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A cozy pick for readers who enjoy amateur sleuth teams, bookshop settings, literary clues, and lighthearted murder mysteries.
Murder by the Book
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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Called “Utterly captivating” by Michael Wood, Murder by the Book follows four members of a bookshop reading group who investigate after their manager is found dead between the shelves, using lessons from their favorite fictional detectives, with a 3.9-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. A cozy pick for readers who enjoy amateur sleuth teams, bookshop settings, literary clues, and lighthearted murder mysteries.
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'Utterly captivating. Perfect for fans of The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries' Michael Wood, bestselling crime fiction author
'A humorous, gripping cosy mystery story that every crime fiction lover will really enjoy' Fiona Leitch, bestselling cosy crime author
Nothing is deadlier than angry readers… especially when you murder one of their own.
When the manager of The Quaint Bookshop is found slumped between the shelves, the four members of the shop's reading group decide to put into action all the skills they’ve picked up from their favourite fictional detectives.
If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it’s a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case…
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When the police chase the wrong leads, three women begin searching for the truth themselves.
The Women in the Shadows
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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When the police chase the wrong leads, three women begin searching for the truth themselves. In The Women in the Shadows, a detective’s wife, a private investigator, and a police station cleaner form an unlikely alliance in 1888 London to track the killer known as Jack the Ripper. This historical crime novel reframes the infamous case through the lives of women who refuse to remain invisible.
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Included in THE TIMES Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale'
The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the perspective of a gang of women.
'A fresh and captivating retelling of the Jack the Ripper mystery, brimming with authentic historical detail and well-drawn, sympathetic characters. A must-read for lovers of finely crafted historical fiction.' IRINA SHAPIRO
London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong places, at all the wrong suspects. But three women refuse to stay silent.
Emma, the chief detective’s sharp-witted wife, sees the investigation failing. Maggie, a private investigator, exposes men’s darkest secrets. Bet, a police station cleaner, overhears what others ignore.
Together, they form an alliance to hunt down the killer dubbed Jack the Ripper. But as the women weave through the slums, brothels, and smoke-filled parlours of London’s underworld, they uncover corruption more sinister than they ever imagined.
The city belonged to men – until now.
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake.
Murder Made Her Wicked
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake. In Murder Made Her Wicked, Marigold Manners returns to Wellesley determined to rebuild her life, only to confront rivalries and resentments simmering beneath the surface of her cloistered academic world. As suspicion spreads through the tight-knit community, this historical mystery blends sharp intellect, social tension, and the resolve of an unconventional heroine.
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Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobbs’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.
“A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both Emily Brontë and L. M. Montgomery” (Kirkus), this second installment is perfect for fans of Deanna Rayborn.
1894, Boston. Penniless Boston heiress and accomplished modern woman Marigold Manners has put her past to good use, selling the story of the Great Misery Island Murders to earn enough money to resume the life she was always meant to have and return to her studies at Wellesley College. But her carefully laid plans for academic excellence are thrown into disarray when she stumbles across the body of a young woman in the campus lake.
When the peace of the bucolic campus is shattered by the murder, the cloistered world of a women’s college that Marigold finds so comforting proves it is not immune to the malice and wickedness of the world. The closed community becomes a hothouse where disparagement blooms into insult and small slights that have festered for years blossom into academic rivalries that could spill over into something far more sinister. Marigold must use every ounce of her logic and enlist her eccentric, colorful cast of fellow students and found family to identify the girl and find the murderer—before they kill again.
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief.
Welcome to Murder Week
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief. In Welcome to Murder Week, Cath travels to the English countryside after discovering her late mother booked tickets for a weeklong fake crime in a small village. As she teams up with fellow guests to solve the “case,” she uncovers hidden truths about her mother and herself in this character-driven mystery with romantic and emotional depth.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER
In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.
When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.
Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.
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The Great Meadows is a good pick for readers who like literary mysteries with small-town secrets, southern settings, moral tension, and buried family wounds.
