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Whether it's hardback or paperback, suspensful or cozy, we're reading MYSTERIES! Check out these top reads our RCLS patrons have enjoyed this summer.
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Dark Sacred Night
Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Renée Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns... |
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If You've Got It, Haunt It
Rose Pressey · Kensington
Format: Book
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"Delightful, intriguing." --Carolyn HartCookie Chanel has a passion for fashion--and a murder mystery to solve! Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique, It's Vintage, Y'All, in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia. Always on the lookout for stylish... |
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Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." It's 1996, and Reacher... |
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Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
James Lee Burke · Pocket Star Books
Pages: 465
Format: Paperback
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Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series by "America's best novelist" James Lee Burke (The Denver Post) For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life... |
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Six Years
Harlan Coben · Dutton Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterpiece of modern suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life... |
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A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George · Bantam Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldales lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where theyd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwells raiders.Now into Keldales... |
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The Late Show
Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing... |
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Better Homes and Corpses
Kathleen Bridge · Berkley
Pages: 292
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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After Meg Barrett found her fiancé still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting ... In between scouring... |
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The Witch Elm: A Novel
TANA FRENCH · Viking
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King,... |
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Ghostal Living
Kathleen Bridge · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In the latest mystery from the author of Better Homes and Corpses and Hearse and Gardens, Hamptons interior designer and antiques picker Meg Barrett uncovers a veil of spooky goings-on... The first Sag Harbor Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair is right around the corner, and interior designer... |
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Q is for Quarry: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
Sue Grafton · Putnam
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Quarry, n. An open excavation.Quarry, v. Transitive: To dig or take from. Intransitive: To delve into.Quarry, n. An object pursued or hunted; prey.She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway... |
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Hearse and Gardens: A Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery
Kathleen Bridge · Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A Hamptons interior designer deals with skeletons in the closet in the new mystery from the national bestelling author of Better Homes and Corpses. To keep her mind off the legal battle over the oceanfront cottage she's trying to buy, Meg agrees to help her friend inventory and clear out furniture... |
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The Wife Between Us
GREER HENDRICKS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times Bestseller (January 2018) ! "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" -- New York Times Book Review"Buckle up, because you won't be able to put this one down." -- Glamour "Jaw dropping. Unforgettable. Shocking." -- Publishers... |
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Murder at Archly Manor
Rosett, Sara
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A high society murder. A spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall? London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she's penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventiona |
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Vendetta
IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller.With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter,... |
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Murder on Astor Place: A Gaslight Mystery
Victoria Thompson · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
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As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a case of murder involving one of New York's richest families. |
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1st to Die
James Patterson · Time-Warner Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook
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The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionalsagainst a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestsellingauthor James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspectorwho's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing... |
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Behind Chocolate Bars: A Chocolate Covered Mystery
Kathy Aarons · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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The national bestselling author of Truffled to Death returns with a mystery full of tricks and treats... DOUBLE, DOUBLE-BOIL, AND TROUBLE ... Best friends and business partners Michelle and Erica have a monstrous to-do list as they prepare for the annual West Riverdale Halloween Festival.... |
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Fifty Fifty
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 Bestseller What are the chances that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career, Detective Harriet Blue accepts a risky reassignment to a remote town where a diary found... |
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A Toast to Murder
Allyson K. Abbott
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Mack Dalton has named plenty of murderers since she and her barstool detectives began cracking cold cases. But as a new year looms, time is ticking on the hunt for her craftiest villain yet . . . As Milwaukee counts down to New Year's Eve, bar owner Mackenzie "Mack& |
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