Award Winning Mysteries

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Queenpin: A Novel
Megan Abbott

Taken under the wing of an infamous mob luminary who reigned during the golden era of such figures as Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, a bookkeeper from a seedy nightclub finds herself seduced by the lucrative lifestyle of the underworld.


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Too Close to Home: A Thriller
Linwood Barclay

Using his neighbor’s house to spend some private time with his girlfriend while the Barclays are on vacation, Derek Cutter suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a small-town murder case when the Barclays return home early and are unexpectedly killed with Derek still hiding in their basement.


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Blue Heaven
C.J. Box

A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are.


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Big City, Bad Blood
Sean Chercover

Reluctantly hiring on as a bodyguard to a Hollywood locations manager who is testyifying as a prosecution witness against a suspected mobster, private detective Ray Dudgeon is forced into an investigation with corrupt ties to Washington.


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Trigger City
Sean Chercover

mentally ill co-worker for his daughter’s murder, a retired army intelligence colonel hires Ray Dudgeon to discern the truth, triggering a confrontation between the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.


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The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly

Hoping to revitalize his career when he inherits a high-profile defense case after a fellow lawyer is murdered, Mickey Haller discovers that he may be the next target and reluctantly teams up with LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the killer.


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Where Memories Lie
Deborah Crombie

Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Duncan Kincaid, must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London’s moneyed society to discover a jewelry piece’s connection to a murder and a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany.


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In the Woods
Tana French

Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that has taken place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.


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China Lake: An Evan Delaney Novel
Meg Gardiner

When she discovers that her unstable former sister-in-law has joined the Remnant, a fanatical religious cult, and that she plans to regain custody of her son and take him with her into the cult, Evan Delaney is dragged into the nightmare when a member of the Remnant is found murdered and her brother becomes a suspect in the crime.


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The Price of Blood: An Irish Novel of Suspense (Ed Loy)
Declan Hughes

Hired by a member of a famous and powerful family to investigate a disappearance, private investigator Ed Loy becomes suspicious about his client’s racehorse trainer brother when the man is linked to a murder case, a situation that brings Loy into the shady underworld of horse racing.


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The Draining Lake: A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller)
Mr. Arnaldur Indridason

When the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls following an earthquake to reveal a skeleton half-buried in its sandy bed, Inspectors Erlendur, Elinborg, and Sigurdur Oli look into the long-unsolved disappearance of a young left-wing student during the Cold War.


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Red Knife: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mysteries)
William Kent Krueger

Corcoran O’Connor is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz, a situation that turns deadly when the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.


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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.


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What the Dead Know: A Novel
Laura Lippman

Interviewing a distressed and disoriented woman who has fled the scene of an accident, Baltimore County police department detective Kevin Infante is amazed when she claims to be the younger of a pair of sisters who were abducted thirty years earlier.


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Curse of the Spellmans: A Novel (Izzy Spellman Mysteries)
Lisa Lutz

Izzy struggles to retain her private investigator’s license after a pseudo engagement and fourth arrest, a challenge that is further complicated by David’s marriage to Petra and by Rae’s teenage angst.


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Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Mystery
G.M. Malliet

After the deaths of a wealthy mystery writer and his oldest son during a gathering at his mansion, Detective Chief Inspector St. Just attempts to solve the crime with a house full of suspects with ample motives.


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A Thousand Bones
P.J. Parrish

Haunted by her memories of a crime she encountered as a rookie cop in small-town Echo Bay, Michigan, Miami homicide detective Joe Frye recalls her search for a killer responsible for a series of brutal murders of young women, whose bodies had been left deep in the Michigan woods, as she faces down a vicious predator who could make her the next victim.


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The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Three Pines Mysteries)
Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is called to investigate the death of a villager at an Easter séance that was held at the Old Hadley House.


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The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery
Matt Beynon Rees

Omar Yussef, a history teacher at a UN school in the West Bank, manages to stay away from all the violence surrounding him, until a former pupil, George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis, is charged with murder, and Omar, unable to believe in his guilt, decides to investigate the case for himself.


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Anatomy of Fear
Jonathan Santlofer

Helping with a serial murder investigation in which the killer leaves grisly drawings at his crime scenes, police sketch artist Nate Rodriquez finds the tables turned on him when he gets close to identifying the killer.


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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

A serial killer is preying on children in cities along the Trans-Siberian Railroad and MGB officer, Leo Demidov, seeks redemption by hunting the killer.


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The Fault Tree
Louise Ure

Eight years after being blinded in a horrific car accident, Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran becomes the target of a killer who, unaware of her disability, believes that she can identify the getaway car in the murder of her elderly neighbor.


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