Mystery
October 2025

Recent Releases
Coded justice : a thriller by Stacey Abrams
Coded justice : a thriller
by Stacey Abrams

Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene investigates a powerful AI company after a mysterious death, uncovering corporate corruption and high-stakes technological dangers that could have far-reaching consequences, in the third book of the series following Rogue Justice.
Forget me not : a novel by Stacy Willingham
Forget me not : a novel
by Stacy Willingham

Returning to coastal South Carolina for the summer, journalist Claire Campbell takes a job at a vineyard near where her sister vanished decades earlier—and when she uncovers a disturbing old diary, she begins to suspect the past holds deadly secrets, from the best-selling author of A Flicker in the Dark.
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
by Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Recently widowed Savvy Summers runs a Chicago soul food restaurant and catering business in this engaging series opener that includes recipes. But after a customer dies and people blame her, she must figure out what really killed the man to save herself and her livelihood. Thankfully she has help from her gossipy sous-chef and her cop ex-husband. Try this next: Abby Collette’s Books and Biscuits Mysteries; Danielle Arceneaux’s Glory Broussard Mysteries.
Boom town by Nic Stone
Boom town
by Nic Stone

When a dancer goes missing from Boom Town, Lyriq risks everything to uncover the truth, plunging into Atlanta's underworld to expose the secrets behind two disappearances that may be more connected than anyone dares to admit.
The Picasso heist by James Patterson
The Picasso heist
by James Patterson

A glamorous 22-year-old art thief tries to best a bunch of other criminals in the heist of a previously unknown Picasso discovered in the attic of a French villa.
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon
Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon

When disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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