A Case of Cat and Mouse

A reality TV crew has come to town and brought librarian Kathleen Paulson and her two magical cats more than… Continue Reading Posted in: Animals, Mystery

Night Passage

The author of two dozen Spenser novels as well as numerous other works of fiction, Robert B. Parker is no… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Savannah Breeze

Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Women's Fiction

Dragon Teeth

Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel—an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting., , The… Continue Reading Posted in: Heist, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense

Steps to the Gallows

A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief

The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and… Continue Reading Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, Mystery

An Unremarkable Body

When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life that consumes… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery

A Twist of the Knife

With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins, from a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Short Stories

Motion To Dismiss

Scrupulous San Francisco defense attorney Kali O'Brien knows how to play the odds in a system where reality can be… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller

The Malice of Waves

Investigator Cal McGill uses his knowledge of tides, winds and currents to solve mysteries no-one else can.,,Five years ago, fourteen-year-old… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Cold Service

When Spenser's closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Payback

Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys - people who, in his opinion,… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Sea Change

For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Women's Fiction

The I-5 Killer

Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. Drafted by the Green Bay Packers and… Continue Reading Posted in: Crime, Mystery, Nonfiction

The House of Crows

In 1380, the King's parliament debates whether to grant money supplies to the Regent John of Gaunt for his war… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

Virals

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult

Serpent in the Thorns

Convicted of treason, Crispin Guest was stripped of his title, his land, his money and his friends. Now with only… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

Bad Business

A cheating husband and a wayward wife provide Spenser with an unconventional and dangerous surveillance job. When Marlene Cowley hires… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

A Study in Scarlet

When Dr. Watson ends up renting rooms in Baker Street with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he finds that he has… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

Harvard Yard

Peter Fallon, the hero of William Martin's bestselling novel Back Bay, has found evidence that a priceless treasure-an undiscovered Shakespeare… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Mystery

High-Rise

From the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fiction In English, High Rise Apartment Buildings Social Aspects, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction, Thrillers

Moskva

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . . .',,January, 1986. A week after disgraced Intelligence Officer Tom… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Inugami Curse

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers.,,In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Fiction, Mystery

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Killing Room

Peter May’s thrilling new China novel brings together Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell for the third… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller

The Painted Lady

Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day. Even her marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

Being Dead

Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celice and Joseph, married, middle-aged are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British Fiction, England, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction

Eternity Ring

Mary Stokes discovers a dead body in Dead Man's Copse one evening but when she returns with a police officer… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

We Begin at the End

ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH. Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Death On Demand

At Annie Laurance's Death On Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul suddenly isn't confined to… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Chariots of Calyx

Libertus is in Londinium, at the invitation of the Roman Governor, when news arrives of the brutal murder of Caius… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

The Road to Ithaca

In May 1941, Abwehr officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the Wehrmacht, and must investigate the brutal… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Mystery

Smoke and Whispers

Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Ghost Walk

Antiquarian bookshop owner Dido Hoare has a lot on her mind these days. In her second appearance, Dido is trying… Continue Reading Posted in: European Literature, Fiction, Mystery

Hope to Die

When the victim seems perfect, is it the perfect crime? The gripping new serial killer thriller, from the runaway bestselling… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller

Heartstones

In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Black Hornet

A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Blood On The Tongue

Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Derbyshire winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of ‘Black… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Know

Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Window

Secrets have a way of getting out. . . .,,Anna is everything her identical twin is not. Outgoing and athletic,… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult

The Threshing Circle

On the Greek island of Crete, traditions run deep and there are often secrets that are best left buried. Weaving… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery, Suspense

Mr. Peanut

David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Marriage, Mystery, Psychological Literary Fiction, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction

The Convict and Other Stories

A wonderful collection of 12 stories set mainly in and around the American Deep South from award-winning author James Lee… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories

The Bangtail Ghost: A Sean Stranahan Mystery

"Keith McCafferty is a top-notch, first-rate, can't-miss novelist.",--C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author,,In Montana’s Gravelly Range, paw prints… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

A Place Of Safety

Tucked away in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, the local rectory is supposed to be a place of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Murder in Clichy

Aimée Leduc, private investigator specializing in computer security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in Paris by her… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Fiction, Mystery

The Final Deduction

When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

See How They Run

Inside every secret, there's a world of trouble. Get ready for the second book in this new series of global… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Mystery, Young Adult

The Sculptress / Scolds Bridle

In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Last Round

It s the end of the road for everyone. The only question remaining is: Who will live? XIII and his… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Sequential Art

Memory Man

Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.,,The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Lantern Men

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found,… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Grave Tattoo

It's a time-honoured tradition that the best crime writers begin to chafe at the constraints of their area of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

How’s the Pain?

