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The Year of the Locust: A Thriller Terry Hayes Current price: $32.00 Terry Hayes, author of the #1 global bestseller I Am Pilgrim, returns with this terrifying and eagerly awaited instant bestseller. ...
Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn Current price: $17.00 Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. ...
The Secret Hours Mick Herron Current price: $27.95 A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans. ...
Moscow X: A Novel David McCloskey Current price: $29.99 A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center? ...
Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy: A Novel Paul Vidich Current price: $27.95 A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk. Lebanon, 2006. ...
The Defector: A Novel (The Apollo Murders Series #2) Chris Hadfield Current price: $29.00 From a New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot comes a "full-throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner" (Jack Carr, New York Times bestselling author) and Cold War thriller perfect for fans of Top Gun and The Hunt for Red October. ...
Kennedy 35 (Box 88 #3) Charles Cumming Current price: $27.95 A Financial Times Best Thriller of 2023 Veteran agent Lachlan Kite—“a spy for the 21st century” (Daily Mail)—reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career. ...
All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller Jake Tapper Current price: $29.00 Bestselling author Jake Tapper’s “absolute page-turner” (Gillian Flynn) transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs. ...
Thicker Than Water: A Novel Megan Collins Current price: $27.99 In this “twisty, propulsive thriller” (Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author) from Megan Collins, two sisters-in-law are at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime. ...
The Bitter Past: A Mystery (Porter Beck #1) Bruce Borgos Current price: $28.00 In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… ...
The Wharton Plot: A Novel Mariah Fredericks Current price: $28.00 Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer. ...
Unnatural Death: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) Patricia Cornwell Current price: $30.00 Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta’s career. ...
Evergreen (A Japantown Mystery #2) Naomi Hirahara Current price: $27.95 A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division. ...
The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel Denise Mina Current price: $28.00 Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective. ...
Dead and Gone: A Detective Annalisa Vega Novel Joanna Schaffhausen Current price: $28.00 The next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. ...
Harlem After Midnight (A Canary Club Mystery #2) Louise Hare Current price: $28.00 Named a Must Read by Ebony ∙ Boston Herald ∙ Book Riot ∙ Bookish ∙ Minneapolis Star-Tribune and more! ...
Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland #3) Tod Goldberg Current price: $28.00 Reading the West Book Awards Nominee The “gloriously original” (The New York Times) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a Chicago hitman hiding out as a rabbi in the desert suburbs of Las Vegas comes to its thrilling conclusion ...
Saving Emma: A Novel Allen Eskens Current price: $28.00 A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). ...
City on Fire: A Novel (The Danny Ryan Trilogy #1) Don Winslow Current price: $18.99 New York Times Bestseller! ...
Ash Dark as Night (A Harry Ingram Mystery #2) Gary Phillips Current price: $27.95 In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality. ...
Daughter of Mine: A Novel Megan Miranda Current price: $28.99 An Instant New York Times BestsellerA USA TODAY Bestseller ...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine (The Arkady Renko Novels #10) Martin Cruz Smith Current price: $26.99 Detective Arkaday Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. ...
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder: A Novel C.L. Miller Current price: $27.99 USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this fun, cozy, debut mystery, an antiques hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her in the high-stakes world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? ...
The Nightingale Affair: A Novel Tim Mason Current price: $28.00 In this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale’s nurses in Crimea and women in London. ...
The Final Curtain: A Mystery (The Kyoichiro Kaga Series #4) Keigo Higashino Current price: $29.00 From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. ...
The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel #4) Sujata Massey Current price: $27.95 Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. ...
The Wayward Prince: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #7) Leonard Goldberg Current price: $28.00 The fate of Prince Harry and the British throne lies in the hands of Joanna and the Watsons in the latest Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery from USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg. ...
The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy #7) Adrian McKinty Current price: $26.99 "Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget." - Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author ...
The Dark Edge of Night: A Henri Lefort Mystery (Henri Lefort Mysteries #2) Mark Pryor Current price: $28.00 “Sharp eyed and sharp mouthed police detective”* Henri Lefort, is determined to solve homicides and uncover any German conspiracies threatening France—in Mark Pryor’s next World War II mystery, The Dark Edge of Night. ...
