Mystery

K.J. Larsen / Liar, Liar ( Cat DeLuca Mysteries - Book 1)

Liar, Liar, the first book in the Cat DeLuca Mysteries, has it all: a strong plot, memorable characters, and an astonishing finish.Cat DeLuca’s short, stormy marriage to run-around Johnnie Ricco was a crash course in infidelity. It taught her...

Derek Raymond / How the Dead Live ( Factory Series - Book 3 )

“A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high-fl own philosophy.”— Prospect.  The third novel in the acclaimed Factory crime series sees Derek Raymond’s nameless detective leave London for a remote village, where...

Sofie Kelly / Final Catcall ( Magical Cats Mystery - Book 5)

Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson gets plenty of entertainment from her extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules. But when a theatre troupe stumbles into more tragedy than it bargained for, it’s up to Kathleen to play detective.... With her...

Karen Kijewski / Katwalk ( Kat Colorado - Book 1)

When private eye Kat Colorado accepts a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman.      All of our books are second...

S.W. Williams / Small Deaths

A historical thriller set behind the lines on the Western Front during the First World War where a serial killer is running loose. Set in the run-up to the battle of Cambrai in 1917.         All of our books are second...

Anna Dean / A Woman of Consequence ( Dido Kent - Book 3)

On a visit to the ruins of Madderstone Abbey, Penelope Lambe suffers a bad fall and before she slips into unconscious, manages to say 'I saw her, it was her'. Some take these words to mean that Penelope saw the Grey Nun, the ghost reputed to haunt...

Jonathan Lee / The Great Mistake

The ‘Father of Greater New York’ is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew...

William Mayne / A Swarm in May ( Choir School - Book 1 )

John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be Beekeeper - a traditional role. One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the...

Shamini Flint / A Calamitous Chinese Killing ( Inspector Singh Investigates - Book 6 )

Inspector Singh's expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political intrigue to get to the bottom of a very murky and complex crime Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a...

Shamini Flint / A Frightfully English Execution ( Inspector Singh Investigates - Book 7)

Inspector Singh is irate. He's been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in a job for paper pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned.And as if that isn't bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for...

James McCreet / The Thieves' Labyrinth ( Albert Newsome - Book 3)

A death on Waterloo bridge, a body in the river near Wapping, a lady robbed on Wych Street – all common enough daily incidents in early Victorian London. But when an outrageous theft is committed at the port, the clues from these seemingly...

Edward Marston / The Owls of Gloucester ( Domesday - Book 10)

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of its monks. The Abbot, ill-equipped to deal with such a heinous crime, is stunned by the Sheriff's belief that one of the monks is guilty. This is the confusion that that greets...

Boris Akunin / He Lover of Death ( An Erast Fandorin Mystery)

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so...

James Anderson / The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks ( Burford Family - Book 3 )

And then there were eight ...Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley, his beautiful country mansion. After all, the previous two could at best be described as disastrous, since a couple of their...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 12 ) (Hardback)

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong,...

Aaron Elkins, Charlotte Elkins / On the Fringe (Hardback)

A Lee Ofsted mystery. Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fianc?, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go awry,...

Lilian Jackson Braun / The Cat Who Went up the Creek (Hardback)

While vacationing in the nearby town of Black Creek at the Nutcracker Inn, James Qwilleran is gathering plenty of material for his book, "Tall and Short Tales". His two companions, Koko and Yum Yum, who much prefer the spaciousness of their home, at...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs (Hardback)

Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her...

Aaron Elkins / Good Blood (Hardback) (A Gideon Oliver Novel - Book 11 )

Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R & R. They're guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only...

Margaret Frazer / The Outlaw's Tale (Hardback) ( A Sister Frevisse Novel - Book 3 )

ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDERLeaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her...

Jeff Crook / The Sleeping and the Dead: A Mystery (Hardback)

A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistanceJackie Lyons, a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department, is trying to put her life back together. Her husband has served her with divorce papers,...

David Dickinson / Death on the Holy Mountain (Hardback) ( A Lord Francis Powerscourt Novel - Book 7 )

Praise for the Powerscourt “Fine prose, high society, and [a] complex plot recommend this series.”— Library Journal“One hopes to see more of Lord Powerscourt and his friends in the near future.”— Publishers...

Michael Robertson / The Brothers of Baker Street (Hardback)

The second in a highly original and absolutely marvelous series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street--and begin receiving mail addressed to Sherlock HolmesWhen brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath choose 221B Baker Street as...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes #3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Hardback)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his...

Alanna Knight / The Inspector's Daughter (Hardback)

Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton’s Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new...

Deborah Grabien / Rock & Roll Never Forgets (Hardback)

The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is that ruthless tabloid biographer Perry Dillon is planning a tell-all history of their group. The issue hits hardest for English ex-pat guitarist JP Kinkaid; with...

