Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

A secret society's dark truths come to light when murder disrupts their circle in this riveting psychological mystery by the author of The Convent.Four troubled students have come together as an unlikely group of friends after joining an underground society at university-based around the...

The unhappy Snokes family is entangled in a murder investigation. Arthur Snokes is the prime suspect, and his wife is so desperate to clear his name that she persuades a reluctant Denton to look into the case. Digging into the family's tragic past, he...

Elderly cat fancier Rachel Murdock, "an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent" (Publishers Weekly), tackles a puzzling case in this cozy mystery from a master of domestic suspense. When sisters Rachel and Jennifer Murdock receive a letter from Miriam Hamilton, the daughter of the man who,...

Marcus is an attorney in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2013, traveling for spring break, his family was tragically taken from him in a horrific crash. Being the sole survivor of his family was unbearable. The one thing that kept him going,...

A serial killer is terrorizing the women of Portland, Oregon as he dumps their lifeless bodies around the waterways of Multnomah County. Detective Jack Diamond and his partner Nick Buchanan race the clock to catch the killer as the victims stack up, and the...

Truth is rarely pure and never simple...Selchester Castle in 1953 sits quiet and near-empty, its corridors echoing with glories of the past.Or so it seems to intelligence officer Hugo Hawksworth, wounded on a secret mission and now reluctantly assuming an altogether less perilous role...

Was it suicide or murder in the Paradise Hotel?Why is someone in the Vatican willing to pay for silence? Answer these two questions and you will know the result of the next papal conclave.When a church confessional is bugged, those who seek forgiveness find...

A SLEUTH IN THE HAVEN follows Gwen Harris through another series of frightening experiences. Now working as a junior reporter for the Chronicle newspaper, she longs to write about the real news. She gets her chance, as bizarre and fatal events threaten the residents...

A Guilty VerdictA collection of two thrilling crime stories from George Benton: The Patricia Ward Mystery and Guilty or Not Guilty. In The Patricia Ward Mystery, a young lady appears to vanish into thin air after being seen walking along a path. When a...

Mace Franklyn has a lot to prove, a failed career, a broken marriage, but his assignment to a politically charged case as is his comeback chance, or the final straw? Duplicity's Child is a serial thriller you can't put down. Its fast-paced story revealed...

In this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series, librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must clear the name of someone near and dear to their hearts--Charlie's own daughter. Athena College's new writer in residence is a famous...

For over four hundred years, the Corvus Brotherhood have been plotting for vengeance. As their plans near completion, the Brotherhood are somehow connected with: a spring-heeled tiger; a condemned murder suspect about to be hanged; the deathly communications of a society spiritualist and even...

Welcome to Indian Creek, Texas, where you'll meet some amazing characters. Kelly McWinter, a retired cop who suffered a personal tragedy that caused him to quit the force. Kelly's dog, Jake, a German Shepherd who has fought some battles of his own, and Cameron...

Doug Fletcher's Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber's fall from Devils Tower isn't the accident it first appeared to be.Doug is thrown into an investigation where he peels...

Johnny Morocco is a Private Investigator whose office is in a pool room in Atlanta, GA in the early 1950's. His clients range from deadbeat pool hustlers, and loan sharks to some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the city.: Once again,...

A beach holiday is ruined by a murder, committed with a cyanide-sprinkled sandwich. The death of a guest casts a shadow over the summer holiday season at Oakfields mansion. The murder weapon is discovered: a sandwich, seasoned with a good pinch of cyanide. Motives...

A picture-perfect snowbound hotel, a crime that won't stay buried, and a killer with no interest in a white Christmas.Switzerland, 1929. When super sleuth Lord Edgington and his grandson Christopher head to a grand hotel in the Swiss Alps, they hope for roaring fires,...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "May be the best Slow Horses book to date."--The Wall Street Journal THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough...

Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge. He needs Doc Ford to spring him loose...

Author: Thomas LairdISBN-13: 9798898525118Publisher: Penmore Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2025Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d

Author: David HousewrightISBN-10: 1970861002ISBN-13: 9781970861006Publisher: Full House PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2025Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

Author: Jack BentonISBN-13: 9798232699666Publisher: Ammfa PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2025Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Ghosts: A Mystery That Transcends TimeDecember 24, 1894. A snowstorm isolates Baker Street. Watson spends Christmas with his family, while Holmes, skeptical of ghost stories, remains alone. But that night, three extraordinary visitors knock on his door: The Ghost...

Author: David HandlerISBN-13: 9798337205434Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2025Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d

Author: David HandlerISBN-13: 9798337205427Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2025Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.57d

A prospector raising funds for an expedition to an Alaskan gold mine is found dead-but the body vanishes before the police arrive. Criminologist Christopher Page and his assistant (and narrator) Ralph Page are called in to investigate. The prospector's partner is also missing, with...

