Mystery

Amanda Craig / The Lie of the Land (Hardback)

'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight 'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry 'Absolutely magnificent' Marian Keyes Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern...

James Patterson / Along Came a Spider (Hardback)

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video! Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology...

Paul Stewart / Curse of the Night Wolf (Hardback)

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is...

Fidelis Morgan / Fortune’s Slave (Hardback)

Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess...

Seth Morgan / Homeboy (Hardback)

Joe Speaker is a barker at a strip joint who has a heroin habit. After a botched robbery and the violent murder of a prostitute, Joe is thrown in jail. This story of murder and retribution was...

Tarquin Hall / The Case of the Missing Servant (Hardback)

Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty...

Linwood Barclay / I Will Ruin You (Hardback)

An explosive psychological suspense crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Take Your Breath Away and The Lie Maker     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Loretta Rothschild / Finding Grace (Hardback)

'Shocking, stylish, elegant, and twisting. A truly stunning debut' Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark 'One of the best books I've read this year' Jodi Picoult SHE...

J. A. Sutherland / Where Was Rebecca Shot? (Hardback)

From the novel of the best selling Is Heathcliff a murderer? an ingenious book of puzzles in 20th century fiction. The novel is today stronger than it ever was. 'Classics', boosed by a hugely...

Ronald Tierney / Nickel Plated Soul (Hardback)

Private eye Howie Cross is badly beaten by a couple of thugs, but doesn't know why. Out of action, he asks Deets Shanahan to take on his one current case, but it's far from straightforward. Hugh Dart...

John Maddox Roberts / Spqr XI: Under Vesuvius (Hardback)

Decius discovers the dark side of his position as Praetor when he is asked to investigate the killing of a priest in a town near Vesuvius, while protecting the young boy who has become the prime...

John Maddox Roberts / The Year of Confusion (SPQR) (Hardback)

"When Dictator Caius Julius Caesar rankles the public by bringing in foreign astronomers and astrologers to revise the Roman calendar, overseer Decius finds himself investigating the murders of two...

John Maddox Roberts / Oracle of the Dead (SPQR) (Hardback)

Enjoying the good life in southern Italy, Decius Caecilius Metellus, Roman magistrate for cases involving foreigners, becomes caught in the middle of a bitter rivalray between the priests of Apollo...

Gary Corby / Death on Delos (Hardback)

?In the seventh in Gary Corby's Athenian Mystery series, Nico and Diotima must solve a murder case while also preparing to have a baby. Set on the sacred island of Delos in 5th century BC, Death on...

Minette Walters / The Scold's Bridle (Hardback)

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned with a crown of nettles. What could have driven her to such a...

Megan Collins / The Family Plot (Hardback)

A family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch—only to find another body already in his grave in this “moody and atmospheric” ( USA TODAY ) thriller. Raised in a secluded island...

Mary Maher / The Devil's Card (Hardback)

One May morning in 1889, the inky, already-bustling offices of the Chicago Tribune are electrified by the story of the year: the disappearance of prominent Irish doctor P. H. Cronin - and the...

Jonathan Lee / Who is Mr Satoshi? (Hardback)

"One afternoon last October, on the concrete of her patio garden, my mother had a fall...That was the last time I really had any options." Reclusive photographer Rob Fossick has come adrift both from...

Marcel Theroux / Strange Bodies (Hardback)

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive. Yet nothing can make him change his...

Stacie Murphy / A Deadly Fortune (Hardback)

A historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy. Amelia Matthew has done the...

George D. Shuman / 18 Seconds (Hardback)

Sherry Moore, a beautiful, blind psychic, has the extraordinary ability to 'see' the last eighteen seconds of a murder victim's life by touching the corpse. She uses her gift to help others solve...

Simon Brett / The Shooting in the Shop (Fethering Mysteries Book 11) (Hardback)

Carole and Jude are drawn into the investigation when a store they have visited is burned down with a murdered body inside it.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Laura Joh Rowland / Black Lotus (Hardback)

Ichiro Sano's investigation of a triple murder at the Black Lotus Temple in 17th century Japan leads him to suspect an orphan girl. His wife, Reiko, believes the girl is innocent and starts her own...

Christopher Fowler / Ten-Second Staircase (Hardback)

First a controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation, inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - and the only witness is a small boy who insists that the murderer...

Matthew Reilly / Scarecrow (Hardback)

As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to take out a secret missile dump in Siberia turn into a bloodbath, he discovers he has been tricked and is now the prey rather than the predator. An...