Roger Johns / River of Secrets (Hardback)

When a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption in River of Secrets, a gripping new mystery from Roger Johns.Herbert Marioneaux, a...

Stephen Greenleaf / Southern Cross (Hardback)

A John Marshall Tanner Mystery When a racist hate group, the Alliance for Southern Pride, sentences an old friend to die, John Marshall Tanner's investigation leads to South Carolina along a trail of prejudice spanning generations.   All of our...

Joan Broadhead / The Secret of World's End Cottage - Girls Mystery Stories (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Aaron Elkins , Charlotte Elkins / On the Fringe (Hardback) ( A Lee Ofsted Novel - Book 5 )

A Lee Ofsted mystery Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fiancé, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go...

Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( A Hercule Poirot Novel) - HB

Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the...

Joanne Fluke / Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hardback) (A Hannah Swensen Novel)

This summer has been warmer than usual in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen is trying to beat the heat both in and out of her bakery kitchen. But she's about to find out the hard way that nothing cools off a hot summer day like cold-blooded murder...

Hugh C. Rae / The House at Balnesmoor (Hardback)

Summer on the moors, and Norman Land makes a gruesome discovery near his country retreat. The bodies of two Glasgow schoolgirls are buried in the heather - and Inspector McGraig's investigation into the lives of this remote Highland community leads him...

Caroline Lawrence / The Slave-girl from Jerusalem ( (The Roman Mysteries - Book 13 ) Hardback)

This exciting adventure recreates the siege of Masada and reveals important developments in Jonathan's struggle with his guilt over past events. Also, there's terrific insight into the workings of the Roman legal system in a page-turning court room drama...

Toni L.P. Kelner / Wed and Buried: A Laura Fleming Mystery (Large Print) (Hardback)

Since the birth of her six-month-old daughter, Laura Fleming has wanted to do nothing but camp out in her Boston apartment and dream of having one good night's sleep. But then her Aunt Nora calls to say there's trouble brewing back home in Byerly, North...

David Housewright / Like to Die (Hardback)

A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an...

Kinley Roby / Death In a Hammock (Hardback)

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Hank Early / Echoes of the Fall (Hardback)

Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets.After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst...

Cara Black / Murder in the Latin Quarter (Hardback)

When a Haitian woman arrives at the Paris office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is P.I. Aimée Leduc’s sister, Aimée must dig into her father’s past to solve a murderA virtual orphan since her mother’s desertion...

Michael Sims / The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (Hardback)

The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead...

Carole Nelson Douglas / Irene At Large (Hardback)

When a stranger in Asian garb is poisoned at the feet of Nell Huxliegh, Irene Adler does a little investigating, discovering that the Asian was actually an Englishman and that Dr. Watson's life is in danger.     All of our books are second...

Philip Cooper / Whodunnit at Wishgrove Farm? (Large Paperback)

''My name is Jerrol Buckner. I am a retired cop. I continued working alongside my pension to solve crime. A man was arrested by the newly passed out CID for charges of rape. By the time the case got to me from the aunt of man it was well on its way to...

Ed Gorman ( Editor) / The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2: Second Annual Collection (Large Paperback)

It’s not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Second Annual Collection rises to that challenge, inviting you to discover what Kirkus...

Richard Zimler / The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (Large Paperback)

A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of "The Name of the Rose", set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century. The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a...

Carolyn McCrae / Second Strand (Large Paperback)

Second Strand is an excellently written, well-plotted murder mystery and is the 7th novel from award-winning author Carolyn McCrae.Alex and Teri are on the verge of breaking up after 12 years together when their elderly neighbour is found dying and their...

Gregory Harris / The Endicott Evil (Large Paperback)

In Victorian London, there exists no greater investigative team than master sleuth Colin Pendragon and his loyal partner, Ethan Pruitt. But it will take all their powers of deduction to determine if a fatal fall was a result of misery or murder . . ...

Katherine V. Forrest / The Beverly Malibu (Large Paperback)

Katherine Forrest's third groundbreaking mystery returns.As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American...

Nero Blanc / A Crossword To Die For (Large Paperback)

When Belle's deadbeat father drops dead of an apparent heart attack, she and Rosco become suspicious about the timing of his demise and set out to investigate her late father's strange past, in an entertaining whodunit that also features six crossword...

Jasper Fforde / One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Large Paperback)

IT IS A TIME OF UNREST IN THE BOOKWORLD.Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this...

Mary Devlin Lynch , Debbie Devlin Zook / The Missing Quilter (Large Paperback)

Her best friend, Olivia, is missing! Zoey Hathaway calls her mom and amateur sleuth, Miranda, to come to Boston and help them find her. But before they can get her back, Miranda goes missing! A frantic Zoey contacts Gabe Downing, her mother’s...

Larry D. Sweazy / See Also Murder (Large Paperback)

1964: Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed...

Carrie Bebris / The Suspicion at Sanditon (Or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham): A Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...