By Carlene O’Connor
Series Irish Village Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When competing card sharps stir up Siobhan O’Sullivan’s quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman.

By Cara Black
Series Aimee Leduc Investigations
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

At the request of her friend, the wife of the defense minister, Aimee Leduc and her partner, Rene, journey to the working-class Paris district of Belleville to investigate a car bombing and find a neighborhood in disarray.

By Michael Jahn

It is now almost a year after the World Trade Center attacks and for Captain Bill Donovan, Chief of Special Investigations for the NYPD, watching helplessly as his beloved city was torn apart was painful and heartbreaking. When the body of notorious real estate developer James Victor is found in the basement of a Coney Island candy store, Donovan throws himself into the investigation as a way to ease the pain.

By Alexia Gordon
Series Gethsemane Brown Mysteries

With few other options, African–American classical musician Gethsemane Brown accepts a less–than– ideal position turning a group of rowdy schoolboys into an award–winning orchestra. Stranded without luggage or money in the Irish countryside, she figures any job is better than none. The perk? Housesitting a lovely cliffside cottage. The catch? The ghost of the cottages murdered owner haunts the place.

By Victoria Thompson
Series Gaslight Mysteries
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When a young mother who had delivered a new baby the day before is found dead and accusations fly between the girl's Irish mother and her Italian in-laws, midwife Sarah Brandt joins with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to unravel the truth.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mysteries

Against the wishes of his employer Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin investigates the murder of a state senator by a sniper at a baseball game at Manhattan's Polo Grounds.

By Cara Black
Series Aimee Leduc Investigations

Detective Aimee Leduc goes undercover inside a neo-Nazi group to ferret out a killer in the old Jewish quarter of Paris.

By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring out, killing a young boy. Now it’s time for a new, much more serious game of “whodunit."

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

On a three–day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.

By Mary Higgins Clark
Series Henry and Sunday Mysteries

Former President Henry Parker Britland IV and his beautiful young wife, Sunday, recently elected to Congress, turn sleuth to uncover the truth when Henry’s former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress.

By Orhan Pamuk

A kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

By edited by Mary Higgins Clark
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Collects seventeen mystery stories centering around the borough of Manhattan, from a stand-off outside the Flatiron building and a tale of World War II espionage to the mystery of an antique hope chest found in Union Square.

By Dennis Lehane

“When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever… (From the Publisher).”

Became the movie: Mystic River.

Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Traveling to the Phoenix Health Spa in the Blue Ridge Mountains for a week of pampering, Caroline Blessing discovers that she and the other guests have become prime suspects in the murder of the spa's ambitious and flamboyant owner (From the Publisher).”

Anthology of authors, including: Nevada Barr, J.D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid and Laurie R. King.

By J.D. Robb
Series In Death

Three young women have been brutally murdered. After 10 years on the New York City police force, Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better than to become emotionally involved with her work. But the prime suspect is a suave, sophisticated Irish billionaire with a mysterious past and she finds herself powerless to resist his charm.

By Umberto Eco

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and night of apocalyptic terror.

By Greg Iles
Series Penn Cage Novels

Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When a young boy prone to crying wolf goes missing, village newcomers Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache join a frantic search for the child only to stumble on a community secret about a long-ago betrayal and murder.

By Deborah Crombie
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

"A young mother goes missing, and three months later her husband is found murdered. Assigned the racially and socially charged case, Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid must assuage the egos of local detectives while leading his own team (From Library Journal)."

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Jack Reacher arrives in Virginia hoping to contact the woman he spoke with on the phone in 61 Hours, only to be drafted back into the Army, where he confronts life-changing elements from his past.

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

 “In Rosenfelt's excellent 7^th legal thriller to feature Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter, Andy takes on another canine client-Waggy, a Bernese mountain puppy, who's somehow connected to the murder of Walter Timmerman, a semi-titan in the pharmaceutical industry (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Alexander McCall Smith

Boldly going where no woman has gone before, Precious Ramotswe is the very first female private detective in all of Botswana. Tactful, effective, and insightful detecting comes naturally to this very independent woman in this highly entertaining humorous cozy mystery series.

By Alexander McCall Smith

 “The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, located in Gaborone, Botswana, consists of one woman, the engaging Precious Ramotswe. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters (From the Publisher).”

By Janet Evanovich
Series Stephanie Plum Mysteries

Out–of–work Stephanie Plum blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Her first case involves tracking down a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one, a man who also happens to be her former lover.

Became the movie: One for the Money.

