Best Mystery & Crime Books

A fast-moving entry in a long-running mystery series that reads like a televised procedural translated into paperback: short scenes, clear stakes, and a steady string of suspects and clues. What works best is uncomplicated momentum — cases, interrogations, and a personal-angle hook keep pages turning. The main limitation is thin character development and recurring series conventions: repetitive banter, familiar plot shortcuts, and a glossy pace that sacrifices depth. Best consumed for entertainment rather than realism or introspection.

Amber Patterson is fed up. She_x0092_s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more_x0097_a life of money and power like the one blondhaired, blueeyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.To everyone in the exclusive…

Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals.

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the…

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse.

The crimeinfested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is wellknownand cautiously avoidedby most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24hour openair drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood.

Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany richer and more readable than most histories of the period.

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his…

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934.

Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered.

Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home a place he vowed he would never go back to.Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers.

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Halfstarved and filthy, she wont tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen.

A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" (Providence Sunday Journal).You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend.

A great bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American heroand maybe the star of a new movie franchise! Reissue.

"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.

"You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service.

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus.

Sono passati 25 anni da quando Pablo Escobar, il criminale più potente e pericoloso dell'ultimo mezzo secolo, fu ucciso in un quartiere di Medellin, ma la sua storia di "nemico pubblico numero uno" è vìva e attuale.

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy By The Man Who Helped Catch HimHe was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time.

Two wildly different women one a grifter, the other an heiress are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a pageturner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a…

How far will you go to protect your family Will you keep their secrets Ignore their liesIn a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they_x0092_re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from…

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genrethe medical thrilleris now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen othersall admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedureswere…

Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy.When Emily lets a stranger step out in front of her, she never imagines that split second will change her life.

Bruno, Chief of Police is a leisurely mystery anchored in village life: markets, meals, local rituals and a decently principled policeman matter as much as the murder plot. Its useful part is atmosphere and character—Bruno’s soldier-past and his low-key methods give the book a human center. Its main limitation is pace and focus: investigation often takes a back seat to scenic digressions and sentimental moments, so readers expecting tightly plotted suspense or technical policing won’t find that here.

There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vicecommissario of police and a genius at detection.

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteenyear marriage has finally gotten too interesting...Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs.

"True crime devotees won't want to miss this one!"Publishers Weekly "Very engrossing . . . in the finest you can't put it down tradition." Hartford Courant "This factual account of each murder, through the conviction of the killer, has all the excitement of a firstrate work of…

The world knows Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, nononsense detectivethe toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights.

From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel drawn from reallife historical events: the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a governmentbuilt dam is about to flood an Appalachian townand a little girl goes missing.A river…

The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.

Those stories you hear The ones about things that only come out at night Things that feed on blood, feed on us Got news for you: they_x0092_re true. Only it_x0092_s not like the movies or old man Stoker_x0092_s storybook. It_x0092_s worse.

Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS.

Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA NonFiction DaggerChronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937.

"The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson's singular, Poelike gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off."_x0097_Time Out…

The early 1980s found Cliff Hardy well established as a private investigator but still battling his demons. He has quit smoking and moderated his drinking.

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver.

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prizewinning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer.

On St Valentine's day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. This book was first published in 1967.

_x0093_Delicious and addictive._x0094__x0097_Salon.com _x0093_Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel._x0094__x0097_CNN _x0093_What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis_x0092_s Lew Griffin walking the back…

With a thrilling, fastpaced narrative, awardwinning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal and gave Chicago its most famous story.

Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh_x0092_s acclaimed series continues.Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twentythree years ago.

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's bestloved home cooking restaurantAfter losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady devoted to…

An Alabama boy_x0092_s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times_x0096_bestselling author of Swan Song.It_x0092_s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama.

From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly What_x0092_s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to…

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." The New York Times…

In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix orginal series Longmire, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hitandrun accident involving a young motorcyclist…

Quentin Tarantino director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey…

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPENING IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE _x0093_This book is a public service._x0094_ _x0097_ MICHELLE MALKIN, founder of Twitchy and author of Culture of Corruption_x0093_Every American needs to read Gosnell._x0094_ _x0097_ DAVID DALEIDEN, the Center for…

With compelling style and suspense this truecrime book reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj.

In the course of researching her bestselling books, McDermid has become familiar with many branches of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science and the people who make sure that for murderers, there is no hiding place.

Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won_x0092_t see comingA mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from…

Thirteen yearold Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street.

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton_x0092_s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton_x0097_until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.That_x0092_s not Pat_x0092_s biggest problem.

A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrillkilling of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . .

Exciting fiction premiere from beloved "New York Times" bestselling author Beth Moore.Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close.

protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future.

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty_x0097_even if that meant taking on an entire town.

In 1913, 13yearold Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a collegeeducated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines.

HARRY DRESDEN _x0097_ WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does.

An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times "Girl in the Blue Coat is a powerful, compelling comingofage story set against the dark and dangerous backdrop of World War II.

A Newbery Honor BookA hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred.

There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost.

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the coldblooded TateLaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers.

You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey.

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twentyyearold American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History.

What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dadJasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was yearround.