 9781471148477
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'No denying the book's power' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times 'The real skill of this rigorous, disturbing novel lies in the way Petit steadily and unsensationally allows his protagonists to discover the... -
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The Skin Gods: (Byrne & Balzano 2) by Richard Montanari 9780099486893 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £1.76The streets of Philadelphia are blistering in the summer heat, the homicide rate is soaring and the nights belong to the mad. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are prowling the streets with... -
No Beast So Fierce - Limited Ed by Edward Bunker 9781842432662
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity' - Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2 An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con's attempt to negotiate the "straight world" and his swan... -
Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores by Massimo Carlotto
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23"Crime writing this good just has to be read." - NB Magazine International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle... -
Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive by Alex Prager
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90The definitive monograph on Alex Prager, one of the truly original image makers of our time. Alex Prager is a photographer and filmmaker whose elaborate sets and complex staging draw on a rich... -
The Continental Op: Short Story Collection Dashiell Hammett 9781409138075
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESDashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero... -
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime... -
My Abandonment: Now a major film, `Leave No Trace', directed by Debra Granik ('Winter's Bone') by Peter Rock
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A beautiful, strange novel . . . Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong' Ursula K. Le Guin'The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined,... -
Heather, The Totality by Matthew Weiner
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'Chilling and poised, I loved it' MAGGIE O'FARRELLThe Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: she is the greatest blessing in their lives of... -
Hold The Dark (film Tie-in) by William Giraldi 9781843445753
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind's losing battle with nature. NOW ON NETFLIX Wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children... -
He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1 Derek Raymond 9781852427962
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the... -
Cahokia Jazz: From the prizewinning author of Golden Hill ‘the best book of the century’ Richard Osman by Francis Spufford 9780571336883
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill.'Utterly immersive.' Spectator'Thrilling.' Financial... -
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three by David Peace
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the...