Adult Mystery & Suspense

These mystery and suspense books are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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The president's shadow / James Patterson & Richard DiLallo.
"For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston, and his alter ego, The Shadow, has possessed an array of mental and physical powers: scientific skills, shape-shifting ability, and mind control. When a series of deadly natural disasters strike the planet, he immedia…
Making friends can be murder / Kathleen West.
"It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, gets invited to join a group of women who share her same (very common) name. For years Sarah has received all types of correspondence intende…
Someone knows : a novel / Vi Keeland.
"As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. …
Her first mistake / Kendra Elliot.
"Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn’t forgotten. Today the FBI is tackling a fresh perspective on the case and looking to…
A happy marriage / A.R. Torre.
"Los Angeles homicide detective Dinah Marino may have a complicated relationship with her family, but her psychiatrist husband, Joe, makes her feel safe, secure, and happy. She couldn’t want for a more loving or trusting man. But throughout their ten-year…
Fox : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
"Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biograph…
The Rushworth family plot / Claudia Gray.
"Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand each other perfectly; it’s a pity their families do not. A series of misunderstandings, misplaced pride, and—indeed—prejudice, has led their parents to deem the pair unsuited to wed. Now, with the Season approa…
Thus with a kiss I die / Christina Dodd.
"'Woe, for I am the bug that meets the windshield's might, No longer the speeding glass, smooth, clean and bright . . .' You’re right. I, Rosie Montague of Verona, am lousy at iambic pentameter and Shakespeare speak, but you get the point: Sometimes you’…
El Dorado Drive : a novel / Megan Abbott.
"All I want is to be innocent again. But that’s not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel. The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the young…
It happened on the lake / Lisa Jackson.
"The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night t…
The red queen / Martha Grimes.
"One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life--from his widow, Alice, to the staff …
An amateur sleuth's guide to murder / Lynn Cahoon.
"Meg Gates could use a guidebook for life. Indeed, she’s faced some challenges. She dropped out of college to work for a tech startup that failed—and her fiancé just took her bridesmaid to Italy on what was supposed to be Meg’s honeymoon. Now, at twenty-…
A daughter's guide to mothers and murder / Dianne Freeman.
"Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London, Alicia Stoke-Whitney, seeks Frances’s help to investigate a personal matter. Alicia’s daughter is being courted by Carlson Deaver, a wealthy Am…
Kill your darlings : a novel / Peter Swanson.
"Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all gro…
Beach reads and deadly deeds / Allison Brennan.
"Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Mysteries, romances, thrillers…boo…
Grave words / Gerri Lewis.
"Winter Snow has had it! With her business in a death drought, her best friend Scoop implicated in a string of arsons, and an obituary listing Winter herself as deceased, her life is heating up. But just as she’s trying to cool things down, she receives h…
A shipwreck in Fiji / Nilima Rao.
"Fiji, 1915. Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool's errands. First: investigate strange reports o…
A novel murder : a mystery / E. C. Nevin.
"In the quaint English town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things bookish and murderous. Author Jane Hepburn is determined to make her time at the Killer Lines festival worthwhile. This is her chance to c…
One final turn / Ashley Weaver.
"Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all…
Great black hope : a novel / Rob Franklin.
"An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situat…
Welcome to murder week : a novel / Karen Dukess.
"When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forc…
Murder takes a vacation : a novel / Laura Lippman.
"Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the wor…
Knave of diamonds / Laurie R. King.
"When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake …
So far gone : a novel / Jess Walter.
"Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hu…
With a vengeance : a novel / Riley Sager.
"In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family's downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journe…
A most puzzling murder : a novel / Bianca Marais
"How do you solve a murder that hasn't happened yet? Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made her a recluse, an existence she’s content to endure until a letter arrives i…
The Surf House / Lucy Clarke.
"High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travelers chasing sunshine and waves. But the idyll hides a dark mystery. And when Bea washes in, seeking refuge after a dangerous encounter in …
Homemaker / Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare.
"Prairie Nightingale is both the midlife mother of two teenage girls and a canny entrepreneur who has turned homemaking into a salaried profession. She's also fascinated with the gritty details of other people's lives. So when seemingly perfect Lisa Radcl…
Don't say a word / David Mark.
"North of England. Cumbria. While Salome Delaney is trying to juggle daily life, she struggles to keep it all together. Looking after her ex-boyfriend’s daughters, trying to do her job as a Collision Investigation Officer and dealing with the aftermath of…
King of ashes : a novel / S. A. Cosby.
"When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and …
Stuart Woods' finders keepers / by Brett Battles.
"After attending an Arrington properties meeting at the group’s newest location, The Vineyard Arrington on Martha’s Vineyard, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter. Over lunch, Jack requests Stone’s help in…
Death at the White Hart : a novel / Chris Chibnall.
"Nothing keeps a village together like secrets. The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots on England’s coast. But now, it’s a disturbingly macabre crime scene. A man is found dead, tied to a chair in the middl…
Angelhunting / Ji Hong Sayo.
