Fans of comic mysteries have known for years that no small town is quite like Maggody. With its wild cast of characters and its no-nonsense female detective, Much Ado in Maggody is evidence of master of cozy mysteries Joan Hess at her best. Learn More
When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award–winning author. Learn More
From Agatha Award–winning author Joan Hess, Malice in Maggody is the novel that introduced police chief Arly Hanks—the indomitable sleuth of the popular and long-running Arly Hanks Mysteries. Learn More
Drawing on police records and extensive interviews, Thomas H. Cook recounts the story of Judith Ann Neelley, who at nineteen became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death row. Learn More
A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner. Learn More
Acclaimed author David Gordon paints a devious tapestry of connections between the warlords of Afghanistan and the crime syndicates of the Five Boroughs in this globetrotting thriller with a tough-but-tender protagonist. Learn More
A swashbuckling British agent goes behind enemy lines to search for a religious text that might hold the key to ending the second World War. Learn More
by John Harvey, Laura Lippman, Peter Lovesey, Peter Lovesey, Ian Rankin; read by Hillary Huber, James Cameron Stewart, Joel Richards
Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Learn More
by Megan Abbott, Lyndsay Faye, Elizabeth George, James Grady, James W. Hall, Carolyn Hart, Stephen Hunter, Peter Lovesey, Denise Mina, Bradford Morrow, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Perry, Ian Rankin, R.L. Stine, F. Paul Wilson; read by Matt Godfrey, Christin
A must-listen collection of fifteen bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authors. Learn More
by Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estleman, William Link, Laura Lippman, Anne Perry, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Andrew Taylor, David Bell; edited by Otto Penzler; read by Daniel T
A must-listen collection of thirteen bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authors. Learn More
Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times bestselling, National Book Award–winning "grand mistress of ghoulishness" (Publishers Weekly). Learn More
In the newest Wolfe-family adventure from James Carlos Blake, Rudy and Frank Wolfe stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid. The plot thickens when their Aunt Catalina, the family matriarch aged 115, recognizes a resemblance to her long-lost sister in one of the young performers. Catalina tasks the boys with tracking the girl down, however improbable a connection may be. Learn More
A devastatingly timely thriller following the refugee trail from Syria to Europe, Firefly is a sophisticated, breathtaking race against time from an author who brings a whole new level of urgency to the genre. Learn More
In the third installment of the James Maxted thriller series, starring a dashing Royal Flying Corps veteran turned secret service operative, the truth about allegiances has never been less certain. Loaded with death threats, knife fights, a kidnapping or two, and a coded list that has the power to dismantle whole governmental hierarchies, The Ends of the Earth is a masterful work of historical cut-and-thrust that tests the bonds of family and country to their very limit. Learn More
by Boris Akunin; translated by Andrew Bromfield; read by Nigel Patterson
Boris Akunin has been hailed as Russia's answer to both Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his beloved Fandorin mystery series. After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow―and in for a case that entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty. Learn More
by Mattias Boström; translated by Michael Gallagher; read by Shaun Grindell
Washington Post Notable Book
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? Learn More
by Boris Akunin, translated by Andrew Bromfield; read by Nigel Patterson
The first new Fandorin novel available to an American audience in a decade, The State Counsellor tests the handsome diplomat-detective's guile and integrity like no mystery before. Learn More
