Bedelia

A novel of breathtaking suspense and a brilliant psychological portrait. Charlie Horst has returned with his new bride Bedelia to his family home in Connecticut. Indulgently infatuated, Charlie is the luckiest man alive. What’s not to love about Bedelia? She’s gorgeous and complacent. She’s also ...

Bel ami

A novel of astonishing modernity—merciless in its view of ambition, cynical in its rendering of the press, and unflinching in its depiction of how privilege is acquired and maintained.

Bunny lake is missing

This 1957 Hitchcock-like thriller about a lost child and a mother depicted as mad is..."a super psychological story of terror and suspense." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dark traces

Recently widowed South African Detective Magson seeks serial killer, explores different sides of murder—killing for love, killing for pleasure.

Death's echoes

Lt. Gianna Maglione of the DC Police Department’s Hate Crimes Unit teams up with her journalist girlfriend, Mimi Patterson, to find out who murdered three Muslims on their way to prayers and bring them to justice. They've done this before, but this time it's personal.

Eleven

Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley—“a brilliant collection” with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times).Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the s...

Eucalyptus

Murder, intrigue, suspicious cash, public munificence, scandal—and tree farming? A family saga of Sephardic Jews living in Chile.

Kafka's son

Let the dark flower blossom

An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anything—lie, steal, kill—to get the perfect story.

Portal

Portal presents the diary of the owner of a small photography studio in Calcutta, maintained sporadically from 1994 to 1996, before his sudden unexplained disappearance. The diary is a fictional found archive that attempts to trace photographic ‘evidence’ and information about an elusive woman wh...

Red sand blue sky

Two young girls from very different backgrounds discover what they hold in common in this funny Australian classic.

So shall you reap

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commiss...

The hound of the baskervilles

A SHERLOCK HOLMES SUPERNATURAL ADVENTUREThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson.When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his face distorted with shock and horror, Sherlock...

The maltese falcon

The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price.

The man who loved his wife

A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.

The missing year of juan salvatierra

This story about family secrets and art is a feast of images lingering long after the final page is turned.

The mystery of the invisible hand

Economics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murderIn The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Henry Spearman, an economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, is pulled into a case that mixes campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Arrivi...

The reluctant sheriff

Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this breakneck new novel, sheriff Mick Hardin navigates the treacherous terrain of a town’s festering secrets and the viol...

The treasure hunters club

2025 EDGAR NOMINEE FOR THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD!Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course,...

The world of bond and maigret

Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their characters’ names, and the critical reception of their novels.

What the night brings

What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified? “Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime…” The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in...