By Anne Holt
Series Hanne Wilhelmsen Novels
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest (From the Publisher).”

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 Blake Crouch

Hiring back-country guides, a psychic, and a paranormal photographer to aid their investigation into the bizarre and abrupt disappearances of every citizen from a gold-mining town over a century earlier, a history professor and his journalist daughter embark on the journey aware that the last team that attempted to solve the mystery was never heard from again.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When her daughter Anna is murdered and her new husband Noah is accused of the crime, Maggie searches for the truth, where she uncovers something darker than she could have ever imagined.

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 Jacqueline Winspear
Series Maisie Dobbs Novels
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“…An intriguing psychological mystery about the damage war inflicts on a person's soul, as well as a thought-provoking look at the lengths to which the hopeless and mentally unstable might go to be heard (Library Journal Review).”

By Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Participating in a psychological study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality.

By Agatha Christie
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, March 12, 2013.  7:30 PM.

When ten people arrive on private Indian Island off England's southwest coast, lured to a mansion by invitations from a mysterious host, terror mounts as one guest after another is murdered, in a classic whodunit that is an elaboration of the famous children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians."

By Russell Andrews

The brutal murder of a young female journalist draws Justin Westwood, a small-town Long Island cop, into a dangerous investigation into a conspiracy that forces him into a dangerous confrontation with his fellow cops, the FBI, and an oddball team of professional killers.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk

A family of tennis stars debate whether or not to report their mother as missing because it would implicate their father.

By Sue Miller

A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.

By Zoje Stage
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.

By William March

 “The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before (From the Publisher).”

By Kōshun Takami
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A group of ninth–grade students are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television.

By Annie Ward
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Starting a therapeutic journal in the aftermath of a scarring accident, former travel writer Maddie is forced to reckon with her husband's PTSD, her son's safety, and her family's complicated history with her best friend, Jo.

By Lisa Unger

A young New York writer, a privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother does a good deed which has terrible consequences and leaves her running for her life.

By S.J. Watson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.

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 Peter Swanson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Finding some peace in her new life in a house outside of Boston, Hen's calm begins to dissipate after she meets a new neighbor and spots an object in his home that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder case that has been an obsession for Hen.

By B. A. Paris
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows.

By Susan Hill
Series Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries

When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing 20 years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.

By Alafair Burke
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the victim's widow, the other his ex—navigate long-standing resentments to uncover devastating family secrets.

By Melissa De la Cruz
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent–Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful facade of her life crumbles in one eventful night.

By Joyce Carol Oates

Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia, Genna is led also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous "radical-hippie-lawyer" of the 1960s.

By Matt Dickinson

Having made a discovery of significance beneath the Antarctic ice cap, scientist Lauren Burgess rescues two explorers trapped on the ice only to find her science team targeted by one of the explorers, who has gone mad from isolation.

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 A. F. Brady

As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.

By Patricia Highsmith
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Two women die under similar circumstances, Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Corby’s wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions (From the Publisher).

By Luca Vesta

An injured woman is found wandering the streets and claims to have escaped the Bone Keeper, an urban legend who may not be a legend.

By Krysten Ritter
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.

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 Claire Kendal
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

While serving jury duty, university administrator Clarissa realizes that the disturbingly violent crime unfolding in front of her parallels to recent events in her own life as she becomes the obsession of her colleague who has crossed the line between fantasy and reality, love and compulsion.

By B. A. Paris
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Ten years after his wife Layla's disappearance, Finn gets a phone call that she's been seen, receives messages from strangers who seem to know too much, and long-lost items from the past begin showing up around the house.

By Ellen Ullman

Taking a downtown office to plot his comeback in tumultuous 1970s San Francisco, a disgraced professor eavesdrops on a woman's therapy sessions.

By Andrea Kleine

Presents a fictionalized version of real events in which John Hinckley Jr. becomes obsessed with a young actress before his assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and a young girl deals with the murder of her best friend, who is killed in her sleep by her socialite mother.

By Karin Fossum
Series Inspector Sejer novels

Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.

By Harlan Coben
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy Tynes prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocate for abused children and tackles the case of a missing girl before a group of vigilante fathers makes Wendy fear that she accused an innocent man.

By Adrian McKinty

A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.

By Fiona Barton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Investigating the discovery of a baby's skeleton in a redeveloped section of London, journalist Kate Waters discovers links to the kidnapping of a baby from a hospital decades earlier before she is targeted by someone who wants to keep their secrets hidden.

By Rene Denfeld

Hired to find a young girl who went missing three years earlier, private investigator Madison Culver embarks on a search in a remote Oregon forest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.

By Brad Parks

Enduring a brutal foster– care upbringing, Melanie embarks on an adult life that she hopes will allow her to leave the past behind, only to be framed for drug charges that threaten her ability to keep her baby, a situation that is aided by an attorney who wants to solve the cold case of a serial rapist.

By Robin Cook

A third–year medical student at a Boston teaching hospital uncovers a medical black market dealing in human organs when she investigates why two young patients have lapsed into comas.

By Kirstin Chen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Ava Wong, a strait–laced Chinese American lawyer, and Winnie Fang, her former college roommate from mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.

By Shari Lapena
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years.

By Megan Abbott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.

By Gillian Flynn

After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, 7-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate. 

By Nicci French
Series Frieda Klein novels

Reluctantly agreeing to assess a woman who was incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital a decade earlier for murder, psychotherapist Frieda Klein begins to suspect that the girl is innocent, only to find herself targeted by someone who would keep the truth hidden.

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 Lisa Unger
Series Hollows

A man searching for the mother who disappeared decades earlier, a high-strung teenager, a psychic who predicts a man's death, and a disgraced former chief of police find their lives converging in ways that invoke formidable personal costs.

By Christian Moerk
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“A modern gothic novel of suspense that reveals, through their diaries, the story of sisters who fall in love with a beguiling stranger and of the town that turns a blind eye to his murderous ways (From the Publisher).”