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28 past books matching Detective Fiction
Nine months of missing time leave more than physical scars when a woman wakes to a life that no longer belongs to her.
The Hiding Place
Mystery · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Detective Fiction
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Nine months of missing time leave more than physical scars when a woman wakes to a life that no longer belongs to her. The Hiding Place follows private investigator Tara Kinsale as she pieces together a murder, a lost marriage, and secrets taken while she lay unconscious. This romantic suspense blends emotional recovery, buried truths, and quiet menace as the past refuses to stay hidden.
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A private detective investigates a murder that happened while she was in a coma in this romantic suspense mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.
After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara's husband has divorced her for another woman.
Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire's uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.
Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don't stay buried forever . . . even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.
"The tension steadily escalates to a pulse-pounding climax." —Publishers Weekly
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Boston after World War I is a city on the brink.
The Given Day
Historical Fiction · Detective Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Romance · World War 1
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Boston after World War I is a city on the brink. Two families, one Black and one white, are swept into labor unrest, political violence, and shifting power. The Given Day is a sweeping historical epic of survival and ambition, earning 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 28,000 Goodreads ratings.
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"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times
Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.
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Punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday faces her most personal case yet when a student dies from a fentanyl overdose.
Divine Ruin
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday faces her most personal case yet when a student dies from a fentanyl overdose. As she hunts the dealers flooding New Orleans schools, her own history with addiction resurfaces, testing her faith, resolve, and vows. Gritty, urgent, and soulful, this crime novel confronts justice, grace, and the cost of devotion head-on.
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In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines)
“Divine Ruin is fearlessly inspired.” (Gillian Flynn)
It’s a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favorite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are determined to track down the drug dealers. As students continue to fall prey tothis sinister drug, Sister Holiday becomes more desperate to stop the epidemic—while facing her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.
With Douaihy’s signature mix of grit, heart, and faith, Divine Ruin tests the limits of Sister Holiday’s devotion in her darkest and most shocking case yet.
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A failed medical career sends Cassie Coburn to London, where she unexpectedly becomes wrapped up in a quadruple poisoning.
Poison in Paddington
Mystery · Cozy Mystery · Detective Fiction
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A failed medical career sends Cassie Coburn to London, where she unexpectedly becomes wrapped up in a quadruple poisoning. Partnered with an eccentric French detective, she trades sightseeing for sleuthing. Poison in Paddington delivers charm, humor, and classic cozy mystery intrigue, earning a 4.3 star Amazon rating and strong Goodreads praise.
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When Cassie Coburn moved to London, she never thought she'd be involved in a quadruple homicide.
After a car accident ended her medical career before it even started, Cassie moved to London on a whim, expecting to see the sights and live the typical tourist backpacker lifestyle.
Instead she finds herself accompanying a French private detective, Violet Despuis, as they attempt to find out who poisoned four people in the middle of London. Cassie's life soon includes this crazy detective, an ancient landlady with a curious past, a mischievous orange cat who likes going for walks on a leash, and a super hot pathologist that Cassie is sure is out of her league.
And they haven't even found the murderer yet...
The Cassie Coburn mysteries are a cozy mystery series featuring a Sherlock Holmes-style sleuth. If you want a light, fun, modern mystery featuring a San Francisco girl totally out of her element in London, and a crazy French woman who happens to be very good at noticing things, then this is the series for you.
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After her daughter’s death is ruled an accident, Rose travels to a memoir retreat in Guatemala to uncover the truth.
The Deepest Lake
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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After her daughter’s death is ruled an accident, Rose travels to a memoir retreat in Guatemala to uncover the truth. Beneath Lake Atitlán’s beauty lies something dangerous, and every writer has something to hide. The Deepest Lake is a haunting literary thriller of grief, ambition, and deception, with 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.5 on Goodreads.
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Three months after her daughter’s mysterious death in Guatemala, Rose still has no answers. The police call it an accident, but nothing about Jules’s final days makes sense. She feared the water. She stopped texting without explanation. And her body was never found.
