Mystery Picks
We asked the staff what their favorite mystery books were—both the new titles that excited them and their go-to picks.
Recent Favorites
Featuring picks from the last two years.
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton
The
Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey
Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Study in Sherlock: Stories inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by
Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Our go-to picks… older favorites:
Featuring older picks that we don’t hesitate to recommend.
And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Open
Season by C. J. Box
The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell
Sofie Metropolis by Tori Carrington
Heat
Wave by Richard Castle
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Falling to Pieces by Vannetta Chapman
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Maid for Murder by Barbara Colley
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders by Jo Dereske
The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
For Kicks by Dick Francis
The
Codex by Lev Grossman
Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
First Grave On the Right by Darynda Jones
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
Constant Gardener by John LeCarre
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
The Hangman's Curse by Frank Peretti
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
The
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Dog
On It by Spencer Quinn
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
Sandstorm by James Rollins
The
Yard Dog by Sheldon Russell
A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
False Profits by Patricia Smiley
Gorky
Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson
A Test of Wills or
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
