Mystery
October 2025

Recent Releases
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
by Amanda Chapman

After closing Manhattan's Mystery Guild Library for the day, book conservator Tory Van Dyne discovers a woman who says she's Agatha Christie...which does appear to be the case, despite Christie being dead. So when Tory's actress cousin Nic is linked to a suspicious death, Tory works with Christie to solve the crime. For fans of: traditional mysteries with clever plotting; Colleen Cambridge’s Phyllida Bright mysteries; Marie Benedict’s The Queens of Crime.
Guilty by Definition
by Susie Dent

A cryptic letter with references to Shakespeare arrives at the Clarendon English Dictionary offices in Oxford, England. Senior editor Martha Thornhill thinks the odd missive might be related to her sister’s disappearance a decade earlier, so when more notes appear, Martha and her team work to solve the clues and possibly a crime. This clever debut novel by English lexicographer and TV presenter Susie Dent will please both mystery fans and language lovers. Try this next: Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg.
Tricks of fortune by Lina Chern
Tricks of fortune
by Lina Chern

When a beloved police officer is murdered, tarot reader Katie True must rely on intuition to uncover the truth, even as suspicion falls on her closest friend and long-buried secrets threaten to upend her fragile new start. Original.
Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue
by Spencer Quinn

After winning a senior tennis competition, 71-year-old Floridian Loretta Plansky drives her doubles partner home, arriving just in time to see his yacht explode. He claims it was lightning, but Loretta isn’t sure, so when he disappears and she learns her estranged son might somehow be involved, she investigates in her fun 2nd outing. Try this next: Rachel Ekstrom-Courage’s Murder by Cheesecake.
The red queen by Martha Grimes
The red queen
by Martha Grimes

When a businessman is gunned down in a quiet Twickenham pub, superintendent Richard Jury uncovers a web of conflicting accounts, a mysterious lookalike in America, and a parallel case involving his partner's missing sister that soon complicates both investigations in unexpected ways.
The Witch's Orchard
by Archer Sullivan

Kentucky PI Annie Gore, a former military investigator, takes a case she isn’t sure she can solve. But she needs the money and the desperate teen boy who hires her hopes she can find his sister, who was abducted ten years ago along with two other Quartz Creek, North Carolina girls. While locals talk of folklore, witches, and more, Annie makes progress in the twisty case. For fans of: atmospheric debut novels with creepy vibes.
The Librarians
by Sherry Thomas

The lives of four Austin, Texas, librarians are altered after their library’s murder-mystery board game night results in an actual murder. Since they each have secrets, the co-workers team up to uncover the killer before the cops do in this leisurely paced latest by the author of the popular Lady Sherlock historical mysteries. For fans of: work-centric mysteries; Robert Thorogood.
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
The Rushworth Family Plot
by Claudia Gray

While navigating a London social season complicated by family disapproval, Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney become entangled in another murder investigation, one that is complicated by a contested inheritance and threats to loved ones' reputations. Don't miss this 4th Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney novel if you want to see the young couple's relationship progress. Read-alikes: Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen Mysteries; Sally Smith's A Case of Mice and Murder.
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