Desperate for truth, Rose travels to the memoir-writing retreat where her daughter spent her last week, led by the magnetic and controversial author Eva Marshall. There, on the tranquil shores of Lake Atitlán, Rose uncovers the tangled loyalties, rivalries, and secrets that surrounded Jules. Every story hides a fracture, and every memory holds a darker reflection.
The Deepest Lake is a haunting literary thriller about grief, obsession, and the lies that surface when art and ambition collide. 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.5 on Goodreads.
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Miranda James’s Murder Past Due begins the Cat in the Stacks series with charm, mystery, and a sleuthing cat.
Murder Past Due
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Miranda James’s Murder Past Due begins the Cat in the Stacks series with charm, mystery, and a sleuthing cat. When a bestselling author is killed in Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must solve the crime. With a 4.6 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy debut is witty, bookish, and irresistible.
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Charlie Harris has settled back in his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, with his towering Maine coon cat, Diesel, for company. Between his library work and quiet walks with Diesel on a leash, life feels pleasantly uneventful—until a notorious author comes back to town.
Godfrey Priest may be a bestselling novelist, but Charlie remembers him as a manipulative bully. Apparently, so does everyone else in Athena. By lunchtime, Godfrey has already picked a fight. By dinnertime, he’s dead.
Suddenly, Charlie finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation. With an overeager deputy ready to arrest the wrong person, Charlie and Diesel must dig into old grudges and secrets to uncover the truth.
In Athena, every bookshelf hides a clue, and some rivalries never die.
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A hidden inheritance in Aspen turns deadly when celebrity anchor Georgia Glass steps into a Victorian house and finds a frozen corpse waiting inside.
Now I See You
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Detective Fiction
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A hidden inheritance in Aspen turns deadly when celebrity anchor Georgia Glass steps into a Victorian house and finds a frozen corpse waiting inside. As she digs into the murder of a missing heiress, Georgia draws the attention of a killer while the obsessed fan she fled Denver to escape may have followed her there. Now I See You delivers a fast-moving mystery with stalking tension, gothic atmosphere, and snowy resort suspense.
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Two murders. A terrified mountain resort. Can a daring reporter help stop an avalanche of bodies before she becomes the next victim?
Celebrity TV anchor Georgia Glass wants out of Denver and far away from her obsessed fan. Set to host her own investigative crime show in LA, she’s surprised to inherit a Victorian house in Aspen from a mysterious uncle she never knew. But while exploring the gothic property, she discovers the frozen corpse of a missing heiress.
Georgia’s journalist instincts kick in and she is determined to help police track down the killer. But by investigating the murder, has she made herself the killer’s next target?
Can Georgia help solve the case before she becomes the next victim? Or will the stalker that followed her to Aspen get her first?
Now I See You is a fast-paced whodunit set amidst the spectacular scenery of Aspen, Colorado, and the first book in the suspenseful Mountain Resort Mystery series.
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It fits readers who want espionage, small-town tension, and seasoned characters with dangerous histories.
The Spy Coast
Thriller · Mystery · Detective Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense
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The past refuses to stay buried in The Spy Coast, where a quiet life in coastal Maine shatters the moment a body appears as a warning. Retired operative Maggie Bird must rely on her circle of former CIA friends to uncover who has come for her and why. It fits readers who want espionage, small-town tension, and seasoned characters with dangerous histories.
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A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement.
But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This “Martini Club” of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they’re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives.
Complicating their efforts is Purity’s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie’s reluctance to share information—and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn.
As Jo’s investigation collides with the Martini Club’s maneuvers, Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends—and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau—Maggie might just be able to save the life she’s built.
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FBI Agent Patterson Blake’s search for her missing sister leads to a serial killer’s chilling lair.
Sister Where Are You
Thriller · Mystery · Detective Fiction
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FBI Agent Patterson Blake’s search for her missing sister leads to a serial killer’s chilling lair. Victims left chained, terrified, and dying slowly. As the past resurfaces and a new victim’s life hangs by a thread, Patterson must confront a sadistic predator. The truth about her sister may cost her everything—including her own life.
