Mystery

From cozies to police procedurals, find recent mystery releases here.
Updated March 17, 2026
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The impossible fortune
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 <...
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 * AN ELLE BEST BOOK 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.
Knave of diamonds : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
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...
Nightshade : a novel
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...
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.... A New York Times' Best Mystery Novels of 2025 2026 Edgar's Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award Nominee 2026 Audie Award for Best Mystery...
Framed in death
Robb, J. D.
Paper Book
"Manhattan is filled with galleries and collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work....
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...
The hallmarked man
Galbraith, Robert
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...
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...
Everyone in this bank is a thief
Stevenson, Benjamin
Paper Book
Ten suspects. Ten heists. A puzzle only Ernest Cunningham can solve. I've spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I've never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when...
A slowly dying cause
George, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
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. Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family's tin & pewter workshop. It's suspicious enough that his body was...
Guilty by definition
Dent, Susie
Paper Book
Agatha Christie meets Countdown in the debut mystery novel from the genius of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent
Stone & sky
Aaronovitch, Ben
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one...
Detective aunty : a novel
Jalaluddin, Uzma
Paper Book
Named a Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, The Washington Post, Library Journal, The Globe and Mail, and the Chicago Public Library "I'll read anything Uzma Jalaluddin writes."--New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn When her...
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 humans visiting...
The killing stones
Cleeves, Ann.
Paper Book
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Five found dead
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
Finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award 'This mystery has more turns than the railroad through the Italian Alps. Sulari Gentill's writing is absorbing and utterly readable. I happily let the journey carry me away. All aboard!' --The Australian Women's Weekly<...
Rage
Castillo, Linda
Paper Book
2026 Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist! 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....
Murder by cheesecake
Courage, Rachel Ekstrom
Paper Book
Things are heating up, and not just because of Blanche's hot flashes. Rose's cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can't balance the groom's family's snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again! Dorothy...
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...
Shadow of the solstice
Hillerman, Anne
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller "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 &...
An enemy in the village
Walker, Martin
Paper Book
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...
A Day of Judgment
Todd, Charles
Paper Book
Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to England's windswept coastline to investigate a murder in a place where, several years after the end of WWI, the memory of the war still runs strong . . . July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave and the coast of...
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...
King of ashes : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
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...
All of Us Murderers
Charles, KJ.
Paper Book
BookPage top 10 Best Mystery & Suspense books of 2025 "Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"--BookPage 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...
Stolen in Death
Robb, J. D
Paper Book
The Queen Who Came in from the Cold: The brand new 2025 murder mystery starring the Queen
Bennett, S. J.
Paper Book
The utterly charming 2025 cosy mystery in the bestselling Her Majesty The Queen series.
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...
Lethal prey
Sandford, John
Paper Book
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was...
From Cradle to Grave
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
Georgie may not have much in common with your average new mother, but she does have one thing: a new nanny she despises. Knowing she must find a nanny more suited to her young son, Georgie travels to London to see her old friend ZouZou, only to find her about to depart for a funeral, after the...
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...
Miss Winter in the library with a knife
Edwards, Martin
Paper Book
'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN 'All the entertainment you'll need this Christmas. Wonderful stuff.' IAN MOORE 'A delight from the first page to the last.' DAILY MAIL Can you find the clues and solve the murder first?...
Murder from A to Z
Burns, V. M.
Paper Book
When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and her sister, Jenna, agreed to host a class for seniors on estate planning, they didn't plan on discovering shady doings at Shady Acres Retirement Village . . . Nana Jo has volunteered her lawyer...
The Marigold Cottages murder collective : a mystery
Nichols, Jo
Paper Book
The perfect summer read, full of charm and heart, written in the vein of The Thursday Murder Club or Only Murders in the Building but with a southern California twist. Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people...
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 librarians
Thomas, Sherry
Paper Book
"This delicious murder mystery is a must-read for any library lover!"--New York Times bestselling author Shelby Van Pelt Murder disrupts four quirky librarians' lives when they try to hide among books to keep their secrets. A LIBRARY READS PICK! l An NPR...
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...
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...
The world's greatest detective and her just okay assistant
Tully, Liza
Paper Book
Olivia Blunt doesn't want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She's determined to learn everything she can from her mentor, renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt - but the latter is no easy grader. After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties pining for the celebrated detective...
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
Chapman, Amanda
Paper Book
Tory Van Dyne is the most down-to-earth member of a decidedly eccentric old-money New York family. For one thing, as book conservator at Manhattan's Mystery Guild Library, she actually has a job. Plus, she's left up-town society behind for a quiet life downtown. So she's not thrilled when she...
In the Time of Five Pumpkins
McCall Smith, Alexander.
Paper Book
In this newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe takes on a number of perplexing situations, and while she tries to maintain her usual impartiality, it's difficult when one of the cases involves someone so close to her heart. ...

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