Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes a gripping thriller that pits algorithms versus experience, logic versus instinct, and one undetectable killer versus two extraordinary detectives. When the body of a man is found crucified at the top of...

A clever murder mystery featuring recurring character Superintendent Battle that pokes light-hearted fun at the international spy thriller genre Gerry Wade is famous for over-sleeping, but when a group of his fellow young guests at a country house weekend decide to play a prank...

Set in steamy Charleston, South Carolina, the mysterious disappearance of a twin daughter to wealthy socialites has the town ablaze with rumor and conspiracy. What began as a missing person's case now has Detective Beau Crenshaw heading in a different direction when a body...

A young mother living on the Louisiana bayou and a man accused of murder must solve a corruption case while on the run from a dangerous manhunt. When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette...

"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance." --Agatha ChristieTimothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his...

Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have...

A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid). With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a...

'The perfect murder must be so simple that no one would suspect it to be murder.'Stories of Crime and Detection Volume III contains a novel, a novelette and a short story: This Way Out Philip Marshall is locked in a long and hellish marriage...

Embark on a riveting journey into the enigmatic world of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. Filled with intrigue, mystery and philosophical depth, this timeless masterpiece follows the gripping exploits of undercover operatives in a thrilling battle between chaos and order....

Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave...

In 75 novels and numerous short stories, through all weathers and across five decades, Chief Inspector Maigret crisscrossed the streets of Paris, unflappable in his pursuit of villainy. The creation of Belgian-born Georges Simenon (1903-1989), Maigret is among the best-known and loved characters in...

In this sequel to DUPLICITY, set designer and three-time Emmy Award winner Ray Klausen sets a scene with authenticity like none other. On the way to solving this whodunnit, he offers his readers an intimate view of a Broadway show's development from idea to...

Introducing Murder Mystery Logic PuzzlesThese are series of True Crime scenarios wrapped as a puzzle to be decoded. The solver will play a role of a detective to reveal the murderer using the Nature of Jobs, Locations of suspects and clues hidden in the...

From New York Times Bestselling Author, Michele Wallace Campanelli, comes a tale of gripping adversity, courage, and hope even in the darkest moments.Embark on a riveting journey with Jennifer as she navigates the aftermath of the disintegrating Twin Tower. In the chaos of scattering...

Dick Wondercock is a suave P.I. who has been hired to help Carl Cooper, a slumping veteran police detective. He has many years of experience solving mysteries and wooing women, but will that be enough for this adventure? Can Dick penetrate the veil of...

A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED.The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid. A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376105ISBN-13: 9780063376106Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 272Format: Paperback

A TV reality hit. Players dying to win. Can Inspector Joe Horseman penetrate a fantasy world to stop a killer?The Champion crew is shooting the top-ranking TV game show near Suva. For the first time, a Fijian is competing for the million-dollar prize and...

This is a collection of twelve short stories featuring the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. The stories are widely regarded as some of the most engaging and exciting mysteries ever written. Readers will be captivated by the ingenuity of Holmes as he solves mysteries that...

Readers of mystery thrillers will find much to please them in this highly exciting story. It tells how Marjery Latimer living in a Bayswater boarding house was awakened one night by a scream. Slipping from her bed and crossing to the window she was...

A woman's memory about a fatal attack starts to return. But what she knows could endanger her life.One morning Gwen Thomas takes a short walk with her Siberian husky in the outskirts of the Welsh town she calls home.She is drawn to a desolate...

As the story begins, Nessie finds something in her camera that might help the police solve an investigation. Unfortunately, she finds its too late. It does not help, because that person has already been tried. When Nessie gets home and finds her best friend,...

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 Choked Off is the second instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely gripping detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds and a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun...

What would you do if suddenly you discovered that there was someone out there who killed your father and you were next on that person's hit list?This is the story of Monty, a young man with a promising future whose life is suddenly turned...

Savannah, Georgia, 1922 A heartbroken Becky relents to her mother's matchmaking efforts and agrees to go on a date with the successful businessman Herbert Coleman. Despite her cousin Fanny's attempts to steal him away, Becky is surprised to find she enjoys Herbert's company. But...

Solve an old bank heist? How could a computer geek do that? A brilliant computer scientist/engineer assists a retired SJPD detective with solving cold cases. They take on a nearly ten-year-old bank robbery of a bank in Willow Glen, CA. The robbers made off...

"The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me."-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the LinksThe Murder on the Links (1923) is a mystery featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings, his companion. A client, who is in...

Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning - whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto Lestrade, one question is invariably followed by another...

From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge--and he's going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace--and John has plenty of both....

When the wealthy Mrs. Inglethorpe is found poisoned at her country estate of Styles, it is fortunate that the most Belgian of detectives, Hercule Poirot is staying in the neighboring village. But who is the murderer? The recent husband of the deceased, one of...

The quaint English market town of Tollinghill isn't quite as charming as it seems. Beneath the picturesque fa ade is a community caught up in jealousy, revenge and murder.Through logical deduction and a keen eye for detail, amateur detective Kempston Hardwick begins to unravel...

The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with...

With friends and citizens dropping around him almost faster than he can breathe, new Sheriff Coal Savage has no time to rest.When Savage begins questioning everything he had come to believe about the spree of assassinations in Lemhi County, Idaho, and the very people...

"Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins." Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him...and Dr. Watson's pulled...

It is 1878, and Dr. Poppy Stamford has reluctantly rekindled her relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Though it has been almost four years since they parted on uneasy terms and he continues to suppress his feelings for her, they are still intrigued and inspired-and frustrated-by...

Deanna Guthrie knows about success. She has transformed herself from rape victim to high-powered divorce attorney. She has represented some of the most prestigious clients making them the richest women in Atlanta. However, she began to question her so-called successful life. She had chased...

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly...

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known work. The novel has been described as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which...

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing...

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew thatthe woman he loved had poisoned her brutal firsthusband. He suspected also that someone had beenblackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news thatshe had taken her own life with a drug overdose.But the evening post brought Roger...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha HudsonNon Fiction: SCREEN OF...

The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel features a heinous scheme from the pipe-smoking detective's most formidable nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. After receiving a pseudonymous cipher from one of Moriarty's henchmen, Holmes and Watson must unravel the mysterious murder of a country gentleman. The...

After three years of being presumed dead, Sherlock Holmes returns to investigate 13 mysterious cases in this enthralling collection of short stories. After his ill-fated confrontation with his formidable enemy, Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes was presumed dead. Over three years...

His Last Bow is the final collection of thrilling short stories in the chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' series, set on the precipice of the First World War. Featuring seven tales from Holmes and Watson's adventures, this volume includes a preface from...

This volume features 12 enthralling Sherlock Holmes stories, culminating in 'The Final Problem', which caused much uproar and controversy among the fictional detective's loyal fans. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes features famous characters such as the detective's brother, Mycroft Holmes, and the evil Professor...

A volume of seemingly unsolvable mysteries, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes features the final twelve short stories in Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective series. First published in 1927, this volume is the last instalment in Arthur Conan Doyle's series of Sherlock Holmes' adventures....

'A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT 'A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller - a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge. How do you find the missing when there's no trail to...

Cameron Winter can't stop thinking about the first girl he ever loved, Charlotte. His unresolved feelings for her have prevented him from truly moving forward with anyone new even all of these decades later. In an effort to distract himself--and his therapist--from his romantic...

This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before...