Mystery
Top 15 in Mystery
Week of July 27, 2026
Top 15 in Mystery
Week of July 27, 2026
by Louise Penny
The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, How the Light Gets In
by Andrew Wender Cohen
The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernisation and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.
by W. W. Tracy
RULE #1 CRIME CAN NOT BE COMMITTED AGAINST WOMEN When Jack Stacey finds himself at the scene of a homicide, he quickly identifies the profile as belonging to Michael Bittaker. Bittaker, and the local blue have been hot for each other for thirty-six years, without a single conviction. Some would say that's an epic effort in the life of a criminal. Stacey calls upon his partner, DCI Alexis Murphy, and as soon as she crosses the cordon, the past is haunting. The body count is steadily rising, and the chief suspect was recently cremated. As the pair set out to capture a ghost, they are forced to dispose Bittaker's ex-wife. When Sarah makes a series of chilling confessions, they discover their perp is not the monster they've been chasing and their failure to close a domestic violence case, has resulted in the rising of a serial killer. A chilling Australian story that weaves the tale of Domestic Violence, from a multifaceted perspective. The hard part isn't identifying culpability, it's allocating fair distribution of it.
by Patricia Smith Wood
In this second Harrie McKinsey Mystery, Harrie goes out to retrieve her morning newspaper and she discovers a small child sitting next to her flower beds. The little girl's pajamas and teddy bear are smeared with blood, and Harrie's journey to find the child's parents involves her in a grisly murder investigation. Before the week is over, there's another murder, an attempted kidnapping, a race to uncover a plot to steal top-secret data, and an encounter with a desperate killer who intends to make Harrie his final victim.
by T E. Kinsey
Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past. When she moves from London to rural Gloucestershire in 1908, she has her heart set on a quiet life in the country. But when she and her maid come upon a body in the woods, they become entangled in a murder mystery that sets them on an entertaining new path as amateur sleuths. In these, the first of Lady Hardcastle's adventures, she and Florence Armstrong, her faithful lady's maid, fumble their way through four mysteries. The Body in the Woods sets them on their new path when a supposed suicide turns out to be more than it appears. When The Circus Comes to Town, the amateur sleuths meet an old friend and must track down a multiple murderer who has turned the lives of the travelling entertainers upside down. The Case of the Missing Case sees a musician murdered at a country house party, but once again all is not as it seems and our heroines work with the Bristol police to solve the murder before the trail goes cold. In The Half Death of Gunther Ehrlichmann, Emily finally uncovers the truth of her husband's death and seals her own fate when an assassin tracks her down."
by Harper Lin
The Pink Cupcake Truck is here! From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin In the middle of a messy custody battle with her ex-husband, Amelia volunteers to organize a high school bake sale to raise money for Meg's art club. After a frightening police lockdown at the school, which turned out to be due to the death of a student, Amelia wants to help. She also has ulterior motives to be inside the school: to get to the bottom of why a popular football player was found dead in the school gym. Read the 7th cozy mystery (30,000 words) in the popular Pink Cupcake series.
by E. H. Reinhard
A known serial killer is once again taking lives in Chicago. Bodies drained of blood are being strewn across the city. For former Tampa homicide sergeant, Hank Rawlings, tracking down the man responsible for the killings becomes his first assignment at his new position, agent in the FBI's homicide division of the serial crimes unit. Almost before the ink dries on the new job's acceptance papers, Hank finds himself in Chicago, knee-deep in an investigation with a mounting body count. While every lead brings him and his partner closer to the killer, the one that puts them directly in front of him threatens them most.
by E. H. Reinhard
Dismembered bodies of women for hire litter the sides of the road in rural Tennessee. It has happened before, thirty years prior.Not knowing if the murders are that of a copycat or the original killer making a reappearance, Agent Hank Rawlings, along with Agent Beth Harper, is once again dispatched to the scene.With little help from the local authorities and limited resources at their disposal, Hank, Beth, and a local agent are tasked with pulling back the layers of deceit to circle closer to the man responsible.If they had only known the sheer horror of what awaited them at the end of their search, they might have opted to sit this one out.
by Daniel Defoe
Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime.
by Lene Kaaberbøl
"Centered around Madeline Karno, an ambitious young woman eager to shatter the confines of 1890s France, this novel is a gripping mystery that takes the reader on a captivating journey to find the cause behind a series of suspicious deaths" --
by Antonio Mercero
"La mañana en que el policía Carlos Luna se dispone a dejar para siempre su antigua identidad para presentarse como Sofía Luna, con su flamante nuevo DNI y una peluca rubia, o quizá morena, un asesinato terrible sacude la Brigada de Homicidios: Jon, el hijo de un famoso escritor de novelas históricas, ha sido asesinado. Todas las personas relacionadas con la víctima ocultan algo.Mientras avanza en la investigación, acompañada por su colega, y antigua amante, Laura, Sofía deberá lidiar con una sociedad que se resiste a los nuevos tiempos, y luchar por conservar su trabajo y el amor de su hijo adolescente." -- Site internet de l'éditeur
by Robert M. Utley
Written by a respected Western historian, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.
by Quintin Jardine
Quintin Jardine's recent Bob Skinner mystery, DEATH'S DOOR, spent six consecutive weeks at number one in the Scottish bestseller list
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
.0000000000Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face up to the moral consequences of his actions. The novel is compelling and rewarding, full of meaning and symbolism, and raises profound questions about the individual and society, and the nature of free will.Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Afterword by Oliver Francis.
