Mystery & Thriller

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The contrast is startling and seems contradictory: How can you have a peaceable small town that hides hatred so deep it results in animal bloodletting?

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Memory is always a fascinating wellspring for writers, and loss of memory is even more bounteous, particularly in recent years.

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The Harrow School is a 400-year-old boarding school for boys in London, home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy

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Though there are glimmers of potential and heart, Saskia Walker’s The Harlot is marred with frustrating—and avoidable—flaws.

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Intrigue, mystery, murder, and mayhem—this newly released paperback version of the novel Dead by Morning has everything one needs in a perfect companion for a summer escape.

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David Blake is no gangster—or so he likes to tell himself.

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Readers of crime novels will soon be targeted by Alfred A. Knopf’s media blitz for this author and novel. The campaign by this august publisher of fiction would have you believe that Mr.

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What predicament has Sookie Stackhouse found herself in now? Her vampire boyfriend is plotting the death of his superior . . . and he has a secret he doesn’t want Sookie to know about.

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Gina Falcone is the last “bone cleaner.” Her job is to prepare the bones of the dead for the second burial, an ancient practice traced back to the glorious days of the Egyptians.

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This is the fifth novel in the author’s Constable Molly Smith Mystery Series.

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At age 35, Alex Miller has the big items checked off. Graduated Yale, then Harvard Law. Married. Youngest to make partner at the big New York law firm. Has a five-year-old daughter he loves.

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It might seem impossible to turn the concept of Al Qaeda getting nuclear weapons into a boring novel. But Bob Graham manages to do just that.

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It may be a shame that Marcia Clark spent so many years as a prosecutor for the County of Los Angeles.

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A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes was a book unlike than those I normally review—an utterly different experience from science and health-related nonfiction; nonetheless, this mystery novel dr

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Citizens’ stories of state abuse, from secret wiretapping to unjust imprisonment and worse, make headlines daily. In the hands of novelist Gordon W.

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The bad thing about reading a Nora Roberts book is the bereft feeling readers get when they finish.

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A young woman, Annette Botha, arriving home one night, gets out of her car to unlock a malfunctioning automatic gate outside her home.

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Caterer and professional snoop Goldy Schulz lives in Aspen Meadows, Colorado, a small, friendly town where everyone knows everyone.

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On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm.

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Imagine yourself suffering from joint pains, muscle weakness, and confused thinking. Friends and family vacillate between support and “snap out of it” kinds of statements.

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A book doesn’t always need action and crisis to be dramatic.

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“Against all odds, against my own wishes, this is a love story.”

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The template for the mystery is who got killed and who did the killing.

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Could the King Arthur legend support a serial killer? Tony Hays says yes, it could.

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Cynical sword jockey-for-hire Eddie LaCrosse returns in a new medieval murder mystery drawn straight from the mists of legend in Alex Bledsoe’s entertaining third novel in the LaCrosse series (foll

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