The Great Meadows
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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In Bardstown, Kentucky, Levi investigates the murder of Moussa Diab after a false confession, uncovering dark secrets in this atmospheric mystery set among bourbon country, with a 4.3-star average from 53 Goodreads ratings. The Great Meadows is a good pick for readers who like literary mysteries with small-town secrets, southern settings, moral tension, and buried family wounds.
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Levi Motley is an aimless rambler fleeing his latest personal tragedy. Moussa Diab is a spiritual pilgrim journeying to a Trappist monastery. When Levi spots Moussa hitchhiking down a rural Kentucky highway, their lives become ensnared in a decades-old mystery unfolding in the bourbon capital of the world, Bardstown.
Levi delivers the young pilgrim to his destination. Three days later, Moussa’s body is discovered on a nearby riverbank. Within twenty-four hours, a local man confesses to the killing.
But he’s lying.
Why?
Because small towns hold dark secrets. This secret draws Levi into a perilous confrontation with an amorphous power bent on concealing the truth. If Levi can uncover the secret and check that power, then he will reconcile the wounds of his troubled past and discover what really happened to Moussa Diab out there in the elusive Great Meadows.
But the thing about dark secrets is…they’re meant to remain untold.
The Great Meadows is a captivating mystery woven into the southern fabric of the Bluegrass State, a place replete with natural beauty and a complex history that informs the hearts and minds of its people. This compelling novel combines the propulsive elements of popular suspense with the expansive themes of literary fiction. Sophisticated and meticulously crafted, this story of dark secrets and festering family wounds is replete with a host of unforgettable characters on a quest for a truth that will transform the characters and reader, alike. By the time this long-sought-after truth is revealed, the reader will feel entertained and inspired while yearning for yet another journey through the mysterious Great Meadows of Kentucky.
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When routine surgeries end in unexplained deaths, suspicion turns toward the one doctor asking questions.
Fatal Intent
Mystery · Thriller · Amateur Sleuths
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When routine surgeries end in unexplained deaths, suspicion turns toward the one doctor asking questions. In Fatal Intent, anesthesiologist Kate Downey risks her probationary career to investigate a pattern no one else wants to see. As intimidation escalates into violence and her personal life fractures under strain, this medical mystery blends ethical tension with high-stakes suspense.
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" Medical suspense as sharp as it gets. Euliano is off to a good, no, a brilliant start."
— Kathy Reichs, New York Times best-selling author
End-of-life care— or assisted death
When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. " Old people die, that' s what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it' s all she has left.
Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit' s identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save— and which must be sacrificed.
Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
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A confessed murderer recants his story, and a true crime podcast reopens a case meant to stay buried.
Beneath Devil’s Bridge
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Police Procedural
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A confessed murderer recants his story, and a true crime podcast reopens a case meant to stay buried. As revelations surface beneath Devil’s Bridge, a podcaster and a retired detective confront secrets that threaten to unravel an entire town. This gripping suspense novel holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 45,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White.
True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. But why he killed her has always been a mystery.
In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil’s Bridge. It’s not what anyone in the Pacific Northwest town of Twin Falls expects. Clayton says he didn’t do it. Was he lying then? Or now?
As her listeners increase and ratings skyrocket, Trinity is missing a key player in the story: Rachel Walczak, the retired detective who exposed Pelley’s twisted urges and put him behind bars. She’s not interested in playing Clayton’s game—until Trinity digs deeper and the podcast’s reverb widens. Then Rachel begins to question everything she thinks she knows about the past.
With each of Clayton’s teasing reveals, one thing is clear: he’s not the only one in Twin Falls with a secret.
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It fits cozy mystery readers who want banter, intrigue, and a smart heroine at the center.
No One Lives Twice
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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A missing friend pulls Lexi Carmichael out of her carefully coded routine and into a world that suddenly looks more dangerous and far more personal. As an NSA analyst with a talent for stopping hackers, Lexi is better with systems than chaos, but her search leads through espionage, romantic tension, and mounting risk. It fits cozy mystery readers who want banter, intrigue, and a smart heroine at the center.
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An ex-NSA agent and a weathly lawyer must find a missing person in this cozy mystery rom-com by Julie Moffett!
I'm Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I've never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella.
