Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Shortlisted, Commonwealth Book Prize and the Queensland Literary Award 2012 When Simon and his parents arrive in the small town of Reception and check in to the Ottoman Motel, things between them are tense but normal. Then, while Simon is asleep, his mother and father disappear. Are...

It's springtime and Whitstable is emerging from hibernation. While neither the restaurant nor detective agency is too busy, Pearl resolves to spend some time at the family allotment. But her best friend, Nathan, has persuaded one of his favourite actresses to open the May Day festivities at...

It promised to be the perfect holiday every modern convenience, exotic terraced gardens complete with an 'English' folly, thirty-eight varieties of ice-cream, cocktails with names like 'Widow's Wink' and 'Mumbay Mule'. Antonia and Hugh Payne never seriously imagined they would encounter anything worse...

Even though its cover is faded and torn, Stephanie bought the hundred year old book because penciled inside is the name and address of the young girl who owned it long ago. Enthralled, she searches the internet for information about her, but what Stephanie learns leads her and her family on a devastating...

When a prominent but unpopular theatre critic is found murdered at his desk in a peculiarly grotesque fashion, John Steadman, the blind former detective, hardly knows where to start his investigation. But then an elderly spinster meets a similarly bizarre fate, and soon an amateur sculptor dies in...

The first of a twelve part series about an unconventional teenage detective. Saving the dogs might help her save herself. Since losing her job and dumping her boyfriend, seventeen year old Bailey Jacobs' once zestful appetite for life has been eroded by depression. Something needs to...

• According to Pew Research Center, multiracial Americans are the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the US. Growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole, they are defining change. The survey found that 2.1% of the adult population is multiracial, but that may...

A body has been fed through a Shire shredding machine. Another is found in the local tip. DI Richard Brumby and his new 21C, Kian Kaminsky, set about finding the bodies’ identity. The third of this series, Olivia Beauman of Not Just Desserts, Eddie her partner and local school principal, and close...

Rowan Morley, big and beautiful, made quite a splash when she went overboard from a pleasure launch into the Thames. Fortunately help was at hand, but Rowan’s rescuers were bewildered when she insisted on denying the existence of what seemed to them a clearly murderous attack. Even when she was...

When a fishing trawler out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean hauls in its largest load in weeks, the crew is ill-prepared for the unveiling of their catch – an automobile painted-up like a military jet, with a body inside wearing a U.S. NAVY flight suit. The circumstances surrounding the scene...

Investigating the murder of one of Paris's elite, the detective Maigret finds the list of suspects is longer than anyone could have imagined When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and killed in Paris, Inspector Maigret must investigate a long list of family, colleagues and lovers to uncover just...

Lawyer Lennox Kemp’s newly-wed happiness is slowly being eroded by a series of anonymous threats. Is it an aggrieved past client? A criminal he has helped put away? His friend Detective Inspector John Upshire points out that there is a multiplicity of enemies from which to choose. But then a colleague...

"Robert Randisi has long been held as a master of the genre."—Michael Connelly Bat Masterson is no longer a sheriff in the Old West. He's moved East to New York City where he gets a job as a sport's writer for The Morning Telegraph. But when his friend and fellow-newsman, Inkspot...

The popular Miranda Steele mystery-thrillers continue in a new series! Nobody deserves to die that way. In the Las Vegas desert a once famous pop singer lies dead, the only clue to her murder a bizarre disfigurement. To avoid the hassle of a media frenzy, the local police sergeant...