Mystery

From cozies to police procedurals, find recent mystery releases here.
Updated October 12, 2024
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The Hunter
French, Tana.
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A New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year (So Far) * An NPR Favorite Fiction Read of 2024 * A Parade Best Book of 2024 So Far * A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (So Far) * Named a Best Beach Read of 2024 by...
The Lantern's Dance
King, Laurie R.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. "Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes...
The tainted cup
Bennett, Robert Jackson
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A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett "Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett--[a] rising star of fantasy--more than delivers."--Charlie...
Peach Tea Smash
Childs, Laura.
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During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He's been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains and paddles of the...
Everyone on this train is a suspect : a novel
Stevenson, Benjamin
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From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it" (Nita Prose) -- perfect for fans of Richard Osman...
Agony Hill : A Mystery
Taylor, Sarah Stewart.
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Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren...
The Last Word : A Novel
Griffiths, Elly.
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Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club. Natalka and Edwin are perfect if...
The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime
Delany, Vicki.
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Gemma Doyle and her friends have packed their bags and headed to London for her sister Pippa's wedding. Waiting for her in the hotel lobby is none other than Gemma's ex-husband, Paul Erikson. Paul has a rare book he wants her to see - calling it 'the real deal' - so Gemma agrees to meet him at their...
A Slay Ride Together With You
Delany, Vicki.
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Rudolph, New York, shop owner Merry Wilkinson's best friend Vicky Casey is newly engaged to Chef Mark Grosse and is moving into the historic Cole House - a home surrounded by drama, intrigue, and a possible haunting that is in desperate need of renovation. The wedding is just three weeks away, but...
We Solve Murders : A Novel
Osman, Richard.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman's trademark wit. Delightful!" --Shari Lapena From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series A brand new mystery. An...
Death by Misadventure : A Lady Emily Mystery
Alexander, Tasha.
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In the latest installment of Tasha Alexander's New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily must solve a string of high stakes "accidents" while trapped in a lavish villa in the Bavarian Alps. In the winter of 1906, Lady Emily and husband Colin are invited to the...
Close to Death : A Novel
Horowitz, Anthony.
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In New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound Riverside...
Deeper Than the Dead
Webb, Debra.
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Someone's found the skeleton in the closet, and it's not the only one. Wall Street Journal bestselling author Debra Webb presents an emotional new mystery. Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn't visit home often, and she certainly doesn't...
Death at the Sign of the Rook Jackson Brodie Series, 6
Atkinson, Kate.
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The highly anticipated return of Kate Atkinsons' "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie, whose newest adventure pays homage to Agatha Christie in the newest installment of a series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time. Marooned overnight by a...
How to Solve Your Own Murder : A Novel
Perrin, Kristen.
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A Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Finalist for 2024 AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GMA Buzz Pick! One of Amazon's Top 10 Best Books of April, One of Jimmy Fallon's favorite books for Spring 2024, The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024, A Publishers...
A Refiner's Fire : A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Leon, Donna.
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In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon's magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was Around one AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one...
Trouble Is Brewing
Delany, Vicki.
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Lily Roberts's Cape Cod tearoom is hosting a bridal shower--until a gruesome gift sends the guest of honor running in fear . . . Members of the Reynolds and Hill families are staying at Lily's grandmother's bed and breakfast, and now they've gathered at Tea by the Sea to sip...
A Poisonous Palate
Burdette, Lucy.
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When food critic Hayley Snow receives an intriguing email about a mysterious, decades-old disappearance, her curiosity is piqued. Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway's wives, but she's also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley...
Passions in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel
Robb, J. D.
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Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the next novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb, Passions in Death. On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the...
The Dark Wives
Cleeves, Ann.
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A Killer Clue
Gilbert, Victoria.
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When Eloise Anderson, the owner of an antiquarian bookshop, arrives at the grand Aircroft estate to ask retired librarian Jane Hunter and eccentric collector Cameron Clewe for help, Jane and Cam expect a bookish inquiry. But the bookseller has a different sort of assistance in mind - clearing her...
The Last Murder at the End of the World: A Novel
Turton, Stuart.
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"A gripping tale that reads like a Sherlock Holmes novel set in a broken future...Turton is an exciting writer with a knack for strange tales that push the envelope, and this strange story of murder, survival, and the importance of memory might be his best work yet." --Gabino Iglesias for NPR ...
Midnight and Blue
Rankin, Ian.