In the heart of a bustling Midwestern metropolis, where luxury masks corruption and silence is currency, a newly minted detective steps into the shadows. After graduating from the police academy, he's thrust into an undercover assignment that will test every ounce of his resolve:...

Step back into the glittering world of 1920s New York in The Canary Murder Case, the second thrilling installment in S. S. Van Dine's legendary Philo Vance Mystery series. When a glamorous Broadway starlet-known to her adoring public as "The Canary"-is found brutally murdered...

Given Sherlock Holmes' protracted sojourn in Tibet, is it any surprise that he was aware of Tantric sexuality, enabling him to reconstruct a mystery scarcely publishable at the time ('The Treasure of the Black Taj')? Or that its sequel should have involved him in...

When Wall Street tycoon Alvin Benson is found shot in his luxurious New York townhouse, the crime scene offers more questions than answers. Was it a robbery gone wrong, a crime of passion, or a coldly calculated execution? Into this puzzle steps Philo Vance,...

In 1887 on his way to prison, the convicted murderer, Vincent Louder Lovelace, was killed in a horrific collision in London between a police wagon and an omnibus. Though Lovelace never kept his date with the hangman, his accidental death resulted in justice being...

"Louise Hegarty's genre-splicing debut is a treat--clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death."--Paul Murray, author of The Bee StingFor fans of Anthony Horowitz and...

A locked-room murder. A manor full of secrets. A detective who sees what others miss. When celebrated detective Étienne Duvall is summoned to the imposing and isolated Ravenwood Manor, he anticipates little more than another tiresome family squabble. Instead, he finds a chilling crime-a...

The Bonham family, while rich, were relatively humble. They kept to themselves and mostly out of each other's way - until the siblings each received a strange invitation from the Matriarch, their Grandmother Ellie Bonham. Called together in a remote area of a vast...

DAN FOWLER G-Man Volume 4Classic pulp G-Man Dan Fowler returns in two brand new action-packed adventures.When a Denver armored money car disappears into thin air Fowler and a local agent find themselves looking to skies for answers. Dan and his colleagues then find themselves...

The new Gamay Nouveau is here-and it's killer.Celia Bouchet is hot smoke in silk pajamas, the beautiful daughter of Napa Valley scion Florian Bouchet, owner of Domaine Laurent winery. When two costly paintings in Domaine Laurent's tasting room vanish and then Bouchet himself dies...

Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program and a promising young poet. However, facing a financially and emotionally draining divorce has him worried about more than paying tuition. So, to make ends meet, Neil moonlights as a...

A classic British murder mystery that'll keep you guessing!A teenager gets the fright of his life when he sneaks into a local graveyard for a crafty smoke. He is chased away by a man dressed in black, screaming blue murder.Rumours of such a local...

A cruel murder has terrible, irreversible consequences for the detectives who work the case.When a woman is found murdered by the Bevan fishing pier on Vancouver Island, Inspector William Gibson becomes convinced that her abusive husband is responsible.But is his conviction more down to...

John Watson and his girlfriend plan to go skiing in the German Alps, but because Sherlock Holmes is bored, he comes along with them. Instead of a relaxing holiday, a series of mysterious skiing accidents awaits them. Sherlock and John soon discover that those...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is brought back to life in this new story created by Dr. Carlopio using the words of the original master in his unique editorial fiction method. The incomparable Sherlock Holmes is involved in the build-up to WWI ... we have...

1903. Lyme Regis. The Royal Navy comes to town. As do Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. And Mrs Watson.And Lydia. And a ghost. And a dog. And a man with murder on his mind. This, the last of the trilogy of Sherlock Holmes in...

IS THE VIOLENCE IN HIS PAST INTERFERING IN HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD?When private detective John Wesley Tucker meets Hafsah Bashir, his world and his mission are turned inside out. She's searching for a missing family member and the fate of millions hangs in the...

"Ingenious . . . Lovers of good music and a good mystery should not miss this delightful tale." --Washington Post Book World Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body...

Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1613824297ISBN-13: 9781613824290Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2013Pages: 558Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.11lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.13dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.6Point Value: 34Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 11597 / Moonstone

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr John Watson, who later became two of the most famous literary characters in detective fiction....

A born-again, antiabortion serial killer is loose in San Francisco. The murder scenes area crudely staged crucifixions, complete with wounds mimicking the stigmata, and no discernible connection between the victims. Jack Oatmon, on a new assignment with the FBI in San Francisco, is immediately...

After sixteen years of military service to his country, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Sexton of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is looking forward to retiring in seven days, but when an army nurse is found murdered in the officer's quarters, time is against him...

The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has...

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot--legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile--puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to...