THE QUEENS OF MYSTERY

 

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At Risk: A Novel (Agent Liz Carlyle Series #1) By Stella Rimington Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9781400079810
Availability: Backordered
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - May 30th, 2006

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisible”-- Mi5-speak for someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.


Bluebird, Bluebird (A Highway 59 Novel #1) By Attica Locke Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316363273
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Published: Mulholland Books - August 28th, 2018

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).

"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett


Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery By P.D. James Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780743219570
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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2001

The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.”

Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder.


The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion) By Margery Allingham Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781448216666
Availability: Backordered
Published: Bloomsbury Reader - January 2nd, 2018

George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on.


The Daughter of Time By Josephine Tey Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780684803869
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Published: Scribner - November 29th, 1995

"One of the best mysteries of all time" (The New York Times)—Josephine Tey recreates one of history’s most famous—and vicious—crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a con


The Expendable Man By Dorothy B. Hughes, Walter Mosley (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Dorothy B. Hughes, Walter Mosley (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781590174951
Availability: Backordered
Published: NYRB Classics - July 3rd, 2012

“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him?


In the Woods: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad #1) By Tana French Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143113492
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Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2008

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). 


Maisie Dobbs By Jacqueline Winspear Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781616954079
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Published: Soho Crime - June 3rd, 2014

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander."
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs


Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries By Ann Cleeves Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780312359676
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Published: Minotaur Books - June 24th, 2008

The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS.

Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U.S. mystery readers.


Report for Murder and Common Murder: Lindsay Gordon Mysteries #1 and #2 By Val McDermid Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802127761
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Published: Grove Press - March 20th, 2018

The Lindsay Gordon novels are the series that set internationally bestselling writer Val McDermid on the path to becoming the world-class crime writer she is today, collected into three volumes and now available as Grove Press paperbacks for the first time.


The Shining Girls: A Novel By Lauren Beukes Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316216869
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Published: Mulholland Books - January 14th, 2014

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past.


Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel By Louise Penny Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780312541538
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Published: Minotaur Books - September 30th, 2008

Read the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video.

In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec.

Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.