Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth

First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the now classic Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington. It's not only...

When Serenity's most eccentric sleuthing duo is involved, even a quiet Iowa river town can become a hotbed of murder, mayhem, and mid-century collectibles . . . Vivian's back. So is the body count. All Brandy Borne wants is a quiet first year of...

It's been four years since Secretly, Maine, has seen substantial snow. With a blizzard in the forecast, the local snowmobile club scrambles to prepare the trails with signage and permission from landowners to ride on their property. Pine Acres owner Raven Ouelette has her...

For readers of The Cloisters and Counterfeit, Natalie Lemle's debut novel offers an insider's view into the world of stolen artifacts and the hidden networks that link museums to organized crime, when a woman is forced to remember the summer she spent on an...

In a Manhattan brownstone that has long served as a manse for him and his predecessors, the Rev. Seth Ludington discovers the bones of an infant...49 years dead. With his sidekick, the acid-tonged Harriet van der Berg, Ludington struggles to resolve the mystery of...

When a mysterious figure shows up in the photograph an architect takes of the derelict Seabrink Hotel, ghostly encounters and murder are unleashed. Aubrey Spencer loves photographing classic old buildings and abandoned places that hold old secrets. The Hotel Seabrink, perched overlooking the sea,...

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF STREETS OF NASHVILLEIn Avalon Moon, a local man has gone missing and then is soon found dead in a highland meadow, side-by-side with an unknown woman. When another man and woman go missing and a female deputy is found...

The vivid, immersive nature writing of William Kent Krueger and Peter Heller meets the taut suspense of Louise Penny against the lush, sprawling landscape of rural Wisconsin in the first of a new mystery trilogy by internationally renowned animal behavior expert Patricia McConnell, bestselling...

A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated . . . After an extravagant honeymoon,...

For generations, Hollywood has attracted all sorts of dreamers--and then has slowly crushed their aspirations. Elliott Gross is one such case; fresh out of college, he moved west from New York with hopes of writing for the silver screen and living a life of...

A retired marine biologist turned amateur sleuth has an ax to grind--and a child to save--in this new standalone mystery from the author of the acclaimed Cecil Younger series. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, retired marine biologist Delphine is on the brink of throwing in...

Author: John StraleyPublisher: Soho CrimePublished: 03/17/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781641297394About the AuthorJohn Straley is the author of thirteen previous crime novels. He has won a Shamus Award and a Spotted Owl. His books have been featured on CBS...

Nora Roberts meets Yellowstone in this brand new must read series from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.When an investment guru turns up dead in the septic tank behind her husband's new Wyoming lodge, Jennifer must put the campaign that could make her...

"Endlessly Entertaining!" Publishers WeeklyBLANCHE AND THE TALENTED TENTHThe second, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning Author Barbara NeelyWhen Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to...

"Barbara Neely's skill is a force to be reckoned with!" Essence MagazineThe third, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning Author Barbara NeelyBlanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a...

"One of the best fictional detectives conjured up in years," Library JournalBLANCHE ON THE LAMBarbara Neely's Smart, Sassy and Groundbreaking Crime NovelWINNER OF THE AGATHA, ANTHONY & MACAVITY AWARDSBlanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North...

Raven Ouellette, owner of Pine Acres Cabins in Secretly, Maine, takes a break from Thanksgiving preparations to walk her dogs in the woods. When Lily, the labrador, runs off the path, Raven stumbles upon the remains of a neighbor who wasn't wearing a blaze...

Al DeLucia suspects that Abe Cromwell, a childhood bully, is claiming he has DNA proof that they're brothers to dodge arrest for threatening a lawyer in Connecticut. Al returns to his hometown of Sachem Creek from Savannah, more eager to settle an old score...

Blue Water Hues is the second book in the Ashley Grant Mystery series. Paramedic Ashley Grant is settling into her new life in the Caribbean, although sometimes she still feels like a fish out of water. The ambulance is called to a fire at...

"Some say the world will end in fire.Some say in ice..."--Robert FrostAlexa Glock is teetering on a precipice, the ground threatening to open up beneath her--and it's not just the immediate peril of retrieving a long-lost hiker's skull, given up by a melting and...