Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness. Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer's evening, there's an...

"An increasingly gripping southern-crime tale" for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. (-Booklist STARRED review)One of Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Hot New Summer Books"!Everybody's got good and bad in them. In the end, it just depends which...

In this tense thriller from the winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, PI Callie Munro is hunting a serial killer on the streets of Edinburgh. But he's already found her...As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She's had to be....

Mystery bookstore owner Samantha Washington is trying to keep her grandmother from spending her golden years in an orange jumpsuit . . . The small town of North Harbor, Michigan, is just not big enough for the two of them: flamboyant phony Maria Romanov...

After her father's death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness-- until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. What promises safety and purpose-- for both Della and the terminally ill patients who come from across...

It's 1927, and eleven-year-old Willie Radcliff is branded the worst outlaw in the Northern California hamlet of Newville. Molly Radcliff can't handle him, and Preston Radcliff is too involved with his burgeoning agricultural empire to spend time with his rapidly growing son. In 1929,...

Seventh book in the Southern Beach Cozy Mysteries series set on Amelia Island, Florida. Empty nests friends and sleuths.A long-hidden discovery in the tangles of Jewel and Craig Mantelle's backyard reveals more family history than the Sophia Island Museum has in all its files....

Artist-turned-amateur sleuth Nick Morris is back, and this time he's swapped the English countryside for beautiful Italy. Only it's not long before another dead body (or two) lands in front of him! This witty mystery is perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz. Artist Nick...

Oddball couple Jane and Simon take a private detective class and must use their (admittedly limited) skills to solve a series of mysterious disappearances in this delightful debut mystery. Jane Pye and Simon Mash are a millennial couple with a little extra time on...

The small town of North Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to have a new mystery bookstore. But before the first customer can browse its shelves, the store's owner is suspected of her own murder plot . . . Samantha Washington...

From the creator of Hill House Vintage and "Queen of Cottagecore" (Vogue), a fresh, witty, fun, and delightfully quirky cozy crime novel set in a seemingly sleepy English village for fans of Richard Osman, Parini Shroff, Benjamin Stevenson, and Anthony Horowitz. "Miss Marple for...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling "impossible crime" plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation. Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of the best known: a dead man...

First things first, stay calm. Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together,...

A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle) One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman...

A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle)One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named...

"The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun." --Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder NightTHEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies... But the husbands have a plan of their own in this...

"The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun." --Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder NightTHEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies... But the husbands have a plan of their own in this...

Author: Sue HincenbergsPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.21w x 0.80dISBN: 9780063398009About the AuthorHincenbergs, Sue: - Sue Hincenbergs is the author of The Retirement Plan as well as a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning...

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 - A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek's "thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,"...

The first novel in the clever and fast-paced Sean Stranahan Mystery Series. A Death in Eden, the seventh in the series, is now available. When a fishing guide reels in the body of a young man on the Madison, the Holy Grail of Montana...