Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Rook Campbell is broke, divorced, jobless, and in desperate need of steady employment, which is hard to come by in the small town of Rothdale, Kentucky. With the help of her friend and neighbor Bryan, she lands a good job at the Four Wild...

Amateur sleuths, Erika Shawn-Wheatley, art magazine editor, and Harrison Wheatley, art history professor, attend a Zoom meeting of individuals from around the globe whose common goal is to expedite the return of African art looted during the colonial era. Olivia Chatham, a math instructor...

When private banker Stefanie Adams travels to Greece on vacation, she is suspected of murdering a wealthy bride who accused her deceased father of artifact theft. Unfortunately, the bride's accusation also ties Stefanie, a former archaeology student, to the robbery of a newly discovered...

Getting caught in the middle of an international art theft ring wasn't supposed to be part of the deal Kat Lawson made with her dying father. But when her father receives a mysterious letter informing the former WW2 navigator/bombardier that his downed B-24 has...

A young priest with secrets disappears without leaving a trace. The search to find him takes Lieutenant Christopher Worthy and Father Nicholas Fortis into the wilds of northern Canada where they must outwit a killer who is also searching for the priest. Author: David...

North Country Detective is the life story of George Tallent, an Alaska Native, man who becomes an Alaska State Trooper and his best friend, Rick Albert a man born on the same day who moves from the East Coast to spend his life on...

From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by...

Featuring Contributions by: Mark Alberstat, Marino C. Alvarez, Peter Calamai, Catherine Cooke, Carla Coupe, David Stuart Davies, John Farrell, Lyndsay Faye, Sonia Fetherston, Jayantika Ganguly, Jeffrey Hatcher, Roger Johnson, Leslie S. Klinger, Ann Margaret Lewis, Bonnie MacBird, Stephen Mason, Julie McKuras Nicholas Meyer, Jacquelynn...

Prestigious faculty members at Mill Run University vie for a position to work on a national grant that will make a difference in all their careers. Secrets, lies, and cutthroat resentment stemming from graduate school dominate tenuous relationships between faculty, administration, and students, especially...

When Autumn, the attractive young coroner of Cabbageville township, meets Matt in a near-collision on Main Street, they discover they have much in common. First, they're next-door neighbors now that Matt owns his family's ancestral estate. They're also single parents of tween girls. And...

The city of Baltimore goes dark. Then, the trouble really starts. Newly married and back from his honeymoon, C.T. Ferguson is out on the town when the lights go out, plunging the city into a winter darkness. Other city systems quickly start failing. The...

Villains & Mysteries In this volume from Airship 27 Productions, the Great Detective and his loyal companion take on three exciting new mysteries which will pit them against several cunning and deadly villains. From the strange case of coffins that seem to move from...

Featuring Contributions by: Mark Alberstat, Marino C. Alvarez, Peter Calamai, Catherine Cooke, Carla Coupe, David Stuart Davies, John Farrell, Lyndsay Faye, Sonia Fetherston, Jayantika Ganguly, Jeffrey Hatcher, Roger Johnson, Leslie S. Klinger, Ann Margaret Lewis, Bonnie MacBird, Stephen Mason, Julie McKuras Nicholas Meyer, Jacquelynn...

MARRIAGE CAN BE MURDER . . . Married couple Allegra and Brian are found shot dead in their luxurious converted-barn home on the banks of the River Richington. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes is called to investigate. It seems Brian shot his wife and then...

It looked like another fluff piece... until a private showing becomes a very personal murder.1949: Kingston, Canada-Reporter Charley Hall longs to keep her independence. Juggling expectations to remarry and have children with her demotion to the women's page, the thirty-year-old widow struggles to nab...

Desperate to prove herself, just how far will she go to get the story?1948: Kingston, Canada-When the man who replaced her on the Kingston Tribune's city beat, asks for help with a story about corruption at City Hall, reporter Charley Hall grudgingly agrees. At...

Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside. On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in...

"Oh my gosh, Nicky. She's starkers!" Detective Nick Christmas and his partnerRandi are staking out the art gallery curator's young protégé who may know moreabout the apparent theft of a famous painting of a nude goddess. Could hisunidentified model be involved? Someone at the...

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his family's tragic history. But the secrets of his past will come to light in this gripping new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of What the Devil Knows. March, 1815. The Bourbon...

Out of control skinheads, a flashy magazine publisher, a dead celebrity chef, and a vindictive food critic make for one messy kitchen. Add one murder suspect in the person of caterer Perry Stevens, and you have a recipe for disaster. It's up to chef...

What happens when your past catches up with you? If what you did back then, shows up now? A seemingly ordinary man, with no enemies is found dead in Tersel Woods, with no identification, not even a mobile phone. Clearly someone wanted him dead,...

"A thriller with lots of southwestern atmosphere and a puzzler of a plot that's calculated to keep a reader guessing through the last chapter." -Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author Chicago insurance investigator Dan Mahoney is sent to the prosperous Double Horseshoe Ranch...

Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, "A series to watch." Psychologist Ben Pecos takes a transfer to Florida in his job with the Indian Health Service. His first assignment in St. Augustine puts him right in the middle of...

From award-winning author Susan Slater, the fourth installment in her critically acclaimed New Mexico Ben Pecos mysteries, which Booklist calls "a series to watch." Ben Pecos has the opportunity to work in Albuquerque on a research project for the Indian Health Service, and his...

The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force...

Salvador Zuni is a master carver of traditional Native American fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature, complete down to the insects he places inside. His recipe is worth a fortune, and someone...

In the 3rd book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Most, including Elizabeth herself and her old friend Simon Maldon, believe she will never leave the place alive.Loyal to a fault,...

P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing...

A Detective Simon Brade Mystery Who let the dog in? When Selford Prentice is found murdered in his sitting room at Medbury Grange, there were suspects with motive and suspects with opportunity. Unfortunately, it appeared that there were no suspects with both. The crime...

Three Full Length Novels in One Whose Body by Dorothy L. SayersThe Westminster Mystery by Elaine HamiltonThe Clifford Affair by A. E. FieldingPrior to World War I, detective fiction in Britain was largely a male preserve, but in the period between the wars-an era...

Hal Harrison and his orchestra The Harmony Men were one of the hottest new bands in the country. Their two night stand at the Crystal Gardens in San Francisco was going to be the biggest thing to hit that city in years. But when...

Addie Jackson has witnessed people trying to kill her family her entire life, and now her grandparents' attackers are hunting her. The Memphis police are never able to catch these crooks since the cops have been bewitched to stay away. Her grandparents, Pop and...

In a world of make-believe, only imprints can uncover the truthAutumn Rain's unique ability to read imprints is put to the test as she attempts to find a missing actress-and ends up discovering a murder. When her investigation leads to an eight-year-old mystery that...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, a new installment in her award-winning thriller-suspense series featuring Lucy Guardino: A secret buried in an open grave returns to haunt a small town... When divers discover an antique car with a skeleton...

Ten strangers are lured to a remote Scottish island at the invitation of a reclusive industrialist.Stranded on Lord Black's wondrous estate, the disparate guests have more in common than they first realize.Accused by a mysterious letter of having committed crimes in their past, one...

Last Carol of the Season is filled with local settings and holiday traditions. Detective Kara Langley and her friends are preparing for the Annual Winter Wonderland Festivities on Wakefield's Main Street. Their Black Friday shopping spree is suddenly interrupted when Sophia discovers the body...

Twenty-six years later, Deanna Iris and her son Brent move back to the town she grew up in--back where her secret began and when her life changed forever.As she's unpacking boxes, she receives a call from Officer Bates stating her sister and son have...

An Inspector Reynolds of Scotland Yard MysteryA notorious international jewel thief, infamous for committing his crimes at midnight while leaving no witness alive; the detectives of Scotland Yard who are trying to catch him; and one young woman caught in the middle and unable...

Connoisseurs of fictional murder and intrigue will rejoice in Shooting Script and Other Mysteries by William Link and Richard Levinson. Spanning the years 1954 to 1966, this collection shows the young writers exploring terrain that would later make them world famous as co-creators of...

Sight Unseen - The Confession: Two novels by Mary Roberts Rinehart Sight Unseen When a group of neighbors hold a s ance after one of their regular dinner parties, they were expecting to be amused. not to have the medium give them a blow...

When the wife of Humphrey Challoner, criminal anthropologist, is senselessly murdered during a robbery, he chooses a most unusual means of seeking vengeance. R. Austin Freeman, author of the Dr. John Thorndyke series, turns to the macabre in this story of the lengths a...

When Harry Marsland was caught in a sudden down pour he sought shelter at Cliff Farm. Met at the door by a young woman clearly expecting someone else he is only too glad to get inside to wait out the storm. When they hear...

Richard Harrison has spent most of his life as a spy. But that's all behind him; he wants nothing more than a quiet retirement in the cathedral town of Canterbury. But the past has a way of refusing to stay buried - something Harrison...

Old Mr. Otway stays up late one night, conversing with his dear friend and neighbour, Philip Bennion, on De Quincey's notion of "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." What is his shock, then, when he awakens to find his friend mysteriously dead...

"In my time I have seen men who have come to their death by violence, but I have never seen such an extraordinary sight as he presented. It was as if some savage thing, fastening upon him, had torn him to pieces with tooth...

One of England's largest historic landed estates is to be sold. Thousands of acres of farmland, hundreds of cottages and priceless paintings and treasures from within the stately home are up for sale.James Aden, in his mid-thirties, is the land agent for the late...

Cambridgeshire, September 1813: Detective Stephen Lavender and Constable Ned Woods are lured to an isolated estate in the deadly marshland surrounding Ely to investigate a murder. But nothing is as it seems at the mysterious Willow Marsh Manor. They soon realise they've come across...

Book launches are rarely exciting. The odd murder tends to spice things up a bit, though.When famous novelist Rupert Pearson's PA doesn't turn up for his book launch at the Freemason's Arms, he's more annoyed than upset. He certainly didn't expect someone to find...

When Scotland Yard send for Paul Temple to help them apprehend the daring group of jewel robbers known as The Front Page Men he enlists the help of glamorous journalist Steve Trent who has a personal interest in the case. When murders begin to...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...