Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

A couple’s insurance scam could turn a faked death into a real one, in this witty crime thriller by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Dortmunder novels. After more than a decade of skipping out on their debts, Lola and Barry owe a lot of money to the wrong people. To escape the loan...

Looking for a new crime thriller series you won’t be able to put down? If you love nail-biting tension and jaw-dropping twists, then look no further than the Detectives Kane and Alton series. The first three books in this exciting series see Kane and Alton on the hunt for killers preying...

His hand went around her middle, and the other came up over her face, holding some sort of material against her nose and mouth. He dragged her backwards, trailing her scrabbling feet … When a young woman goes missing from Jesus College, Oxford, DS Josie Masters is plunged into a world of panic as...

1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from India, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet, there is a darkness behind all that postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary...

Discover the first four titles in the George Gently series at an unmissable price _______________ GENTLY DOES IT The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For George Gently, it is a case of business as usual. The Chief Inspector's quiet Easter break in...

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in...

Proving once again that she can triumph in any genre of fiction, Colleen McCullough, the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds, now presents her readers with a gem of a murder mystery about a serial killer. At the heart of this brilliant blend of suspense, forensic science, eerie and sadistic...

A tight-knit community is shocked by revelations from decades past in this "enthralling" (Associated Press) literary mystery that "will keep you racing toward the end" (Lisa Gardner). The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply...

Working night security at a museum, ex-cop Mitchell Tobin finds a naked corpse on display in this crime novel by the Edgar Award–winning author. When he first met Linda Campbell, Mitchell Tobin was nothing more to her than the man who had put her husband in jail. It took over a year for them...

In the third installment of the Do-It-Yourself mystery series, Avery Baker must refurbish her friend's reputation, in a mystery perfect for lovers of HGTV's renovation shows. Ex-New York designer Avery Baker left the bustle of the big city to start her own home renovation business in Maine....

The thrilling novel from clinical psychologist turned crime writer, now with a great new cover. When a middle-aged man is brutally murdered in the dunes overlooking a children's pool, it's immediately clear to Sergeant Jill Jackson that this was no ordinary victim: someone has stopped a dangerous...

An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #5“Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell“A delicious treat.” –Carolyn G. HartEven though new husband, Aaron (Pooky Bear!), is away, Magdalena Yoder, proprietor of the prosperous Penn-Dutch Inn, is still...

Unexpected Night by Agatha Christie's favorite mystery writer, Edgar Award-winner Elizabeth Daly"Elizabeth Daly rose like a star on the mystery fans' horizon with Unexpected Night."—The New York Times"Spooky from start, with extra shivery climax at [a] theatrical performance...

An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with RecipesPennDutch Mysteries #3“Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell“A delicious treat!” –Carolyn G. HartMagdalena Yoder, Amish-Mennonite proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, travels to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of her...