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....
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Deborah Knott, Book 1
Deborah Knott, a lawyer and the daughter of a former bootlegger turned local political figure, returns to her North Carolina hometown and becomes entangled in a murder case that strikes close to home. When a body is discovered on family land, the investigation quickly draws in people connected to...
The Bottoms 2010
It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged...
The Boy in the Earth 2018
As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm’s way; he can’t stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning...
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...
The Brutal Telling 2010
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 5
Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered.
Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro--including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier's story is full of...
Bury Your Dead 2011
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 6
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical...
Tommy & Tuppence, Book 4
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about “something behind the fireplace,” Tommy...
Cards on the Table 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 15
Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s “private...
Career of Evil 2015
Cormoran Strike, Book 3
When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible -- and any one of them is capable...
Carolina Skeletons 2014
In 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom!
A Case of Loyalties 1986
Artist Carrie Rayborn becomes involved in the murder investigation of Oakland detectives Carlos Cruz and Jay Goldstein after her teenage daughter, Tricia, is arrested for the killing of an unpleasant, much disliked molester and cult member, Clifford Hawkins.
A Case of Need 1994
In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Bitter Wind July 7, 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...
The Haul July 7, 2026
A professional thief takes the chance of a lifetime when he agrees to mastermind the raid of a tech billionaire’s secret bunker in this action-packed heist thriller set in the heart of contemporary Los Angeles, from master of West Coast noir Gary Phillips. Perfect for fans of Sara Paretsky and...
A Terribly Nasty Business July 7, 2026
Beatrice Steele, Book 2
After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, bringing a killer to justice, and proving she is not, in fact, a morbid creep, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. She’s traded her etiquette-obsessed community of Swampshire for the big city of London,...
Sex on Murder Island June 30, 2026
Luella van Horn, Book 2
Marie Jones has hit rock bottom. Just three months ago, her crime solving alter-ego Luella van Horn cracked the case of a murdered contestant on the hit reality show Sex Island, but now all her gigs have dried up. Marie finds herself on the verge of eviction, broke and alone, in the midst of an...
A Morbid Passion June 23, 2026
Selby Bigge, Book 2
London 1930. Selby Bigge and his aristocratic sidekick Theodora Smythe are invited to dine with Doctor Hector Fortescue and his family. While the Victorians might have defined heterosexuality and homosexuality as perversions, the doctor believes the former can be redeemed and the latter...
Murder in Pitigliano June 23, 2026
A Tuscan Mystery, Book 5
Ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle finds himself unwittingly stepping into the role of a PI to investigate a murder that has torn a young family apart in this rustic mystery set in the beautiful Medieval village of Pitigliano, Italy.
One morning at his favorite café, Nico Doyle notices Cilia, a...
A Little Blood and Dancing June 23, 2026
Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from an inheritance that should set him and the love of his life, Lady Sixkiller, on the road to easy living and the family she’s always wanted.
Sure, he may not be cut out for any kind...
Even the Darkest Night June 23, 2026
Terra Alta, Book 1
Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables.
Then his mother was murdered....
Fortress of Evil June 23, 2026
Terra Alta, Book 3
A father's worst nightmare: Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared. Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta. But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now...
Prey for the Shadow June 23, 2026
Terra Alta, Book 2
The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days that she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, the mayor has powerful enemies. She cannot even trust those closest to...
A Will to Kill June 16, 2026
Harith Athreya, Book 1
Aging millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has won his family property back after a bitter legal battle. Now, though wheelchair-bound, he has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Manor, a colonial-era mansion high up in the misty Nilgiris. It stands alone in an area said to...
A Murder in Springtime June 16, 2026
Bruno, Chief of Police, Book 19
After Bruno sees he’s missed several phone calls from his longtime neighbor Pamela, he has no idea what to expect. He’s shocked to hear that she’s found her new lodger on her back patio, brutally murdered. Bruno knows that Pamela isn’t capable of killing anyone, but then who’s the culprit? And...
An Enemy in the Village June 16, 2026
Bruno, Chief of Police, Book 18
A real estate agent’s death sends shockwaves through the idyllic town of St. Denis, leading Bruno, Chief of Police, to suspect that there’s more to this tragedy than meets the eye. When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vézère valley,...
The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield June 16, 2026
Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, Book 5
Jonathan Darcy has recovered from the wound he received in a duel three months prior, during a disastrous London Season. But his parents aren’t over the shock, and they remain convinced that, no matter how many murderers have been caught via their investigations, Jonathan must end his association...
Red Sheet June 9, 2026
It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job. Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead...
Knave of Diamonds June 9, 2026
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 19
When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black-sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she's assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his...
The Clock House Murders June 2, 2026
The Bizarre House Mysteries, Book 4
Brilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of paranormal investigators, trapped in an abandoned house, as they are picked off one-by-one! Rumor has it that the mysterious Clock House—a remote mansion built by notorious architect Nakamura Seiji for a long-dead clock enthusiast—is haunted by...
She Walks at Night June 2, 2026
Detective Kindaichi Mysteries, Book 8
At the centre of the estate is the family patriarch: the drunken, sword-wielding father Tetsunoshin. His mistress, the icy, alluring Lady Oryu, is also housed in the estate along with their illegitimate daughter Yachiyo—beautiful and unstable—and the drink-ravaged Furugami heir, Naoki Sengoku....
An Artful Dodge June 2, 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:...
A Novel Murder June 2, 2026
Jane Hepburn Mysteries, Book 1
Welcome to the Killer Lines Crime Fiction Festival, the place for star writers of the genre to meet their adoring fans. But be careful—this year the murders aren’t just on the page.
In the quaint English town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things...
Three Bags Full April 14, 2026
Sheep Detective, Book 1
Something is not right with George the shepherd. His sheep have gathered around him outside the cozy Irish village of Glennkill to assess the situation. George has cared for the sheep, reading them books every night, and now he lies pinned to the ground with a spade. His flock, far savvier about the...
Suspicion March 3, 2026
In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but his young wife lives. The wife’s name is Kumako Onizuka, and with a past stained by yakuza entanglements and criminal activity, she is accused of orchestrating the accident for a large insurance payout. Onizuka’s guilt...
Even the Dead January 13, 2026
Quirke, Book 7
Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Dublin pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that’s needed is an extended rest. But when a body turns...
Holy Orders December 9, 2025
Quirke, Book 6
1950s Dublin. A battered body discovered floating in a canal is quickly identified as Jimmy Minor, an up-and-coming investigative journalist for the Clarion and a good friend to Phoebe, the daughter of pathologist Quirke.
Determined to find Jimmy’s killer, Quirke enlists his sometime partner,...