A Chateau Under Siege: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel (Bruno, Chief of Police Series #16) Martin Walker Current price: $28.00 When an actor in a local play is attacked during a performance, Bruno must learn whether it was an accident, a crime of passion, or an assassination attempt with implications far beyond the small French village. ...
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series #7) Karin Smirnoff Current price: $29.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the Millennium series ...
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp (Miss Sharp Investigates #1) Leonie Swann Current price: $27.95 A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. ...
The Traitor Among Us: An Elena Standish Novel Anne Perry Current price: $28.00 Elena Standish investigates the murder of a fellow MI6 agent near the country estate of one of England’s most influential families in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. ...
The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Richard Osman Current price: $29.00 An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman ...
Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery #1) Heather Redmond Current price: $27.00 Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating new historical mystery revolving around the real-life trio who would later sca ...
Murder Most Royal: A Novel (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3) SJ Bennett Current price: $30.00 "One imagines Christmas at the royal family’s country house at Sandringham Estate bustling with drama, but Bennett’s version raises the stakes... Bennett charmingly portrays relationships between royal family members." — Washington Post ...
Two Dead Wives: A British Psychological Thriller Adele Parks Current price: $30.00 "Absolutely gripping, this is revenge lit at its best. Provocative and compelling. I was left breathless at the final twist." --Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Remains Lost. Missing. Murdered? How do you find a woman who didn't exist? ...
Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (A Library of America Boxed Set) Geoffrey O'Brien Current price: $80.00 Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print ...
Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel Ian Fleming Current price: $18.99 JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL ...
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (An American Mystery Classic) Ellery Queen Current price: $15.95 Eleven confounding problems in deduction for Golden Age super-sleuth Ellery Queen. ...
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Current price: $16.00 FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME ...
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries Michael Sims (Editor) Current price: $18.00 For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic ...
The Essential Harlem Detectives: A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, The Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes Current price: $35.00 The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes. ...
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning Sarah Weinman Current price: $19.99 From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre ...
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator Barbara Butcher Current price: $28.99 Now featured in the five-part docuseries on Netflix, Homicide: New York A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. ...
Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence James Renner Current price: $28.00 For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruet ...
The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief Rena Pederson Current price: $28.95 The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society—and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties. ...
Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power Jason Ryan Current price: $32.00 The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity—by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place. ...
Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel Amy Price Current price: $30.00 The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. ...
American Black Widow: The shocking true story of a preacher's wife turned killer Gregg Olsen Current price: $13.99 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister’s wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead. ...
In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child Kim Cross Current price: $32.50 Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas—a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as t ...
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty Mandy Matney Current price: $28.99 The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney. ...
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders Kathryn Miles Current price: $19.99 Now's the perfect time to pick up 2023 CrimeCon True Crime Book of the Year: a riveting deep dive into the unsolved murder of two free-spirited young women in the wilderness, a journalist's obsession—and a new theory of who might have done it. "The truth is still buried. ...
Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects Harold Schechter Current price: $30.00 From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. ...
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Current price: $30.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. ...
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders John Glatt Current price: $30.00 In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. ...
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever Barbara Rae-Venter Current price: $28.99 EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • “A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master.”—John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter ...
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice Christine Kenneally Current price: $30.00 The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls ...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann Current price: $17.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers wor ...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Erik Larson Current price: $19.00 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his ...
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Jillian Lauren Current price: $27.99 Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. ...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt Current price: $18.00 THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... ...
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Beverly Lowry Current price: $18.00 The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. ...
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them Neil Bradbury Current price: $20.00 “A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy Reichs ...
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail Andrea Lankford Current price: $30.00 ** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** ...
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers Marta McDowell Current price: $29.00 This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. ...
The Science of Agatha Christie: The Truth Behind Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and More Iconic Characters from the Queen of Crime Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence Current price: $14.99 Uncover the theories behind Dame Agatha Christie's most thrilling mysteries: Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The A.B.C. Murders, and so much more! ...
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper Daniel Stashower Current price: $20.00 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. ...
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases Paul Holes Current price: $18.00 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "It’s a mark of the highest honor when I say it’s even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'."—The New York Times ...
