By Ellery Lloyd
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

From the author of People Like Her, a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs, where the A-list members and the staff who serve them all have something to hide.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels

“When her boyfriend Bill, a vampire who has been rather distracted of late, disappears, Sookie journeys to Mississippi to find her beloved, who has gotten himself caught in a dangerous web of murder and betrayal at Club Dead, an elite underground society (From the Publisher).”

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved in an adventure in which life imitates literature.

Became the movie: The Ninth Gate.

By Stephen King

A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.

Became the TV show: Haven.

By Alexander McCall-Smith

“Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug (From the Publisher).”

By Donna Leon
Series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries

Mystery series featuring Guido Brunetti who investigates crime in and around his home town of Venice, Italy. The first in the series is "Death at La Fenice".

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 Susan Isaacs
Series Judith Singer Mysteries

Long Island housewife Judith Singer takes it upon herself to investigate the murder of a local periodontist and picture–taking lothario and discovers an attractive homicide lieutenant and her own potential as a woman.

By John Grisham
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page, John Shea, Library Page

“An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him (From the Publisher).”

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 Lisa Scottoline
Series Rosato & Associates Novels

Taking the case of a former classmate who has been wrongly accused of murdering a bully who sent him to juvenile detention when they were children, Bennie is forced to relive some of the darkest memories of her life in order to defend the boy she once failed.

By Roxana Robinson

“When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer’s. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia’s son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction…. Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family, dazzling us with her hallmark subtlety and precision in evoking the emotional interiors of her characters (From the Publisher).”

By Karen M. McManus

Invited to their grandmother’s island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother’s favor.

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 Agatha Christie
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Criminologist Charles Hayward becomes a special assistant to Scotland Yard when his fiancée’s grandfather is murdered, and her entire family comes under suspicion.

By Fern Michaels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“When he inherits the estate of his estranged brother, Ricky Lam decides to develop the resort his brother had planned to build on an island off the coast of South Carolina, where Ricky finds new love with his former sister-in-law (From the Publisher).”

By Mary Higgins Clark

A divorced New York mother of two is swept off to a life of luxury and love with a wealthy artist on his Minnesota farm until a terrifying past threatens her marriage, her children, and her life.

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 Mark Haddon
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

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 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 Don Brine

A humorous parody of the best-selling novel reveals all about the secret mysteries of the cod, as explained in the enigmatic works of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci.

By Edward Wright
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“The complex plot makes the most of tangled smalltown connections, moving fluidly from nostalgic remembrances, ruminations on friendship and filial devotion, to old-fashioned suspense and violence. Wright captures the rich, earthy essence of the South and wraps up his story with a sweet coda, all the more touching for being understated (Publishers Weekly).”

By Deanna Raybourn
Series Veronica Speedwell Mysteries

Attending a party in remote Cornwall as a favor to a colleague, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell races to uncover her host's true agenda when suspicious accidents plague the guests.

By Matthew Pearl

In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club - led by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes - to release the first translation of Dante's "The Divine Comedy" are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes from "Inferno."

By Diane Mott Davidson
Series Goldy Bear Mysteries
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“When caterer Goldy Schulz stumbles upon a dead paralegal while on her latest catering job at a local law firm, she does her own snooping to find the killer, at the behest of the victim's mother, and is soon knee-deep in suspects (From the Publisher).”

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 Johan Theorin

Winner of Sweden’s best crime novel award. On an idyllic island off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh.

By Jeff Lindsay
Series Dexter
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own (From the Publisher).”

Became the TV show: Dexter.

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 Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires

“When the body of a were-panther is discovered in the parking lot of Merlotte's, Sookie Stackhouse feels compelled to discover the identity of the killer, but encounters a much greater threat to the human and undead communities of Bon Temps (From the Publisher).”

By David Rosenfelt
Series Andy Carpenter Novels
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"Attorney Andy Carpenter reluctantly returns to the side of his Wisconsin cop ex-girlfriend to assist in the defense of a young man who may be innocent, a case that is complicated by the secrets of a mysterious religious group (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 Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

After witnessing the firebombing of the bar where she works, clairvoyant Sookie Stackhouse has her attention diverted when she realizes her vampire lover, Eric Northman, and his "child," Pam, are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

By Maggie Sefton
Series Molly Malone Mysteries

Shortly after learning her niece is having an affair with a congressional chief of staff, Molly Malone finds her niece shot dead, and soon finds herself entangled in the web of a shady political group that is willing to kill its opposition.

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 P.D. James
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Pemberly is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett’s disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband has been murdered.

By M.C. Beaton
Series Hamish Macbeth Mysteries

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winter's body is fished out of the river, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth and Priscilla Halburton–Smythe navigate the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find a murderer.

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 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 Carolyn G. Hart
Series Death on Demand Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.

By Kevin J. Anderson
Series Shamble & Die Investigations

Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeau who works with a human lawyer as his partner. His cases now include a resurrected mummy that is suing the museum that put him on display, two witches that were victims of a curse gone terribly wrong seek restitution from a publisher for not using "spell check" on its magical tomes. And Dan must also find out who caused his own death. 

By Peter Spiegelman
Series John March Mysteries

Hired to find missing Wall Street analyst Gregory Danes, private detective John March uncovers a deadly web of financial deception as his investigation leads him through the corrupt inner workings of the financial world.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Kathy Reichs
Series Temperance Brennan

As forensic scientist Temperance Brennan works on the dismembered remains of a murder victim, she begins to suspect--despite the skepticism of local police--that there is a link between this homicide and the torture-killing of a teenager several years earlier.