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He turned off the flashlight and stood in the darkness, soaking up her terror as she shrieked and begged for him to return. After her screams had given way to exhausted whimpers, he continued down the overgrown woodland trail with a satisfied smile.
As he went, he wondered how long it would take her to die…
FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake has accepted that the disappearance of her sister Julie sixteen years ago will never be solved. Until shocking new evidence comes to light that makes her question everything she thought she knew.
When the grisly dumping ground of a twisted serial killer is discovered, it looks like she may have found her sister's final resting spot. This sadistic murderer has been taking girls for decades and leaving them chained up, alone and terrified, to die a slow and gruesome death. Was her sister a victim of this deranged psychopath?
Now another woman has been taken, and time is running out to save her.
In her quest to find the killer and discover the truth about her sister, the young FBI agent will soon discover that the past is a dangerous place, and those who dwell within are still out there, waiting for new prey.
And in Patterson Blake, they might just have found it...
A taut, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller with a twist you won’t see coming.
If you’re a fan of Jeffery Deaver, Greg Iles, or David Baldacci, you will love Patterson Blake.
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A killer is on the loose, and Detective Marcy Kendrick is their target.
Skin Deep
Mystery · Thriller · Detective Fiction · Police Procedural
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A killer is on the loose, and Detective Marcy Kendrick is their target. The murders mimic the one that shattered her life years ago, and the killer taunts her—claiming they are the same. As Marcy hunts the copycat, she realizes the real threat may be closer than she thinks. A gripping new detective thriller series starts here.
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Detective Marcy Kendrick is chasing a killer. And this time, it’s personal.
Marcy Kendrick has built a reputation as LAPD’s most relentless homicide detective—and as the cop who killed three serial killers before they could be brought to trial. Was it self-defense, or is she exacting her own revenge? After all, her mother was brutally murdered by a serial killer years ago.
Now, a new murderer is on the loose, mimicking the man who killed Marcy’s mother. As the city reels from the killings, the murderer taunts Marcy with disturbing messages, insisting they are the same—both killers. But as she hunts the copycat, she realizes the truth is even more chilling. The killer is close. Too close.
Can Marcy catch them before the next victim dies?
Skin Deep is the first pulse-pounding thriller in the Marcy Kendrick series—perfect for fans of gritty police procedurals and psychological suspense.
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Good for readers who like romantic mysteries with witty banter and investigative partners.
My Sister’s Detective
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Rodman Philbrick says, “You're in for a rocking good time.” When Slater’s best friend is murdered, an old flame asks for help, and her sharp, sarcastic sister Maggie joins the investigation into Point Road’s darkest secrets. My Sister’s Detective blends mystery, suspense, romance, and humor, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like romantic mysteries with witty banter and investigative partners.
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A wry tale of Mystery, Suspense, and two people that can't help falling in love.
Slater's best friend has been murdered, an old flame needs his help, and her little sister has definitely grown up.
Point Road, home of the beautiful and obscenely wealthy Angela Jeffries. When their childhood friend is murdered, she begs Slater to take the case. Maggie, the little sister he barely remembers, offers to help. Turns out the sarcastic redhead is one hell of an investigator.
As their feelings turn romantic, Maggie and Slater follow a trail of deception and lies, hoping to prove their dead friend innocent of what they fear most. No one is safe, and the men involved will stop at nothing to cover their tracks; tracks that will lead the pair into the grim world of human trafficking and expose the darkest secrets of Point Road and the Jeffries' family.
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A quiet morning in Three Pines gives way to a threat that feels far larger than a single murder.
The Grey Wolf
Mystery · Detective Fiction · Suspense
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A quiet morning in Three Pines gives way to a threat that feels far larger than a single murder. When strange messages and unsettling events pull Armand Gamache back into action, he and his closest allies uncover a danger that stretches across Québec and beyond. This is a layered mystery driven by shifting loyalties, rising unease, and the dread of something immense closing in.
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.
That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF, the nineteenth novel in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.
Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they’re chasing becomes clear. If they fail the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.
Including Three Pines.
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