Until today, that is, when my best friend disappeared. So, I've enlisted the help of the Zimmerman twins—the reclusive architects of America's most sensitive electronic networks—to help me navigate a bewildering maze of leads to find her.
Along the way, my path collides with a sexy government agent and a rich, handsome lawyer, both of whom seem to have the hots for me. Hacking, espionage, sexy spy-men—it's a geek girl's dream come true...
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Shelter follows Mickey Bolitar as grief and upheaval force him into a new school and a new life.
Shelter
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Amateur Sleuths · Suspense
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Shelter follows Mickey Bolitar as grief and upheaval force him into a new school and a new life. When his girlfriend vanishes without a trace, Mickey refuses to let another person disappear from his world. His search exposes dangerous secrets about her and his own family, pulling him into a conspiracy far darker than teenage drama.
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A young adult debut from internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.
First introduced to readers in Harlan Coben's latest adult novel, Live Wire, Mickey Bolitar is as quick-witted and clever as his uncle Myron, and eager to go to any length to save the people he cares about. With this new series, Coben introduces an entirely new generation of fans to the masterful plotting and wry humor that have made him an award-winning, internationally bestselling, and beloved author.
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This will appeal to readers who want cold-case suspense, forensic investigation, buried loyalties, and shifting suspicions.
The Unquiet Bones
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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When human bones are discovered beneath an old woodland chapel, homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Ella Quinn reopen the decades-old disappearance of Annalise Jansen, threatening the secrets of six former friends, with a 4.2-star average from more than 31,600 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want cold-case suspense, forensic investigation, buried loyalties, and shifting suspicions.
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Aboard the Athos—part cruise ship, part research hub, part warship—librarian Ellis McFadden enjoys unexpected adventures alongside her vice admiral daughter.
Breathing Space
Mystery · Sci-Fi · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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Aboard the Athos—part cruise ship, part research hub, part warship—librarian Ellis McFadden enjoys unexpected adventures alongside her vice admiral daughter. But when a patron turns up dead and suspicion falls on her, Ellis must unravel a web of secrets with help from loyal friends and her android cat. A witty, stellar mystery that blends charm, suspense, and spacefaring intrigue.
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Step into the enigmatic world of the Athos—a vessel that blends the luxury of a cruise ship, the intrigue of a scientific research station, and the might of a military starship. Here, amidst the stars, you'll find Ellis McFadden, the ship’s head librarian, embarking on adventures she never anticipated this late in her career.
Even better that she gets to experience it all while in proximity to her daughter, who just happens to be the vice admiral. But life aboard the ship takes a darker turn when a library patron is found dead, and Ellis falls under suspicion.
With her reputation on the line, Ellis must navigate a labyrinth of secrets and lies. Armed with her wits, the loyalty of her eclectic friends, and her trusty android cat, she dives into a mystery that's as thrilling as the unexplored galaxies around her. Can she find the critical evidence to clear her name before the next jump into the unknown?
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This one works for thriller readers who like locked-room energy, multiple perspectives, and a premise that feels equal parts sinister and impossible.
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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Seven strangers leave a dinner party with cards predicting the exact age they’ll die, which feels creepy but still easy enough to dismiss as a bad prank. Then one of them dies right on schedule. As the deaths begin to stack up, the surviving guests are forced to figure out who set them up and why before their own numbers come due. This one works for thriller readers who like locked-room energy, multiple perspectives, and a premise that feels equal parts sinister and impossible.
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"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None gets a wicked update." —Publishers Weekly
Three courses. Seven guests. One card.
It's a deadly evening they'll never forget.
Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear, one in front of each of the guests. On the card is a number – the age at which they will die. Thinking it an elaborate prank, the guests disperse into the night, hoping to forget the morbid evening forever.
Two weeks later, one of them is dead at exactly the age the card predicted.
It must be a coincidence. But as more guests die, each one dead at the same age as their card, it soon becomes clear that something much more sinister is afoot. Now, it's up to the quickly dwindling group to figure out who (or what) was behind that fateful dinner party, before their numbers catch up with them.
Told from the perspectives of each of the seven guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is a spellbinding and mysterious exploration of mortality, begging the question: how would you live your life if you knew your number was up?
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