Category
Crime and / or Mystery Fiction
"A" Is for Alibi 1982
Kinsey Millhone, Book 1
When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a...
"B" Is for Burglar 1985
Kinsey Millhone, Book 2
Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent...
"C" Is for Corpse 1986
Kinsey Millhone, Book 3
He was young—maybe twenty or so—and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious. She could see he was in a lot of pain. But for three weeks, as Kinsey'd watched him doggedly...
"G" Is for Gumshoe 1990
Kinsey Millhone, Book 7
A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality.
"G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper....
3 Minutes 2018
Ewert Grens, Book 6
Presumed dead by the Stockholm police, master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in Cali, Colombia. Only Hoffmann's former police handler, Erik Wilson, knows where he is—and...
The Accomplice 2025
In The Accomplice, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and award-winning mystery writer Aaron Philip Clark introduce readers to New York-born and Texas-bred Nia Adams, who always dreamt of becoming a Texas Ranger. She knows the dangers of the job, and as the first Black female ranger, she knows the politics,...
April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. In this gripping small town mystery, the young woman’s death rocks the community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted....
The Alienist 2006
Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, Book 1
The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a...
The Alvarez Journal 2013
Gabe Wager, Book 1
Detective Gabe Wager and his rookie partner spend their nights trailing dealers, making buys, and acquiring informants. After months picking up scraps, a stray piece of information is about to put Wager on to the biggest bust of his career. A letter from the Seattle DEA puts him on the hunt for...
The Anderson Tapes 1971
Edward X. Delaney, Book 1
New York City. Summer 1968.
Newly sprung from prison, professional burglar John Anderson is preparing for the biggest heist of his criminal career. The mark is a Manhattan luxury apartment building with the tony address of 535 East Seventy-Third Street. Enlisting a crew of scouts, con artists, and...
Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, Book 2
June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime...
The Apollo Murders 2022
The Apollo Murders, Book 1
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. A quarter million miles from help.
NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows...
An Artful Dodge 2026
She’s stolen gems, purses, and hearts—but can she steal her life back from the thieving ring that’s claimed it?
Victorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime.
London, 1879:...
John Hay Mysteries, Book 2
September 3, 1902. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Theodore Roosevelt has been president for less than a year when his horse-drawn carriage is broadsided by an electric trolley. Roosevelt is thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard is killed instantly. Accident? Or assassination gone awry? Roosevelt...
The Awkward Squad 2019
Was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years...
A Bad Day for Sorry 2010
Stella Hardesty, Book 1
Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering home-style justice, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she’s barely got time to run her sewing shop.
Since Stella...
Bad Night Is Falling 2024
Ivan Monk, Book 3
Heat is building in the Rancho Tajuata Housing Projects—and not just because it's summer in L.A. When a Mexican family is killed by a firebombing, local rage threatens to grow out of control. The pressure is on to solve this case quickly to help deescalate the tense situation.
At the request of...
The Bait 2013
Christie Opara, Book 1
It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly giant, his crazed stare concealed behind thick glasses, is out on bail.
Soon after, the body of a young dancer is found stashed...
Meet the Bang-Bang Sisters: Brea, Jessie, and Flo. Together, they’re a killer rock band with an unbreakable bond. But that’s only half the story. Offstage, they’re highly skilled vigilantes, traveling the country in their beaten-up tour van to exact justice on criminals who have slipped through the...
Bark Humbug 2026
Andy Carpenter, Book 34
This time, Andy is serious about retiring. Besides, he can't hear the sound of his phone ringing over the football game. But when the local newspaper asks him to participate in their Christmas spread of local celebrities and their dogs, he pauses the game and brings Tara along for the ride.
When...
The Bay Psalm Book Murder begins when a Los Angeles university librarian is found dead in his garage, clutching a priceless Bay Psalm Book, one of the rarest books in American history. While the authorities see little reason to question the circumstances of his death, former English professor Cliff...
Beat Not the Bones 2003
A young Australian woman comes alone to Marapai on the island of New Guinea to find out why her husband committed suicide. It is hard to believe that drink and debt could have affected David Warwick, a distinguished anthropologist in charge of protecting the natives from exploitation. Stella must...
