Category: Television

THE DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS – YUKITO AYATSUJI

The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K- Universiity Mystery club’s trip.

IF I DISAPPEAR – ELIZA JANE BRAZIER

When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession.

MISS MARPLE: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES – AGATHA CHRISTIE

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.

FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT – ELLE COSIMANO

A witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations.

THE ADDRESS – FIONA DAVIS

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota–New York City’s most famous residence.

THE DOLLHOUSE – FIONA DAVIS

Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended by a hotel maid, who introduces her to the city’s jazz and drug counterculture, and becomes involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later.

THE LOCKED ROOM – ELLY GRIFFITHS

Nelson, investigating a series of murder-suicides he has connected to an archaeological discovery–and to Ruth’s seemingly sweet new neighbor, Zoe–he enlists Ruth’s help until she, Zoe, and Kate go missing and he is left scrambling to find them before it’s too late.

THE WORD IS MURDER – ANTHONY HOROWITZ

She planned her own funeral–but did she arrange her murder? A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she’s arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can’t control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz’s page-turning new thriller.

THE UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE OF INSPECTOR CHOPRA – VASEEM KHAN

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solve. The the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought.

CONVICTION – DENISE MINA

An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.

ACTS OF VIOLET – MARGARITA MONTIMORE

A dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened.

THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB – RICHARD OSMAN

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.

THE VERIFIERS – JANE PEK

Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people’s online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing….

KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE – DEANNA RAYBOURN

They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.

DIAL A FOR AUNTIES – JESSE Q. SUTANTO

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

VERA WONG’S UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOR MURDERERS – JESSE Q. SUTANTO

A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery.

THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB – ROBERT THOROGOOD

Judith is 77 years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don’t believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself.

AN ELDERLY LADY IS UP TO NO GOOD – HELENE TURSTEN

Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.

THE 7½ DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE – STUART TURTON

Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.