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The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. 'Rebus in jail and better than ever ... Surprising, gripping and witty. Rankin has taken the police procedural and transformed into an epic...
The Drowned : A Novel
Banville, John.
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From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman's sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive,...
Summers End
Black, Juneau.
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A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school's annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture....
We Three Queens
Bowen, Rhys.
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New mother Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch finds herself trying to separate fact from fiction when a murder occurs while a film is being made on the grounds of her estate in a new Royal Spyness Mystery from beloved bestselling author Rhys Bowen. It's late 1936, and King Edward...
A Deceptive Composition
Huber, Anna Lee.
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October 1832. Kiera is enjoying the slower pace of the English countryside. She, Sebastian, and their infant daughter have accompanied her father-in-law, Lord Gage, home so that he can recuperate from the injuries he sustained in a foiled attempt on his life. But as the chill of autumn sweeps...
Sticks and Scones A Bakeshop Mystery
Alexander, Ellie.
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Another delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series set in Ashland, OR! It's late spring in Juliet's charming hamlet of Ashland. Spotted deer are nibbling on lush green grasses in Lithia Park, the Japanese maples are blooming, and Torte is baking a bevy of spring delights-...
The ghost orchid
Kellerman, Jonathan
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that leads them to long-buried secrets worth killing for in the riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling "master of suspense" (Los...
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh : A Novel
Gray, Claudia.
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The delicious follow-up to The Murder of Mr. Wickham and The Late Mrs. Willoughby finds Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney facing their most daunting detecting challenge yet: preventing the murder of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine...
Between a Flock and a Hard Place
Andrews, Donna.
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Readers will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Meg's neighbors, the Smetkamps', have won a makeover for their old home from Marvelous Mansions, a flashy, yet dubious company, focused on...
A Grave Robbery
Raybourn, Deanna.
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Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes...
The Stranger in the Library
Gates, Eva.
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When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that...
A Controversial Cover
Barrett, Lorna.
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Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sluething - she's tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry. Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children's book author, arrives for an event at the local library....
No Paw to Stand On
Cass, Laurie.
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When a heat wave hits Chilson, Michigan, Minnie, Eddie, and their bookmobile head to the beach to catch some rays and some customers. Unfortunately, library business is put on hold when Minnie's restaurant-owning best friend, Kristen, calls. The soup she served to patrons last night was deliberately...
A Ruse of Shadows
Thomas, Sherry.
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"I cannot recommend this series enough."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself in a dreadfully precarious position as the bestselling Lady Sherlock series...
Farewell, Amethystine
Mosley, Walter.
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From "master of the genre" (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins' latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia--blinding him to reason and risk. January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of...
The Queen City Detective Agency : A Novel
Wright, Snowden
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Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream. ...
City of Secrets
Tracy, P. J.
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LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan returns in P. J. Tracy's City of Secrets, the next book in the series praised by the New York Times Book Review: "Tracy seems to have found her literary sweet spot." Los Angeles Police Detective Margaret Nolan and her partner have...
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies A Novel
Mack, Catherine.
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A USA Today Bestseller #1 Toronto Star Bestseller in Canadian FictionA Globe and Mail Bestseller in Canadian Fiction A Vancouver Sun Bestseller in New Releases An Indie Next List Pick (May 2024) An...
The Waiting
Connelly, Michael.
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LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between...
Murder at the White Palace
Montclair, Allison.
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In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder. In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The...
Dead Tired
Ailes, Kat.
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The second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, Dead Tired follows a group of new moms who didn't think their maternity leave would involve so much murder. "Full of charming characters, including Alice's goofy dog, this fast-paced, original cozy is...
Village politics can be murder
Dams, Jeanne M.
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A trip to the Lake District proves to be anything but idyllic when Dorothy and Alan investigate a mysterious death.Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, jump at the chance to holiday in the beautiful Lake District when Alan's old friend, Christopher Prideaux, invites...
A New Lease on Death
Blacke, Olivia.
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Death is only the beginning in Olivia Blacke's A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo. Ruby Young's new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows facing the brick wall of the next-door...
Random in death
Robb, J. D.
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In this crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching...
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Bradley, Alan.
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The Grey Wolf
Penny, Louise.
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The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand...
Hummingbird Hollow
Rose, Ayla.
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When thirty-three-year-old Hannah Solace returns to her hometown to renovate and reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie, her mission is to give the old Victorian hotel an entirely new life. She's even planting pollinator gardens around the inn native flowers and fruit trees to lure...

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