Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth

A Wall Street Journal "Best Mystery of 2022"A September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month Pick"Dicker salutes Agatha Christie even as he drops the reader through one trapdoor into another, so that by the end, we doubt we've ever read another novel quite like...

When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father...and herself.Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will...

When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father...and herself.Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will...

His final warning: Don't take the job. Just run. Curt Hinton and Angel Reddish are like a Hollywood buddy flick come to life: former college roommates turned lifelong best friends who always have each other's backs. So when Angel offers Curt the chance to...

Ex-police officer Blake Glover's past threatens to catch up with him and destroy his small town life in this second instalment of the Blake Glover Crime series by Bloody Scotland co-founder Gordon Brown writing as Morgan Cry. 'The Cost is a decidedly moreish thriller...

In this fresh and immersive murder mystery that riffs on crime classics, the reader is put in the role of the Great Detective, reinvestigating an infamous never-before-solved case from 1970s England. You are invited to a very special murder mystery party. The game is...

SYNOPSIS: Logan begins his first year at Westview Writing Academy, determined to escape his mother's control and finish his late father's book series, Chronicles of a Killer. To complete the story, he needs real inspiration and hopes to find it within the mysterious Ghost...

An annual conference at the iconic Grand Hotel turns tragic when Vince Walker, a preeminent automotive consultant, witnesses a brutal murder-only to realize the victim was a close friend. While on the run after being framed for the killing, he must uncover a conspiracy...

A scintillating, wickedly intricate locked-room mystery following an unconventional woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes and finds herself entangled in a real one when the client of her dream job turns up dead. Hannah "Cookie" Cooke, an interior decorator with a sideline making...

In this latest locked room mystery from the author of Cabaret Macabre, amateur sleuth Joseph Spector pits his knowledge of stage magic against the seemingly supernatural when a seance at an isolated old hospital turns deadly. An apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily...

An Ariel Moravec Occult Mystery, #4Returning to Adocentyn after an unpleasant Christmas with her parents, 18-year-old Ariel Moravec is eager to study more magic with her adept grandfather. But she barely has time to arrive before she's investigating her newest mystery: a haunting even...

The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the Thursday...

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder ClubAuthor: Richard OsmanPublisher: Random House Large Print PublishingPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10dISBN: 9798217168934About the AuthorRichard...

The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It's been a quiet year for the Thursday...

J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, and other literary legends join forces to unravel a deadly conspiracy in this gripping mystery that sweeps from the halls of Oxford to the streets of London and the shores of Loch Ness. "This multiverse...

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, featuring the country's best-loved detective In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange...

Janice Hallett, "the new queen of crime" (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub's weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence. Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Janice Hallett, "the new queen of crime" (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub's weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence. Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub...

A brilliant but solitary teenager must unlock ciphers, unearth buried clues, and reckon with the outside world as she pursues an ancient secret in this brainteasing, genre-bending conspiracy thriller. "A mystery, crime, adventure, and coming-of-age tale all wrapped up in a treasure of a...

The fourth installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix "The best Murder Club book yet. . . A poignant complement to both the fair-play mystery plot and the characters' lively humor."--The New York Times...