Mystery

From cozies to police procedurals, find recent mystery releases here.
Updated December 2, 2025
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The Impossible Fortune : A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Osman, Richard.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the...
Marble Hall murders : a novel
Horowitz, Anthony
Paper Book
"Diabolically clever."--New York Times "Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . [He is] is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) ...
Knave of Diamonds
King, Laurie R.
Paper Book
Mary Russell's allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle-and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve. 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...
A Drop of Corruption : An Ana and Din Mystery
Bennett, Robert Jackson.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup. "Wonderfully clever and compulsively...
Framed in Death
Paper Book
Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb. Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man...
Nightshade
Connelly, Michael.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.   Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell...
The Mystery
Author to be Announced.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on...
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.... Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She's surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best...
Murder Takes a Vacation : A Novel
Lippman, Laura.
Paper Book
"Murder Takes a Vacation has all Laura Lippman's trademark razor-sharp insight and effortlessly absorbing writing, plus huge amounts of warmth and fun. Mrs. Blossom is a pure joy, and I'm already hoping for more." -Tana French Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author...
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...
Killing Stones : A Jimmy Perez Novel
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
The Killing Stones marks the eagerly awaited return of Ann Cleeves' beloved detectives from the Shetland series, and a gripping new investigation with a stunning new setting, from the New York Times bestselling author and creator of three iconic detectives beloved in TV...
The Hidden City
Finch, Charles.
Paper Book
NAMED ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2025 and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' BEST FALL MYSTERIES! Against the vividly drawn backdrop of Victorian London, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox must unlock a mystery concealed in the architecture of the...
Murder at Gulls Nest : A Novel
Kidd, Jess.
Paper Book
From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.<...
Stone and Sky
Aaronovitch, Ben.
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES "This isn't London. The rules are different up here..." All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is...
The Frozen People
Griffiths, Elly.
Paper Book
"A pleasure from finish to start." --Anthony Horowitz "Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!" --Shari Lapena Some murders can't be solved in just one lifetime. Ali Dawson and...
Infinite archive
Lafferty, Mur.
Paper Book
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it. Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of...
The Queens of Crime : A Novel
Benedict, Marie.
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER AND INDIE BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie--a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder.<...
A Slowly Dying Cause : A Lynley Novel
George, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
A new and highly anticipated Inspector Lynley TV series releasing this fall from BritBox Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. ...
Guilty by Definition A Novel
Dent, Susie.
Paper Book
"Will enthrall crime aficionados, puzzle solvers, Anglophiles and logophiles...fiendishly clever and marvelously entertaining debut--the perfect tonic for any philobiblist's mubble-fubbles." --The Washington Post She knew there'd be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn't think they'd make their...
The Black Wolf
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a...
The Killer Question : A Novel
Hallett, Janice.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, LitHub, BookBub, Goodreads, and many more! Janice Hallett, "the new queen of crime" (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat...
Rage
Castillo, Linda.
Paper Book
In this gripping installment of the Edgar Award winning series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong. Summer has arrived with a vengeance in...
Bonded in Death
Robb, J D.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war... His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve...
Detective Aunty
Jalaluddin, Uzma.
Paper Book
When her grown daughter is suspected of murder, a charming and tenacious widow digs into the case to unmask the real killer in this twisty, page-turning whodunit--the first book in a cozy new detective series from the acclaimed author of Ayesha at Last After her husband's unexpected...
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
Older, Malka.
Paper Book
The next entry in the multi-award-nominated cozy space-opera mystery series The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti! When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin--who's up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been...
Fair Play : A Novel
Hegarty, Louise.
Paper Book
"Louise Hegarty's genre-splicing debut is a treat--clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death."--Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting For fans of Anthony Horowitz...
All of Us Murderers
Charles, KJ.
Paper Book
The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative's remote...
Five Found Dead
Gentill, Sulari.
Paper Book
On a train, there are only so many places to hide... Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient Express in Paris, hoping for some...
Murder by Cheesecake : A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
Courage, Rachel Ekstrom.
Paper Book
***Instant NEW YORK TIMES bestseller*** The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series! When Dorothy's obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is...
Death at a Highland Wedding
Armstrong, Kelley.
Paper Book
Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in...
King of Ashes : A Novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger." --New York Times Book Review"Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about." --The Atlantic...
The Busybody Book Club
Sampson, Freya.
Paper Book
LibraryReads Pick They can't even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder? Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at...
Shadow of the Solstice
Hillerman, Anne.
Paper Book
"Anne Hillerman deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre."--New York Journal of Books In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out...
Welcome to Murder Week A Novel
Dukess, Karen.
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the "bittersweet page-turner" (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late...
Wild Dark Shore : A Novel
McConaghy, Charlotte.
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 "A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." --Reese Witherspoon "A WILDLY TALENTED...
The Queen Who Came in from the Cold
Bennett, S. J.
Paper Book
Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960s England in the fifth installment of this historical mystery series The New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment," perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Richard Osman. 1961, England. The...
Apostle's Cove A Novel
Krueger, William Kent.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery series--a "master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling" (The Real Book Spy)--continues with Cork O'Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present. A few nights...
Kiss Her Goodbye
Gardner, Lisa.
Paper Book
A New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger--before it is too late. "Timely and...
Battle Mountain A Joe Pickett Novel
Box, C.J.
Paper Book
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, an everyman hero with a penchant for stepping into trouble, works with his resourceful wife and three daughters, and an outlaw falconer to protect Twelve Sleep country from hunters, ecoterrorists, cowboy hitmen, and rogue federal agents, among others.
For Duck's Sake
Andrews, Donna.
Paper Book
Donna Andrews returns with her latest charming addition to the bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series. Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a...
Murder on the Marlow Belle: A Novel
Thorogood, Robert.
Paper Book
**USA Today Bestseller** The new cozy crime novel from the bestselling author of The Marlow Murder Club, now a major TV series on PBS Masterpiece! Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn't come home last night, so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts,...
The Red Queen
Grimes, Martha.
Paper Book
A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle) One calm night...
Dead in the Frame : A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Spotswood, Stephen.
Paper Book
The most dramatic installment yet in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost and Parker series, as Will scrambles to solve a shocking murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime. NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is...
One Final Turn
Weaver, Ashley.
Paper Book
The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs. Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon,...
The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime
Delany, Vicki.
Paper Book
Bookshop owner Gemma Doyle heads to London for a wedding, but when a body is found in connection with a rare book, Gemma sets out to sleuth the slaying in bestselling author Vicki Delany's tenth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery. Gemma Doyle and her friends have packed their bags...
History Lessons
Wallbrook, Zoe B.
Paper Book
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...
Clown Town
Herron, Mick.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "May be the best Slow Horses book to date."--The Wall Street Journal THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV Jackson Lamb and the bad spies...
An Excellent Thing in a Woman
Montclair, Allison.
Paper Book
The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and...
Season of Death
Paper Book
In late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces align to take over London's criminal underworld. Private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn,...
Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave
Cosimano, Elle.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestseller and Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave--the hugely anticipated next installment in the fan-favorite Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet . . . but at least...

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