By Rhys Bowen
Series Molly Murphy Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress (From the Publisher).”

By Rhys Bowen
Series Molly Murphy Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son (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 Tana French
Series Dublin Murder Squad

Detective Rob Ryan invesigates the murder of a twelve year old girl in the same Dublin woods, in which 20 years ago, he was found gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood–filled sneakers and unable to recall the fate of his three friends. The memories and the current case take its toll on Ryan and his partner Cassie Maddox.

By Dan Brown
Series Robert Langdon Novels

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.

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.

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

“Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager’s family apart and it’s been six years since Moe’s brushed the dust off his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies (From the Publisher).”

By Val McDermid
Series Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

While Tony and Carol investigate a serial murderer luring single women from weddings, Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor work to find a blackmailer targeting their ward.

By Brian Selznick

When twelve–year–old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. The wonderful thing about this book is that it is part graphic novel and part text.

By Julia Dahl
Series Rebekah Roberts Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, January 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Investigating the murder of a Hasidic Jewish woman who because of religious laws will be buried without an autopsy, Brooklyn journalist Rebekah Roberts, whose Jewish mother abandoned her as a baby, intercedes to prevent the woman’s killer from getting away with the crime (From the Publisher).

By Jennifer McMahon

“At the start of McMahon's haunting second novel, recent college grad Rhonda Farr witnesses a child abduction in front of a convenience store in Pike's Crossing, Vt… McMahon expertly shifts between pivotal events in the past and present-day action, building tension to a resolution both poignant and shattering (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Samuel Bjørk
Series Holger Munch & Mia Kruger
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Investigating the brutal murder of a 6-year-old girl found on the Norwegian countryside, veteran homicide detective Holger Munch reactivates haunted former investigator Mia Krüger, who discovers links between the case and an infant abduction years earlier.

By Hillary Bell Locke

When a high-profile actor is sentenced to a brief prison term for a second DUI offense, corporate insurance loss minimizer Jay Davidovich hires a jail coach to ensure that the actor will be able to return to work upon his release, a decision that pits him against the coach’s inner circle of survivors and hustlers.

By Stephen King

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

By Elizabeth George
Series Inspector Lynley Novels

Supporting a friend who has lost custody of his young daughter, Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, are further shocked when the girl’s mother reports that the child has been kidnapped as a part of a plot that risks Barbara’s career.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series No. 1 Ladies\' Detective Agency

Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Detective Agency is a charming account of the challenges facing a female private detective in Botswana.

By Jussi Adler-Olsen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

By James Sallis

A hired assassin searching for a rival killer, a burned-out detective with a terminally ill wife and an abandoned youth surviving by his wits follow inextricably linked paths toward community acceptance in the unforgiving sunlight and sprawl of Phoenix.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels

Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother’s killers after a series of brutal crimes terrorize tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town’s peaceful façade.

By Louise Penny
Series Three Pines Mystery
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Still coping with the events that led to his suspension, Armand Gamache is curious when he discovers that an elderly woman who was a complete stranger to him has named him as one of the executors of her will.

By James Patterson
Series Alex Cross Series
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls.

By Erle Stanley Gardner
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason and the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels, and one that’s never been published until now. Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped is a glorious return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.

By Walter Mosley
Series Leonid McGill Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Bestseller Mosley scores a clean knockout in his excellent second mystery featuring New York City PI Leonid McGill…. (Publishers Weekly).”

By Brunonia Barry
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover.

By Rachel Howzell Hall
Series Detective Elouise Norton Novels

A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou’s sister.

By Colin Dexter
Series Inspector Morse Mysteries

Inspector Morse, decribed as having a sullen temperment, a thirst for British real ale and a penchant for Wagner, poetry, art, classics, classic cars, and cryptic crossword puzzles, investiages the

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

“Falling in love with a beautiful young law student after a chance encounter on a rainy April night, David is discouraged by a bruise on Jana’s cheek that she refuses to explain and is horrified when he is declared a prime suspect in her subsequent murder (From the Publisher).”

By Rhys Bowen
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Harry Houdini's wife hires Irish immigrant private investigator Molly Murphy to uncover the truth behind the on-stage death of a magician's assistant in order to clear Houdini's name and find the person truly responsible for the death (From the Publisher).”

By Rick Riordan
Series Tres Navarre Mysteries

“Taking over the classes of a murdered instructor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tres Navarre, a Ph.D. with a penchant for tequila and trouble, suddenly finds himself on a deadly collision with an assassin, a vicious killer responsible for the murder of an amusement-park kingpin (From the Publisher).” 

