Mysteries
 
Must Read Mysteries
I have some questions for you
by Rebecca Makkai

A successful film professor returns to teach at her alma mater and becomes determined to investigate a closed murder case, in the new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers.
Happiness falls : a novel
by Angie Kim

"We didn't call the police right away. When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand-but doing what exactly? Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?"
Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto

When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
Everyone in my family has killed someone
by Benjamin Stevenson

A self-published author of crime novel writing guides attends a reunion with his family of expert killers and investigates when a body is found outside in the snow as another storm approaches. 150,000 first printing.
The golden spoon : a novel
by Jessa Maxwell

During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as“America's Grandmother,” finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
The golden gate
by Amy Chua

While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
My murder
by Katie Williams

Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, Lou, the victim of a serial killer, readapts to being a mother and wife but wonders how much she can really trust those around her as she sets out to figure out the circumstances of her death.
A most agreeable murder : a novel
by Julia Seales

A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.
Reykjavík : A Crime Story
by Ragnar Jónasson

On the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Lara, a 14-year-old girl—one of Iceland's most infamous unsolved cases, tabloid reporter Valur Robertsson decides to write a series of articles about her, hoping to uncover new evidence before violence strikes again.
The second murderer : a Philip Marlowe mystery
by Denise Mina

When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naèive, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who does not want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
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