Mystery
Top 15 in Mystery
Week of August 3, 2026
Top 15 in Mystery
Week of August 3, 2026
by B. K. Stubblefield
The best part of Emily's childhood may have been the time she spent with her quirky aunt. When her favorite relative passes away, she drops everything to attend the funeral in the small town of Oak Creek. Just as she starts to get the hang of small-town life, an unknown driver runs her off the road and sends her to the hospital. But, why?
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 Louise Penny
The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, How the Light Gets In
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.
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 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 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 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 Siri Hustvedt
"When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling down a rabbit's hole of personal and psychological intrigue"--
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 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 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 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 E. H. Reinhard
A wanted serial killer and his girlfriend are on a bloody killing spree across the United States. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper, along with the rest of their team, are on a nationwide manhunt to bring them to justice.Scene after scene and body after body only add to the media coverage. The wanted couple's faces are splashed across every television and cover the front pages of every newspaper, yet Hank's team remains a step behind-leaving them searching through the wreckage and bodies left in the couple's wake.As the pair takes a turn for the border, Hank must pull out all the stops to capture the murderous lovers before they take more lives, cross the border, and slip through the FBI's grasp.The hunt is on.