"Having tried his hand at medicine, pickpocketing, and good old-fashioned thuggery, Seamus Caron has finally settled into life as a private detective, hunting down lost money and wandering husbands. It's not glamorous work, but it pays the bills and provi…
The gravedigger's almanac : a novel / Oliver Pötzsch ; translated from the German by Lisa Reinhardt.
"Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city’s famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who finds solace amongst the dead as well as in the writing the pages of the first almanac of his profession. But his fragi…
Badlands / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
"In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found--and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found …
The French honeymoon : a novel / Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau.
"Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea. This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash. When she catches a glimpse of newlyweds Cassie and Olivi…
What remains of Teague House / Stacy Johns.
"All families are complicated. But not all families have bodies buried in their backyard. One put there just that week... When the Rawlins family matriarch unexpectedly passes, all three adult children rush home. What they find is a house bursting with g…
To catch a spy : a mystery / Mark ONeill.
"It's been a year since John Robie, notorious Riviera jewel thief, proved his innocence by catching a copycat burglar. And it's been a year since John has seen Francie Stevens, the adventurous socialite who not only saw through his disguise, but helped hi…
The first gentleman : a thriller / Bill Clinton and James Patterson
"The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse…
Desperate deadly widows : a novel / Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie.
"Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives. Now, Krystle fights to keep their …
City of destruction / Vaseem Khan
"Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighb…
Forget me not / M. J. Arlidge.
"When local teenager Naomi goes missing, Detective Inspector Helen Grace is her only hope. But with the police force under fire from all sides as a gang war grips the city, Helen will have to defy direct orders to search for her. Helen’s secret investig…
Espresso shots & murder plots / Audrey Alden.
"Mount Pleasant was supposed to be Lila Bennett’s fresh start—away from the noise of city life, in a quaint bookstore café where the coffee is warm and the books are better. But when a local entrepreneur is found dead just before the town’s annual Blessin…
Fire in the hole : stories / Elmore Leonard.
In the title story U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they're now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from "Out of Sight," returns in "Karen Makes Out," once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with busines…
The unlikely spy / Daniel Silva.
"'In wartime,' Winston Churchill wrote, 'truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.' For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable—a history professor named Alfred Vi…
The narrows / Michael Connelly.
"FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Form…
Lost light / Michael Connelly.
"The vision has haunted him for four years—a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant’s death was linked with the violent thef…
Blue wolf in green fire / Joseph Heywood.
"A string of protests by animal-rights activists appear to have culminated in a double murder at a wolf lab, which releases into the wild a rare animal: a blue wolf. To the Ojibwa a blue wolf means luck; but if captured or killed, Armageddon. Grady Servic…
Night passage / Robert B. Parker.
"After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief.…
The fire concerto / Sarah Landenwich.
"Clara Bishop hasn’t touched a piano since a concert hall fire nearly took her life a decade ago, ending her career as a rising star in the world of classical music. Significantly scarred and unable to play, she has turned away from everything and everyon…
Not they who soar / Amanda Flower.
"Summer 1904. Katharine and her best friend from Oberlin College, Margaret Goodwin Meacham, are thrilled to attend the St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, for the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Not only is it a grand, internati…
Doggone bones / Carolyn Haines.
"After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched right out of her backyard in Sunflower County, MS, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency are up to their ears in concerned pet owners. Could Tilly's work liberating abused animal…
The diva poaches a bad egg / Krista Davis.
"Stylish brunches are all the rage this autumn in Old Town Alexandria, and everyone’s posting their parties on social media. But while Domestic Diva Sophie Winston juggles her event-filled calendar, she’s approached by local designer Mitzi Lawson—who is a…
Rockets' red glare / William Webster & Dick Lochte.
"After two wilderness guides are gunned down at a remote campsite in a nearby national forest, it’s determined that the fatal shots came from Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation. Tribal Police Deputy Sage Mendiluze is called in to hike the rugged back…
Murder runs in the family / Tamara Berry.
"Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to the luxury accommodations of her gr…
Kaua'i storm / Tori Eldridge.
"After ten years as a national park ranger in Oregon, Makalani Pahukula is back on Kaua‘i for her grandmother’s birthday. Having been gone for so long, Makalani finds the disconnect with her people and her struggles have never been more profound. Neither …
The very best of care : a novel / Julie Hatch.
"New York, 2012. A young mother stumbles on a disturbing secret: the health system is so broken that the lives of newborns and the unborn are no longer safe. Three and a half months before her due date, Sophie Young is forced to deliver her tiny two-poun…
The art of murder / Maggie Giles.
"In the tranquil town of Cedar Plains, where safety and community are sacred, Courtney Faith’s ideal life is upended by a body found on a local farm, shattering her peaceful existence. Her friend, Alexa Huston, intimately familiar with chaos, gets entangl…
The last illusion of Paige White : a novel / Vanessa McCausland.
