Digging for Clues: Mysteries

Dig deep for secrets, clues, and crimes galore! Try one of these mysteries and see if you can solve it yourself. The titles on this list range from cute and cozy to very violent - choose with care. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 11, 2026
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The Expectant Detectives: A Novel
Ailes, Kat
Paper Book
Motherland meets Midsomer Murders in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there's a murder at their antenatal class.
Mystery mile
Allingham, Margery
Paper Book
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he's a man in deadly...
The quiet mother
Arnaldur Indriðason
Paper Book
'Arnaldur Indridason is a literary phenomenon - and it's easy to see why' HARLAN COBEN 'Indridason writes crime novels that are as chilling as the landscape where they're set' ANN CLEEVES 'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' Guardian ...
A Caribbean mystery
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
The guest list : a novel
Foley, Lucy
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year* * The June 2020 Reese's Book Club pick* *The Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick* *Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award* A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from...
"A" is for alibi : a Kinsey Millhone mystery
Grafton, Sue.
Audiobook
Now Available on CD! 3 CDs/ 3 hours Read by Judy Kaye Plenty of people in the picturesque town of Santa Teresa, California, wanted Laurence Fife, a ruthless divorce attorney, dead.  Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, who was...
Murder on the Ballarat train : a Phryne Fisher mystery
Greenwood, Kerry.
Paper Book
When Phryne Fisher arranges to go to Ballarat for a week, she eschews the excitement of her sporty Hispano-Suiza motorcar for the safety of the train. But as the passengers sleep, they are all overcome by chloroform poisoning. In the morning, Phryne is left to piece together the clues: a young girl...
Kindness goes unpunished
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The third book in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire. Walt Longmire has been the Sheriff in Wyoming's Absaroka County for 25 years, but nothing could have prepared him for the savage attack on his daughter, Cady, a Philadelphia...
Mexican Gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...
The whisper man
North, Alex, 1976- author.
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The gripping thriller that will give you chills this winter . . . 'Alex North has achieved the seemingly impossible. The Whisper Man is a thriller that is both...
The maid : a novel
Prose, Nita
Paper Book
*Molly the maid returns in THE MAID'S SECRET - available to pre-order now* _________________________________________________________________ Get swept away by the million-copy bestseller ... *THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
'Vera Wong is my new favourite sleuth' Elle Cosimano Put the kettle on, there's a mystery brewing... Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing...
The mimosa tree mystery
Yu, Ovidia
CD
Mirza is a known collaborator and blackmailer. When he is murdered in his garden, clutching a branch of mimosa, there are many suspects. Su Lin's Uncle Chen is among those rounded up by the Japanese as reprisal. Hideki Tagawa, a former spy expelled by police officer Le Froy, offers Su Lin her uncle...

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