Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

From the creator of the Rumpole stories--a novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer's unique and entertaining take on a life...

Showcasing Sayers' continued growth as an author, Clouds of Witness (1926) is an exciting second entry in the popular Lord Peter Wimsey detective series. One morning at three am, Captain Denis Cathart is found dead and Lady Mary, sister of Lord Peter Wimsey (and...

Twists and turns that leave you guessing until the end.In "Low Tide at Tybee," James M. Jackson brings three of his Seamus McCree series characters (Seamus, his darts-throwing mother, and his now six-year-old granddaughter, Megan) to Tybee Island, Georgia to vacation and escape winter...

In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the alley where free man of color...

This short read is packed with twists and turns. With hidden money and connections to reach past his prison walls, the Happy Reaper threatens to avenge his capture and eliminate the entire McCree clan. Seamus must neutralize him, but how? DNA can answer the...

First serialized in 1907 and then published as a book in 1908, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Circular Staircase" is the popular mystery story about the dowager Rachel Innes as she reveals and prevents a series of strange crimes at the home she has rented...

Author: Georgina M. DonovanISBN-10: 1718030835ISBN-13: 9781718030831Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2018Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

You can run from your past, but what do you do when your past tries to kill you?Detective Charlie McClung finds his wife's best friend standing over a dead body, bloody knife clutched in her hand. He can't believe she's guilty but it's hard...

The City of Angels has a dark side. Hidden beneath its shiny surface are misdeeds, miscreants, and murderers. From Santa Monica's sandy beaches to Hollywood's glitzy streets, from Boyle Heights to Holmby Hills to the dirt trails of the San Gabriel Mountains, there are...

The light of an open doorway beckons through the mist of a London Particular, one of those smothering fogs for which turn-of-the-century London was famous. But in reality-as Sherlock Holmes soon discovers-though the doorway does indeed offer respite from the fog, it also leads...

A young inventor--the man whose name appears in the title of Dr. Watson's narrative, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"--lies dead on the floor of an old house, two bullet holes in his back. To solve the gruesome murder, Sherlock Holmes enlists the aid...

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such...

Detective Nate Fisher must go back to the Amish community he left behind and confront his past to help the woman he once loved in this dual-POV mystery perfect for fans of Linda Castillo. Back to active duty after an administrative leave of absence...

Mary MacIntosh, a former prosecutor turned FBI consultant, teams up with an FBI profiler to track down the notorious "Tooth Fairy Killer." As they delve deeper into the investigation, the case takes a chilling turn when evidence reveals that the killer is fixated on...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide. James was in high...

One perplexing murder mystery ... plus eighteen different short stories containing the clues to solve it. You've never read a short story anthology like this one! These stories-unrelated, but all set in Colorado during the same week-will each merge for a moment to drop...

With an expert hand, Rachel Louise Adams's debut No Rest for the Wicked reads like an edge of your seat, heart-pounding scary movie.In one Halloween obsessed Midwestern town, everyone's on red alert after a local politician goes missing. Little do they know it's only...

"The Seven Dials Mystery" is a detective novel by the renowned British author Agatha Christie. It was first published in the UK in January 1929. The book is a sequel to Christie's earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, and features some of the same...

News of a missing Instagram celebrity brings Senior Investigator Shana Merchant to a frozen island community of just eight people. When the visit turns deadly, her hunt for a killer collides with a cold case she'll never forget . . . It's February in...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

When Casey Cassidy, the hard-drinking manager of the Tampa Smokers baseball team goes missing days before the final game of the championship series with the Havana Cubans, his girlfriend, Veronica Baird, is frantic. The black sheep beauty of her blueblood family, she is certain...

A remote sea cave reveals a grim discovery. A famous open-water swimmer's body stashed away. Can DCI Macleod stay afloat in an investigation where everyone seems to be in over their head?When the body of a celebrated open-water swimmer is found in a secluded...

