Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Mini Meadows, a Tiny Home community in rural Central Florida, is home to Emma Wells, a downsize specialist who left her daddy's mansion and her inheritance behind in favor of a simpler, more peaceful life in a tiny home that was once two shipping...

When a young woman hiker is reported missing, the Forest Service takes part in the search. But the more Ranger Dan Courtwright learns about the case, the less sense it makes to him. And the more dangerous things get for everyone involved, especially Dan....

This novel is a partially fictionized account of the murder of Dorothy Polulach, a well off widow who was found shot to death in her southside Chicago home in Februrary of 1981. Mrs Polulach was the widow of George Polulach, a wealthy landowner. Dorothy...

Inside an old family mansion the presence of too many self-invited guests creates a dangerous situation-a situation which explodes when an unprecedented blizzard hits Seattle. When Nan and Dyke drop in on her friend, Fleur Wales, they find both Fleur and her home much...

Featuring Contributions by: Dan Rowley and Don Baxter, William Todd, Naching T. Kassa, Paula Hammond, Ember Pepper, Alan Dimes, Arthur Hall, Peter Coe Verbica, Jane Rubino, Tracy J. Revels, Kevin Thornton, Tom Turley, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, David Marcum, Shane Simmons, Roger Riccard,...

Q. Silver is a criminal mastermind who must (temporarily) turn sleuth when finds himself, and his lowbrow assistant Joe Lynch, embroiled in a murder investigation. Silver bluffs his way into leading the investigation to keep the police from getting suspicious. Joe is convinced they're...

Anne Scott always knew that working on Wall Street wasn't for the faint of heart, but she never expected to see a senior investment banker storm out of a meeting and then turn up dead in his office a few minutes later. As she...

Young attorney, Zana West, is assigned the perfect case for a triathlete--a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was paralyzed during the Honolulu Olympic triathlon trials. As an added bonus, Zana's television crush, Jerry Hirano, the star of "Fighting in Paradise" by...

The publisher of a family-owned newspaper serving Huhman County, Missouri has been missing for over a year...Until an arm bone found in the woods turns the missing-person case into a homicide investigation.After exposing a false alibi, Sheriff Francis Hood focuses on the surviving family...

Come, Watson Quickly is a suspenseful collection of five new Sherlock Holmes adventures. In it, the British empire's most renowned detective and his biographer-companion, Dr. John H. Watson, confront harrowing situations that confound and stymie the official police until the villain is unveiled by...

Like a precious doll, the girl leans against the towering pine tree with her long bare legs stretched out and her hands folded neatly in her lap. Her head tilts towards the sky, but this innocent child will never feel the warm glow of...

When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summoned Holmes a year after her marriage to further...

Lady Lupin, the ditzy but always kind young wife to the vicar of Glanville, Sussex, runs into what appears to be murder most foul while trying to help out a young married couple. Set just after World War II, this book was published in...

SOMEONE COMES TO THE PARTY WITH MURDER IN HIS HEART AND POISON IN HIS POCKET.A lavish celebration. A rare poison. A clever plan. A milestone birthday party at a country mansion in Brandywine Valley brings old friends together, all glamorous, wealthy, and politically well-connected....

In a world of Goddess worship, sacred snakes and sacrifice, human jealousy, resentment and betrayal still run wild . . .Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When her sister Arge drops to the floor in convulsions and then dies at her wedding, fifteen-year-old Martis, a young...

The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective,...

After a decade dominating the expat scene in Rome, Faye Masters has had enough beautiful art, delicious food, and bureaucratic nonsense to last a lifetime. She's just about decided to pack up and head home when a rival drops dead at one of Faye's...

When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walk?e during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one time world famous...

"Suicide was all the rage in L.A. the summer of '39." When an oddball sister and brother hire him to find out if their father's suicide was suicide, private investigator Nate Ross figures he's in for an easy job. That is, until he discovers...

Trapped by isolation... Ken Connell is a former Buffalo detective who has lost everything: his wife, his job, even his striking good looks, thanks to a shotgun blast that punctured his neck. These days he investigates insurance fraud, reminisces about the woman he loved,...

When murder trends too close to home, social media influencer Coco Cline will have to swipe through a sea of trolls to tag a killer.   After cracking her first case, Cordelia "Coco" Cline's life is finally getting back to normal-or as normal as...

A brilliant detective...A baffling murder...An isolated manor...A list of less than perfect suspects with perfect alibis...No way out...It's going to be a long and deadly night.Hired to stop a murder at a birthday party at a Mississippi Manor cut off from the world by...

Author: Caroline GrahamISBN-10: 0312319371ISBN-13: 9780312319373Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2007Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d

Four couples set sail on a luxury honeymoon cruise. Only two will survive. Luckily for the victims, one of the newlyweds happens to be a member of a very nosey book club...It's supposed to be Claire Hargreaves' dream honeymoon, cocooned on a superyacht with...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party--the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh--with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot...

