Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

Dressed only in an oversized t-shirt, with a burlap sack covering her head, the body of a girl swings gently from the branches in the breeze. A newly-lit candle burns on the ground below. The killer was here just moments ago...Taking a much-needed break...

A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the...

"If you like Tana French, you will love this one. It's fun and suspenseful and it kept me up late." --Jenna Bush Hager Eilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock best known for the unsolved mystery of the three lighthouse keepers who vanished back...

Sheriff Lew Ferris has a new partner in crime in the fourth installment in Victoria Houston's atmospheric mystery series, perfect for fans of Marc Cameron and Nevada Barr. It's early September when a competitor in a high school fishing tournament is approached by a...

Sheriff Lew Ferris has a new partner in crime in the fourth installment in Victoria Houston's atmospheric mystery series, perfect for fans of Marc Cameron and Nevada Barr. It's early September when a competitor in a high school fishing tournament is approached by a...

Can she uncover her buried past... And protect her unborn child? The dead woman in the tub is right out of Deputy Livvy Walsh's worst nightmare, the one that's haunted her for decades. With no memory of her life before age six, the pregnant...

There are two dead bodies in Idaho, and the gun used to kill them has been traced back to a sixteen-year-old robbery in Misted Pines.Sheriff Harry Moran has a broken heart and a stack of case files on his desk that the corrupt sheriff...

"Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time" for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson's "Excellent...perfectly executed...genuinely suspenseful" (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot. "Entertaining...one gonzo plot twist follows the next...loads of...

"Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time" for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson's "Excellent...perfectly executed...genuinely suspenseful" (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot. "Entertaining...one gonzo plot twist follows the next...loads of...

A true-crime author gets swept up in a murder plot in a psychological thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson. "Excellent ... perfectly executed ... genuinely suspenseful, even shocking." --Booklist NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, California's newest private investigator, Detective Harry Bosch, must track down a missing heir while helping a police department connect the dots on a dangerous cold case.Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't...

The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths--author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries--about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who's performing their deadly tricks."Captivating."--Wall Street Journal "An absorbing...

Lightning flashes overhead as she walks along the isolated path out of town. She listens to the rumble of thunder until she hears the unmistakable sound of heavy boots on the path behind her. She starts to run, but he's faster and she already...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!"Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- ParadeThe instant NYT bestseller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, author of...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!"Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- ParadeThe instant NYT bestseller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, author of...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!"Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- ParadeThe instant NYT bestseller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, author of...

Detective Joe Burgess Races Against Time in Those Who Choose Evil, a Joe Burgess Murder Mystery Thriller from Kate Flora-Portland, Maine-Detective Joe Burgess ends many nights with a quiet ritual-a visit to the park where the ocean breeze blends with memories of past cases....

When two girls go missing in the Montana mountains, the unforgiving wilderness might not be the only threat to their safety. Alyssa Wyatt and her squad must find them in the dangerous woods, before time runs out... Two missing girls. One powerful family. A...

Fans of Steven F. Havill's Posadas County and Lisa Regan's Josie Quinn series will enjoy this fascinating and complex story set in small-town Missouri. "Balances well-developed characters and dry humor with a solid police procedural" - Library Journal Starred Review of Dangerous Consequences When...

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case--and he's about to come face-to-face with his nemesis. Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission...