Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Set in the postwar 1950s, private investigator Jack Blake finds himself navigating the halls of The Rose Del Mar Hotel, an exclusive refuge for the wealthy, where the town's elite have all gathered for an auction. But as the final bids are placed, a...

Vivian Carter thought her new, cutting-edge AI writing assistant was the ultimate tool to elevate her work. But when a shocking murder rocks the university campus, the crime scene matches her writing exactly. The digital footprints lead detectives straight to her desk, making Vivian...

Eli Mercer comes home to The Wilds, North Carolina carrying the kind of failure a man hopes the mountains will hide. Instead, the old warnings he grew up hearing begin to prove themselves true.When a boy disappears on the ridges above Lake Jocassee and...

SOME SOUNDS ARE NEVER SILENCED.SOME HUNT YOU UNTIL YOU DRAW YOUR FINAL BREATH.A rain-lashed night in London. A ciphered telegram arrives at the door of 221B Baker Street, bearing a single, inscrutable line: "The conductor hath drowned, though not in water."Within hours, Sherlock Holmes...

Masters has retired and Grady now leads the team. All seems well until a series of murders take place resembling the killings four years ago. Grady receives a call from Masters that he has uncovered something at a local warehouse. A gun runner is...

On a fogbound October night in 1976, a diesel train hurtles towards a rural crossing in North Yorkshire. The warning lights flash. The barriers are down. But something is already on the tracks. The crash is devastating. The driver is killed instantly.What first appears...

Evra is a prisoner of the Strathy cliffs in the Highlands, her past a total blank. Each year, she waits with bated breath for the arrival of a mysterious man, a man who never speaks, and about whom she knows nothing.Kyle, a police officer...

Detective Marcus DeMarco has spent a decade trying to forget the name that nearly ended his life: The Shadow Butcher-a methodical, sadistic killer whose final attack left Marcus scarred in ways even time couldn't heal. The Butcher vanished without a trace, and Marcus built...

When Rusty Steele's troubled college roommate disappeared during Christmas break her freshman year, no one but Rusty even noticed. Years later, in 1987, divorced from her wealthy lawyer husband and needing a job, she partners with Mike Flynt in a struggling private detective agency....

"The Black Abbot" is a classic mystery novel that masterfully blends gothic atmosphere with the tension of a crime thriller. The story revolves around the legend of a spectral monk said to haunt the ruins of Fossaway Priory, allegedly guarding a fabled hidden treasure....

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth returns to protect his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant...

Plan B Guy "Russ" Russell is Plan B for whatever the secret government agency hires him to do. If Plan A doesn't work, they go to Plan B, for better or for worse. Russ is used to looking at the world through the scope...

Jordan Carter has made a career out of defending the kind of clients everyone else is afraid to touch-without ever crossing her own line. So when a sealed, high-dollar retainer lands on her desk tied to Mercer Holdings, she expects a rich man's mess...

Fame hides many sins. Some are worth killing for.When beloved TV icon Victor Van Assche is murdered in the most shocking way imaginable-dropped from the catwalks of a packed theater in front of hundreds of children-Chief Inspector Glen Holt is thrust into a high-profile...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She has the unfortunate knack of getting herself involved in murder investigations.When one of Julia's elderly clients, Douglas Pedley, is found dead at the bottom of his stairs, it is soon obvious that he was murdered.Julia first...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She has the unfortunate knack of getting herself involved in murder investigations. In this story, Julia helps out at the school fair for a local school. The new head teacher, Deborah Paignton has made herself unpopular by...

Sherman Holmes has cultivated eccentricity into an art form. With his Victorian affectations, elaborate moustache, and consulting detective agency in the quiet village of Hamsley Black Cross, he's built a life solving the problems others overlook.His partner John Garden provides the technological expertise and...

Grave Stones is the ninth instalment of Andrea Frazer's Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. The residents of Shepford St Bernard are to have a party in the church hall, in response to...

CHRISTMAS MOURNING is the eighth instalment of Andrea Frazer's Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. Praise for Andrea Frazer's twisty and compelling crime novels: ***** 'The best laugh I have had for a...

The gardens are pristine. The secrets are deadly.When celebrity television gardener Geoffrey Hawthorne is found murdered at the Brambledene village fête, DCI Rhys Morgan and DC Ben Carter discover that the charming judge had enemies - more than anyone realised.Behind the bunting and the...

A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT The seventh instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely grippingvillage detective series with a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun and Midsomer Murders. READER'S CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF ANDREA'S...

A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT The first instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely grippingvillage detective series with a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans ofAgatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun and Midsomer Murders. READER'S CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF ANDREA'S QUIRKY...

When a noted survivalist who is living in the woods of Vermont comes to the Opal College campus to speak, Charles Bentley goes to hear him, but befoe the man can present his speach, he is murdered, the man turns out to be the...

Charles Bentley is celebrating his seventieth birthday when a dying man stumbles into his life. A man who has just been stabbed in the heart. As Charles and his wife, Joanna, chief of police in the western Massachusetts town of Opalsville, investigate the man's...

The Ghost's ReturnJordy Walker built a life in the light-a loving wife, two children, and the comfort of a quiet suburban home. But when a late-night phone call from his past shatters his carefully crafted world, he is forced to return to the shadows...

A man is murdered after hosting a murder party. The killer leaves no clues. Detectives are stumped until they learn the terms of his will and discover a connection to a string of cold case murders spanning fifteen years. Each victim had one thing...

A Murdered Judge. A Dark Secret Silenced. Rookie reporter James Lalonde is bored. And he isn't a journalist. He's an all-round dogs-body to the chief editor, Rhys Kelly.But his luck has finally changed.After eavesdropping in on the morning editorial meeting, James learns he has...