This Signet Classics edition of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd includes an exclusive Introduction by Ruth Ware. In the small English village of King's Abbot, a widow's suicide has stirred up dreadful rumors of blackmail and deception. Most shocking of all is...

"Listening to Grover Gardner narrating a David Rosenfelt novel is like sliding into favorite slippers at the end of a long day: One feels the joyful gratification of a perfect fit." --AudioFile on Bark of Night Lights, camera, action in bestselling author David Rosenfelt's...

When thirteen-year-old drug runner Mandy Walsh is killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs, the police at first think she was accidentally caught in the crossfire. But soon they learn that someone shot her intentionally, and as Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur looks...

Age-old retributions and blood atonements bring our unlikely hero back to solve one last spiritually-steeped mystery.Michael Bevan is finally content with his used bookstore. When he's offered a valuable first-edition Book of Mormon that bears a strange inscription alluding to blood atonement, it disappears-with...

Tis the season of goodwill, and Dickens extends the hand of friendship to a stranded stranger and his nephews for Christmas, with deadly consequences . . ."The ingenious solution to the mystery makes this the series' best entry yet. Victorian whodunit fans are in...

Peking, 1867When one of the Empress's ladies-in-waiting is killed in the Forbidden City, she orders Inspector Gong to find the killer. Unfortunately, as a man, he is forbidden from entering the Inner Court. How is he supposed to solve a murder when he cannot...

In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking...

Mary Thorpe does her part for the war effort in the bustling little city of Nashiona (now bursting at the seams with trainees from the army school), mostly aiding her father who works with the USO. But military recruits are only temporarily stationed here,...

Death strikes in the night, and a weekend house party becomes the scene of baffling crimes . . . This was Virginia Rath's (1905-1950) first published mystery novel, published in Complete Detective Novel Magazine in 1931.Author: Virginia RathISBN-10: 1616465441ISBN-13: 9781616465445Publisher: Coachwhip PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages:...

A VALUABLE INHERITANCE, NO SIGN OF THE HEIRS...and a looming deadline. Can the women of the WISE ENQUIRIES AGENCY track down the missing men in time? Or are there good reasons for them not wanting to be found?The sixth book in the series finds...

Tasty Trials, Donut 29 in the Donut Mysteries by New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!When Suzanne and Jake win a weekend getaway to a luxury resort island in the mountains, they think they're in for the time of their lives. Little do they...

The first ever Christmas mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series! San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a locked-room murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful...

The Secret Adversary is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head in January 1922 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition...

A week at a resort high in the Rockies, enacting and solving a Dorothy L. Sayers-style mystery- a perfect spring break for two English professors. And all the more perfect for Elizabeth when the man of her dreams enters the scene. Until the play-acting...

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A MACHO MAN: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryWhen Hamish Macbeth, local constable of the Scottish village of Lochdubh, tries to break up one of the many fights involving Randy Duggan, the ruffian challenges him to...

"Carr (1906-1977) is at the top of his game in this taut whodunit first published in 1931."--Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewThe British Library resurfaces an early gem from one of the great writers of the Golden Age of classic crime fiction.As the thick, autumnal fog...

A day after closing down the Whispering Pines country club house for winter break, the narrator is surprised to see what looks like smoke emanating from the building's chimney. Upon investigating, he witnesses his sister's fiancé flee the building crying and, upstairs, finds her...

Book eleven in the Inspector Lestrade series. The Papers call it suicide. The deceased's father doesn't. But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther Fitzgibbon, 27, son of the Marquess of Bolsover, his suspicions of foul play...

She didn't have a stalker case-she had a crush. But when spoiled heiress Ronni Peters hires sexy PI Cotten Hammond, she discovers someone wants her out of the way. Can they expose a killer before becoming the next victim?Set in the historic district of...

Increasingly conscious of his lonely state, Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty signed up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, using an assumed name to stop his colleagues and his nosy Ma finding out what he'd done. What he hadn't bargained on was that he...

A young playwright and an attractive interior designer find themselves suspects when the unhappily married wife of a prominent Senator is found murdered. Attending Mrs. Kirby's house party, Stephen Ransom and Ann Vickery struck up a conversation, and Stephen jokingly outlined a plot for...

Can writing detective stories be deadly?Or did the erotic stories she had published make someone angry enough to kill? Were her stories based on facts rather than fiction? That is the question the Faukon Abbey police, Detective Inspector Peter Greene, Detective Constable Terence Ford,...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of...

Jamie Forest, transplanted New Yorker, is enjoying her first spring in the Northwoods of Minnesota when her octogenarian friend Clarence introduces her to an elderly recluse, Nella Fox. Nella wants help writing her memoirs. She is the owner of an estate that was once...

All The Lonely People is the curtain-raiser to a successful nine-book series featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found...