Mystery
October 2025

Recent Releases
The impossible fortune by Richard Osman
The impossible fortune
by Richard Osman

As wedding plans unfold and personal struggles linger, the Thursday Murder Club reunites when a guest vanishes and a suspicious partner hints at something valuable—and deadly—leading Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim into a tangled case of coded secrets and high-stakes deception.
Book 5 of The Thursday Murder Club series.
We had a hunch : a mystery by Tom Ryan
We had a hunch : a mystery
by Tom Ryan

Twenty-five years after their father's murder by serial killer “The Janitor,” teen sleuths Alice and Samantha VanDyne and Joey O'Day reunite to solve a new murder mimicking the old crimes, confronting past trauma and dark secrets as the town's safety hangs in the balance.
Guilty by Definition
by Susie Dent

A cryptic letter with references to Shakespeare arrives at the Clarendon English Dictionary offices in Oxford, England. Senior editor Martha Thornhill thinks the odd missive might be related to her sister’s disappearance a decade earlier, so when more notes appear, Martha and her team work to solve the clues and possibly a crime. This clever debut novel by English lexicographer and TV presenter Susie Dent will please both mystery fans and language lovers. 
Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue
by Spencer Quinn

After winning a senior tennis competition, 71-year-old Floridian Loretta Plansky drives her doubles partner home, arriving just in time to see his yacht explode. He claims it was lightning, but Loretta isn’t sure, so when he disappears and she learns her estranged son might somehow be involved, she investigates in her fun 2nd outing. 
The Dead Come to Stay
by Brandy Schillace

Autistic American Jo Jones has recently relocated to rural Yorkshire, England, after inheriting a rundown family estate. In her 2nd outing, Jo unearths more secrets about her ancestors and teams up with handsome detective James MacAdams after her new tenant is killed.
 
The Solitary Friend by Gail Bowen
The Solitary Friend
by Gail Bowen

Crime Writers Grand Master Award winner and the "queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press) returns with the 23rd, and penultimate, installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series. Amateur sleuth Joanne Shreve finds herself caught in the middle when her friend Vera Wang, the owner of a discreet escort service, The Right Woman, calls in a favour. 
The Mudflats Murder Club by Brian Thiem
The Mudflats Murder Club
by Brian Thiem

Former homicide detective and recently widowed Sean Tanner has settled into Spartina Island's private retirement community, hoping to find solace after his wife's death in their chosen paradise. He soon finds himself drawn into the Mudflats Murder Club, an enthusiastic group of retired detectives, prosecutors, and forensic experts who are engrossed in solving the 38-year-old unsolved murder of Theresa Goldberg. 
A Matter of Pedigree by Leslie Meier
A Matter of Pedigree
by Leslie Meier

Armed with a pampered spaniel and designer shoes, Carole Capobianco must clear her husband's name and uncover the truth after a wealthy venture capitalist is found bludgeoned to death, in the first novel of a new series.
A tour to die for by Michelle Chouinard
A tour to die for
by Michelle Chouinard

In Michelle Chouinard's A Tour to Die For, Capri Sanzio is back, giving a true crime tour her guests won't soon forget. After all, a tour guide who specializes in serial killers knows better than most that San Francisco is a city with killer charm. Capri Sanzio knows that when you give serial killer walking tours for a living, unexpected situations are more common than San Francisco's famous fog. So, when one of her guests claims to see a woman being attacked during a tour, Capri remains unphased. 
Book 2 in the Serial killer guide to San Francisco mysteries.
Major Bricket and the circus corpse / :  The First Mystery in an Unputdownable New Cosy Crime Series by Simon Brett
Major Bricket and the circus corpse / : The First Mystery in an Unputdownable New Cosy Crime Series
by Simon Brett

Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House...In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there...But now the Major has retired and has come home for good...and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown. 
Murder on the Marlow Belle : a novel by Robert Thorogood
Murder on the Marlow Belle : a novel
by Robert Thorogood

When Verity's husband Oliver doesn't return after an exclusive Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society party on The Marlow Belle cruiser, she asks for Judith's help, but when Oliver's body washes up on the Thames with two bullet holes in him, Judith, Suzie and Becks must keep their wits to solve the case. 
Book 4 in the Marlow Murder Club series.
The Librarians
by Sherry Thomas

The lives of four Austin, Texas, librarians are altered after their library’s murder-mystery board game night results in an actual murder. Since they each have secrets, the co-workers team up to uncover the killer before the cops do in this leisurely paced latest by the author of the popular Lady Sherlock historical mysteries. For fans of: work-centric mysteries; Robert Thorogood.
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