Being a bestselling mystery author has its perks-like an all-expenses-paid trip to an exclusive luxury resort for research. But despite his worldwide success, Jonah James still feels like a fish out of water at the Sand Dollar Resort. Of course, if sipping cocktails by...

A Minister's Downfall A Minister's Downfall is the second novel in the Tom Kessler Series of Operations, written by Peter J Charles, a former Surrey Drug Squad detective who has lived the reality of surveillance, informants, and corruption. His fiction is built on procedural...

They thought the worst was over.The cartel takedowns, the street raids, the buried evidence.But Delgado knows silence is never empty, it hides echoes.Now, with the system rewriting history and survivors becoming threats, the streets demand a new kind of justice. One that remembers. One...

DI Jeff Lincoln investigates the brutal stabbing of writer Christian Darbyshire, killed while looking into the death of Hamilton Vaughn, a popular pantomime dame who took his own life thirty years ago - or was he murdered? Was there any truth in the rumours...

WHEN BARBARA MILLIE ROBERTS IS KIDNAPPED. PC JUDITH SMITH AND HER UNCLE JOE MUST FIND HER IN SEVEN DAYS AND BRING HER HOME.Author: Elizabeth Louisa MullenISBN-13: 9798276707945Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2025Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

The quiet charm of the rural village of Ashmarsh is shattered once more by the mysterious and sudden death of a young woman. The coroner's report suggests a simple case of misadventure, but DCI Cunningham senses something amiss. Renowned for his skill of unraveling...

In politics, one must be prepared to make sacrifices...When a leading politician drops dead mid-speech-live online-the nation reels. The cause? Officially natural. Unofficially? Something far more sinister.As a bitterly contested election looms, DI Joseph Stone finds himself pulled into a web of manipulated truths...

In the heart of a frostbitten, fog-shrouded graveyard, "ELEPHANT JUICE" plunges readers into a world where every shadow conceals a secret and every gust of mist whispers of the supernatural. At the centre stands Charlotte Duval, a teenage girl whose vulnerability is matched only...

If you see me on the watershed, I'll probably be smiling. Come over and say hello. I won't bite.George Tripko, long-time leader of the family crime and business empire, has just died, and there isn't nearly as much money in the estate as there...

Traumatizzato da un caso recente, l'investigatore privato John "Slim" Hardy cerca di rifarsi una vita sulle remote coste della Cornovaglia. Tuttavia, quando viene riconosciuto da una donna del posto, non riesce a resistere all'attrazione di un oscuro mistero che ha gettato lunghe ombre sul...

When a woman is found murdered in the stairwell of a Birmingham council estate, the police are quick to close the case. A robbery gone wrong. Paperwork filed. Silence restored.Ray Holder isn't convinced.Once a detective, now a pariah after trying to expose corruption inside...

"A perfectly plotted, tense and gripping thriller!" - Ann Parker, bestselling author Two months ago, a man was murdered in his own flat.Now, Piper is on the run, desperate to stay one step ahead of the police and the truth she's trying to bury....

"The Antarctic Enigma" is a thrilling steampunk adventure that plunges readers into a world of Antarctic mystery and cosmic revelation. The author weaves a compelling narrative that blends elements of classic exploration tales with imaginative science fiction. The story follows a team of inventors...

Sherlock Holmes faces a menace that writes in darkness. When a miserable street-musician is found dead before a wall that bears a strange shadow-an angular, deliberate pattern-Holmes and Watson uncover not a random killing but a language: an ancient system of shadows-as-letters, a secret...

When the hunter becomes the hunted.
Chief Inspector Holt thought he'd buried the past when he put notorious killer Brian Parnham behind bars. But when a murdered sexton turns out to be an ex-con-and Parnham's former associate-the case reopens old wounds and a deadly hunt...

A Scared Adult Son. A Dead Mother. A Dead Grandad. The warm Canterbury sun bakes Private Investigator Bettie English as she investigates three seemingly connected murder mysteries whilst trying to keep herself, her family and her organisation together. From the unnerving home situation to...

A Stunning Country. A Burnt-Out Car. A Thousand Threats. Threats from all sides attack Private Investigator Bettie English as she carefully steps her way to solving this stellar murder mystery, while protecting herself, her family and the Federation.From the heartbreaking streets of Belfast to...

A Stunning Country. A Burnt-Out Car. A Thousand Threats. Threats from all sides attack Private Investigator Bettie English as she carefully steps her way to solving this stellar murder mystery, while protecting herself, her family and the Federation.From the heartbreaking streets of Belfast to...

Charles Bentley, a retired English professor at Opal College in Massachusetts, travels to New Hampshire to help a woman he once loved. She is the president of Royston College and is accused of inappropriately attempting to influence a tenured committee. Charles discovers that past...

Money can buy you many things but immortality isn't one of them. Business titan, Henry Graball, has it all. Money, power, status. None dare challenge him, whatever the justification. At least, that is how he sees the world and why not? When his dead...

From The Author ofBULLETS ARE MY BUSINESSDrop Dead TwiceThey were but a few steps away from the entrance to the hotel when Annie was stopped dead in her tracks by a blood-curdling scream. It seemed to be coming from somewhere above them, gaining in...

A thrilling mystery that examines how faith, integrity and values are the sum of one's choices, both big and smallMiles Brady's life is in flux. One of three police officers selected for a potential promotion, he starts work on an active case to prove...

For the past fifteen years, on the anniversary of his arrest for armed robbery, Zeke Carfi has received a threatening letter signed by the wife of his deceased partner in crime.Zeke's daughter Amber, Falcon's Bend Police Department's newest patrol officer, has spent fifteen years...