Love a good mystery?
Try some of these great COLD CASE reads.
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Under the Cold Bright Lights
Disher, Garry
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A cold-case investigator will stop at nothing to find justice in this gripping standalone by Australian crime legend Garry Disher.
The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way - and gets results. He stil |
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Bitter Falls
Rachel Caine · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback
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An Amazon Charts, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling series. She's investigating a cold case no one else could - by going places no else would dare. In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until... |
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn't add up, and a girl who's determined to find the real killer--but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Everyone... |
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She Lies in Wait: A Novel
Gytha Lodge · Random House
Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series.
On a scorching... |
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The Boy
Hoag, Tami
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An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet. A panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help... |
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Hide and Seek
Burton, Mary
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She's hunting. He's watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she's gunning for a spot on the FBI's elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently disco |
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Some Choose Darkness
Donlea, Charlie
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A modern master of suspense, critically acclaimed author Charlie Donlea returns with a taut, gripping novel about the deadly secrets hiding in plain sight . . . The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory M |
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Next Girl to Die
Poirier, Dea
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Solving the case will avenge her sister - unless the killer finds her first. It's been fifteen years since Claire Calderwood's sister, Rachel, was brutally murdered in their small hometown in Maine. Claire has finally carved out a life for herself as a homicide detective |
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The Night Fire
Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring... |
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Cold Woods
Katchur, Karen
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Buried bones of the past rise to the surface in this chilling mystery from the bestselling author of River Bodies. When the long-buried bones of a man turn up in the middle of December, Pennsylvania homicide detective Parker Reed knows he's in for a cold case. < |
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Buried
Cooper, Ellison
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In Ellison Cooper's suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who's turned up the heat on a cold case ... Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer wi |
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I'll Never Tell
McKenzie, Catherine
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Deeply buried secrets make for a disturbing family reunion in bestselling author Catherine McKenzie's tantalizing novel of psychological suspense. What happened to Amanda Holmes? Twenty years ago, she was found bludgeoned in a rowboat at the MacAllister family's Cam |
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A Means to An End
Lissa Marie Redmond · Midnight Ink
Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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Detective Lauren Riley risks her life to close the book for good on a killer who's never paid for his crimes. When cold case detective Lauren Riley returns to work after being stabbed by a fellow police officer, it's clear that her troubles are far from over. The body of a young... |
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Save Your Breath
Leigh, Melinda
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The #1 Amazon Charts bestselling series continues as Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer. When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the w |
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Truly Devious: A Mystery
Maureen Johnson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 420 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors,... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA · Harper
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018. A Publisher's Weekly... |
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The Whisper Man: A Novel
Alex North
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "WORKS BEAUTIFULLY... If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it." -- The New York Times, Editor's Pick "SUPERB" -- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Re |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers.... |
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
Billy Jensen · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims.... |
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