Recommended Mystery & Detective Books

This pulse-racing work from a bestselling master of psychological suspense features a serial killer attending his 20th high school reunion. The killer, who identifies strongly with owls, has murdered several members of the class over the years, in...

In the 18th alphabetical mystery starring private detective Kinsey Milhone, a wealthy, indulgent father hires Kinsey to pick up his daughter Reba from the prison where she was serving a sentence for embezzlement. All Kinsey has to do is watch over...

A trio of federal judges--so-called the Brethren--are serving time in a minimum security federal prison. While writing briefs, handling cases for other inmates, practicing law without a license, and maintaining jailhouse justice has them comfortably...

A wealthy woman and her maid are murdered. Robbery would seem the likely scenario, except that none of the clues are coming together for Lucas Davenport. At least not those he can see.

Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy goes after a serial killer who always takes two victims. The first victim he kills quickly, leaving clues on her body to the location of the second victim, who will be killed slowly if she is not rescued. Kimberly...

Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his...

The latest entry in Sandford's series finds detective Lucas Davenport back in Gothic surroundings: this time, it's an abandoned lot in Minneapolis which someone has turned into an impromptu graveyard for murdered young women. Davenport soon becomes...

Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths leads him into the depths of human evil as he risks his life to track Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been...

State trooper Sean Devine is assigned to investigate the murder of the daughter of Jimmy Marcus. Jimmy and Sean have been friends since childhood. A third old friend, Dave Boyle, may or may not have much more sinister ties to the crime. Lehane's...

This 15th entry in the PREY series mixes police procedural with Russian--and Soviet--espionage. Lucas Davenport faces his second case as a crime troubleshooter for the state of Minnesota, teaming up with a Russian cop (or is she a Russian spy?) to...

In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous...

With Dark Harbor, Stuart Woods proved yet again that he is the master of the popular crime novel. Now he outdoes himself with the newest addition to the series. Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on...

Key West is a great place to unwind, unless you're Stone Barrington, and you're looking for someone who doesn't want to be found.

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In...

Detective Alex Delaware comes up against the most difficult case of his career when he starts following clues in a murder investigation that has been dormant for years. ...

Thirteen years ago, con artist Patrick 'Packy' Coogan Noonan stole $100 million from the investors of his fraudulent company, put $80 million of it into diamonds, and hid the diamonds up a blue spruce tree in Stowe, Vermont. Packy's just been...

The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in the oddest of...

Arriving in London to find a young woman, who has been seen in the company of an unsavory gentleman, for a client, Stone Barrington soon discovers that things are not what they seem when he stumbles upon a deadly rivalry between two spies and is...

Former Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simpleminded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help,...

Stone Barrington embarks on an exotic adventure...Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise that's getting hotter by the minute…

Lori Bamba and her husband manage the quaint Nutcracker Inn in Braun's fictional Moose County. When Lori claims that the inn is haunted, series sleuth James Qwilleran investigates with the help of Koko and Yum Yum, his sleuthing cats.

Millions of readers clamor for the compelling contemporary novels of Sandra Brown. And no wonder! She fires your imagination with irresistible characters, unexpected plot twists, scandalous secrets...so electric you feel the zing.

An Apache hit man arrives in Paradise to find a missing girl and snuff out her mother. But his conscience is getting the best of him. If he doesn't make the hit, he'll pay for it. So might Jesse Stone, who's been enlisted to protect them all.

Mystery maven Mary Higgins Clark joins forces with her daughter Carol to tell a Christmas caper set aboard the cruise ship the Royal Mermaid. Onboard are 400 'Do-Gooders of the Year' and also two notoriously bad seeds, the escaped convicts Bull's-Eye...

In this sixth novel in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series, Harlan Coben delivers a riveting powerhouse thriller—a twisting mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and murder.Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been...

Nicholas Evans's novel THE HORSE WHISPERER was a mega-seller. Now in THE DIVIDE, he begins the story with another icy tragedy: a body is found on a mountain in Montana, encased in ice. The dead woman is Abbie Cooper, a fugitive wanted for murder...

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright...

Presents the suspenseful, nerve-shattering story of a woman who puts her husband behind bars for the murders of ten women, only to become his intended next target when he escapes, and is forced to learn to fight back to save her own life. Original.

Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister, Thalia, is her opposite, an impoverished actress who prides herself on...

Worrying about her upcoming marriage to J. L. B. Matekoni, Precious Ramotswe is confronted by the challenges of running her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, a terrifying request from the matron of the Orphan Farm, and a case involving an investigation...