Mystery Suspense category: 138083 books

Join amateur sleuths, private detectives, and feisty female protagonists in a journey through time with this anthology of historical mysteries spanning nearly a thousand years, from Medieval Wales to 1940s Ohio. This collection of eight novellas and short stories is the perfect introduction to five...

This volume features 25 novels by some of the top writers of young adult mystery fiction from the 20th century. With more than 2,900 pages of classic crimes, here are the complete Mary Louis Gay series, the complete Madge Sterling series, the complete Penny Nichols series, and many more! Included...

The original whodunits were the locked room mysteries, a sub-genre of the detective mystery in which a crime is committed—almost always murder— in a location that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room. There have been many ingenious twists on the motif since it first flourished...

"This is a wonderful series. The period facts are correct, the plots interesting and the characters believable." ~Lori Biever Launder Famed Cellist Dies a Fashionable Death in Murder on Stilettos by P.J. Conn -- Los Angeles, 1947 –- Constance Remson, a wealthy young...

Going undercover is second nature for Private Investigator Lola Cruz, but she’s out of her league when the case of a murdered Royals Courtside Dancer leads her to a local nudist resort. Parading around the sidelines of Sacramento’s professional basketball scene in a barely-there cheerleading...

Welcome to The Fourth Mystery MEGAPACK®! This time we have a stellar lineup for your reading pleasure, drawing stories from a wide variety of sources -- including not only the traditional mystery magazines (such as Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's), but also their less-well-known rivals (remember...

". . . a gumshoe you'd like to spend time with . . . a sweet love story and a good mystery with a satisfying ending." ~Pete Croisant, eBook Discovery Reviewer VA Nurse Found Dead, Murderer At Large in Stairway to Murder by P.J. Conn -- Los Angeles, California, Summer, 1947...

Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first six books of the Camilla MacPhee Mystery series are gathered together. Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, and her uneasy association with the world of crime takes bizarre turns through hotel crucifixions, firebombing,...

A short story by mystery author Stacy Juba. When Gregg accidentally discovers his neighbor's lingerie collection drip-drying in her shower, he stares in fascination at a scene that looks like laundry day at the whorehouse. After his neighbor is found dead - strangled with her own fishnet stocking...

REVIEWS "The first time I read "The Dark Snow," I found it almost unbearingly suspenseful and immediately selected it for "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year." It stayed with me so powerfully that a few years later I used in "The Best American Mystery...

Here at last is award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois' second novel in his Lewis Cole mystery series, BLACK TIDE.The sequel to DEAD SAND has Lewis Cole looking into the mystery surrounding an oil spill on the beaches of Tyler, and the headless and handless corpse of a diver, washing...

"Brendan DuBois is a fine novelist and easily the best short story writer of his generation." --- New York Times bestselling author Lee Child* * *Award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois' fourth novel in his Lewis Cole mystery series, KILLER WAVES, is finally available in an e-book...

REVIEWS "...Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time." --- mystery editor and author Ed Gorman. "To say that Brendan DuBois writes thrillers is equivalent to saying that Faberge was pretty good at decorating eggs." --- Crippen...

Ready for a delectably sweet treat? Indulge in this boxed set of ten books in the Samantha Sweet cozy bakery mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton. Here’s what others are saying: “Once again Connie Shelton has given “us readers” another great book. Both...