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Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2024-2025
What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust
Publication Date: 2024-09-03
Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life.
We Three Queens
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
New mother Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch finds herself trying to separate fact from fiction when a murder occurs while a film is being made on the grounds of her estate
We Solve Murders
Publication Date: 2024-09-17
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve…
Toxic Prey
Publication Date: 2024-04-09
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world
Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want.
Three-Inch Teeth
Publication Date: 2024-02-27
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human
This Is Why We Lied: A Will Trent Thriller
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…
They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story
Publication Date: 2024-07-02
Some will know how it begins…Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. But there’s more to her than meets the eye.
The Waiting
Publication Date: 2024-11-05
LAPD Detective Renee Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.
The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts
Publication Date: 2024-09-17
From the bestselling duo of award-winning author Ann Patchett and Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser comes an empathetic story about introverts and extroverts, and two siblings who learn to be themselves.
The Rose Arbor
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment.
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024
Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world’s oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella
Publication Date: 2024-10-1
Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella
The Mighty Red
Publication Date: 2024-10-01
Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.
The Lost Coast: A Novel
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team
The Last Word
Publication Date: 2024-4-23
Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series.
The Lantern’s Dance
Publication Date: 2024-02-14
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
The Hunter
Publication Date: 2024-03-05
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
The Hidden City
Publication Date: 2025-05-06
Aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox makes a triumphant return to London from his travels to America to investigate a mystery hidden in the architecture of the city itself, in The Hidden City by critically acclaimed author Charles Finch.
The Grey Wolf
Publication Date: 2024-10-29
The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Precious Ramotswe takes on an interesting but sensitive case and learns valuable lessons along the way in this next installment of the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
The Great Deceiver
Publication Date: 2023-10-24
It starts with a magician and a murder in a Brighton boarding house; throw in a show on Brighton pier, a sinister radio personality and a potential serial killer, and you’ve got the next gripping book in the Brighton Mysteries series.
The Ghost Orchid: An Alex Delaware Novel
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that leads them to long-buried secrets worth killing for
The Dark Wives
Publication Date: 2024-08-29
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves’s beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man’s death.
The Conditions of Unconditional Love
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating tricky problems both public and personal
The Comfort of Ghosts
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow!
The Burning
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.
The Black Loch
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Kathleen is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh – the Black Loch – on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
Table for Two: Fictions
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters
Spirit Crossing
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book
Pay Dirt: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Publication Date: 2024-04-16
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller
Paper Boat
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age
One Perfect Couple
Publication Date: 2024-05-21
Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them
One Of Us Is Dead
Publication Date: 2024-10-22
Hunting him would be murder…When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. But as the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him.
Normal Rules Don’t Apply
Publication Date: 2024-05-23
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories with everything that readers love about Atkinson’s novels.
Nightshade Revenge
Publication Date: 2024-01-16
Follow the world’s greatest teen spy as he sets off to California to battle Nightshade once again–this time, for good.
Midnight and Blue
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he’s going to join them…
Lost Birds: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Publication Date: 2024-04-23
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.
Lightning Strikes the Silence
Publication Date: 2024-05-07
A warm June afternoon in King’s Cove is interrupted by an explosion. Following the sound, Lane goes to investigate. Up a steep path she discovers a secluded cabin and, hiding nearby, a young Japanese girl…
Killing Time: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
Agatha Raisin’s private detective agency has their work cut out for them when a series of shop burglaries disturbs their quiet Cotswolds village. When the break-ins take a violent turn and a murder occurs, it’s all hands on deck to find the killer.
Junia, the Book Mule of Troublesome Creek
Publication Date: 2024-05-15
Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression
Joe Pickett: A Mysterious Profile
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author shares the origin story of his infamous game warden character, Joe Pickett, as he investigates a local poachers attack.
In Sunshine or in Shadow
Publication Date: 2024-03-12
Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles.
First Frost: A Longmire Mystery
Publication Date: 2024-05-28
Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of characters from Abaroska county tasked with solving a crime even more challenging than the last.
Fire and Bones
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan finds herself at the center of a Washington, DC, arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.
Den of Iniquity
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil.
Democracy
Publication Date: 2024-06-27
This is an exceptional moment for democracy. In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means – and why it matters.
Death of a Spy
Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh
Death of a Master Chef: A Brittany Mystery
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
Commissaire Georges Dupin is certain these first beautiful summer days in June would be perfect for a fun trip to Saint-Malo. In a region known as the culinary heart of Brittany, the paradoxical city is known for being a uniquely Breton, yet un-Breton, place.
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Publication Date: 2024-09-24
Marooned overnight by a snowstorm is a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize – a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick – except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the ‘sidekick’ is DC Reggie Chase.
Dark Storm Rising: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
In this short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must race through a dangerous blizzard to save an elderly Amish woman from a sinister foe.
Cut and Thirst: A Short Story
Publication Date: 2024-05-01
The three older women from “Airborne” in Old Babes in the Woods decide they need to murder several earlier offenders.
Close to Death
Publication Date: 2024-04-16
Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.
An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery
Publication Date: 2025-02-25
The heat wave has even got Brittany firmly in its grip this August, with no prospect of cooling down for Commissioner Dupin.
Against the Grain
Publication Date: 2024-12-03
Detective Peter Diamond goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet conclusion to the multi-award-winning series.
A Refiner’s Fire
Publication Date: 2024-07-06
Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was.
A Grave in the Woods
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Bruno, France’s favourite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves.
A Death in Cornwall
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve
1999: An Allie Burns Novel
Publication Date: 2024-10-22
In the new installment to her historical crime series, internationally bestselling and award-winning author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns returned to investigations as she digs into the past of a notorious serial killer, a crossover character from the world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.
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