Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective--these tie-in editions feature introductions from the show's creators and actors Sherlock and Dr Watson...

In these six adventures, Holmes solves cases in alternate universes and alongside famous historical and fictional figures. In the title story, Watson is slandered by mysterious forces who spread the rumor that the good doctor pushed Holmes off of Reichenbach Falls. In other cases,...

Sherlock Holmes' adventures continue in seven surprising cases. Holmes and Watson investigate an alleged haunting at the Diogenes Club, vandalism at a prominent art gallery, the case of a frightened amnesiac, the takeover of 221B by vicious criminals, the sequel to "The Engineer's Thumb,"...

Sherlock Holmes' adventures continue in thirteen surprising cases. In Part One, Holmes and Watson investigate an alleged haunting at the Diogenes Club, vandalism at a prominent art gallery, the case of a frightened amnesiac, the takeover of 221B by vicious criminals, the sequel to...

A banker finds a photograph of a woman who later appears to him on the street. Could she be leading him to an inexorable appointment with fate? Does she even exist?The Adeptus Exemptus and Imperator of the Esoteric Society of the Roseate Morn is...

A banker finds a photograph of a woman who later appears to him on the street. Could she be leading him to an inexorable appointment with fate? Does she even exist?The Adeptus Exemptus and Imperator of the Esoteric Society of the Roseate Morn is...

"Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I am or was, Lady Juliet Armstrong, Baroness Crestwell. Having been murdered, I am deceased and require your assistance."Thus began the strangest partnership in the long career of Sherlock Holmes. In Book One of this series we met the brash and...

"Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I am or was, Lady Juliet Armstrong, Baroness Crestwell. Having been murdered, I am deceased and require your assistance." Thus began the strangest partnership in the long career of Sherlock Holmes. In Book One of this series we met the brash...

Enough time has passed. Dr John Watson can finally reopen his tin box of chronicles. In this astonishing collection, a treasure trove of new accounts of Sherlock Holmes's extraordinary skills finally comes to light.What is the connection between murderous attacks on a colonel's wife...

It's Christmas eve at 221B Baker Street. On the stroke of midnight, a delivery arrives addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The message is a cryptogram which reveals itself to be so obtuse that it has the famous consulting detective baffled. Holmes becomes so obsessed with...

A trove of Chinese treasure throws up a dilemma for Arnold and his team. Should they keep it? Or sell it off to the highest bidder? Enter Steven Sullivan: a suave young magnate with ties to the Far East. His boss has more than...

This ancient grave won't stay empty for long.Arnold Landon heads to Rome, ready to begin retraining for his own job.His first port of call? An ancient tomb out in the sun-scorched Roman hills.Arnold treads the dark and twisty path down to the burial chamber,...

This heart-warming and hilarious prequel winds back the clock on Nicholas Rhea's beloved mystery series taking readers back to where it all started.Constable Nick is a fresh-faced young policeman, with dreams of making it as a detective.At last, he gets his big break.With holiday...

Originally published as Dead Secret.Arnold finds himself on dangerous ground in shady Wolfcleugh Woods.This boggy land has swallowed many a victim. Including the Wolf Man. Archaeologists pull his body from the ground - perfectly preserved, centuries after death.What other secrets lie buried here?Archaeologists are...

Constable Nick's days on the beat are numbered.Out of the blue, he is promoted to a teaching post in a nearby town. It's the opportunity he's been waiting for.But how will the folk of Aidensfield manage without their friendly village bobby?They are counting on...

Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk...When twelve-year-old Isabella...

The girl is sitting upright, her dark brown hair arranged over her shoulders and her blue, blue eyes staring into the distance. She looks almost peaceful. But her gaze is vacant, and her skin is cold...When Detective Jackie Cooke is called to the murder...

One song for the dying... sung by the dead...When the body of a young woman is discovered at the home she shared with her disabled daughter, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.The woman was a single mother,...

One song for the dying... sung by the dead...When the body of a young woman is discovered at the home she shared with her disabled daughter, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.The woman was a single mother,...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?The town of Pott Winckle owes its prosperity to the firm of Wibbley Ware. Naturally, when the owner's...

Why Meiringen? Sherlock Holmes readers have always asked, why did Holmes go to Meiringen? And did Moriarty follow him there? And if Holmes did not die in the Falls, what happened next? The familiar stories tell us little. For the first time this book...

An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from "one of Canada's finest novelists." -- Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats -- public housing -- in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the...

"Definitely another winner!" -KATE PARKER, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Deadly Mystery Series When Scott Novak, Raleigh's youngest technology mogul, is found dead in his country home strangled with a strip of yellow cloth, it's unclear whether the cause is suicide, accident, or...

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR BRENT TOWNS RETURNS WITH A PRIVATE DETECTIVE MYSTERY-FULL OF SMALL-TOWN SECRECY AND DEADLY INTRIGUE.In the middle of Australia's Outback lies the small town of Friar's Lake. It's quaint, quiet, and-more importantly-devoid of crime. So, when a body turns up with the hallmark...

Rosalie Hart's world has been upended. After her husband confesses to an affair, she exiles herself to her late aunt's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With its fields untended and the house itself in disrepair, Barclay Meadow couldn't be more different than the tidy...

Rosalie Hart returns to the Chesapeake Bay in this delightful mystery series filled with to-die-for-recipes and small-town charm. Longer version: Rosalie Hart has finally opened the café of her dreams. Decked out with ochre-tinted walls and stocked with delicious farm-to-table organic fare, the Day...

It is October 1923. What looks like a routine report, on the heavy rains battering Melbourne, becomes another case of murder for The Argus's celebrated crime reporter, Reggie da Costa, devotee of fashionable suits and flamboyant automobiles. A flooded basement hides a ghastly secret:...

Jamie Forest, ex-New Yorker is on her way to her cabin to prepare for her first Thanksgiving in the Northwoods of Minnesota when she sees through the swirl of snow a ghostly apparition. It turns out not to be a ghost, but a young...

Who knew going home could be deadly?I will show them success. Artist Jill Madison repeats this mantra when she returns to her small hometown to restart her life. Hired to manage a new community art center, she vows to make it successful so the...

As Monongahela County's new coroner Zoe Chambers-Adams gears up for a third day searching for a missing woman, she receives the news she's been dreading: a body has been found. What she discovers at the scene leaves no doubt-the missing woman was violently murdered....

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...

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...

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...

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...