Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"Sara Shepard delivers the perfect read....A brilliant storyteller."--Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine" Written] with unflinching honesty and unstinting compassion."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author The Deep End of the Ocean"This riveting, provocative and well-crafted family drama surprised and delivered at every turn....

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright loves a good book festival except when murder is the main event in this thrilling new addition to the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn is excited to be included in the Covington Library's first annual...

The wealthy American entrepreneur Albert Benjamin Pendleton owns the Midnight Fire club in London's Pall Mall-an exclusive club for the rich and famous, with visitors from around the world. When one of its wealthiest clients, an Australian named Cecil Anthony Hart, is found murdered,...

Introduces the original CD Grimes, PI, grandfather of the present CD Grimes, PICritic comment: 1984The kind of stuff you'd find in those older magazines. Most of them were average, but a couple were pretty good. Certainly worth the priceJM Rtng: I'd buy itCritic comment:...

Book sixteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh ...' The wings that retired Chief Superintendent Lestrade came on were those of a de Havilland Hercules, named Olivia. The archaeologist,...

Mysteries in the style of the 60'sTakes the original CD Grimes from the early 60s to the mid 70sCritics commentA lot like book one. The detective ages and has a family in a realistic enough way, and the stories are the type printed in...

The old CD Grimes handles his last case with the new CD Grimes.Critic commentThis one, I liked. It's a bit more modern without getting into the "blow-em-all-up" mode. The old CD is much like a grumpy old man and the new CD is believable....

Anyone may someday get a case he/she can't quite get a handle on. At least CD gets to meet a number of very interesting charactersCritic commentJM asked me to look at this one. He said it was an approach I would appreciate, considering that...

CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters....

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No unreasonable offer refused.Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley are young, in love ... and flat broke. Restless for excitement and facing a shortage of job opportunities in postwar...

What if you meet an Indian Hercule Poirot who investigates an Indian Murder Mystery of a female College Professor?Amazon Review: Fast-moving murder mystery"Well constructed murder mystery led by likable Indian detective Mayur Varma."A college professor, Rithika Menon, is found dead in her flat. Detective...

What if you meet an Indian Hercule Poirot who investigates an Indian Murder Mystery of a female Software Engineer?Barnes And Noble Review: Murder"A well-thought-out plot. He takes you with him as he step by step looks through the evidence to find the murderer" -...

Suppose you're Bernie Rhodenbarr.You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. It's in Greenwich Village, and your best friend's dog grooming salon is two doors away, and the two of you lunch together and...

A new generation of mystery fans are trapped in a castle, and the author is dead. So begins a fair-play mystery novel uniting the detective revivals of Robin Stevens and Anthony Horowitz with impossible crimes worthy of John Dickson Carr and Christianna Brand. Dear...

A COMBINATION OF SINISTER BLEAKNESS AND EVER-PRESENT DANGER-FATHER BARRETT IS BACK FOR BOOK THREE IN THIS SINISTER MYSTERY SERIES.Ex-Vatican investigator Father Michael Barrett has been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous by his superior, Archbishop Crowe. Coinciding with a surge in violent street crime and...

Lily Parks has found her dream job as personal assistant to one of America's premier mystery writers. Penelope Walters, whose delicate appearance hides a formidable personality, enjoys both fame and fortune with her books. Unfortunately for her, the closely guarded secret behind the success...

When Denton hears there's a fellow missing from Oxford, it takes him a while to grasp that "fellow," in this instance, means some sort of academic character, and not, you know, a fellow. A bloke. Never mind: He's very happy to set off for...

Those plans for peaceful seaside holidays? They never really work out well, at least not in the world of classic British mysteries. Retired professor Andrew Basnett, for example, envisioning little more than sandcastles and the blessings of a pale English sun on his pale...

London is smoking hot, and not in a good way.It's the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul's Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the...

It's 1665 and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. Bad news for everyone...almost. Where better, after all, to hide a dead body than among a whole city full of dead bodies? And who gets the delightful task of pawing through the...

This special expanded edition of Freeman Wills Crofts' classic crime novel includes a unique commentary by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, never before published in book form.The Carrington family, victims of a strange poisoning, take an Olympic cruise from Glasgow to help them...

Three college students enjoy a fun resort vacation in Mexico...until one of them disappears.As a frantic search for missing student Avery Jennings begins, everyone is hiding something-Avery's family and friends, the resort's staff, and its wealthy guests. It's up to FBI Special Agent Victoria...

"It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn"Crammed full of adventure, mystery and of course one or two rather brilliant deductions, The Valley Of Fear is Sir...

