Digging for Clues: Mysteries

Dig deep for secrets, clues, and crimes galore! Try one of these mysteries and see if you can solve it yourself. The titles on this list range from cute and cozy to very violent - choose with care. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 11, 2026
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Digging for Clues: Mysteries

Dig deep for secrets, clues, and crimes galore! Try one of these mysteries and see if you can solve it yourself. The titles on this list range from cute and cozy to very violent - choose with care. Plant a seed, read!

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The quiet mother
Arnaldur Indriðason
Paper Book
Retired detective Konrad returns to Reykjavik in The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason, "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation" --The Sunday Times (UK) A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies...
Endangered
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more--Joes eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off...
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Bradley, Alan
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE AGATHA * ARTHUR ELLIS * DILYS * DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS  "Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine."--Chicago Sun-Times...
The guest list : a novel
Foley, Lucy
Paper Book
Don't miss Lucy Foley's latest book, The Midnight Feast! A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR "I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of...
The knowledge : a Richard Jury mystery
Grimes, Martha
Paper Book
In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, MWA Grand Master Martha Grimes brings London's finest and "the Filth" together on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics, and a long-fermented act of revenge With their signature wit, sly plotting,...
Death in the stacks
McKinlay, Jenn
Paper Book
In the latest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Better Late Than Never, the library's big fund-raiser leaves director Lindsey Norris booked for trouble . . .  Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek...
The case of the missing maid : a novel
Osler, Rob
Paper Book
Instant USA Today bestseller! The acclaimed author of the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated Devil's Chew Toy delights with the first in a new historical mystery series set in turn-of-the-20th-century Chicago, as America is entering its Progressive Era and...
Still life
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
Read the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video. In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec. Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys...
Unnatural death : a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Paper Book
From Dorothy L. Sayers, the mistress of the Golden Age mystery, the third mystery featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey The wealthy old woman died much sooner than the doctor expected. Did she suddenly succumb to illness--or was it murder? The debonair detective Lord...
Murder by memory
Waite, Olivia
Paper Book
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective A mind is a terrible thing to erase... Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious...
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