By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Mrs. McGillicuddy has trouble convincing anyone that she has seen a man strangle a woman on a passing train and turns to Miss Jane Marple for help in proving her story.

By Tami Hoag

Taking over a serial murder case that has already claimed nine lives, Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska struggle to identify the latest victim and follow clues to the bullies who tormented her and the twisted family dynamics that may have caused her death.

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries

Hercule Poirot's mastery of detective skills is tested by a mysterious correspondent who predicts and then executes alphabetical murders.

By M.C. Beaton
Series Agatha Raisin Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.

By Mary Higgins Clark

A student obsessed with her English professor is accused of his murder, but cannot remember how her fingerprints could possibly have been found.

By Tessa Harris
Series Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries

In 18th-century England, when Lady Farrell's husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of Sir Edward Crick, she enlists the help of Dr. Thomas Silkstone, an anatomist and pioneering forensic detective to solve the murder and prove his innocence.

By Laurell K. Hamilton

When innocent vampires are found murdered, the city's most powerful vampire hires Anita Blake, a vampire hunter known as "The Executioner," to investigate the crimes.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mystery
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"Archie Goodwin heads to New York City looking for excitement and after a series of unsuccessful jobs teams up with Nero Wolfe to solve the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate (From the Publisher)."

By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple #10
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

During a vacation in London, Miss Marple becomes suspicious of the other guests in her too-dignified West End hotel.

By Jo Nesbø
Series Detective Harry Hole series
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamacge Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim’s distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.

By Michael Connelly
Series Harry Bosch Novels

First book in the Harry Bosch Series. LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus Bosch attempts to solve the murder of Billy Meadows, a soldier he knew while serving in Vietnam.

By Juan Diaz Canales

Presents three stories in which John Blacksad, private investigator, attempts to find the murderer of an old lover, investigate child abductors, and discover nuclear secrets in the 1950s Red Scare.

By Michael Robotham
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

A psychologist with a failing marriage and a teenage daughter who won't speak to him, tries to help his daughter's friend, Sienna, who shows up at their house covered in blood and terror-stricken, but with no idea what happened.

By Nevada Barr
Series Anna Pigeon Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anne Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.

By Karin Salvalaggio
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When Grace Adams witnesses the murder of her mother, who abandoned her eleven years earlier, Detective Macy Greeley struggles for answers as she investigates the case and reopens old wounds while hunting down the killer.

By Tana French

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache/Three Pines Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

After a stranger is murdered in a bistro and antiques store in the village of Three Pines and the bistro's owner becomes the main suspect, Chief Inspector Gamache must sift through a number of clues and cross the continent in order to solve the case.

By Sarah Strohmeyer
Series Bubbles Yablonsky Mysteries
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

"Given a week to prove her investigative abilities, flaky hairdresser and aspiring journalist Bubbles endeavors to clear an accused woman of her executive husband’s murder, a case that is complicated by Bubbles’s zany family and clueless boyfriend (From the Publisher)."

By Sarah Strohmeyer
Series Bubbles Yablonsky Mysteries
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“Inadvertently landing in jail on her first day as a full-time reporter, Bubbles is granted an exclusive interview with a fellow inmate who has been charged with murder (From the Publisher).”

By Sarah Strohmeyer
Series Bubbles Yablonsky Mysteries
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“When her friend fails to show up for her own wedding just before her uncle turns up dead, Bubbles Yablonsky goes undercover in Whoopee, Pennsylvania, where she boards with a local Amish family (From the Publisher).”

By Katrine Engberg
Series Korner & Werner Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A sequel to The Tenant finds detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner racing to solve a series of brutal murders targeting vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital.

By John Rowland
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work the next morning, a dead body is locked inside—a man who has been stabbed in the back. Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on the trail for clues—and agrees to pool his knowledge with Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area. Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman, Inspector Beech, the two men launch their own investigation into the most baffling locked-room mystery—a case that could reignite Jimmy's flagging career, but one that exposes him to great danger.

By Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg, and Comoran Strike must look to his past to determine who is behind the horrid parcel.

By Peter Heller
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone, only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who wants to keep the case unsolved.

