Oregon City Adult Mystery Genre List

Mystery books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated March 28, 2025
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The Little Lost Library
Adams, Ellery
Paper Book
Big clues come in small packages as Miracle Books owner Nora Pennington and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society attempt to solve a series of murders connected to a bibliophile's missing books in the latest cozy mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams . . .
The Darling Dahlias and the red hot poker
Albert, Susan Wittig
Paper Book
It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason...
Book clubbed
Barrett, Lorna.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett is back in town--Booktown, that is--with another page-turning mystery. This time bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, put their own problems on the shelf to catch a killer who turns a bookcase into a murder weapon...
Killing time
Beaton, M. C.
Paper Book
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again. Agatha Raisin's private detective agency has their work cut out for them when a series of shop burglaries disturbs their...
The cat who dropped a bombshell
Braun, Lilian Jackson.
Paper Book
James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who. . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies,...
Hiss & tell
Brown, Rita Mae
Paper Book
When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. "As feline...
The paper caper
Carlisle, Kate
Paper Book
During the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the Covington, a wealthy media magnate Joseph Cabot places with his local look-a-like for a day, a-la The Prince and the Pauper. The two men will trade places for a week as part of a huge publicity campaign to raise money for the Covington Library. But...
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Le Carré, John
Paper Book
Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in John le Carr#65533;'s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of A Delicate Truth and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. John le Carr#65533;'s new novel, A Legacy of Spies, will be...
The big sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Paper Book
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. * Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. One of The Atlantic's Great...
A dark and stormy tea
Childs, Laura
Paper Book
It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning's troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia witnesses a brutal murder and sees a dark-hooded figure slip away into the fog. As she is alerting police, Theodosia recognises the victim - it is the daughter...
The body in the library
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
And then there were none
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
The woman in white
Collins, Wilkie
Paper Book
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Pink lemonade cake murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
Fans of deliciously charming, page-turning whodunits rejoice! Beloved New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Culinary Mystery Joanne Fluke delivers the twenty-eighth mouthwatering Hannah Swensen Mystery! The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and...
Don't go home
Hart, Carolyn G.
Paper Book
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon-and former Broward's Rock resident-Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, Don't Go Home. But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the...
One for the hooks
Hechtman, Betty
Paper Book
While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property. But Miami is left shorthanded when Sloan Renner, the woman helping her clean out the house ends up dead. A large drone had flown over the property discarding mollusc...
And then there were nuns
Logan, Kylie
Paper Book
The national bestselling author of  Gone with the Twins returns to South Bass Island, where the League of Literary Ladies has to find out who's killing off nuns. B and B owner Bea Cartwright has taken on the responsibility of taking meals to ten visiting nuns,...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
McCall Smith, Alexander
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her...
The Thursday murder club
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment "Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." --Wall Street Journal   "Don't trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian...
City of schemes
Thompson, Victoria
Paper Book
The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends discharged from the army. One of them, Archie Carstens, fell in love with a beautiful woman named Noelle when stationed in France. When Archie receives a letter from Noelle begging for money,...

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