Who knew investing in your financial future could be deadly? Heron Lake Township is an idyllic, upscale lakeside community-until it isn't. Morrie Clay, a financial advisor with a spotless record, harbors a damaging secret that could ruin his career and his life. Then at...

Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extra-ordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the...

The Piccadilly Murder (1929) is a classic detective novel by Anthony Berkeley, a celebrated writer in the Golden Age of detective fiction. This book is one of his many clever and intricately plotted mysteries, featuring his popular amateur sleuth, Roger Sheringham.In the novel, Sheringham...

The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.Author: Louise PennyISBN-10: 1250403324ISBN-13: 9781250403322Publisher: MacMillan AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2025Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 1.00h x 1.00w x 1.00d

An innocent man doesn't run. He fights.Award-winning author Jeff Kerr draws on his deep attachment to Texas and the great Western novel to produce the gripping crime thriller Blunt Force Trauma. Packed with authentic characters and stunning twists, Kerr's masterfully crafted cowboy stew of...

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost. July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. Old college friends Rob, Oliver, and Mick reunite on an American bird watching tour. It...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures all the birders attention while right under their...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman's flesh and...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. Newlyweds Jim and Sarah are welcomed home from their honeymoon to the Scottish island of...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. The picturesque privately owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to...

The Yorkshire detectives are upstaged by a Shakespeare-inspired serial killer in this "stylish, superior . . . snappy" mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the...

Loyalty leads AJ Conti to Oregon where he indulges in a quick visit with his brother's family while investigating a murder for a friend. In the course of the investigation, AJ learns of another questionable death ruled accidental by the local medical examiner whom...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376911ISBN-13: 9780063376915Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 272Format: Paperback

Down Down Down 'deadly mind games with a killer' A series of arsons with a distinctive signature, happening on DCI Ted Darling's patch. The logical prime suspect has the best alibi of all. Yet he seems intent on entering into a dangerous game of...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon,...

Though best remembered for his creation of the world's first consulting detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also the literary father of the jack-of-all-sciences Professor Challenger, a forerunner of such modern-day adventure heroes as MacGyver and Doctor Who. In this 1913 novel, a followup...

Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's...

One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue. London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the...

Showcasing Sayers' continued growth as an author, Clouds of Witness (1926) is an exciting second entry in the popular Lord Peter Wimsey detective series. One morning at three am, Captain Denis Cathart is found dead and Lady Mary, sister of Lord Peter Wimsey (and...

Two journalists are dead and two turtles are missing. Four members of the St. Paul Daily Dispatch staff have received symbolic carved wooden turtles from the Minnesota Ojibwe tribe as rewards for their efforts to defeat a mining company's request for a permit to...

'Call Bernard! I'll see him-and you-in hell first!'It is 1947 and a sumptuous banquet at Fairfield Manor is underway to celebrate Bernard Smith-William's recovery from a serious illness. Among the guests are Bernard's childhood friend Rupert Lavering and his wife Louise. A war veteran...

In a small Cape Cod town, a local tavern owner is convinced that someone is trying to kill her. She tells tales of being shot at in the woods and of a trip wire strung up at the top of her staircase. Others in...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective--now in print for the first time in the US. No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she...

A mysterious symbol is the key to a murder case in this classic suspense tale by the Edgar Award-winning author.Gordon Craigie and Department Z--the squad of top-secret detectives within British intelligence--are embroiled in a desperate investigation involving drugs and murder. How will the department...

The first in the series featuring British intelligence's elite detectives by the Edgar Award-winning author.Millions of lives are at stake if a sinister international conspiracy succeeds. It's up to England's elite detective agency, Department Z, to make sure that doesn't happen.They've got to keep...

The great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site Now with a beautiful new series look!Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert...

A bloody corpse. A priest with the wrong history. A rookie PI trying to figure it all out. Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson is new to the job. He's learning the ropes. He wants an easy case. Instead he gets a mess. Near a Baltimore...