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 8
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has...
Before You Were Anne 2026
Chelsey Calhoun, Book 2
Married, pregnant, and thriving in her career, Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life finally feels whole, until an explosive new case shatters everything. A mother is dead. Her sixteen-year-old daughter, Naomi, has disappeared. And the search will awaken questions about Chelsey’s own origins—questions...
Beyond Midnight 2025
Ashe Cayne, Book 5
The death of immigrant Juaquin Escobar has been ruled an accidental drowning in Lake Michigan. The only problem is he never drinks and never swims. When the CPD informs his nephew Ivan Ramirez and closes the case, he refuses to believe it’s true. Convinced of foul play, Ivan is referred to Ashe...
The Big Bad Wolf 2004
Alex Cross, Book 9
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a...
The Big Empty 2025
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, Book 20
Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire...
Billingsgate Shoal 1985
Doc Adams, Book 1
First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found dead in the water. Doc Adams, a friend of the dead diver, sets out through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of Cape Cod to plumb a murder he should have prevented....
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing begins when the U.S. government launches a secret billion-dollar operation designed to protect the dollar during a period of international monetary instability. The plan hinges on manipulating the price of gold and strengthening confidence in the American currency, but...
Binary 2013
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction—and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.
When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together—but can...
A Bitter Wind 2026
A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery, Book 20
To solve a murder at an English airbase, US Army Captain Billy Boyle must immerse himself in the fascinating and secretive world of WWII radio espionage.
Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge, Captain Billy Boyle travels to southeast England...
Black Cherry Blues 1990
Dave Robicheaux, Book 3
Black Cherry Blues follows former Louisiana homicide detective Dave Robicheaux as he tries to build a quieter life running a fishing business and caring for his adopted daughter, Alafair. Still haunted by the murder of his wife and struggling to stay sober, Robicheaux is pulled back into violence...
The Black Hour 2014
For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why?...
The Black Wolf 2025
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 20
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.
Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf.
But their relief is short-lived. In a sickening turn of...
Blacklight Blue 2017
The Enzo Files, Book 3
Former forensics expert and current Toulouse professor Enzo Macleod is forced to take a break from his personal and professional pursuits when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Worse, though, it seems he has become the victim of someone who is trying to destroy his life—by ruining his credit,...
Blanche on the Lam 1992
Blanche White, Book 1
Blanche White, a domestic worker with a sharp mind and a deep understanding of people, goes on the run after a minor legal trouble threatens to land her in jail. To avoid arrest, she takes a job in a wealthy household in North Carolina, using the opportunity to stay hidden while keeping a close eye...
Blood Hollow 2009
Cork O'connor, Book 4
When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year’s Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn’s self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O’Connor isn’t about to...
Blood, Salt, Water 2015
Alex Morrow, Book 5
Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town.
For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla — a gorgeous Spanish...
Bloodhounds 2004
Peter Diamond, Book 4
A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to...
Bloodline 2012
Tom Thorne, Book 8
A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can't protect them.
The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London's past.
When Murder Squad veteran Detective Tom...
The Bloomsday Dead 2013
Michael Forsythe, Book 3
Laying low in South America, Michael has been running security for the Miraflores Hilton in Lima, Peru, juggling temperamental tourists, irksome dignitaries, and the occasional lady of the night. But Michael's colorful life in Lima comes to a violent halt with the arrival of two Colombian hit men...
Blowback 2017
The Enzo Files, Book 5
Continuing his string of investigations into stubborn cold cases, ex-forensics superstar Enzo Macleod takes the case, diving into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.
Seven years ago, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant...
Max Freeman, Book 1
After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the...
Blue Heaven 2008
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives.
Retired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local...
Bluebird, Bluebird 2017
Highway 59, Book 1
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the Lone Star State, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him...
The Bone Readers 2022
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . .
After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS...
The Bone Tree 2015
Penn Cage, Book 5
In this gripping suspense novel, former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful...
