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The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel I.S. Berry Current price: $28.00 During the Arab Spring, an American spy’s final mission goes dangerously awry in this explosive and “remarkable debut” (Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author) from a former CIA officer that is perfect for fans of John LeCarre, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Alan Furst. ...
Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn Current price: $17.00 Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. ...
The Secret Hours Mick Herron Current price: $27.95 A gripping standalone spy thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, with a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans. ...
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City in Ruins: A Novel (The Danny Ryan Trilogy #3) Don Winslow Current price: $32.00 Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. ...
Discounted All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller Jake Tapper Previous price: $29.00 Current price: $23.20 Bestselling author Jake Tapper’s “absolute page-turner” (Gillian Flynn) transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs. ...
Thicker Than Water: A Novel Megan Collins Current price: $27.99 In this “twisty, propulsive thriller” (Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author) from Megan Collins, two sisters-in-law are at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime. ...
The Bitter Past: A Mystery Bruce Borgos Current price: $28.00 In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… ...
Evergreen (A Japantown Mystery #2) Naomi Hirahara Current price: $27.95 A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division. ...
The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel Denise Mina Current price: $28.00 Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective. ...
Dead and Gone: A Detective Annalisa Vega Novel Joanna Schaffhausen Current price: $28.00 The next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. ...
Harlem After Midnight (A Canary Club Mystery #2) Louise Hare Current price: $28.00 Named a Must Read by Ebony ∙ Boston Herald ∙ Book Riot ∙ Bookish ∙ Minneapolis Star-Tribune and more! ...
Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland #3) Tod Goldberg Current price: $28.00 The “gloriously original” (The New York Times) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a Chicago hitman hiding out as a rabbi in the desert suburbs of Las Vegas comes to its thrilling conclusion ...
New Release Saving Emma: A Novel Allen Eskens Current price: $28.00 A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). ...
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The Nightingale Affair Tim Mason Current price: $28.00 In this twisty new Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale’s nurses in Crimea and women in London. ...
The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel #4) Sujata Massey Current price: $27.95 Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. ...
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The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy #7) Adrian McKinty Current price: $26.99 "Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget." - Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author ...
The Dark Edge of Night: A Henri Lefort Mystery (Henri Lefort Mysteries #2) Mark Pryor Current price: $28.00 “Sharp eyed and sharp mouthed police detective”* Henri Lefort, is determined to solve homicides and uncover any German conspiracies threatening France—in Mark Pryor’s newest World War II mystery, The Dark Edge of Night. ...
A Chateau Under Siege: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel (Bruno, Chief of Police Series #16) Martin Walker Current price: $28.00 When an actor in a local play is attacked during a performance, Bruno must learn whether it was an accident, a crime of passion, or an assassination attempt with implications far beyond the small French village. ...
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series #7) Karin Smirnoff Current price: $29.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the Millennium series ...
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Leonie Swann Current price: $27.95 A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. ...
The Traitor Among Us: An Elena Standish Novel Anne Perry Current price: $28.00 Elena Standish investigates the murder of a fellow MI6 agent near the country estate of one of England’s most influential families in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. ...
New Release The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Richard Osman Current price: $29.00 Instant #1 New York Times bestseller A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman ...
New Release Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery #1) Heather Redmond Current price: $27.00 Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating new historical mystery revolving around the real-life trio who would later sca ...
New Release Murder Most Royal: A Novel (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3) SJ Bennett Current price: $30.00 Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing—and was possibly murdered—near Sandringham House sets Queen Elizabeth II on the path to discover unsavory family secrets and much more in this new installment of the series the New York Times Book Review calls “sheer entertainment.” ...
Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (A Library of America Boxed Set) Geoffrey O'Brien Current price: $80.00 Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print ...
Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel Ian Fleming Current price: $18.99 JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL ...
New Release The Adventures of Ellery Queen (An American Mystery Classic) Ellery Queen Current price: $15.95 Eleven confounding problems in deduction for Golden Age super-sleuth Ellery Queen. ...
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Current price: $16.00 From "a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer" (The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers. ...
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning Sarah Weinman Current price: $19.99 From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre ...
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator Barbara Butcher Current price: $28.99 A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. ...
Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence James Renner Current price: $28.00 For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruet ...
Preorder Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel Amy Price Current price: $30.00 The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. ...
Preorder In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child Kim Cross Current price: $32.50 Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas—a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Un ...
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders Kathryn Miles Current price: $17.99 2023 Edgar Award Finalist One of the New York Times’ Best True Crime Books of 2022 “Trailed is meticulously investigated, achingly intimate, and doggedly persistent in the pursuit of justice.” —Robert Kolker, bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road ...
New Release Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects Harold Schechter Current price: $30.00 From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. ...
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Current price: $30.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. ...
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders John Glatt Current price: $30.00 In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. ...
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever Barbara Rae-Venter Current price: $28.99 “A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master. Barbara Rae-Venter’s investigative DNA work has revolutionized the way law enforcement hunts serial killers.”—John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter ...
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice Christine Kenneally Current price: $30.00 The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls ...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann Current price: $17.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working ...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Erik Larson Current price: $18.00 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his ...
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Jillian Lauren Current price: $27.99 Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. ...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt Current price: $18.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... ...
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Beverly Lowry Current price: $18.00 The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. ...
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them Neil Bradbury Current price: $19.00 “A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy Reichs ...
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail Andrea Lankford Current price: $30.00 ** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** ...
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers Marta McDowell Current price: $29.00 This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. ...
The Science of Agatha Christie: The Truth Behind Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and More Iconic Characters from the Queen of Crime Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence Current price: $14.99 Uncover the theories behind Dame Agatha Christie's most thrilling mysteries: Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The A.B.C. Murders, and so much more! ...
New Release American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper Daniel Stashower Current price: $20.00 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. ...
Preorder Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases Paul Holes Current price: $18.00 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "It’s a mark of the highest honor when I say it’s even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'."—The New York Times ...
