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Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense!
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The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
F FOL
A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.
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The Lake House
by Kate Morton
F MOR
Decades after the disappearance of her toddler brother shatters her family, successful author Alice Edevane is approached by a young London police force detective who triggers a series of events that lead to a shocking revelation.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
F PRE
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
F CLI
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
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Above the Bay of Angels
by Rhys Bowen
M BOW
When a twist of fate lands her in Queen Victoria’s kitchen, a talented young chef is selected to accompany a royal retinue, only to be wrongly implicated in a murder.
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Down the River Unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
M MOS
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops.
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An Unwanted Guest
by Shari Lapeña
F LAP
Weathering a storm that has cut them off from the outside world, the guests at a Catskills skiing lodge panic as an unknown assailant starts killing them off one by one.
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The Paris Librarian : A Hugo Marston Novel
by Mark Pryor
F PRY
When his friend, Paul Rogers, dies under mysterious circumstances in a locked room at the American Library in Paris, Hugo Marston decides to investigate and must return to the scene of a decades-old crime involving an American actress who was rumored to have killed an SS officer in 1944.
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Last Day
by Luanne Rice
F RIC
When her sister is murdered amid the theft of a valuable painting, an eerie echo of their mother’s murder 20 years earlier, pilot Beth teams up with the case’s original detective and childhood friends to identify a killer.
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The Art Forger
by Barbara A. Shapiro
F SHA
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.
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The Witch Elm
by Tana French
F FRE
Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history.
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Mr. Nobody
by Catherine Steadman
F STE
Treating a man found on the beach with no memory of his identity, a neuropsychologist who would hide her own past is confronted by her patient’s mysterious knowledge of her secrets.
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The Silent Dead : A Mystery
by Tetsuya Honda
M HON
Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police searches for a serial killer responsible for 12 murders in which all the victims were wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and her only possible clue involves something on the dark web known as “Strawberry Night.”
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Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
F MUL
Hired resentfully into the Atlanta Police Department of 1948, war veterans Lucious Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers and are significantly limited in their ability to do their jobs before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman.
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The Dry
by Jane Harper
M HAR
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
F LOC
Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman.
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Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
F JEW
Struggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter and who compels a wrenching search for answers.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
by Liv Constantine
F CON
A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.
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A Simple Favor
by Darcey Bell
F BEL
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, an inexplicable event that prompts her to reach out to her blog readers and the missing woman's handsome husband before nightmarish realities come to light.
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An Anonymous Girl
by Greer Hendricks
F HEN
Participating in a psychology study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality.
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