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New Mystery, Thrillers, & Historical Fiction |
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The 23rd midnight
by James Patterson
When an obsessed maniac turns serial killer Evan Burke's true-crime story into a playbook, adding some of his own gruesome touches, Detective Lindsay Boxer, who put Burke in jail, tracks this elusive suspect, who is determined to put an end to the Murder Club.
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The way of the bear
by Anne Hillerman
Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill and intuition to solve a series of murders involving fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed and rejected love linked to Utah's Bears Ears National Park.
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Dirty laundry : a novel
by Disha Bose
A clique of mothers in a small Irish village react to the murder of their queen bee, whose picture-perfect life made easy money on Instagram and whose death provided each of them something to gain.
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I'll stop the world : a novel
by Lauren Thoman
When a crazy twist of fate sends him back to 1985, Justin Warren meets determined optimist Rose Yin, and in a series of events that reverberate through multiple lifetimes, they have a week to get him unstuck in time and solve a murder that hasn't happened yet.
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The house on Prytania
by Karen White
When Beau Ryan asks her for a favor that threatens to stall her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backwards, Nola Trenholm, torn between helping him and protecting herself, realizes until it's almost too late why ghosts are haunting her house, throwing her and Beau together to fight a common enemy.
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The body by the sea
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
Calling the town of Convarneau home, Commissaire Georges Dupin finds his plans of hosting his future in-laws interrupted by the discovery of a body and, with only two new colleagues to help, is tasked with finding out what happened to Doctor Chaboseau.
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Murder under a red moon / : A 1920s Bangalore Mystery
by Harini Nagendra
"When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law--during the blood moon eclipse, no less--she doesn't expect, once again, to stumble upon a murder. With anti-British sentiment on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence, and the fight for women's suffrage gaining steam, Bangalore is turning out to be a far more dangerous and treacherous place than Kaveri ever imagined--and everyone's motives are suspect. Together with the Bangalore Detectives Club--a mixed bag of street urchins, nosy neighbours, an ex-prostitute, and a policeman's wife--Kaveri once again sleuths in her sari and hunts for clues in her beloved 1920s Ford"
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I'll stop the world : a novel
by Lauren Thoman
When a crazy twist of fate sends him back to 1985, Justin Warren meets determined optimist Rose Yin, and in a series of events that reverberate through multiple lifetimes, they have a week to get him unstuck in time and solve a murder that hasn't happened yet.
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Killing me
by Michelle Gagnon
After escaping a serial killer, Amber Jamison ends up at a seedy motel in Las Vegas where she teams up with a noir-obsessed manager and a sex worker to fend of the world's most prolific killer despite the odds being stacked against her.
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The quantum solution : an Evan Ryder novel
by Eric Lustbader
"Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world's leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global warsof power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the world has seen before--the present and future war of weaponized quantum technology. When an elite Russian scientist and the American Secretary of Defense die, at the same time half a world apart, of inexplicable sudden catastrophic brain damage, the world's intelligence services realize that the quantum war has truly begun. Ryder and her long-time partner, Ben Butler, will risk their lives to discover who the true combatants are, racing against the doomsday scenario of all-out war between America and Russia"
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Rogue justice : a thriller
by Stacey Abrams
Asked by a fellow law clerk to look into his boss's death, Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene, after another shocking murder, is led to a list of names– all judges on the FISA Court, also known as America's“secret court”– and must race the clock to stop an unprecedented national crisis.
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The old woman with the knife : a novel
by Pyæong-mo Ku
At sixty-five, Hornclaw, an assassin who kills with ruthless efficiency, is ready to cash out on her share of the company, but when a slip-up results in an unexpected connection, Hornclaw's final chapter in her career may also mark a bloody end to her life
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Bad summer people
by Emma Rosenblum
Two Fire Island queen bees and their single friend who meant to spend summertime relaxing and gossiping discover a body face down off the side of the boardwalk and in addition to uncovering the murderer also reveal infidelity and backstabbing.
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The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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Only the beautiful
by Susan Meissner
In 1947, Helen Calvert, returning to her brother's vineyard in America for good after witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler's brutal pursuit of hereditary purity, is drawn into battle at home when she discovers what really happened to the vinedresser's pregnant daughter she had long ago befriended.
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The long march home : a World War II novel of the Pacific
by Marcus Brotherton
"Inspired by a true story, three best friends from Mobile, Alabama are captured in the Philippines during WWII--they vow to return home together. They struggle to survive against impossible odds that becomes known as the Bataan Death March"
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Sell us the rope : a novel
by Stephen May
Revealing the intense manipulation, the keen ambition and the daring that reshaped Russia into the Soviet Union, this inventive novel set in 1907 follows 27-year-old Stalin as he forges alliances while struggling to break free from his impoverished, violent past to become one of the world's most infamous dictators.
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