By Clare Mackintosh

When homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd is murdered after opening the doors to his new luxury resort on New Year’s Eve, Ffion Morgan, called in to investigate, fears her deep ties to this once tranquil village will reveal dark truths about her neighbors, friends, family and even herself.

By Ben H. Winters
Series The Last Policeman

When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.

By Chris Knopf
Series Sam Acquillo Mysteries

Middle-aged corporate dropout, Sam Acquillo, living in his dead parents’ ramshackle cottage in the Hamptons, has abandoned his friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. When the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, Sam seems to be the only one who wonders why.

By Karen Robards
Series Charlotte Stone Novels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Realizing the extent of her feelings for ghost Michael after an attack by a hostile specter, Charlotte Stone struggles to stay out of trouble while assisting her FBI friends in solving a gruesome murder case tied to a string of killings.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.

2016 Long Island Reads Selection

Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and accomplished-scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, 13-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers.

By Peter Turnbull
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“One hot summer afternoon, musician, Nigel Swannell is distracted from his regular afternoon stroll by a swarm of flies by a thick undergrowth of gorse. Further investigation leads him to a shocking discovery: a headless, handless corpse has been dumped in the middle of the bush. Chief Detective Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich are soon on the case. A mysterious silver Mercedes has been in the area and the victim's family turns out to have been in line for a considerable inheritance from his acid-tongued, colonial and exceptionally wealthy mother, Mrs. Tansey. As the investigation progresses it appears that the victim's estranged wife, business partner as well as his disapproving mother all have their own secrets to hide... (From the Publisher).”

By Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Series Children's House Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Required to both question and protect a traumatized seven-year-old girl who is the only witness to a murder, rookie detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja navigate elusive clues left behind by an unusually slippery killer.

By Jo Nesbø
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer (From the Publisher).”

By Chelsea Cain
Series Archie and Gretchen
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Attending a masked Halloween party as part of his investigation into Jack Reynolds's drug enterprise, Detective Archie Sheridan recognizes the handiwork of killer Gretchen Lowell when one of the guests is murdered, a situation that forces Archie to risk everything and reevaluate the people he most trusts.

By Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When a troubled young man asks him to investigate a crime he thinks he saw as a child, Cormoran Strike sets off on a twisting trail that leads from London's backstreets, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a country manor house.

By Carolyn Hart
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Working at the local newspaper during the summer of 1944, Gretchen Gilman investigates the mysterious death of Faye Tatum, found dead in her own living room, supposedly murdered by her husband, a World War II veteran (From the Publisher).” 

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Dylan Klein Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough, as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal (From the Publisher)."

By Allen Eskens
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

After Joe Talbert interviews a dying Vietnam veteran for a college writing assignment, he discovers that the veteran is a convicted murderer recently released from prison and, suspecting that the veteran was framed, he begins a dangerous investigation into the thirty– year– old murder.

By Clare O'Donohue
Series Kate Conway Mysteries

After one of the guests featured on a reality show is murdered, Kate must rely on the minds of the death row killers she is currently working with to help her.

By Chris Bohjalian
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Hoping to safeguard themselves from the ravages of World War II within the walls of their ancient villa in Florence, the noble Rosati family become prisoners in their home when 18-year-old Cristina's courtship by a German lieutenant prompts the Nazis to take over the estate, a situation that leads to a serial murder investigation years later.

By Tana French
Series Dublin Murder Squad

Dublin murder squad detective Cassie Maddox assumes the identity of a murder victim.

By Timothy L. O’Brien

As the nation mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln, Detective Temple McFadden discovers two diaries - one belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln, the other penned by John Wilkes Booth - that reveal a shocking conspiracy behind Lincoln's assassination.

By David O. Stewart

While attending the dying prosecutor of those involved in the plot to assassinate President Lincoln, a physician discovers there may be hidden facts regarding the crime, spurring his investigation to unravel the truth.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey Novels
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Detective John Corey sets out to capture the world's most dangerous terrorist - a young Arab known as "The Lion" - a man who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance against America for bombing Libya and killing his family (From the Publisher)."

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Dylan Klein Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Little Easter is a novel about the falls we take and the ways in which we recover…if we recover at all. Join Dylan Klein’s forays into the clandestine worlds of the Mafia, New York’s Diamond Exchange, and behind the police department’s blue wall of silence. Meet the fallen and the tall (From the Publisher).”