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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024

edited with an introduction by Anthony Horowitz; series edited and foreword by Otto Penzler; read by BJ Harrison and Kim Niemi

Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop. Learn More

The Naming of the Birds

by Paraic O'Donnell; read by Charles Armstrong

NEW! Now Available

The next installment of the "thrilling gothic mystery" (TIME) series, following the acclaimed bestseller The House on Vesper Sands, arrives in full force as Inspector Cutter and Sergeant Bliss solve their strangest and most personal case yet. Learn More

Necessary Death

by Chris Grosso and Preston Fassel; read by Joe Hempel

Based on very real and practical commentary, life experience, and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek-misfortunes of horror legends, Necessary Death explores how the horror genre, its motifs and characters, offer individuals a unique opportunity for insight and understanding of their own lives. Learn More

Necessity

Brian Garfield; read by Tara Sands

To escape her violent, abusive, and powerful husband, a woman kidnaps her own child and flees across country, trying to erase all traces of who she once was before she falls victim to his murderous vengeance. Learn More

Never Cross a Vampire

Stuart Kaminsky; read by Brian Holsopple

A classic from MWA Master Stuart Kaminsky. P.I. Toby Peters guards a horror icon against a gang of crazed vampire enthusiasts. Learn More

Night Secrets

Thomas H. Cook; read by Ray Chase

Ex-cop turned private detective Frank Clemons navigates the mean streets of New York City in a gripping story of two seemingly unrelated cases that spiral into a life and death nightmare. Learn More

Night, Neon

by Joyce Carol Oates; read by Chelsea Stephens, Joe Hempel

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. Learn More

No Beast So Fierce

Edward Bunker; read by Ray Chase

The basis for the film Straight Time, this compelling novel, first published in 1973 and written by a man who had spent most of his life in prison, is the story of an ex-con’s attempt to negotiate the straight world—and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. Learn More

Nobody's Perfect

Donald E. Westlake; read by Jeff Woodman

Mishaps and misunderstandings force comic crime hero Dortmunder and his gang of bungling thieves to steal a painting not once but twice in this hilarious misadventure. Learn More

Notes from the Fog

by Ben Marcus; read by Rebecca Gibel & Charlie Thurston

With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world—cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. Learn More

Now & Then

by Justin M. Kiska; read by Justin M. Kiska

Justin M. Kiska presents Book 1 in the Parker City Mystery series. Learn More

Now You See It

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Jim Meskimen

The final Toby Peters Hollywood whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author is "a marvelous magic trick of a mystery" featuring Harry Blackstone (Booklist, starred review). Learn More

O Little Town of Maggody

by Joan Hess; read by Courtney Patterson

Country music, greed, and the unique madness of Maggody, Arkansas, collide in this delightful cozy mystery starring unflappable police chief Arly Hanks. Learn More

Observations by Gaslight

by Lyndsay Faye; read by Dan Calley and Polly Lee

One of PopSugar's Best New Mysteries and Thrillers of December 2021

A new collection of Sherlockian tales that shows the Great Detective and his partner, Watson, as their acquaintances saw them. Learn More

The Odd Job

by Charlotte MacLeod; read by Andi Arndt

A museum murder puts Boston's married art sleuths to work: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" (Chicago Tribune). Learn More

The Off-Islander

by Peter Colt; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In Peter Colt's gritty, gripping new series set along the New England coast, a Boston-born Vietnam veteran and P.I. is hired to find a missing father—but may find far more than he bargained for . . . Learn More

The Old Enemy

by Henry Porter; read by Matt Addis

An astonishing and timely thriller examining the penetration of Russian assets into all levels of western life, The Old Enemy is a complex, breathtaking race against time from "one of our most accomplished thriller writers," (Financial Times). Learn More

The Old Man

by Thomas Perry; read by Peter Berkrot

Edgar Award–winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move "almost faster than a speeding bullet" (Wall Street Journal). The Old Man is his latest whip-smart stand-alone novel. Learn More

The Old Turk's Load

Gregory Gibson; read by R. C. Bray

A Booklist Best Crime Fiction Debut Selection

A sprawling, classic noir crime novel set amid the 1967 Newark riots in which $5 million worth of heroin goes missing, and every cop, criminal, do-gooder, and lowlife will do anything to find it. Learn More

On Beulah Height

by Reginald Hill; read by Shaun Grindell

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available September

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