Mystery
August 2025
Recent Releases
Just Another Dead Author
by Katarina Bivald

A bookish mystery transports readers to a writers' retreat in France, where a famous writer is murdered, and the 20 wannabe authors at the retreat all have a motive.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner

Missing persons expert Frankie Elkin is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find Sabera Ahmadi, a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger before it is too late. It is just in time for a video of the young mother to surface--showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder. Frankie quickly realizes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye.
We Are All Guilty Here : a novel
by Karin Slaughter

When two teenage girls vanish, the small town of North Falls ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it's personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help-and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. 
The Dead Come to Stay
by Brandy Schillace

When neurodivergent American Jo Jones relocates to her family's North Yorkshire estate, she's pulled into a murder investigation with gruff detective James MacAdams, uncovering ties to missing teens, illicit artifact trading, and buried family secrets harbored by the region's polished elite.
Gone in the Night
by Joanna Schaffhausen

Detective Annalisa Vega's estranged, incarcerated brother tasks her with tracking down the real killer behind the murder that his fellow inmate, Joe Green, was imprisoned for.
Five found dead
by Sulari Gentill
 
Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has finished his intense medical treatment and boards the Orient Express in Paris with his twin sister.
The next morning, they are shocked to witness that the cabin next door has become a crime scene, bathed in blood but with no body in sight. Later within this COVID quarantine train, more than one killer lurks.
The House at Devil's Neck
by Tom Mead

An apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily mirrors a similar incident from twenty-five years ago, prompting Scotland Yard's George Flint to delve deep into the past in search of the solution to a long-forgotten mystery. 
Knife in the Back
by Karen Rose

Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her have returned, this time demanding she move drugs along with her flower shop's deliveries. 
The Witch's Orchard : a novel
by Archer Sullivan

Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore is getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up.
Icing on the Murder
by Valerie Burns

Influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiance's wedding, she'll have to solve a little case of murder first.
Hunter's Heart Ridge : a mystery
by Sarah Stewart Taylor

In this sequel to Agony Hill, Detective Frank Warren and his formerly CIA-connected neighbor Alice Bellows return to investigate the death of a diplomat. The detective is called out to an accidental shooting at The Ridge Club. a former ambassador has been shot while out hunting. With the war in Vietnam picking up speed, Warren realizes that the club's members may have ulterior motives and connections in high places
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