Mystery & Thriller

After burning out working with youth gangs in Los Angeles, Chicana social worker Rosa Medina retreats to Puerto de Luna, New Mexico. There, she intends to write a novel about Billy the Kid.

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“Lestat may say he doesn’t want to cause the deaths of his fellow undead but that’s what happens in this continuation of The Vampire Chronicles.” 

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The Glass Ocean, an ambitious project written by three New York Times bestselling authors is a work of historical fiction mixed with a huge mystery at its core and a couple of rom

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A teenage girl is viciously stabbed multiple times in the woods, the result of a preplanned attack by her two best friends. The motive?

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“Three people conducting separate investigations discover they are all investigating the same crime.”

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The Last Breath continues Danny Lopez’s Dexter Vega Mystery series with the follow up to his debut novel, The Last Girl.

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Welcome to Copper Bluff, South Dakota, and its college, setting for Mary Angela’s third Professor Prather Mystery A Very Merry Murder. Cozy mystery fans will love the small town scene and

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Matt Johnson’s Wicked Game trilogy began with Wicked Game, then Deadly Game, and now wraps up in End Game.

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It’s 24 degrees below zero in Oslo, Norway, as police detective Lena Stigersand watches a corpse being pulled from the harbor, in contrast to the Christmas decorations around the market area.

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Matthew Farrell’s debut crime novel What Have You Done opens in Philadelphia, rich with the details he absorbed growing up in a police officer’s family.

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Blair Hurley’s debut novel The Devoted has a tone of genius behind every chapter and a powerful magnetism that is hard to resist for any reader thirsting for spiritual knowledge and guidan

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“a thoroughly enjoyable crime novel in the Scandinavian noir tradition.”

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What happens to a CIA agent who turns whistleblower on her own colleagues?

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“Fast paced and intensely gripping, Nomad takes the reader on a high-octane thrill ride from start to finish.”

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“a brisk and engaging addition to Vince Flynn’s legacy of great thrillers.”

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A subtle book, a gently disturbing book longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

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The Infinite Blacktop is Sara Gran’s third novel featuring Claire DeWitt, self-proclaimed “world’s greatest detective,” in an extraordinary series that blends the tropes of locked-room mys

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How marvelous to have Charles Todd set the tenth Bess Crawford mystery in Wales, the least written about part of the British Isles.

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Joseph Olshan succeeds in crafting an enthralling mystery set in snowy Vermont, at the center of which is the disappearance during winter break of Luc Flanders, a student at Carleton College (reall

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Who would guess that a time-turning fantasy twist could be braided into a grim and edgy mystery, ending up with one of the most complex, suspenseful, and original page turners of the season?

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“Andrew Gross is in top form with this beautifully haunting novel that mixes history seamlessly with fiction. . . . an epic journey of struggle, hope, death and life.

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Hard Case Crime, an imprint founded by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips in 2005, has been the gift to crime fiction fans that keeps on giving.

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“a slow-paced chronicle of abduction and murder with some very dramatic high points giving the victim’s point of view”

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Lara Dearman returns to her Jennifer Dorey Mystery Series with Dark Sky Island, the follow up to her successful debut, The Devil’s Claw.

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Boyd Morrison and Clive Cussler are back with Shadow Tyrants, the 13th book in the Oregon Files series.

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