Death is Simon’s business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

To Kill a Mocking Girl

Bookbinder Quinn finds herself in trouble when her ex's fiance turns up dead and if she's not careful, her days… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Poisoner of Ptah

At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt's leading scribes die violently on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery, Northern Africa

To Catch a Killer

Erin Blake has one of those names. A name that, like Natalee Holloway or Elizabeth Smart, is inextricably linked to… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult

Blacksad: The Collected Stories

The classic hardboiled noir series featuring beloved anthropomorphic cat detective, John Blacksad, celebrates its twentieth year. Readers will now be… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Sequential Art

Dead Girls Dancing

In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire blazes in a local dance studio. Thirteen… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Thriller

Cold Christmas

In the small village of Cold Christmas there's a church that faces the wrong way . . . What has… Continue Reading Posted in: Holiday, Mystery, Thriller

The Book Stops Here

You never know what treasures can be found in someone’s attic. Unfortunately for bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright, some of them are… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Heretics of De’Ath

(With thanks to Betty for further eradication of those annoying slips of the quill.),,England 1066: At the monastery of De'Ath's… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Humor, Mystery

Where the Shadows Lie

Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Flying Too High

Phryne Fisher has her hands full in this, her second adventure. And just when we think she s merely a… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Mystery

Domina

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery

Quantum of Tweed: The Man with the Nissan Micra

When Albert Rossi knocks a man over in his Nissan Micra he is amazed he doesn't hear from the police.… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Humor, Mystery

Living Death

DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorizing Cork. The city's… Continue Reading Posted in: Horror, Mystery

Framed in Cornwall

Dorothy Pengelly lived alone in her remote, dilapidated cottage with only her,pets as company. When her old friend, Rose Trevelyan… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Light Shining In The Forest

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Too Good to Be True

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve

In the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher takes on an Agatha Christie-style mystery when she finds herself… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Einstein’s Monsters

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny;… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literary Fiction, Fictional Works, Mystery, Nuclear Warfare, Schizophrenia, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction

Choke Hold

INSIDE THE WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS - AND MURDER...,,Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past --… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery

White Fire

Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers mysterious connections between a string of 19th century bear attacks in… Continue Reading Posted in: Crime Fiction, Mystery, Technothrillers, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation

Skinner’s Round

Bob Skinner must challenge local beliefs and legends to solve a gruesome murder in this fourth installment in the fantastic… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Mystery

Lady Audley’s Secret

When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

The Queen’s Man

1582. A young lawyer is plucked from his books and recruited to the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. John… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Mystery

A Painted House

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary American Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction

Miss Julia’s School of Beauty

Imagine Aunt Bea from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Humor, Mystery

Good as Gone

Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister.… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Life, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense

Beneath a Silent Moon

June-July 1817,The task had taken shape thanks to the inconvenient way secrets had of bubbling to the surface. It went… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery, Romance

Blind Descent

Lechuguilla Cavern is a man-eating cave discovered in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the mid-1980s. Estimated to extend… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Local Rules

The old brick county courthouse casts the longest shadow in Green Hills, Texas, and when Jordan Marshall is ticketed for… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Nairobi Heat

For fans of smart foreign crime books, an action-packed crime story in an unusual setting—Kenya—and rooted in fascinating African history,,In… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Fiction, Mystery

The Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Screen Savers

For Oz Blackstone, the days of getting into trouble for a living, otherwise known as being a private enquiry agent,… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery

The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye

In the series conclusion, Enola searches for missing Lady Blanchefleur while her brother Sherlock seeks her, with a message from… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical, Mystery, Young Adult

Poison Flower

Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders:

An entertaining tale takes us deep into the seamy side of Victorian London' The Times,London 1888: George 'Zulu' Hart is… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery

Dying in a Winter Wonderland

In the town of Rudolph, New York, the Christmas season should make spirits bright, but as the year comes to… Continue Reading Posted in: Holiday, Mystery

Once You Go This Far

Something sinister is afoot in the streets of Dundee, when a puppeteer is found murdered behind his striped Punch and… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Forgery of Venus

"Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Mystery

The Man Who Was Thursday

"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realizes that it… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Missing Persons, Mystery, Mystery Fiction, Thriller & Suspense

Cat Me If You Can

Charlie Harris and his feline companion Diesel take a bookish vacation but discover that murder never takes a holiday, in… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

The Hunting Dogs

Seventeen years ago, William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most widely publicized criminal cases, when the young… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Chili Con Corpses

Things are chugging merrily along for librarian James Henry. He has a closet filled with new clothes, a trimmer waistline,… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery

Elixir

When Revell Pharmaceuticals, the multi-billion dollar giant owned by the Revells, approaches Taylor Knox and his company with the possibility… Continue Reading Posted in: Christian Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Autographs in the Rain

Attempted murder and a mysterious stalker are a little close for comfort for DCC Skinner, in this thrilling crime novel.,,As… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery

The Invisible Ones

In a hospital bed, small-time private detective Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium. But before the accident that landed… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Mystery