Bones 2012
Irene Kelly, Book 7
Only one person knows where Julia Sayre is: her killer. Four years ago, the young mother of two disappeared, a story that soon became a personal mission for Irene Kelly. But the search for Julia proved fruitless.
Now on death row for unimaginable acts of torture and murder, inmate Nick Parrish is...
The Bones Beneath 2014
Tom Thorne, Book 12
The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the...
The Book of Evidence 2001
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to...
The Alienist 2006
Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, Book 1
The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a...
Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, Book 2
June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime...
Millennium, Book 2
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he...
Millennium, Book 3
Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders.
With the help of her...
Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests...
In the Woods 2007
Dublin Murder Squad, Book 1
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing...
Broken Harbor 2012
Dublin Murder Squad, Book 4
Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and that’s how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands.
On one of the half-abandoned “luxury” developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been...
Strange Pictures 2025
This psychological thriller is an exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by...
Millennium, Book 1
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared without a trace more than forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to try to discover what happened to her. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently sidelined by a libel conviction, to...
The Cuckoo's Calling 2013
Cormoran Strike, Book 1
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a...
The Trespasser 2016
Dublin Murder Squad, Book 6
Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s...
Strange Houses 2025
When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building’s floor plans reveal a mysterious...
Natchez Burning 2014
Penn Cage, Book 4
Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s.
Once a crusading prosecutor,...
The Bone Tree 2015
Penn Cage, Book 5
In this gripping suspense novel, former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful...
Field of Blood 2005
Paddy Meehan, Book 1
Paddy Meehan has just started her new job as a copygirl at a Glasgow newspaper, where she dreams of becoming an investigative journalist.
A child goes missing in the city, taken from the front garden of his home - and the investigation leads the police to the doors of two young boys.
She starts...
The Secret Place 2014
Dublin Murder Squad, Book 5
A year ago, a boy was found murdered at a girls’ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED...
Falling Glass 2012
Killian makes a living enforcing other people’s laws, collecting debts, dealing out threats and finding people who do not wish to be found. Now regular McKinty hero Michael Forsythe sets Killian up with the best paid job of his life: Richard Coulter, an Irishman with political connections, and the...
Pig Island 2008
Journalist Joe Oakes is a born skeptic who makes his living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But his stay with a cult-like religious group on Scotland's remote Pig Island might be enough to turn him into a believer.
When the island erupts into bloodshed, Oakes must abandon everything he thought he...
The Swan Thieves 2010
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed.
Desperate to understand the secret...
Death of a Cat Lady November 4, 2027
The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes, Book 3
. . . and immediately runs into trouble. A young child is pushed into a pond by an unknown assailant. A witness insists that the culprit is one Tsuneo Ishizawa, the troubled son of the elderly woman who owns the nearby "cat mansion".
Before Katayama can get to the bottom of the disturbance,...
Kiss My Axe April 13, 2027
A dead man walking. An axe festival. Only one of these was on her itinerary.
Verona flew to the tiny Irish village of Dalkerry for one reason: Jian. Specifically, the six months of unfinished business between her pants and his. The man owes her—after months of acting like a chaste virgin ready for...
A Copycat Killing March 11, 2027
The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes, Book 2
. . . eventually. But with his resignation letter gathering dust on his boss's desk, he is faced with a case that draws him back in. Two sisters murdered in the same room in the same apartment two years apart. One died almost peacefully, a smile on her face and a bullet in her heart, while the other...
The Shadows of Kensington Gore January 12, 2027
Stockingham & Pike, Book 2
London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension.
When a policeman is found brutally murdered on the streets of Kensington, blame falls on the three women seen fleeing the scene. As riots flare and the city teeters on chaos, the case falls to the most unlikely...
Sherlock December 1, 2026
Award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine the most iconic character in literature with ten new original Sherlock Holmes stories.
Nan's Flowers November 10, 2026
Lily Marigold and her sisters were adopted by Nan, their godmother and matriarch of the notorious Marigold Crime Family. Here, Lily became a monster, forced to torture, maim, and murder – partly due to the drugs Nan gave her to keep her conscience at bay, and partly because of her natural affinity...
