February 2026 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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All My Bones
by P. J. Nelson
Madeline Brimley, new owner of a bookstore in a small Georgia town, finds herself playing sleuth when a friend is charged with the murder of a much-disliked woman. Old Juniper Bookshop Mystery series.
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Edge
by Tracy Clark
Chicago's finest are scouring the city for a tainted new opioid making the rounds, but they're coming up empty. With five people already dead all they really know is the drug's name: Edge. Detective Harriet Foster and her team race to track down the source…before it takes one of their own. Detective Harriet Foster series.
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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
by L. M. Chilton
A page-turner about a TikTok true crime investigator, a '90s serial killer that may not be as dead as everyone would like, a text thread from hell, and long buried secrets that just won't stay in the grave where they belong!
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The Gallagher Place
by Julie Doar
When Marlowe Fisher, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family’s bewitching Hudson Valley home for the holidays, she discovers a body in the woods―a murder that draws her back into the haunting case of her teenage best friend’s disappearance two decades earlier. What happened to Nora?
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Holy Orders
by John Banville
The latest Quirke case opens in Dublin at a moment when newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because in 1950s Ireland, the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. Quirke series.
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The Italian Secret
by Tara Moss
Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a journey to begin a new life far from home. Naples, 1943. A woman shelters underground from a wartime air raid, praying her husband will return home. Sydney, 1948. Billie Walker, returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, uncovers a dusty box in her father's old office whose contents just might explain how they all are connected.
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The Last Hitman
by Robin Yocum
Marked for death, a hitman must figure out how to save himself and exact a final revenge before his past catches up to him.
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The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson
One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence.
Two decades after an unsolved murder in a working-class town, another body turns up, ripping apart friendships and community.
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The Lost Heiress
by Elizabeth Klehfoth
Wealthy heiress Saoirse Towers vanished during her 18th birthday gala four decades ago. Now her remains have finally been found under Cliffhaven, the aristocratic family's mansion. But the mystery only deepens... her skeleton is not alone.
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May Contain Murder
by Orlando Murrin
“If it weren’t for all the terrible things that have been happening, I’d consider myself the luckiest man alive..."
While his flooded house undergoes repairs, chef-turned-writer Paul Delamare has been offered an all-expenses-paid trip aboard a private superyacht in the company of Xâera, one of his dearest friends. When Xâera's priceless new necklace goes missing, Paul falls under suspicion. But there's far worse in store...
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The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum
by Valerie Wilson Wesley
1926: Harriet Stone, a liberated, educated Black woman, and Lovey, the orphaned 12-year-old she is bound to protect, are Harlem-bound, embarking on a new, hopefully less traumatic chapter in their lives. But a shocking murder on Striver’s Row impels Harriet to investigate. Harriet Stone Mystery series.
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The Night Watcher
by Tariq Ashkanani
As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She’s had to be. Abandoned as a baby and raised by a succession of strangers, she knows a thing or two about surviving…but she never expected to find herself hunting a serial killer. Callie Munro Thriller series.
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The Quiet Mother
by Arnaldur Indridason
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's phone number...
Detective Konrad series.
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The Red Scare Murders
by Con Lehane
This wry, big-hearted noir brings 1950s New York to life, from the tenements of Hell's Kitchen to the mansions of Riverdale, from Sing Sing to City Hall, with a gripping murder mystery laying bare the explosive conflicts between its big wheels, its working stiffs, its gangsters, and its dreamers.
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Scot's Eggs
by Catriona McPherson
It's egg-hunt season, but Lexy Campbell is spending Easter hunting a killer! Last Ditch Mystery series.
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Secrets You Can't Keep
by Debra Webb
A cabin in the woods. Three dead, one in critical condition. Property owned by not just any Tennessee local, but one of the richest men in the country.
Vera Boyett isn’t quite sure what it means. But that’s why Sheriff Gray “Bent” Benton called her: to figure it out. Vera Boyett series.
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt--it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. Karen Pirie series.
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Terror on the Train
by Jeanne M. Dams
Dorothy Martin is travelling from England to Canada for a wedding, but her journey takes a dark twist when a man falls from the train. Dorothy Martin Mystery series.
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