Mystery

From cozies to police procedurals, find recent mystery releases here.
Updated February 15, 2025
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We solve murders
Osman, Richard
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 at the Sign of the Rook
Atkinson, Kate.
Paper Book
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...
The god of the woods
Moore, Liz
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024
What time the Sexton's spade doth rust
Bradley, Alan
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 waiting
Connelly, Michael
Paper Book
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. ...
Passions in death
Robb, J. D.
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
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
The hunter
French, Tana
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 * A New York Times Best Crime and Best Thriller Novel of 2024 * A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024 * An NPR, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and Globe and Mail Best...
How to solve your own murder : a novel
Perrin, Kristen
Paper Book
A Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Finalist for 2024 AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist 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...
The tainted cup
Bennett, Robert Jackson
Paper Book
A peculiar crime. A brilliant investigator. A mystery of epic proportions. 'Part Sherlock Holmes murder mystery, part Through the Looking-Glass, The Tainted Cup is one of the wildest, most original stories' WESLEY CHU An eccentric detective...
A Refiner's Fire
Leon, Donna
Paper Book
The drowned
Banville, John
Paper Book
Guide me home
Locke, Attica
Paper Book
The final book in the award-winning Highway 59 series from the author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
Death by misadventure
Alexander, Tasha
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...
Peach Tea Smash
Childs, Laura.
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...
The last murder at the end of the world
Turton, Stuart
Paper Book
Murder at the White Palace
Montclair, Allison
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 two partners are Miss...
Fire and bones
Reichs, Kathy
Paper Book
It's never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighbourhood with a colourful history, and as the pieces start falling into place, the property's...
The Grey Wolf
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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...
Spirit Crossing: A Novel
Krueger, William Kent.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! William Kent Krueger offers "one of his most puzzling mysteries to date" (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York...
Agony Hill : a mystery
Taylor, Sarah Stewart
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...
We three queens
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
It's late 1936, and King Edward is in turmoil, having fallen in love with the scandalously divorced and even more scandalously American Wallis Simpson. He wants to marry her but knows that doing so will jeopardize his crown. Edward confides in his dear friend Darcy, Georgie's husband, and the couple...
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park
Kelly, Julia
Paper Book
With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is known for, Evelyne Redfern returns in Betrayal at Blackthorn Park. Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern...
A killer clue
Gilbert, Victoria
Paper Book
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...
All the Colors of the Dark
Whitaker, Chris.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that "hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as...
Between a flock and a hard place
Andrews, Donna
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 making historic homes more...
A grave in the woods
Walker, Martin
Paper Book
In his latest adventure Bruno, France's favourite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves. 'FRENCH TOURISM SHOULD RAISE A GLASS TO WALKER'S DORDOGNE MYSTERIES' Daily Mail<...
The midnight feast a novel
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
Paper Book
"Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet." -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "It is an absolute bonkers delight (and I haven't even mentioned the local bird cult yet ...)." -- NPR, Best Books of the Year  ...
The village library demon-hunting society
Waggoner, C. M.
Paper Book
A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies--and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to...
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Gray, Claudia.
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....
Lost birds
Hillerman, Anne
Paper Book
"Anne Hillerman is a star."--J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the...
This is why we lied : a Will Trent thriller
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! "Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- Parade The instant NYT bestseller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, author of...
A Death in Cornwall
Silva, Daniel
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . . Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel...
Death on the Tiber
Davis, Lindsey
Paper Book
Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fearsome relatives and associates are taking up position to vie for the spoils. With hideous murders in the streets of Rome, a lone female traveller arrives with an agenda of her own. But...
Everyone this Christmas has a secret
Stevenson, Benjamin
Paper Book
If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe... My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped,...
City of Secrets: A Mystery
Tracy, P. J.
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 worked a lot of different cases, ones...
Wordhunter
Sands, Stella.
Paper Book
An Amazon Best of the Year Pick An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes. Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when...
Deeper than the dead
Webb, Debra
Paper Book
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...
A deceptive composition
Huber, Anna Lee
Paper Book
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...
Farewell, Amethystine
Mosley, Walter.
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,...
The Queen City Detective Agency : a novel
Wright, Snowden
Paper Book
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. ...
Dog day afternoon
Rosenfelt, David
Paper Book
Paterson, New Jersey's favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the next mystery in this fan favorite series from National Bestselling Author David Rosenfelt. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation--the dog rescue organization named after his beloved...
A Controversial Cover
Barrett, Lorna.
Paper Book
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....
A poisonous palate
Burdette, Lucy.
Paper Book
First frost
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam...
Trouble is brewing
Delany, Vicki
Paper Book
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 some...

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