Mystery

From cozies to police procedurals, find recent mystery releases here.
Updated October 12, 2024
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The Hunter
Tana French
Paper Book
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
Laurie R. King
Paper Book
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
Robert Jackson Bennett
Paper Book
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 (A Tea Shop Mystery)
Laura Childs
Paper Book
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
Benjamin Stevenson
Paper Book
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
Sarah Stewart Taylor
Paper Book
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
Elly Griffiths
Paper Book
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...
We Solve Murders
Richard Osman
Paper Book
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 (Lady Emily Mysteries Book 18)
Tasha Alexander
Paper Book
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
Anthony Horowitz
Paper Book
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit 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...
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson
Paper Book
THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) * The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time "How delicious to have...
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin
Paper Book
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
Donna Leon
Paper Book
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...
Passions in Death
J. D. Robb
Paper Book
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
Ann Cleeves
Paper Book
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death. The man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in...
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Stuart Turton
Paper Book
"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
Ian Rankin
Paper Book
John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now having been convicted of a homicide, he's joined them...   A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison....
The Drowned
John Banville
Paper Book
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 (A Shady Hollow Mystery)
Juneau Black
Ebook
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
Rhys Bowen
Paper Book
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...
Sticks and Scones
Ellie Alexander
Paper Book
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
Jonathan Kellerman
Paper Book
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
Claudia Gray
Paper Book
The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr....
Between a Flock and a Hard Place
Donna Andrews
Paper Book
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
Deanna Raybourn
Paper Book
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...
No Paw to Stand On (A Bookmobile Cat Mystery)
Laurie Cass
Paper Book
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
Sherry Thomas
Paper Book
"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
Walter Mosley
Paper Book
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...
City of Secrets: A Mystery (The Detective Margaret Nolan Series, 4)
P. J. Tracy
Paper Book
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
Catherine Mack
Paper Book
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
Michael Connelly
Paper Book
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
Allison Montclair
Paper Book
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
Kat Ailes
Paper Book
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...
Random in Death
J. D. Robb
Paper Book
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
Alan Bradley
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. "I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best...
The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny
Paper Book
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...

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