Mystery Suspense category: 138083 books

As 1880 comes to a close, the O'Farrell Street boardinghouse servant, Kathleen Hennessey, expects to spend a quiet week while her employers, amateur sleuths Annie and Nate Dawson, are off spending the Christmas holidays with Nate's family. However, when she agrees to help out one of her friends, Kathleen...

From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly, Abby Kimball returns with stunning discoveries about her unusual ability to see the dead . . . Still undecided about a return to her teaching career, Abby Kimball has thrown herself into restoring the grand Victorian she shares with her...

The paranormal answer to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Jesperson and Lane are turning the Victorian era upside down in this bewitching series from John W. Campbell Award winner Lisa Tuttle. “A lively, entertaining blend of murder mystery and supernatural adventure . . . Arthur Conan Doyle...

(Previously published without the Readers Guide as Good Morning, Irene.) "Some women are just born to have grand adventures. Such a woman—"the" woman to the bewitched Sherlock Holmes—was the American actress Irene Adler, who shrugged off her untimely literary demise in "A Scandal in...

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING? In the far south a young girl goes missing, lost without trace in the wilderness beyond her remote family cottage. A year later her father disappears in the exact same place . . . Then nothing. At all. Eventually the years grow over the grief....

Nothing is fair in love and war in this historical mystery featuring British spies Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch, “a must-read for fans of the Regency era” (Publishers Weekly). Europe’s elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna—princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar—all...

“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.” Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful...

The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as “mystery fiction at its finest” When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends...

British spies Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch race to find a missing child in this “thrilling” historical mystery set during the end of the Napoleonic Wars (Deanna Raybourn, New York Times–bestselling author). In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant...

This is a 2 book set including the first 2 books in the Fire In My Heart Series! THE HEART OF NOW After a deadly fire six years ago in which he lost his father, Lawrence Sheridan is finally going back to London. With a hateful half-brother and a venom spitting stepmother, he is determined to...

Raucous and deadly writers' awards cruise … as bodies mount, fear grips the eccentric group … murder, adventure, and shipboard shenanigans ⚓ CRUISE SHIP COZY MYSTERY! ⚓ Aspiring novelist Veronica Kennicott crosses the stormy Atlantic on a raucous and deadly awards cruise, as Hollywood film...

A Medical Thriller Was it a Cure for Cancer, or Drug Company Greed. --Thousands are dead! Now the questions must be answered about the drug that was called the great cure for cancer! Two years after its release, thousands of cured patients inexplicitly died. The drug was recalled. Then came...

Mahu---a generally negative Hawaiian term for homosexuals---introduces a unique character to detective fiction. Kimo Kanapa'aka is a handsome, mixed-race surfer living in Honolulu, a police detective confronting his sexual orientation in an atmosphere of macho bravado within the police force. A...

“A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.” --Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described...