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Classic Crime and Mystery Fiction
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
A Dark-Adapted Eye 1993
Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the...
In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir—especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don't take a huge...
False Witness 2018
Cooper Devereaux, Book 3
A woman disappears on her twenty-first birthday. The following day her body is found, wrapped neatly like a gift in a crumbling, sun-speckled graveyard. What does Detective Devereaux have to go on? Very little. No motive, no suspects.
Then another victim is discovered in a crematorium parking lot....
A Great Reckoning 2017
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering...
Hallowe'en Party 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 36
When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an...
The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 5
It’s December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward.
Cynthia Catchpool, Edward’s mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a...
The House Sitter 2004
Peter Diamond, Book 8 - Part 8
The corpse of a beautiful woman, clad in only a bathing suit, is found strangled to death on a popular Sussex beach. When she is finally identified, it turns out she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty, who was working on the case of a serial killer. And though she was a Bath resident,...
Chief Inspector Barnaby, Book 1
Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom...
The Last Detective 2011
Peter Diamond, Book 1
A woman's body has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a woman unjustly...
Lord Edgware Dies 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 9
In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum when Lord Edgware has a most unnatural death. Now with a beautiful new series look!
When Lord Edgware is found murdered, the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife...
Hercule Poirot, Book 14
The great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site. Now with a beautiful new series look!
Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a...
Murder in the Mews 2026
Hercule Poirot, Book 18
How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the...
Hercule Poirot, Book 1
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary—from the heiress’s fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital...
Peril at End House 2024
Hercule Poirot, Book 8
On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with death.” First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil...
The Poacher's Son 2011
Mike Bowditch, Book 1
Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive—his own father.
Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who...
The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes’s (bonfire) night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green, and there were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, nobody is clear on what exactly happened and what they saw. In the writhing, violent shadows, it...
Still Life 2008
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 1
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods....
A Taste for Death 2005
How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow...
A Trick of the Light 2012
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 7
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in...
A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancée is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse...
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 18
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered,...
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The Under Dog and Other Stories April 21, 2026
A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancée is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse...
Murder in the Mews April 7, 2026
Hercule Poirot, Book 18
How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the...
The Black Wolf October 28, 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...
Hallowe'en Party June 17, 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 36
When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an...
Murder in Mesopotamia May 13, 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 14
The great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site. Now with a beautiful new series look!
Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a...
Cards on the Table April 29, 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...
Lord Edgware Dies January 28, 2025
Hercule Poirot, Book 9
In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum when Lord Edgware has a most unnatural death. Now with a beautiful new series look!
When Lord Edgware is found murdered, the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife...
Peril at End House October 29, 2024
Hercule Poirot, Book 8
On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with death.” First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil...
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night October 8, 2024
The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 5
It’s December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward.
Cynthia Catchpool, Edward’s mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles September 24, 2024
Hercule Poirot, Book 1
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary—from the heiress’s fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital...
A World of Curiosities November 29, 2022
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 18
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered,...
The Fabulous Clipjoint December 7, 2021
In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir—especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don't take a huge...
The Progress of a Crime March 2, 2021
The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes’s (bonfire) night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green, and there were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, nobody is clear on what exactly happened and what they saw. In the writhing, violent shadows, it...
False Witness January 2, 2018
Cooper Devereaux, Book 3
A woman disappears on her twenty-first birthday. The following day her body is found, wrapped neatly like a gift in a crumbling, sun-speckled graveyard. What does Detective Devereaux have to go on? Very little. No motive, no suspects.
Then another victim is discovered in a crematorium parking lot....
A Great Reckoning May 2, 2017
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 12
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering...
The Beautiful Mystery August 28, 2012
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...
A Trick of the Light July 3, 2012
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 7
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in...
Bury Your Dead August 2, 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...
The Last Detective May 31, 2011
Peter Diamond, Book 1
A woman's body has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a woman unjustly...
The Poacher's Son April 12, 2011
Mike Bowditch, Book 1
Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive—his own father.
Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who...
The Brutal Telling August 31, 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...
Still Life September 30, 2008
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 1
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods....
A Taste for Death November 8, 2005
How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow...
The Killings at Badger's Drift June 1, 2005
Chief Inspector Barnaby, Book 1
Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom...
Bloodhounds December 1, 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 House Sitter June 1, 2004
Peter Diamond, Book 8 - Part 8
The corpse of a beautiful woman, clad in only a bathing suit, is found strangled to death on a popular Sussex beach. When she is finally identified, it turns out she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty, who was working on the case of a serial killer. And though she was a Bath resident,...
A Dark-Adapted Eye October 1, 1993
Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the...