Mystery
October 2025

Recent Releases
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.
Old Money by Kelsey Miller
Old Money
by Kelsey Miller

On the Fourth of July, teenager Caitlin dies at Briar's Green country club's annual party; 20 years later, her cousin Alice, who witnessed the murder, returns to her hometown, seeking answers and justice.
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.
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. Try this next: Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg.
Miss Winter in the library with a knife by Martin Edwards
Miss Winter in the library with a knife
by Martin Edwards

During in all-expenses-paid Christmas holiday at Midwinter—a remote hamlet in the North Pennines in Yorkshire, England—a group of strangers play a murder-mystery game that soon becomes deadly.
The Witch's Orchard
by Archer Sullivan

Kentucky PI Annie Gore, a former military investigator, takes a case she isn’t sure she can solve. But she needs the money and the desperate teen boy who hires her hopes she can find his sister, who was abducted ten years ago along with two other Quartz Creek, North Carolina girls. While locals talk of folklore, witches, and more, Annie makes progress in the twisty case. For fans of: atmospheric debut novels with creepy vibes.
A Killer Wedding by Joan O'leary
A Killer Wedding
by Joan O'leary

When a beauty mogul dies at her grandson's castle wedding, a fashion reporter uncovers secrets among the glamorous guests and suspects the killer may be one of the family members determined to keep it quiet. 
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon
Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon

When disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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