By Kate Atkinson
Series Jackson Brodie Mysteries

Millionaire ex-detective Jackson Brodie follows his girlfriend to Edinburgh for the famous arts festival, but when he witnesses a brutal attack on a man, he becomes caught up in a string of events that draws him into a deadly conspiracy.

By Karen M. McManus

When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high–profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all–star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in--no phone, no address, no commitments-ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming.

Became the movie: Jack Reacher

By Lisa Gardner
Series Frankie Elkin #2
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Searching for a young man who disappeared without a trace, missing persons expert and recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin, with her very life on the line, goes up against something very dark to find what she is looking for.

By Stuart Woods
Series Holly Barker
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Forced into early retirement by scandal, ex-Army major Holly Barker takes a job as a deputy chief of police in rural Orchid Beach, Florida, where she and her canine partner, Daisy, become caught up in a sinister – and deadly—game of cat-and-mouse.

By Agatha Christie

An adoptive son dies in prison after being convicted for the murder of his mother, but when Arthur Calgary proves the boy's innocence, the family becomes surprisingly nervous and hostile.

By Diana Abu-Jaber
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Life is grim for Lena Dawson, a fingerprint examiner for the Syracuse police. Uncertain about her own origins, or her sanity, the delicately pretty technician has carved out a spare existence for herself since her philandering husband, Charlie, left, and has also lived down the brief flare of fame that followed her uncovering of crucial evidence in the murder of a child (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Gyles Brandreth
Series Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries

“With help from his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard, young Oscar Wilde investigates the murder of an artist's model whose body has disappeared, in a story based on the true crime that inspired "The Picture of Dorian Gray” (From the Publisher).”

By Gyles Brandreth
Series Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries

“A tale inspired by the life of detective Oscar Wilde and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle, finds the celebrated playwright inventing a "murder" game that turns deadly … (From the Publisher).”

By Gyles Brandreth
Series Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries

“Heading home from a lecture tour in the U.S., Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, and the mystery of the serial killer targeting them after the surprising death of the family poodle (From the Publisher).”

By Gyles Brandreth
Series Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries

"Authors Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle team up to find a determined killer whose victims are tied to the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church (From the Publisher)."

By Sophie Hannah
Series Zailer and Waterhouse Mysteries

Connie Bowskill sees a bloody, murdered woman in the virtual tour of an online real estate listing, but the images aren’t there when she shows her husband.

By Ruta Sepetys

Josie, the teenage daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

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

When the body of an elderly widow turns up in the desert, Sheriff Joanna Brady searches for a killer among the victim’s greedy offspring, her mysterious much younger live-in handyman turned lover, and corrupt local politicians

By Robert B. Parker
Series Spenser Novels

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.

By Lissa Marie Redmond
Series Cold Case Investigations #5
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

While on Injured on Duty leave, Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley is hired as a private investigator to travel to Ireland to locate a stolen Picasso painting. It disappeared twenty years earlier during a bitter divorce between a suspected mob boss and his wife, and the lead suspect just died of ill health . . . or so it is first thought.

By Judith A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mysteries & J.P. Beaumont Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

"Sent to Cochise County in Arizona by the Washington State attorney general to investigate the murder of a star witness, J.P. Beaumont teams up with Sheriff Joanna Brady and is surprised to find in her a savvy fellow detective (From the Publisher)."

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Miss Buckley’s three near-fatal accidents spur ace detective Hercule Poirot to conduct a search for motives among her friends and neighbors (From the Publisher).”

By Jo Nesbo
Series Harry Hole Series
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo’s most virulent street drug.

By Ann Benson
Series Plague Trilogy

“Unraveling mysteries of science, history, and the human heart, Benson has created a stunning chronicle of courage in the face of darkness in a work of vibrant storytelling and unrelenting suspense (From the Publisher).”

By Jodi Picoult

An unmarried Amish teen gives birth to a baby she is accused of then smothering.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Tom and Judy Gordon are found murdered in their Long Island home, NYPD detective John Corey uncovers a chilling link between the couple’s deaths and the theft and illegal sale of genetically altered viruses, and races against time to stop the possible release of a deadly plague.

By Robert Barnard

When the body of a Member of Parliament is found floating in the Thames, everyone assumes it is suicide, except for Superintendent Sutcliffe, whose investigation of the case reveals some nasty and ruthless politics.

By Karen Harper
Series Elizabeth I mystery series

Released from the Tower of London by an insurrection against Queen Mary, her half-sister, the twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth immediately puts herself back into harm’s way by investigating a multiple poisoning.

By Sara Shepard

Four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who knows their secrets.