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New Mystery Titles

A bat in the belfry / Sarah Graves. (Mystery)


When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor-nor'easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth.
 
A murder at Rosamund's Gate / Susanna Calkins. (Mystery)


In her debut novel Murder at Rosamund's Gate, Susanna Calkins seamlessly blends historical detail, romance, and mystery in a moving and highly entertaining tale.
 
Aunt Dimity and the lost prince / Nancy Atherton. (Mystery)


Concerned for her preschooler twins' safety in the face of tales about a pale, blood-stained figure lurking in the nearby woods, Lori consults with her not-quite-departed Aunt Dimity and stumbles upon the truth about a forty-year-old murder ...
 
Fear in the sunlight / Nicola Upson. (Mystery)


While in Portmeirion to celebrate her 40th birthday and to sign a deal with Alfred Hitchcock, who wants to film her latest novel, Josephine Tey finds the quaint town shrouded in fear and suspicion when a holiday party results in the brutal ...
 
Final settlement : a Darby Farr mystery / Vicki Doudera. (Mystery)


Darby Farr, a real estate agent and amateur detective, returns to her home town for a wedding when it is discovered that the local police chief's assistant has been found dead under mysterious circumstances and the chief calls on Darby for ...
 
Follow her home / Steph Cha. (Mystery)


Keenly observed and deeply felt, the story slowly got under my skin. I couldn't put it down.
 
Her brother's keeper : a Joan Spencer mystery / Sara Hoskinson Frommer. (Mystery)


Joan Spencer, the viola-playing protagonist of Frommer's small-town Indiana mysteries, doesn't look for trouble but it keeps finding her.
 
Hour of the Red God / Richard Crompton. (Mystery)


In this dark thriller, tradition and power collide, arriving at a shocking, unforgettable end. And in the Maasai hero Mollel, a new detective icon is born.
 
Midnight at Marble Arch / Anne Perry. (Mystery)


When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder. 45,000 ...
 
Murder in Chelsea : a gaslight mystery / Victoria Thompson. (Mystery)


Sarah Brandt and Sergeant Frank Mallloy scour Victorian Manhattan to investigate the death of a nursemaid who claims to know the birthmother of Sarah's daughter in the fifteenth novel of the Edgar Award-nominated series following Murder on ...
 
Murder in the Rue Dumas : a Verlaque and Bonnet provenðcal mystery / M.L. Longworth. (Mystery)


Judge Antoine Verlaque and his law professor girlfriend, Marine Bonnet, investigate the murder of the university's director of theology in this new mystery from the author of Death at the Chateau Bremont. Original. 35,000 first printing.
 
Pale horses / Jassy Mackenzie. (Mystery)


When the partner of a base jumper who fell to her death insists that the fatal fall was not accidental, Jade de Jong learns that a sustainable farming community linked to the victim has suffered a suspicious outbreak of dangerous illnesses.
 
Robert B. Parker's Wonderland / Ace Atkins. (Mystery)


When boxing trainer and long-time friend Henry Cimoli asks for Spenser's help with a heavy-handed developer who is sending thugs to pressure Henry to sell his beachfront condo, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, follow a trail to ...
 
Shadows on a Cape Cod wedding : an antique print mystery / Lea Wait. (Mystery)


Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to help with her best friend's wedding.
 
The frozen shroud / by Martin Edwards. (Mystery)


Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. Just before the First World War, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face.
 
The mannequin house : a Silas Quinn mystery / R.N. Morris. (Mystery)


Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates the murder of a fashion model who was strangled in a locked room in which the only other occupant was a monkey.
 
The night detectives / Jon Talton. (Mystery)


One of the residual spots of conflicts in gay rights is in the police force, and this work takes that conflict head-on in the murder of a gay policeman and the investigation by the inimitable Dick Hardesty.
 
The tooth tattoo : a Peter Diamond investigation / Peter Lovesey. (Mystery)


Investigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violist Mel Farran and discovers frightening truths about the cutthroat world ...
 
Uncle John's band / Deborah Grabien. (Mystery)


The conclusion of Blacklight's exhausting Book of Days tour finds guitarist JP Kinkaid recuperating at home in San Francisco.
 
Undercurrent : a DI Andy Horton mystery / Pauline Rowson. (Mystery)


Detective Inspector Andy Horton investigates a naval historian's death, which he believes was incorrectly ruled a suicide, and finds that his bosses may be covering up the true circumstances of the man's passing.
 
When the devil doesn't show / Christine Barber. (Mystery)


When an unknown victim is discovered in the remains of a house fire, Detective Gil Montoya follows leads to an infamous nuclear testing facility in Los Alamos in a case that is complicated by a second fire.