Philip Kerr / If the Dead Rise Not (Hardback)

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from...

James Lee Burke / The New Iberia Blues (Hardback)

Detective Dave Robicheaux first met Desmond Cormier on the backstreets of New Orleans. He was a young pretender who dreamt of stardom whilst Robicheaux had his path all figured out. Now, twenty-five...

Joe Ide / Righteous (Hardback)

'Joe Ide is the best new discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael Connelly 'In a way, the hate felt good. You were righteous, godlike, the dispenser of justice . . .' Super-smart sleuth...

Ruth Rendell / The Saint Zita Society (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Danielle Steel / Dangerous Games (Hardback)

Danielle Steel tears down the walls of power at the heart of the White House in the thrilling Dangerous Games. Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most...

Leonardo Padura / Havana Black

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official...

Kay Hooper / Blood Dreams

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even the Special Crimes Unit may not be able to stop. Dani Justice knows all about monsters...

Jenny Colgan / Secret Christmas Library (Hardback)

Snowed in for Christmas in the Scottish Highlands - perfect for fans of The Christmas Book Hunt , this is a seasonal treat from Jenny Colgan, the global feel-good phenomenon     This book is second...

Simon McCleave / Berwyn River Killings

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Katherine Pancol / The slow waltz of turtles

In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles , a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is...

William Boyle / Lonely Witness

Amy was once a party girl, but now she lives a lonely life. Helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighbourhood of Brooklyn, she knows the community well. When a local woman...

Kevin Brooks / Johnny Delgado

Johnny Delgado returns in the new edition second instalment from Kevin Brooks about the teenage detective. When Johnny got wrapped up in gang business by accident, he had no idea he'd be given the...

Martin Waddell / In a blue velvet dress.

Stranded without the beloved books, Jane fears that her holidays are ruined until one small volume mysteriously appears     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Elizabeth Fremantle / Poison Bed

Autumn, 1615. Frances Carr is imprisoned in a cold, lightless room. She is accused of murder. In a cell nearby is her co-accused - her husband Robert. Kept apart, Frances can only tell her side of...

Anna Jaquiery / The Lying Down Room

At night Armand lay in bed with a sadness in his heart that ballooned until there was room for nothing else. He thought with horror of the lying-down room . . . Paris; in the stifling August heat,...

Walter Mosley / Fear itself

The second in the Fearless Jones series from the author of the Easy Rawlins crime thrillers. 'Will not disappoint fans of the Easy Rawlins series. The prose is taut and sinewy and Mosley effortlessly...

Lawrence Block / The devil knows you're dead

When Yuppie lawyer Glenn Holtzmann sits in his penthouse gazing at the setting sun, he little imagines that within half an hour he will be dead. Everyone believes it to be a clear-cut case, but...

Lawrence Block / The Burglar in the Rye

Literary agent Anthea Landau, legendary resident of the Paddington Hotel, is auctioning off her personal correspondence from enigmatic writer Gulliver Fairborn. The reclusive Fairborn can't afford to...

Lawrence Block / Hope to Die

The fifteenth Matt Scudder mystery from NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Lawrence Block. Byrne and Susan Hollander stroll home from a concert on a fine summer's evening in New York. Some hours later, their...

Denzil Meyrick / Christmas Stocking Murders

Don't miss the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month that everyone is talking about this Christmas - the fun and festive murder mystery from the No.1 New York Times bestselling author. 'Twists...

Gary Corby / The Singer from Memphis

The Athenian Mysteries #6 A historical murder mystery adventure that stretches from Classical Athens to Egy

Helen McCloy - He Never Came Back - (Vintage Penguin Crime PB 1961)

Pubished by Penguin Crime UK, 1961. Originally 1954.  Small ghostmark from an old sticker on front cover, some uneven darkening to spine and adjacent areas.  The tagline is ' a shortsighted girl buys...

Gerald Heard (H.F Heard) - A Taste For Honey - Vintage Penguin Crime - 1961

First published in 1942, this is the first Penguin UK CRIME PAPERBACK EDITION, 1961.  Three horizontal green and white bands, Penguin number 1624, Small areas of edgewear to head and tail of spine...

Valerie Burns / Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Large Paperback)

Baker Street Mystery #1

Andre Alexis / The Hidden Keys (Hardback)

The Quincunx Cycle Book 4 -The Hidden Keys

Adam Kay / A Particularly Nasty Case (Large Paperback)

Moving, outrageous and outrageously funny' Dawn French When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does though, including some...

Walter Mosley / Fear of the Dark (Large Paperback)

Fearless Jones #3