"Gorgeous, charismatic Paige White has always lived a picture-perfect life. Her meticulously curated social pages exude an old-fashioned, wholesome lifestyle set against a picturesque town in Australia. Images of breakfasts lakeside with her daughter, sun…
We can't save you : a tale of politics, murder, and Maine / Thomas E. Ricks.
"When a group of young Native Americans launches a series of protests against climate change and its effects on the waters and woods of Maine, veteran FBI agent Ryan Tapia is assigned to monitor the movement. The protestors, who become determined to split…
Strange houses / Uketsu ; translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.
"When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the b…
Zero saints : a barrio noir / Gabino Iglesias.
"Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend’s head and feed the kid’s fingers to…somet…
Holmes and Moriarty : a novel / Gareth Rubin.
"Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been hired by actor George Reynolds. George wants them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every night are the same people, only wearing disguises. Is something sinister …
Hidden nature / Nora Roberts.
"Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot…
The expat affair : a novel / Kimberly Belle.
"An American expat's startling discovery plunges her into the deadly world of Amsterdam's diamond industry. Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She's never been the type for a one-night stand, but this move is all about adventure, and Xander…
Their double lives / Jaime Lynn Hendricks.
"A down-on-her-luck waitress at a posh New Jersey country club, Kim Valva couldn't be living a more different life from the carefree socialites she serves. Her live-in boyfriend recently cheated on her, her social life is in shambles, and her dog needs a …
Eat, slay, love / Julie Mae Cohen.
"Marina gave up her career as a chef to raise her children, but her divorce has left her harried, lonely, and the black sheep of her family. It’s also left her in dire financial straits. Opal is a post-menopausal fitness guru who spends her days chasing …
A murder for Miss Hortense / Mel Pennant.
"Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great pride in her home, starching her lace curtains bright white, a…
Lie in the tide / Holly Danvers.
"It’s been twenty years since Mori, Avery, Remi and Calista last saw each other. As they reconnect on Cape Cod to celebrate Calista’s 40th birthday, each one hides a painful and devastating secret. Former introvert, Mori is now a bestselling erotica auth…
Killing Eve. Die for me / Luke Jennings.
"Leaving behind everything and everyone she has ever known, Eve has walked out of her old life and into a shipping container headed for Russia. Locked in the darkness with her is Villanelle, whose sights are set on her most high-profile targets to date. U…
Killing Eve. No tomorrow / Luke Jennings.
"In Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve has discovered that a senior intelligence officer is in the pay of the Twelve--the secretive and subversive organization that employs Villanelle--an…
Dead of night / Lisa Gray.
"Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn't written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping t…
Big Ben strikes eleven : a London mystery / David Magarshack ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.
"Sir Robert Boniface, the industrial and financial tycoon – and stalwart of the British Cabinet – has been found shot dead in his blue limousine on a warm Friday evening in the Vale of Health, Hampstead Heath. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is …
Our last wild days : a novel / Anna Bailey.
"The Labasques aren’t like other families. Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn’t want…
Making a killing : a novel / Cara Hunter.
"When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case—the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford—he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims. Two months later, a d…
The spirit moves / Carol J. Perry.
"When the body of 'how-to' book writer Terry Holiday is found by Aster Paterson in her flower garden, the townspeople of Haven are shocked. But they’re even more surprised when the beloved bookshop owner insists that the spirit of her late husband Peter P…
Hush little fire : a novel / Judith Newcomb Stiles.
"When Mary Newcombe dutifully returns to Cape Cod with her twelve-year-old son to celebrate Christmas with her adoptive mother, Birdie, the only part of the trip she looks forward to is digging beach clay for pottery to stoke her beloved kiln. But while s…
Murder in Mesopotamia / Agatha Christie.
"Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre…
Buffalo justice / W. Michael Gear ; Kathleen O'Neal Gear.
"When high-profile conservation lawyer Ryman Banks is gunned down on his own doorstep, Montana Department of Justice Agent Jillian Masterson is assigned to the case. What should be a routine investigation quickly spirals into a deadly web of greed, decept…
The giveaway : the Clay Blackburn story / Owen Hill.
"Clay Blackburn—poet, book scout, and sometimes detective—cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a 'defrocked' FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sen…
The Templar secret / Scott Mariani.
"A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France. A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge. And deep in the heart of the Vatican, a team of agents charged with making sure no one discovers what connects …
Murder at the allotment / Julie Wassmer.
"Pearl’s tiny garden of Eden is transformed into a battlefield when the out of towners come to Whitstable… Pearl Nolan’s coastal allotment has always been a quiet haven--somewhere for her to relax and cultivate special ingredients for her restaurant, The …
Impact of evidence : a Welsh borders mystery / Carol Carnac ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.
"Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known 'menace on the roads', has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction. But when the p…
The moonlight child / Karen McQuestion.
"On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But…