Split Second November 10, 2026
Stephanie Plum, Book 32
In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if she makes it to the end of the week.
Over the years, Trenton’s best-known bounty hunter has acquired a long list of enemies. It’s an occupational...
A Painter of Our Time November 3, 2026
Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger’s first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
Death by Christmas Cake November 3, 2026
Keisha Scott has been working with the legendary chef Shirleen Foster to update her classic cookbook, Season by Season, for its 50th anniversary. The festivities start with a dinner party highlighting the 12 Christmas Cakes that made Shirleen famous. It’s all of Keisha’s dreams come true, but before...
Burn After Cheating November 3, 2026
Verona Montero, Book 3
A locked room. An obvious suspect. Absolutely nothing adds up. It’s Verona Montero's favorite kind of shtshow.
Harry Kim died in a locked apartment. No signs of forced entry, windows too small to fit a well-fed Chihuahua. Clean scene. The cops call it an accident. But Verona's best friend Runi...
Dead in Three Two One October 20, 2026
Roy Grace, Book 22
Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting. And Roy Grace is the target . . .
Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city’s calendar with half a million people lost in the party. But behind the opulent façade of the Royal Courteney Hotel, a nightmare is checking in. Dritan Dervishi, the...
The Key to a Killer October 20, 2026
Ruby & Cordelia Mysteries, Book 3
When Ruby Young discovered that her Boston apartment was haunted, she did what any reasonable person would do: befriend the ghost. Their relationship overcame a shaky start—Cordelia Graves never wanted a roommate in life, she certainly didn’t want one in death.
After working together to solve a few...
Miss Wolcott's Ghost October 20, 2026
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 21
Armand Gamache returns!
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.”
“Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed.
But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller.
The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who...
The Hidden City October 20, 2026
Charles Lenox Mysteries, Book 15
It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick up the trail of a cold case: the murder of an apothecary seven years before, whose only clue is an odd emblem carved into the doorway of the building...
Tell Tale October 20, 2026
Debbie lives a seemingly ordinary life in Llanfair, a picturesque Welsh village shimmering with prosperity against the backdrop of the 1984 Miners' Strike. With her Holly Hobbie notebook in hand, this eleven-year-old is more than your average resident – she's a keen observer, a silent guard over the...
Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder October 13, 2026
Grace’s life is turned upside down when she finds her boss’s dead body at his desk. After being questioned by the police, Grace takes it as a sign to declare her recent move to Philadelphia a bust and move back to Florida, until her boss’s widow, Jo, shows up and offers Grace a job as her...
Laplace's Witch October 13, 2026
Laplace's Witch, Book 1
Two people die in hot spring towns in different parts of Japan from hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Investigating the case is geochemist Shusuke Aoe, who witnessed the same mysterious girl, Madoka, at both crime scenes…
Home for the Homicides October 13, 2026
Holly & Mark Mysteries, Book 1
Welcome to Christmas, a town so quaint and charming it could be the backdrop of a Hallmark movie, where crime is never in season. So when a tourist is violently murdered in the middle of the town square, no one is more shocked or ill-prepared than local law enforcement.
With the annual holiday...
Dead Before Tea Time October 13, 2026
Agatha Raisin Mysteries, Book 37
Agatha Raisin’s Cotswolds village is in an uproar when word spreads that their beloved Red Lion pub is set to close. The brewery that owns the building has raised the rent, ousting the pub’s owner so they can redevelop the space into apartments. As the villagers scramble to change the brewery’s...
Bark Humbug October 13, 2026
Andy Carpenter, Book 34
This time, Andy is serious about retiring. Besides, he can't hear the sound of his phone ringing over the football game. But when the local newspaper asks him to participate in their Christmas spread of local celebrities and their dogs, he pauses the game and brings Tara along for the ride.
When...
Jay to the World October 13, 2026
Meg Langslow Mysteries, Book 40
The Christmas season is underway in Caerphilly. The members of the Hollingsworth clan, Meg’s mother’s family, are beginning to arrive in force, and Mother has several special projects underway this year. One is the playhouse she’s having built for Brynn, her two-year-old granddaughter. Brynn is a...
