Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"The Seven Dials Mystery" is a detective novel by the renowned British author Agatha Christie. It was first published in the UK in January 1929. The book is a sequel to Christie's earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, and features some of the same...

News of a missing Instagram celebrity brings Senior Investigator Shana Merchant to a frozen island community of just eight people. When the visit turns deadly, her hunt for a killer collides with a cold case she'll never forget . . . It's February in...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

When Casey Cassidy, the hard-drinking manager of the Tampa Smokers baseball team goes missing days before the final game of the championship series with the Havana Cubans, his girlfriend, Veronica Baird, is frantic. The black sheep beauty of her blueblood family, she is certain...

A remote sea cave reveals a grim discovery. A famous open-water swimmer's body stashed away. Can DCI Macleod stay afloat in an investigation where everyone seems to be in over their head?When the body of a celebrated open-water swimmer is found in a secluded...

Who knew investing in your financial future could be deadly? Heron Lake Township is an idyllic, upscale lakeside community-until it isn't. Morrie Clay, a financial advisor with a spotless record, harbors a damaging secret that could ruin his career and his life. Then at...

Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extra-ordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the...

The Piccadilly Murder (1929) is a classic detective novel by Anthony Berkeley, a celebrated writer in the Golden Age of detective fiction. This book is one of his many clever and intricately plotted mysteries, featuring his popular amateur sleuth, Roger Sheringham.In the novel, Sheringham...

The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.Author: Louise PennyISBN-10: 1250403324ISBN-13: 9781250403322Publisher: MacMillan AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2025Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 1.00h x 1.00w x 1.00d

An innocent man doesn't run. He fights.Award-winning author Jeff Kerr draws on his deep attachment to Texas and the great Western novel to produce the gripping crime thriller Blunt Force Trauma. Packed with authentic characters and stunning twists, Kerr's masterfully crafted cowboy stew of...

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost. July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. Old college friends Rob, Oliver, and Mick reunite on an American bird watching tour. It...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures all the birders attention while right under their...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman's flesh and...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. Newlyweds Jim and Sarah are welcomed home from their honeymoon to the Scottish island of...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. The picturesque privately owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to...

The Yorkshire detectives are upstaged by a Shakespeare-inspired serial killer in this "stylish, superior . . . snappy" mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the...

Loyalty leads AJ Conti to Oregon where he indulges in a quick visit with his brother's family while investigating a murder for a friend. In the course of the investigation, AJ learns of another questionable death ruled accidental by the local medical examiner whom...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376911ISBN-13: 9780063376915Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 272Format: Paperback

Down Down Down 'deadly mind games with a killer' A series of arsons with a distinctive signature, happening on DCI Ted Darling's patch. The logical prime suspect has the best alibi of all. Yet he seems intent on entering into a dangerous game of...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon,...

Though best remembered for his creation of the world's first consulting detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also the literary father of the jack-of-all-sciences Professor Challenger, a forerunner of such modern-day adventure heroes as MacGyver and Doctor Who. In this 1913 novel, a followup...

Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's...

One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue. London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the...

Showcasing Sayers' continued growth as an author, Clouds of Witness (1926) is an exciting second entry in the popular Lord Peter Wimsey detective series. One morning at three am, Captain Denis Cathart is found dead and Lady Mary, sister of Lord Peter Wimsey (and...

Two journalists are dead and two turtles are missing. Four members of the St. Paul Daily Dispatch staff have received symbolic carved wooden turtles from the Minnesota Ojibwe tribe as rewards for their efforts to defeat a mining company's request for a permit to...

'Call Bernard! I'll see him-and you-in hell first!'It is 1947 and a sumptuous banquet at Fairfield Manor is underway to celebrate Bernard Smith-William's recovery from a serious illness. Among the guests are Bernard's childhood friend Rupert Lavering and his wife Louise. A war veteran...

In a small Cape Cod town, a local tavern owner is convinced that someone is trying to kill her. She tells tales of being shot at in the woods and of a trip wire strung up at the top of her staircase. Others in...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective--now in print for the first time in the US. No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she...

A mysterious symbol is the key to a murder case in this classic suspense tale by the Edgar Award-winning author.Gordon Craigie and Department Z--the squad of top-secret detectives within British intelligence--are embroiled in a desperate investigation involving drugs and murder. How will the department...

The first in the series featuring British intelligence's elite detectives by the Edgar Award-winning author.Millions of lives are at stake if a sinister international conspiracy succeeds. It's up to England's elite detective agency, Department Z, to make sure that doesn't happen.They've got to keep...

The great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site Now with a beautiful new series look!Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert...

A bloody corpse. A priest with the wrong history. A rookie PI trying to figure it all out. Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson is new to the job. He's learning the ropes. He wants an easy case. Instead he gets a mess. Near a Baltimore...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in...

The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr....

Author: Karen CasebeerISBN-13: 9798227454324Publisher: Karen CasebeerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2024Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community--now in print for the first time in the US. In England's birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted--a murderer . . . Young...

On a train, there are only so many places to hide...Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient...

Author: Roger RiccardISBN-10: 1901091945ISBN-13: 9781901091946Publisher: Irregular Special PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2024Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d

What do you get when you combine a gathering of entertaining Sherlock Holmes rhymed and metered poems, with a collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures contained entirely in his daily post? You get "Sherlock Holmes: For Letter or Verse"!This engaging book features six of Sherlock's...

Author: Miranda JamesISBN-10: 0593199545ISBN-13: 9780593199541Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 6.75h x 4.13w x 0.75d

Author: David RosenfeltISBN-10: 1250324572ISBN-13: 9781250324573Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

Author: Mick HerronISBN-10: 1641297263ISBN-13: 9781641297264Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 333Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs

Author: Rex StoutISBN-10: 0553762966ISBN-13: 9780553762969Publisher: Random House Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/1995Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.54w x 0.53d

When a practical joke at the luxurious Chimneys estate goes tragically wrong, a seemingly harmless prank turns into a chilling mystery. A young man is found dead, the victim of an apparent overdose, but the peculiar placement of alarm clocks near his body raises...

Octogenarian former sheriff Bill Gastner and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigate a puzzling double murder in this twisty, page-turning instalment in the critically acclaimed Posadas County mystery series "If you haven't yet discovered these wonderful mysteries, you are in for a treat!" Anne Hillerman, New...

'So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn't put it down' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'Tense and emotional...A dark beating heart of a novel' GILLIAN McALLISTER'Totally addictive. One of the most tense and gripping thrillers I've read in ages' LISA JEWELL------------------ Don't miss the gripping debut crime novel...

Mystery At Lynden Sands, first published in 1928, is the fourth book in author J. J. Connington's series featuring chief-constable Sir Clinton Driffield. Set on the English seaside, Driffield encounters the return of a missing heir (who is possibly an impostor), an accidental bigamist,...

One inoffensive drunkard. So many reasons to kill him.A bold shooting ends the life of Mr. Hewitt, the buggy manufacturer on a cold night in December, 1872. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is particularly puzzled, since it was clear that Mr. Hewitt was soon...

It was clear to anyone who knew F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was destined to be a great writer. His early work won accolades from his professors and was published in Yale's literary Journal as well as other outlets. These stories show that even...