Formidable criminal hunter Carmela Cacciatore needs Arnold Landon's help on an urgent mission and Arnold cannot resist the call for adventure.Carmela, Arnold and the team set off on the trail of a priceless antique statue of Artemis the Huntress, part of a hoard looted...

FATHER BARRETT IS BACK FOR BOOK TWO IN THIS SINISTER MYSTERY SERIES.Ex-Vatican investigator Father Michael Barrett is still adjusting to life as parish priest in the backwater town of Fulton, British Columbia when he is called to the deathbed of Arnold McLellan-Fulton's wealthiest man.Death...

BOOK 3 IN THE TRILOGY - Our SUPER SLEUTHS are back with 5 impossible mysteries!- WHO KILLED SIR GEORGE? Our amateur detectives come full circle when the mining magnate who united them is found murdered, his trusty assistant arrested - and with good reason....

When a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop...

"A taut, shattering, mesmerizing page-turner that definitely kicks this series up several notches" - Booklist Starred Review When a baby is stolen from outside a shop, detectives Anderson and Costello find evidence of a shocking conspiracy When a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside...

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery. The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But there's no ID in the pockets...

Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone is summoned to investigate the murder of a silent movie star in this compelling historical mystery. 1928. A rising star of the silent screen, Cissie Rowe had a bright future ahead of her in the new talking pictures. Not...

When three bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone is summoned. Two victims are identified, but who is the third? Johnstone's use of modern methods of detection soon ruffles feathers. Frustrated by the unhelpful local police, he fears...

The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone In the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who claims to...

The discovery of a mummified body of a dead infant in the chimney of Hannah Ives' new house leads Hannah on the hunt for clues as to its identity. But she is unaware that more shocking events lie around the corner . . .Author:...

More crimes to solve and villains to bring to account in volume five Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography,...

Father Brown returns Chesterton's fourth volume of great mystery fiction Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy....

Volume two of this Chesterton collection-enter Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers...

Volume one of a six volume collection Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers have...

The Miller-Croft family, much respected in and around London and further afield in the market town of Meadowbank where the matriarch, Catherine Miller-Croft, had made her home for over forty years, but like many families, the Miller-Crofts had their secrets. With the grim discovery...

A case of murder in the cathedral Compton Minster is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary in the year 1901 - a thousand years of Christian worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies, a high official of the cathedral, the chancellor,...

It's 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from Ranipur, yet there is a darkness behind all the postwar gaiety. Against the background of a looming general strike and pressure from an unseen governmental presence, Joe struggles to solve four murders, picking his way through...

With a myriad of motives, the question is who? Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living. So, when he finds himself investigating the case of...

We can all stand on principles until evil pays us a visit... The year is 1894 when Mr Simeon Crosby, a retired executioner, comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk on his life's work. Whilst he has an eager...

Limited time. A murderer hiding in plain sight. Can she crack the deadly puzzle without breaking her own heart? 'Mama Rose' Hardie just wants to make her ailing husband comfortable. So she puts aside her dedication to wildlife and community and whisks him off...

This unique volume is aimed at the new generation of Sherlockians from nine to ninety-nine. It contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original novel, complimented by a fun and fact filled educational supplement which consists of; a who's who, location lists, writing tasks, research exercises,...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Epilogue, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales to excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Archive.A decade before his death, Dr. Watson let it...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Epilogue, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales to excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Archive.A decade before his death, Dr. Watson let it...

One moment the lovely young woman was walking through the Battle of Hastings exhibition at the British Museum; the next, she lay dead on the checkered museum floor, a Norman arrow protruding from her breast. Inspector Lestrade believed he had solved the mystery, but...

One moment the lovely young woman was walking through the Battle of Hastings exhibition at the British Museum; the next, she lay dead on the checkered museum floor, a Norman arrow protruding from her breast. Inspector Lestrade believed he had solved the mystery, but...

S饌mas Duffy's fourth novel, "Sherlock Holmes and the Sixty Steps" follows a similar format to his previously published Holmes collections: a novella together with some shorter stories. The four stories are: "The Tragedy of Langhorne Wyke" (1890); "The Mystery of the Thirteen Bells" (1895);...

Part XXXIII featuring contributions from: Terry Golledge, Naching T. Kassa, Susan Knight, Martin Daley, Dan Rowley, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Josh Cerefice, Craig Stephen Copland, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Mark Wardecker, David Marcum, Kevin P. Thornton, Tim Symonds, Tom Turley, David MacGregor, Andrew Bryant,...