Crime Mystery category: 11599 books
by Georges Simenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
Georges Simenon's thoughtful mystery set in a tranquil town on the Dutch...
Southwesterly Wind
An Inspector Espinosa Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator—himself—in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime series
When a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana precinct is more than happy to set aside his...
The Visitors
Gripping thriller, you won’t see the end coming
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Can you escape the darkness within?
Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret...
The Blue Diamond
A Golden Age Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Who knows if he didn’t make away with her here? Those things found in the Home Coppice show that she was made away with plain enough, I say.”
Jim Gregory, under-gardener at Hargreave Manor, finds something unexpected when climbing Lover’s Oak but won’t say what. Instead he’s all...
A Murder Is Announced
A Miss Marple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October...
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269)
Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
**The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. **
Though women crime...
Murder on the East China Sea
Connor Pierce Mystery Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2018
When you get a friend in trouble… You're responsible to get him out. Whatever the cost!
Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend is brutally murdered at a...
Dead in the Dark
A Cooper & Fry Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
How do you prove a murder without a body?
Ten years ago, Reece Bower was accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette Bower's remains, and the case against him collapsed.
But now memories of the original...
Song of the Dead
An eerie Scottish murder mystery (DI Westphall 1)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
DI WESTPHALL.
No ordinary detective.
No ordinary investigations.
A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, James Oswald and John Connolly.
Detective Ben Westphall has been given his latest case because of his background in MI6. But it's his...
Flowers for Mrs. Luskin
Who ordered the deadly delivery for the millionaire's wife?
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
"Flower delivery for Marie Luskin!"
That was a curious surprise. Her husband Paul used to send her flowers all the time, but those days had passed forever. A year and a half before, following Paul's affair with another woman, Marie kicked him out of the house his parents had helped...
Richardson’s First Case
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. “That was a great case you brought us. You’ll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!”
For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection...
The Man with The Dark Beard
An Inspector Stoddart Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The note left beside Dr. John Bastow’s corpse simply read: “It was the man with the dark beard.”
Dr. Bastow hadn’t approved of his daughter Hilary’s fiancé. So when Hilary’s father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiancé Basil...
A Pocket Full of Rye
A Miss Marple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
In Agatha Christie’s classic, A Pocket Full of Rye**, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.**
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden...
by David Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Mystery surrounds the death of Queen Victoria's grandson England, 1892.
Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign, when her grandson Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is found slaughtered in his bed at Sandringham. Terrified of more royal scandal, the Prince of Wales...