A Serving of Hope October 6, 2026
Kamogawa Food Detectives, Book 4
Down a Kyoto alleyway, near Higashi Honganji Temple, the Kamogawa Diner attracts lost souls. The father-daughter “food detective” duo of Chef Nagare and Detective Koishi help their clientele who seek meaning in their lives by helping them access lost memories through the food of their past.
From...
The Dark Magician September 29, 2026
Mayu has just moved back to her hometown to plan her wedding when tragedy strikes. Her father is murdered. Her uncle, Takeshi, a former Las Vegas marquee magician, impulsively decides that he'll catch the culprit himself. Who needs the police?
When Mayu's former classmates emerge as the prime...
A Game of Cat and Killer September 29, 2026
The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes, Book 1
Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and ... women. When a young female student is found murdered, he's given two choices―review the harrowing crime-scene photographs or head to Hagoromo Women's College to investigate―and reluctantly opts for the...
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel September 22, 2026
High in the Swiss Alps, accessible only by a single, winding railway, stands the luxurious Grand Alpine Hotel. With glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, it draws guests from far and wide.
The notorious actress. The high-flying politician. The society wife. The reckless...
We Chase Shadows September 15, 2026
We Solve Murders, Book 2
Back together. Back on the case. And back to solving murders . . .
At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.
Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to...
Before You Were Anne September 1, 2026
Chelsey Calhoun, Book 2
Married, pregnant, and thriving in her career, Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life finally feels whole, until an explosive new case shatters everything. A mother is dead. Her sixteen-year-old daughter, Naomi, has disappeared. And the search will awaken questions about Chelsey’s own origins—questions...
The Cat and the Halloween Murder August 25, 2026
Conrad the Cat Detective, Book 5
Join Lulu Lewis, a retired detective with a knack for uncovering mysteries, and Conrad, her extraordinary talking cat, as they take on their spookiest case yet. . .
Lulu and Conrad dock in Stratford-upon-Avon to visit friends for Halloween. But the festivities take a haunting turn when a local...
The Last Resort August 18, 2026
Harith Athreya, Book 4
BOLLYWOOD
After suffering a dangerous fever during his last case, Detective Harith Athreya is recuperating in the beautiful backwaters of Kerala with his wife Krishnaveni. When he meets a family of vacationing Bollywood royalty, they are enthralled by his ‘real-life’ experience, and ask for his...
Maisy Bell Is Missing August 18, 2026
Charlie James, Book 2
At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Ritz Hotel in pre-War Paris, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day-trip. But when Maisy doesn’t return to the Ritz the following day, alarm bells ring and Maisy's aunt Clementine files a...
A Numbers Game August 18, 2026
An ex-addict is dragged into a high-stakes race for a missing lottery ticket. A gritty, high-heart novel perfect for fans of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series.
All Malachite “Mal” Jones wants is a quiet life as the foremost (fake) psychic medium on the Blades Edge estate. Enter his new client:...
Murder at the End of the World August 4, 2026
From Japan’s most exciting new crime writer Akane Araki, this thrillingly funny, high-concept murder mystery follows a young woman and her driving instructor as they face a compelling moral dilemma: should they work to stop a serial killer before the end of the world?
A meteor is on a collision...
Grave Intentions August 4, 2026
Harith Athreya, Book 2
SECRETS
Detective Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator with a vivid imagination, is back: this time to investigate suspicious incidences on a riverside archaeological dig in the heart of remote Bundelkhand. Beset by fears of theft, strange nondisclosure agreements and lacking any important...
All We Hide August 4, 2026
A trans detective working for the District Attorney’s Office takes on the twisty, poignant cold case murder of a local trans woman—and her investigation unravels the threads of a county-wide conspiracy as well as a personal mystery that’s haunted her since childhood.
When Lieutenant Lauren Kelly is...
