Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth

The Maid meets Knives Out with a dash of Top Chef in the debut locked room culinary mystery set in a London cooking school and written by MasterChef semi-finalist, BBC podcast host, and cookbook author Orlando Murrin. In this sharp-witted, skillfully rendered culinary mystery...

The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July--but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . . Lemon Meringue Pie Murder Hannah Swensen...

Ellie Alexander's Live and Let Pie is the most delicious installment yet in the fantastic Bakeshop Mysteries set in Ashland, OR! Life is sweet once you step into Torte, everybody's favorite small-town bakeshop. But what happens when it becomes the scene of a crime?...

The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "addictively entertaining" (Locus) Sookie Stackhouse series--the inspiration for the HBO(R) original series True Blood. Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her--her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton--she has...

Knives Out meets high seas intrigue on a literary cruise to nowhere in this intelligent, wildly funny locked room mystery for fans of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, Nita Prose, and Agatha Christie! The USA Today bestselling host of the "All About Agatha" podcast injects...

On a day-trip to photograph a forgotten cemetery in eastern Wyoming, Sam Dawson and his daughter Sidney stop for lunch at an isolated cafe with no name in the least populated place in America. Each of the five people in the cafe has a...

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York TimesNew York Times bestseller Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel NPR best book of the Year Washington...

Thirty-year-old Sarah Jones gets caught up solving a murder after unknowingly befriending a dangerous con artist (who's nothing like what she seems) in this playful, twisty mystery from acclaimed author Kathleen West. It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after...

"Diabolically clever."--New York Times"Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . [He is] is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)Murder...

Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland, stars of the New York Times bestsellers Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel...

Author: Anthony HorowitzPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 03/24/2026Pages: 592Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.29w x 1.51dISBN: 9780063305694About the AuthorHorowitz, Anthony: - ANTHONY HOROWITZ is one of the UK's most prolific and successful writers, unique in being active in both adult and YA fiction, TV, theatre,...

#1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a puzzling case in which her favorite sleuths must untangle a slew of secrets to expose a coldblooded murderer.When a middle-aged spinster is found strangled in her country cottage and scurrilous gossip implicates Henry, Lord Glossup, he...

It's autumn in Vermont, and the mountains are ablaze with color, just in time for Stonebridge's annual harvest festival. The village is swarming with leaf-peeping tourists, and the celebration is off to a jubilant start as residents gather for their favorite kick-off event: a...

For fans of Nita Prose, Benjamin Stevenson, and Jessa Maxwell, this delightfully witty and tightly-written new locked room culinary mystery from the MasterChef semi-finalist, cookbook writer, and bestselling author of Knife Skills for Beginners features a charming chef, delicious original recipes, and a killer...

Author: Orlando MurrinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 04/08/2026Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.44w x 1.51dISBN: 9781420533668

Spring has come to the abbey, and the community is busily preparing for the May Day weekend and the arrival of Boy Scouts who will hold their annual camp on the abbey grounds. When a Boy Scout named Antoine is sent home in disgrace,...

Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it's criminal... After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the...

A pacy, evocative dark historical thriller about a working-class private detective in 1920s London's Soho, who has grown up alongside the morally dubious characters who are key to cracking the cases he investigates, for fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura Shepherd Robinson. When Cockney...

A Wildfire Races toward the Hadley Ranch Breathe in the nostalgia of everything old red truck in book three of a new cozy mystery series. It's less than a week until Christmas in Mabank, Texas, and just a few days away from RaeLyn and...

When a barista competition comes to town, Torte's favorite pastry chef finds herself sleuthing once again--in the next installment of Ellie Alexander's beloved Bakeshop Mystery Series, Mocha, She Wrote!Summer has ushered in a new season in the charming hamlet of Ashland, Oregon. Torte is...