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The Lie by Petra Hammesfahr
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Nadia and Susanne have just met. They look uncannily alike, practically doppelgangers, but one is filthy rich, with a husband and a lover, and the other dirt poor and single. When Nadia eventually... -
The Basel Killings: Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler Investigates Hansjoerg Schneider 9781913394547
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78It is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots... -
The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Veronica Rosenthal has retreated to a cousin's remote cottage in the province of Tucuman, to recuperate from the traumatic events in The Fragility of Bodies. She befriends two female tourists -an... -
Chain of Custody by Anita Nair
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of a well-known lawyer? What services has college student Rekha been persuaded to perform by her 'boyfriend'? Who is the... -
Havana Red: A Mario Conde Mystery by Leonardo Padura
Booksplease Price: £11.57On August 6 th 1989 , the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth of the Havana Woods... -
Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the... -
Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio 9781904738541
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, who has been sentenced to sixteen years for drug smuggling. The odds are stacked against the accused: not... -
The Family Tonino Benacquista 9781908524218
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The story is violent, pacy and full of black humour. Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France, or perhaps better, Ray Liotta, the snitch from 'Goodfellas' settling down with his family in a... -
The Body Snatcher by Patricia Melo 9781908524539
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The novel is set in the Pantanal, the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small... -
Behind God's Back Harri Nykanen 9781908524423
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a... -
Summer of Reckoning by 9781912242269
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old Celine and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from... -
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski 9781908524027
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw - he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of... -
Liar Moon by Ben Pastor
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Italy, autumn 1943, the Italian government has switched sides and declared war on Germany. Italy is divided, the North controlled by the fascists, the South liberated by Allied forces slowly fighting... -
Temporary Perfections by Gianrico Carofiglio 9781904738725
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78It all began with an unusual assignment, a job better suited for Marlowe than for counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri. Could he find new evidence to force the police to reopen their investigation... -
Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura 9781904738282
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Twenty-four year old Lissette Delgado was beaten, raped, and then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment and her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high school... -
David's Revenge by Hans Werner Kettenbach 9781904738398
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16A visitor from Georgia, a country torn apart by civil war, ends the peaceful existence of a school teacher's family in Germany. Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi seven years... -
The Tyrant by Jacques Chessex 9781904738947
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, which portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life of a young Swiss schoolteacher. His father's prodigious vitality and... -
D.B. Elwood Reid 9781904738190
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 1971, a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming a soul and vanished. He parachuted out of the plane over the dense woods of the Pacific Northwest with... -
Baby Blue by Pol Koutsakis 9781908524911
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Stratos Gazis hates being called a hit man. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done provided he... -
The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories by Teresa Solana 9781912242078
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are... -
Goat Song by Ian Monk 9781904738039
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The star male dancer of the Moulin Rouge and a beautiful young woman have been murdered. Their naked bodies are found entwined in a blood splattered dressing room. A squatter is killed in a nearby... -
A Shortcut to Paradise by Teresa Solana 9781904738558
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a... -
A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio 9781904738534
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend - the son of a powerful local judge - of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf and one lawyer after another refuses to... -
The Sinner Ms Petra Hammesfahr 9781904738251
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the... -
Heretics Leonardo Padura 9781908524782
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish... -
Hunkeler's Secret 9781916725126
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916725126Author Hansjorg SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprin -
Mother of Sorrows Jurica Pavicic 9781916725317
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Croatia, autumn 2022. The tourist season has ended, and Split settles into an uneasy quiet. Ines works the reception desk of a seaside hotel. Her mother, Katja, a cleaner, keeps the family afloat and... -
All Yours by Pineiro Claudia 9781904738800
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78This is a portrait of a wife betrayed, at first desperate to save her marriage but then intent on violent revenge, also an unrelenting dissection of family life among the Argentine middle class. ... -
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda 9781913394592
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.37From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020. The WSJ commented: "Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in... -
Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Baghdad, November 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Inspector... -
The Fragility of Bodies Sergio Olguin 9781912242191
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78*The first in a series of novels by Olguin starring the journalist Veronica Rosenthal. It is set in Buenos-Aires and has been made into a TV series currently showing in Argentina. *Veronica is a... -
Not So Perfect Crime Peter Bush 9781904738343
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by... -
Rage by Amanda Hopkinson 9781904738404
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Jose Maria, a construction worker, is in love with Rosa, a maid in an exclusive Buenos Aires mansion. Subjected to constant humiliation by his foreman, Jose Maria kills him. He hides on an empty... -
Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of... -
Someone Else by Adriana Hunter 9781904738121
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Who hasn't wanted to become 'someone else'? The person you've always wanted to be...the person who hadn't given up half way to your dreams and desires? One evening at a bar two men who have just met... -
Mannequin Man Patrick G. McKeown 9781904738138
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Know why she's smiling?" he asked, pointing a small torch at the corpse. "Fish hooks. Two fish hooks at the corners of her mouth, a bit of nylon, pull it round the back of the head and tie a knot."... -
The Road to Ithaca Ben Pastor 9781908524805
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.08The fifth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series. In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross... -
Evil Things by Katja Ivar 9781912242092
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Hella Mauzer was the first ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. But her superiors deemed her too `emotional' for the job and had her reassigned. Now, two years later, she is working in... -
Holy Smoke Adriana Hunter 9781904738015
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Some favours simply cannot be refused. Tonio agrees to write a love letter for Dario, a low-rent Paris gigolo. When Dario is murdered, a single bullet to the head, Tonio finds his friend has left him... -
The Russian Passenger John Brownjohn 9781904738022
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In an atmosphere of intense paranoia Harry Willemer, a taxi driver and his passenger, an ex-KGB agent and the wife of a Russian Mafioso, flee the hit-men sent to recover a large sum of money they...