Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The "master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries" sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector...

The "master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries" sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector...

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...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A New York Times Editors' ChoiceBooker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her...

Author: Kate KingsburyISBN-10: 042521849XISBN-13: 9780425218495Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2007Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.52h x 5.68w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2007 pg. 62Publishers Weekly 09/03/2007 pg. 42

When Freya Sinclair was a little girl, she had no idea what her parents were hiding in the basement of her childhood home... After five years away from her hometown of Fawn Lake, Detective Freya Sinclair isn't expecting a warm welcome from the people...

In 1931, the world was introduced to one of cinema's greatest monsters... The Frankenstein Monster. Universal's original Frankenstein film, starring Boris Karloff as The Creature, was a smash hit, cementing the image of The Monster forever.In 1969, following a final interview, Boris Karloff dies...

Can Dora and Rex solve this cold case without ending up in hot water?London, 1923. In a Mayfair dining room, Theodora Laurent and Lord Rex Bankes-Fernsby make an incredible discovery. Rex's sister Caledonia is a naturally gifted codebreaker. Upon hearing this news, Lord Audley,...

Chicago has ANOTHER SOUTHSIDE!Hidden in plain sight. Enigmatic and complex. Full of intrigue, and as dangerous as you can imagine.Just the sort of place Jake Thompson, the city's quirkiest crime fighter, would ply his trade.Author: Del StaeckerISBN-10: 1938505662ISBN-13: 9781938505669Publisher: Lionheart Group, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2024Pages:...

A murder investigation leads DCI Jack Harris to Scotland, but is it just a fishing expedition?When a man's body is found on the Langdon Estate in the North Pennines, DCI Jack Harris suspects the death is connected to recent attacks on anglers by a...

Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly). After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is nowhere to be...

A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time,...

The river reveals its secrets...Amateur sleuth Augusta Peel is showing a friend the sights of London when their boat trip on the River Thames is cut short. A body has been found adrift in a rowing boat.The circumstances are puzzling. Scotland Yard takes on...

Since Sherlock Holmes first learned of the sinister house of ruthless criminals, his focus has been two-fold; stop the organization from accomplishing any more ruinous felonious acts and, more importantly, uncover the criminal genius behind the whole enterprise. In a compressed timeframe, and relying...

A spate of murderous arson attacks evokes bitter memories for stalwart detective John Blizzard...It was a defining moment in DCI John Blizzard's early career when he caught a notorious arsonist on a killing spree. Yet despite the culprit, Reginald Morris, being safely behind bars...

Set within the streets of the Mitchell Estate, this fast-paced crime drama is a mystery with an emotional pull. The small town of Stockleigh is in shock as three women are brutally attacked within days of each other. Are they random acts of violence,...

A murdered executive. Key suspects with bulletproof alibis. Can a headstrong investigator catch the killer before the trail disappears?Rome, Italy. Detective Maurizio Scala has a strong debt of honor to the victims of brutal crimes. So when a well-liked man is found dead in...

Settle in for a creepy read from the remarkable mind of expert mystery writer Anna Katherine Green. In The House in the Mist, a road-weary traveler happens upon a beautiful house in the woods and, thinking it might be an inn or a lodging...

An Ethel Thomas Detective Story A little shoving and pushing on Sale Days at a major New York department store is not unusual, and murder is definitely something out of the ordinary. But when one of the buyers at Doane's Department Store is found...

"Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction."--Laurie R. King For best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home...

Angels and Thieves is the third book in the Andr Gensonn series.On Christmas morning, the prematurely born infant of a prominent Parisian couple disappears from the hospital hours after birth.Numb and terrified, Parisian attorney Andr Gensonn and his wife Anne desperately search for answers...

A corpse hanging over the crops. A team falling ill. Can he find a killer before someone decides murder is contagious?DCI Harry Grimm hates getting sick. Fighting a terrible cold, the under-the-weather detective is already pushing his limits by going house hunting with his...

Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary George's eyes...

Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper "filled with action and imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No...

In At the Villa Rose we meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud for the first time. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Whilst on holiday in Aix-les-Bains Inspector Hanaud is...

In At the Villa Rose we meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud for the first time. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Whilst on holiday in Aix-les-Bains Inspector Hanaud is...

Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper "filled with action and imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No...

Tom and Eddie are two young brothers, sons of Dan and Ellen Biggs - a high-powered attorney and his socialite wife - who head a dysfunctional family cobbled together by deceit and a thirst for success. Dulcie is their nanny, a young woman hired...

A beautiful society woman is found dead, covered only in gauze, her body staged and lit up in a macabre tableau, in a beachfront summer house as a country club dance is in progress. Two young men stumble upon her, while a curious Tam...

Samantha Olivares seems to have it all but after her beloved father's sudden death, she's devastated. When an unknown cousin comes to town Sam strives to trust again.Jack is at the pinnacle of his career as a medical examiner. Scarred by his loveless childhood,...

Murder in Sin City! Samantha Olivares feels the need to get away. She's looking for adventure, but finds more than she bargains for when she joins a motorcycle club in Las Vegas. Her dreams of sightseeing and idyllic days by the pool are soon...

Lynn Trevor, president of Cedarcliff's bank, has disappeared, and his father hires Tam O'Brien (professionally known as Tam o' Shanter) to investigate. She goes undercover as a nurse, and soon finds there is more than enough reason for grave concern. Multiple professional and personal...

'I KNOW IT WAS MURDER - PLEASE HELP ME PROVE IT!'The Duke of Chellingworth's beloved butler is grieving his brother's death...but was it a really a tragic accident, or was it - as the man's widow believes - murder? Mavis and the dowager Althea...

'I KNOW IT WAS MURDER - PLEASE HELP ME PROVE IT!'The Duke of Chellingworth's beloved butler is grieving his brother's death...but was it a really a tragic accident, or was it - as the man's widow believes - murder? Mavis and the dowager Althea...

"Another compelling entry in this complex, suspenseful series." --Booklist (starred review) In the third volume of the bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series, the brilliant but troubled London psychotherapist returns--only to journey into a darkness from which there may be no return. Ruth Lennox, mother...

How far would you go to get justice for someone you love? Would you kill for them?Chase Humphry is tied to a chair in his living room. His mansion is located in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Chicago. His eyes have been removed...

A James "Bonnie" Dundee Mystery The boarding house run by Mrs. Rhodes was a pleasant place, clean and quiet, that is until one of her lodgers, Emma Hogarth is found brutally murdered in her room. The victim had been reputed to keep a large...

These early works by Arthur Conan Doyle were originally published at the beginning of the twentieth century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and...

Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars--the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction--that the style flourished....

A dark cloud has descended upon the elegant mansion of Jazz Age New York's illustrious Greene family as, one by one, the heirs to the fortune die off under mysterious circumstances. It begins when an intruder shoots two daughters, leaving one dead. Soon after,...

Zack is in his element when he receives VIP tickets to a local comic-con, and beyond thrilled when he gets to meet one of his favorite actors, Michael Biehn. But immediately there's a bigger problem. Valuable memorabilia and movie props-including a movie weapon Michael...

First published in 1946 and set in the fell country of Lunesdale over the course of a rainy September, The Theft of the Iron Dogs is the very picture of a cosy crime mystery and showcases Lorac's masterful attention to detail and deep affection...

The Murders in Praed Street is a 1928 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street. It features the fourth appearance of the armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who figured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden...

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...

The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere, the stories were given as...

For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from America who came overseas with him to fight...

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young cousin comes to stay, life in the house...

Justin Pierce seeks a reason to live.But death keeps nipping at his heels.A prominent special agent for both the United States and Mexico, Justin struggles to recover from deep personal loss and near fatal injuries sustained during his last operation. Demetrio, Justin's closest friend,...

AN UNPUTDOWNABLE COZY MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF GRAHAM NORTON'S HOLDING AND RICHARD OSMAN.It's the final cut for Bromgrove's best-loved stylist!One sleepy Saturday morning, Becca Drew arrives at the Mane Event, the bijoux salon where she works. To find nothing is as it should...

The Peculiar Crimes Unit is no more--disbanded, finished, kaput. After years of defying the odds and infuriating their superiors, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May have finally crossed the line. While Bryant takes to his bed, his bathrobe, and his esoteric books, the rest...