Mystery
November 2025

Recent Releases
Five Found Dead
by Sulari Gentill

Author Joe Penvale celebrates finishing cancer treatment by taking his twin sister on the Orient Express. Fellow travelers include a retired French detective, true crime podcasters, travel bloggers, and two elderly women. When a blood-soaked cabin is discovered and the train is quarantined after a new COVID variant, the group investigates. But who can be trusted? Read-alikes: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express; Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect.
The Last Death of the Year
by Sophie Hannah

On New Year’s Eve 1932, Hercule Poirot and Inspector Catchpool are staying in a rundown guesthouse on a small Greek island while Poirot investigates a threat against a fellow lodger. Then a note appears promising “the last and first death of the year." This clever latest by Sophie Hannah is authorized by Agatha Christie’s estate and will appeal to fans of Colleen Cambridge's Murder at Mallowan Hall.
The Bone Thief
by Vanessa Lillie

Rhode Island Bureau of Indian Affairs archeologist Syd Walker, who’s Cherokee, returns in this compelling 2nd outing. Having received a promotion, she’s ready when the 300-year-old bones of a child are found at a summer camp run by the powerful Founders Society. But when the remains disappear and a young Indigenous woman goes missing, Syd has to work fast to find answers. Try this next: Marcie R. Rendon’s Cash Blackbear novels.
Gray Dawn
by Walter Mosley

In an evocative 1970s Los Angeles, 50-something PI Easy Rawlins runs a successful detective agency, lately letting his associates take most of the work. But he takes the lead in a case involving a dangerous woman who's gone missing. Meanwhile, he helps his secretary and his adopted son, who each have their own troubles, in this 17th entry in the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series. 
Murder by the Book
by Amie Schaumberg

When a college student is murdered in a small Oregon town, Detective Ian Carter isn't sure what to make of the way the victim has been posed. But his new friend, professor Emma Reilly, recognizes the tableau as a copy of a painting of Hamlet's Ophelia. As similar murders occur, Ian, Emma, and others combine their knowledge of crime, art, and literature to catch a killer. Read-alikes: Zoe B. Wallbrook's History Lessons; Susie Dent's Guilty by Definition.
Murder on the Marlow Belle
by Robert Thorogood

When a cruise chartered by the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society includes a seemingly impossible murder, elderly crossword creator Judith, DJ and dogwalker Suzie, and vicar's wife and mom Becks can't help but look into things, even though DI Tanika Malik asks them not to investigate. This fun 4th outing for the Marlow Murder Club will please fans of earlier books as well as the TV series based on them. Try this next: Simon Brett's Fethering mysteries.
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
by KJ Whittle

Seven Londoners receive elegant invites to an anonymously hosted dinner party at an out-of-the-way restaurant. The evening is intriguing, but the cards each guest receives at the end are menacing, listing the year they'll die. When two of them pass away as predicted, the others try to sort it all out before their time runs out. 
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