Mystery category: 140534 books

A young Jewish orphan goes missing in London during the great Frost Fair of 1814. Is he merely lost? Has he been kidnapped? Or killed? An ancient coin from the Land of Israel disappears during a dinner party. An honest mistake on the part of someone, or is someone trying to swindle one of the...

There’s trouble afoot in Regency London’s Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes—until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well’ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets.  In this...

There’s trouble afoot in Regency London’s Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes—until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well’ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets.  In this...

Oy vey! When elderly mystery writer Agatha Krinsky falls for the fifth time, her nephew Sheldon insists she move into an assisted living facility. True to form, on her first day in her new home Agatha discovers a body in the library. But the staff won’t take her seriously, and even her elderly luncheon...

The box set of the entanglement mystery stories: FATE, REVENGE, DECEIT. "Tales of absorbing drama with impressive scope and ambition" - BBC writers room Robert Elliott's caseload as a police court missionary is mostly routine and ordinary. But, just occasionally, a case becomes extraordinary! Against...

The Mistletoe Mystery opens with the revelation that Euphemia is writing for her daughter! It's Christmas tide and Euphemia is again working for Bertram at his ill-fated estate in the Fens, White Orchards. Bertram's sudden desire for a big Christmas house party creates a huge task for Euphemia and...

From critically acclaimed suspense and thriller author Shelley Coriell comes a new crime fiction series full of mystery, murder, and killer recipes! Lottie King has the best job in the world: catching killers. But after a series of murder investigations leave her bruised and brokenhearted,...

Everyone's favorite Grandma with a Glock is back for more mystery, murder, and killer recipes! It’s a new year, and Lottie King is back to old habits: catching killers. She’s opened a shiny new detective agency and reluctantly partners with rival private investigator and greenhorn Oliver...

A "smart, clever, and well-crafted" mystery series from critically acclaimed suspense author Shelley Coriell. Newly retired, Lottie King vows to rest, relax, and recreate. Unfortunately, the boredom’s killing this former homicide detective...until she stumbles upon murders in the...

This is the first of a series of mysteries that take place in and around Victoria, B.C., the author's hometown. The main characters are children who eventually solve the mystery of strange occurrences and unexplained events. In the Saxe Point Park Mystery they stumble upon a dangerous plot which could...

Hollywood has come and gone for Jim and Penny, the TV movie about the Classmate Murders has been filmed and shown on TV and their lives are back to normal now. A woman comes into Jim's office one day from a mystery writers organization requesting Jim to join them on a luxury cruise of the Pacific...

Lew Bascom is an idea man, and he has quite an idea. To put his career on the fast track, Bascom plans to pen a film about Hollywood's longest-running theatrical feud—Blythe Stewart and her daughter Bonnie's rivalry with Jack Royale and his son Ty. The twist? Bascom wants the four actors to play...

From the “grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy”: The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). When your mom’s a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its ninth issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: BONEYARD, by Marc Bilgrey BULLY FOR YOU, by Carla Coupe THE HEREAFTER PARTY,...