By Val McDermid
Series Allie Burns Novels #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Journalist Allie Burns teams up with another aspiring investigative journalist, Danny Sullivan, for a series of stories in 1979 Glasgow about international tax fraud and a domestic terrorist group that create enemies and get one of them killed.

By Harry Dolan
Series David Logan Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

 “The story takes place in Ann Arbor, Mich., where David Loogan has just accepted a position at Gray Streets mystery magazine - and embarked on an affair with his new boss's wife. It's not long before bodies begin turning up left and right, and a young investigator is involved (Publishers Weekly).”

By Lisa Gardner
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth.

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 James Grippando
Series Jack Swyteck Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a corrupt President is narrowly reelected by the Electoral College but not the popular vote, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is embroiled in a political frenzy involving an opponent’s refusal to concede and a lobbyist’s fateful decision.

By James Crawford
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A collection of short stories from some of Scotland's top crime writers celebrate twelve of the nation's most iconic buildings.

By Lee Goldberg
Series Eve Ronin Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detective Eve Ronin investigates the cold-case disappearance and death of a woman whose remains are found in the aftermath of a Santa Monica Mountains fire. Recommended by: Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference Genres: Mystery; Police Procedural; Series

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 Simone St. James
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something isn’t right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer.

By John Dunning
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"In Nero Wolfe Award–winner Dunning's third literate entry in his Cliff Janeway series, 90–ish Josephine Gallant persuades the former Denver cop turned antiquarian bookseller to try to recover a rare collection of the works of Richard Burton, "the explorer, not the actor," that once belonged to her grandfather, a faithful traveling companion of Burton (From Publishers Weekly)."

By Deborah Meyler
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Discovering she is pregnant after her boyfriend dumps her, a young British student in New York takes on a part-time job at a shabby, used book store and finds salvation among the colorful characters who work and shop there.

By John Dunning
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets (From the Publisher).”

By Gay Talese
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its completion, a detailed history of the construction of the longest suspension bridge in the United States, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, features photos and architectural drawings while detailing all the drama and political maneuvering.

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 Richard Ford
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, 15-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.

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 David Liss
Series Benjamin Weaver Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a merchant suffering reverses kills himself and a day later a Jewish stock–jobber is run down by a carriage. Benjamin Weaver, son of the stock–jobber, is asked by the merchant's son, to look into the deaths. The fatalities begin to look related and deliberate, pulling Weaver into a web of mystery and finance, a la London in 1719. An intriguing look at 18th century European finance.

By Denise Mina
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

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.

By Karin Slaughter
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Reluctant rookie cop Kate Murphy finds herself teamed with agenda-seeking Maggie Lawson in a manhunt for a cop killer.

By Anne Mette Hancock
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when she begins receiving letters from a woman police believe is a killer, forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore she’d never see again.

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 Lissa Evans
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A precocious orphan evacuee and a debt-ridden widow con artist forge an unlikely alliance and take advantage of unscrupulous money-making opportunities in the bombed suburbs of World War II England.

By Lisa Lutz
Series Spellman Files
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“… Licensed P.I. Isabel "Izzy" Spellman has been arrested for the fourth time in two months, and no one from her oddball family of fellow investigators will bail her out. Her sister, Rae, has run over Izzy's "fiancé," Inspector Henry Stone, during a driving lesson. The senior Spellmans have staged a "disappearance," their term for a vacation where no one can reach them. To complicate Izzy's life further, a man with the suspiciously ordinary name of John Brown has moved next door, and she's absolutely positive he's up to no good. In other words, it's life as usual for the zany Spellmans, and who knows what will happen next (School Library Journal).”

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 Thomas Mullen
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Hired by the Atlanta Police Department in 1948, Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman.

By Romy Hausmann
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

An English-language release of an international best-seller follows the experiences of a kidnapping victim who struggles to escape her abductor and prove her identity to doubting relatives 14 years after her disappearance.

By Mariah Fredericks
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A highly skilled ladies' maid working among the upper echelons of 1910 New York society uses her insider knowledge of her entitled employer's family to investigate the class-driven case of her mistress' brutally murdered playboy fiancé.

By Ashley Herring Blake
Series Bright Falls #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister’s wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids after the pair are forced together during party preparations.

By Spencer Quinn
Series Chet and Bernie Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“At last, a dog lover's mystery that portrays dogs as they really are… Quinn's characters are endearing, and his narrative is intriguing, fast-moving, and well written (Library Journal Review).”

By Peter Swanson
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Years after establishing a literary career through his compilation of the mystery genre’s most unsolvable classics, an unsuspecting bookseller is tapped by the FBI for help solving murders that eerily mimic the books on his list.

By Elizabeth Graver
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 5, 2014. 7:30 PM.

“Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders (From the Publisher).”

By Thomas H. Cook
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Collects the short stories of Thomas H. Cook, one of America’s most celebrated crime fiction authors (From the Publisher).”

By Will Dean
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

After her much more outgoing and adventurous twin sister dies and was possibly murdered, Molly Raven travels to New York to uncover what happened.

By Jax Miller
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Living in witness protection to hide from her late husband’s violent family, Freedom Oliver risks her life in order to save the kidnapped daughter she gave up for adoption.

By Casey Cep
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

By Nelson DeMille
Series Paul Brenner
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, that point to a scandal of major proportions…(From the Publisher).”

By Karin Slaughter
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Forty years after Emily Vaughn was murdered on her prom night, U.S. Marshal Andrea Oliver picks up the cold case to find justice

By Dennis Lehane
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner, displaying all the virtues the author has shown in his exceptional series of crime novels: narrative verve, sensitivity to setting, the interweaving of complicated story lines, an apt and emotionally satisfying denouement-and, above all, the author's abiding love for his characters and the human condition (Library Journal).”

By Cherie Priest
Series Grave Reservations #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A psychic with scattershot, inconsistent abilities, Leda Foley, joins forces with a Seattle PD detective, Grady Merritt, whom she accidentally saved from a doomed flight, to solve a cold case and catch a killer.

By Attica Locke
Series Highway 59 Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A follow–up to the award– winning Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews must battle centuries–old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, to find a missing boy and save himself.

By Graham Norton
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When the human remains of Tommy Burke are found on an old farm in the remote Irish village of Duneen, the investigation unearths anger, resentment, secrets, and regrets. 

By Conor Brady
Series Joe Swallow Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a series of violent attacks against women leads to panic and fear, Joe Swallow leaves his peaceful life in Dublin and sets out to find the culprit amid a volatile political scene that leaves his loyalties in conflict.

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Moe Prager Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Entreated by his ex-wife to solve the murder of her estranged sister, private investigator Moe Prager learns that the victim, a New York EMT, died after refusing to give assistance to a dying man (From the Publisher).”

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

A scorched van and a peculiar bloodstain in an abandoned airport hangar challenge Inspector Alan Banks and his team in the aftermath of two disappearances and a string of murders.

By Stefanie Pintoff
Series New York Historical Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“With this taut, atmospheric, and original story of a haunted man who must search for a killer while on the run from his own demons, In the Shadow of Gotham marks the debut of an outstanding new talent (From the Publisher).”

By Sara Gran
Series Claire DeWitt Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Acclaimed detective Claire DeWitt navigates three cases from different turning points in her life, including the disappearance of a childhood friend, the cold-case double murder that shaped her PI license and a near-fatal attack by a homicidal driver.