Mystery
June 2025
Recent Releases
Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
by Allison Brennan

A risk-averse bibliophile gets in over her head when strange notes in a book draw her into a real-life investigation.
A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge
by Kate Khavari

Returning to Ellington Manor, Saffron Everleigh faces tense family relationships made worse by enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired as doctor to the ailing Lord Easting, but who in reality is involved in trafficking dangerous government secrets-and whose presence can only mean trouble.
A Case of Mice and Murder : The Trials of Gabriel Ward
by Sally Smith

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case, that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of London's legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until now.
Death at the White Hart
by Chris Chibnall

When a pub owner is found gruesomely murdered, Detective Nicola Bridge returns to her quaint coastal hometown to uncover dark secrets hidden beneath its picturesque façade, risking the destruction of everything she thought she knew.
Last Dance Before Dawn
by Katharine Schellman

When a stranger from Chicago appears at speakeasy The Nightingale to settle old scores, Vivian and owner Honor Huxley send him packing; but slowly they realize someone's hunting them and won't stop until the old mystery of a missing girl and a truck full of cash has been unraveled.
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman

Former private investigator and middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom's vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery… that only she can solve.
One Final Turn
by Ashley Weaver

Safecracker Ellie McDonnell is sent on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs.
The Rushworth Family Plot
by Claudia Gray

As Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney navigate a London Season complicated by family disapproval and social scheming, they become entangled in a scandalous murder investigation involving a disgraced woman, a contested inheritance, and a killer who threatens the fragile reputations of those they love.
A Terribly Nasty Business
by Julia Seales

Beatrice Steele settles with chaperone Miss Bolton in the London neighborhood of Sweetbriar and opens D.S. Investigations with Inspector Drake, yet they lose all serious cases to her former crush Sir Huxley—until multiple murders thrust them into a scandal pitting the wealthiest residents against the arts community.
Welcome to Murder Week
by Karen Dukess

An American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.
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