My Inner Child Wants to Kill August 4, 2026
A shady lawyer puts the “meditate” in “premeditated” as he searches for inner peace with blood on his hands in the darkly funny and shocking follow-up to Murder Mindfully, now an original series streaming on Netflix.
Björn Diemel, once an overworked defense lawyer for very nasty organized...
In the Time of Five Pumpkins August 4, 2026
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 26
Mma Ramotswe can sense the rain long before it comes. It’s been a long, dry summer, but the first downpour of the season tends to bring with it new growth. In this case, it also brings a new client, who suspects his wife of having an affair. Mma Ramotswe is on the case, and she decides to bring...
Liars in Paradise August 4, 2026
Ginny Dugan Mysteries, Book 2
With five days to clear her partner’s name after a horrific crime, private detective Ginny Dugan infiltrates a cultish secret society on Long Island’s Gold Coast in this champagne-soaked followup to Glitter in the Dark.
New York City, 1925. A night of high-stakes gambling at the Empire Club ends in...
Murder Bites August 4, 2026
Margot Cartwright is not exactly blending in with the residents of Glenville, South Carolina. An unwilling transplant from Washington, D.C., Margot feels like a fish out of water among the Lululemon-wearing, tiny-dog-owning, non-New Yorker-reading locals who are clamoring to have their fur babies...
The Subtle Pleasures of Indiscretion July 21, 2026
Isabel Dalhousie, Book 16
Isabel has an unwavering commitment to her principles, which means she is often asked to advise on the sensitive, personal affairs of others—even those whose business she would prefer to stay out of. When Isabel receives a surprise visit from a friend who has recently discovered the existence of a...
The Shadow Step July 21, 2026
Declan Miller, Book 3
A perfectly executed shadow step demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.
DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but an innocent man confessing to the crime? That’s a...
Praying Mantis July 14, 2026
Harith Athreya, Book 3
When a guest mysteriously dies at a boutique hotel in the Himalayan foothills, Detective Harith Athreya must find the murderer before they strike again.
ISOLATION
The idyllic Peter Dann Castle is a picture of tranquility as summer blooms in the Himalayan foothills. The heritage hotel has a...
The Novel Detective July 14, 2026
A twisty, genre-bending metafictional mystery set in Cuba past and present about a writer returning to her long-lost hometown to seek the buried truth about two suspicious deaths at her Havana high school, perfect for fans of Chanel Cleeton and Jean Hanff Korelitz.
2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born...
The Intrigue July 14, 2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest...
Country Christie July 14, 2026
Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her, and many of her most intriguing mysteries are set on the moors and shores of Devon and Cornwall.
This collection celebrates some of Christie's finest countryside stories, featuring a cast of her most iconic...
The Devil's Banquet July 7, 2026
Piccadilly Noir, Book 2
It is 1933, four years after Cockney private eye George Harley brought the infamous child-killer the ‘Nursery Butcher’ to justice, and he’s back in business operating a new detective agency in Soho.
For their first case, Harley and his new assistant Bunty are engaged to find a young girl who has...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes July 7, 2026
Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alice’s help the letter is retrieved.
After returning to the U.S., Alice...
The Lady Killer July 7, 2026
A hunter prowls the night spots of Shinjuku. But he's the one walking into a trap...
Ichiro Honda leads a double life. By day, he is a devoted husband and a diligent worker, but by night, he moves through the shadow world of Tokyo's cabaret bars and nightclubs in search of vulnerable women to...
Murder in the Crooked House July 7, 2026
The Crooked House sits alone on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself: a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls.
Christmas, 1983. Kozaburo Hamamoto, the...
The Spirit Guide July 7, 2026
Variety Palace Mysteries, Book 3
1879, Victorian London. Tea room sting operations, seedy music hall secrets, elaborate disguises, and slow-burn romance… Detective duo Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook return for another exciting case to uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Victorian London’s spiritualist scene.
This time, an...
History Lessons July 7, 2026
A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague's murder before she becomes the next target in this funny, romantic debut mystery, perfect for readers of Janet Evanovich, Kellye Garrett, and Ali Hazelwood.
As a newly minted junior professor, Daphne Ouverture spends her days giving...