By Nelson DeMille
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

The disappearance in Moscow of American Greg Fisher prompts U.S. Embassy and CIA agents to the discovery of a Soviet conspiracy that could devastate the West (From the Publisher).

By Peter Robinson
Series Inspector Alan Banks Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“After the body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line with a large amount of money in his pocket, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks suspects that the victim’s death may be connected to his past at a university that was a hot bed of political activism (From the Publisher).”

By Jon Talton
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A former homicide detective makes a living searching for missing people during the Great Depression but is drawn back into police business when his brother investigates the discovery of a dismembered body found near the Phoenix railroad tracks.

By Archer Mayor
Series Joe Gunther Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Joe Gunther and his Vermont detective team investigate the brutal murder of a state senator with scandalous ties to the governor.

By Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Series Forbidden Iceland Mysteries #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she's no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues S var and Horour, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman's past that continues to reverberate in the present day. But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long-hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of the townspeople's shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats, and find justice ... before it's too late.

By James Lee Burke
Series Dave Robicheaux
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

"While in a New Orleans recovery unit, detective Dave Robicheaux meets a Creole girl whose subsequent disappearance prompts his search for the girl's sister against a backdrop of a bayou-threatening oil well rupture in the Gulf of Mexico (From the Publisher)."

By J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel’s suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits.

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on his old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career.

By David Mark
Series Aector McAvoy Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Investigating a series of suspicious deaths and discovering that each victim was the sole survivor of a tragedy, Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy of the northern England port of Hull struggles to balance the demands of the case with the needs of his beloved family.

By Ragnar Jónasson
Series The Hulda Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Facing an unwanted early retirement, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police is given two weeks to solve a cold case of her choosing and reopens the investigation into the murder of a Russian asylum seeker.

By John Harvey
Series Charlie Resnick Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“The discovery of the body of a young woman who disappeared thirty years prior during the British miners’ strike brings Charlie Resnick out of virtual retirement to assist in the murder investigation, forcing him to confront his past (From the Publisher).”

By Stuart Woods

Actress Chris Callaway finds her life threatened by a stalker whose attack leaves her blind, and it is up to Beverly Hills police detective Jon Larsen and Danny Devere, a gay friend, to track the would-be killer.

By Agatha Christie

It is Egypt in 2000 BC, at the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. The priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death is suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household

By M. C. Beaton
Series Hamish Macbeth Mysteries

Discovering that a woman who claimed she was attacked was lying, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth disregards the same woman’s claim about an intruder, until her body is found and he must sort through her lies to find the killer.

By M.C. Beaton
Series Hamish Macbeth Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Detective Chief Inspector Blair has a new police officer, Cyril Sessions, follow Sergeant Hamish Macbeth through Lochdubh, but the rookie winds up dead, leaving Macbeth as the prime suspect in his murder. Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries

By Rick Riordan
Series Tres Navarre Mysteries

“When his brother Garrett, a wheelchair bound computer genius and ardent Jimmy Buffett fan, is accused of killing his oldest friend, Texas private detective and English teacher Tres Navarre ventures into a world of high-tech evil and old secrets as he sets out to find the real killer and clear his brother’s name (From the Publisher).”

By J.D. Robb
Series In Death

“When one of his trusted employees, with whom he had been working on a secret government project, becomes the prime suspect in a double homicide, Irish billionaire Roarke enlists the assistance of Lieutenant Eve Dallas to uncover the truth (From the Publisher).”

By Daniel Friedman
Series Buck Schatz Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"Learning that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, retired cop Buck Schatz teams up with his grandson in an investigation involving a loan shark, a 7-foot-tall Hasidic Jewish man, and a maniac (From the Publisher)."

By Jim Butcher

A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival.

Became the TV show: The Dresden Files.

By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mystery
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.

By Henning Mankell
Series Kurt Wallander Mysteries
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

"Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local Swedish police officer whose own personal life is falling apart, finds himself coping with a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment when he is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murders of an elderly couple (From the Publisher)."

By Elle Cosimano
Series Finlay Donovan #2

Struggling novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan uncovers a world of Russian mobsters and assassins disguised as soccer moms in an effort to keep her ex-husband safe, in the follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It.