Best Modern Detective Novels - April 2024

The Tenth Gift: A Novel

• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• Manufacturer: Crown

Big Little Lies

DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274861
• ASIN: 0425274861
• ISBN: 0425274861
• Brand: Moriarty Liane
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Lethal White: A Cormoran Strike Novel

Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series from the international best-selling author Robert Galbraith. "I seen a kid killed... He strangled it, up by the horse."  When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H4W2ZCK
• ASIN: B07H4W2ZCK
• Manufacturer: Hachette Audio

Ordinary Grace

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451645856
• UPC: 884740901625
• ASIN: 1451645856
• ISBN: 1451645856
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Murder at Merisham Lodge: Miss Hart and Miss Hunter Investigate: Book 1

A mansion, a title and marriage to a wealthy Lord – Lady Eveline Cartwright has it all. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to prevent her being bludgeoned to death one night in the study of Merisham Lodge, the family’s country estate in Derbyshire. Suspicion quickly falls on her ne’er-do-well son, Peter, but not everyone in the household is convinced of his guilt. Head kitchen maid Joan Hart and lady’s maid, Verity Hunter, know that when it comes to a crime, all is not always as it seems. With suspicions and motives thick on the ground, Joan and Verity must use all the wit and courage th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01A03HKFE
• ASIN: B01A03HKFE
• Manufacturer: Isaro Publishing Ltd

Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie)

The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.Thirty years after the first incident... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316010707
• ASIN: 0316010707
• ISBN: 0316010707
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Dark Sacred Night: A Ballard and Bosch Novel

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new work of fiction from number-one New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly. Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger.  Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the s... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07G3J6SXC
• ASIN: B07G3J6SXC
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Company

Am I Guilty?

A mother’s job is to protect her child…But everyone makes mistakes…Gripping, exciting and emotional, this book will grab you from the first page and refuse to let you go until the final chapter!I never thought it would happen to me… One moment I had it all – a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career and two adorable children. The next, everything came crashing down around me. They said it was my fault. They said I’m the worst mother in the world. And even though I can’t remember what happened that day, they wouldn’t lie to me. These are my friends, my family, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07Q4RN57F
• ASIN: B07Q4RN57F
• Manufacturer: Killer Reads

Sharp Objects

NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIESFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian man... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307341550
• ASIN: 0307341550
• ISBN: 0307341550
• Brand: Gillian Flynn
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the 25th entry in Janet Evanovich's number-one New York Times best-selling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DKSSYBF
• ASIN: B07DKSSYBF
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

The Black Echo: A Novel (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 1)

• ASIN: B000SEVYSA
• ASIN: B000SEVYSA
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

One of Us Is Lying

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (EW.com) in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.   Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.    Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.     Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.     Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.    Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseba... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524714682
• ASIN: 1524714682
• ISBN: 1524714682
• Brand: DELACORTE
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Press

Angels & Demons

• ASIN: B000FBJFSM
• ASIN: B000FBJFSM
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Mysterious Benedict Society Complete Paperback Collection

A gorgeous paperback gift set of the New York Times bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society books as well as the prequel novel and the companion puzzle book, all featuring fresh, updated covers!Catch up on the adventures of the Mysterious Benedict Society with this paperback boxed set, which includes the three original books in the New York Times bestselling series: The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, as well as the prequel, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, and th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316318159
• ASIN: 0316318159
• ISBN: 0316318159
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Silent Girls

What if everything you knew was a lie…This house has a past that won’t stay hidden, and it is time for the dead to speak.Returning to Number 17, Coronation Square, Edie is shocked to find the place she remembers from childhood reeks of mould and decay. After her aunt Dolly’s death Edie must clear out the home on a street known for five vicious murders many years ago, but under the dirt and grime of years of neglect lurk dangerous truths.For in this dark house there is misery, sin and dark secrets that can no longer stay hidden. The truth must come out.Finding herself dragged back into th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B015QM8AP8
• ASIN: B015QM8AP8
• Manufacturer: HQ Digital

The Neighbor : A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

When a young wife and mother disappears from her suburban home, it's not long before the cops have their first suspect: the missing woman's husband, whose behavior is distinctly

• UPC: 13009129
• Rating: 4.07

Fear Nothing : A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Detective D

• UPC: 38412179
• Rating: 4.348

Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: four members of a family have been brutally murdered. Veteran police detective D.D. Warren is certain of only

• UPC: 933357041
• Rating: 4.281

Hide : A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge, from Gardner's "New York Times" bestseller "Alone," returns. While on the trail of a twisted serial killer, Dodge must track down a woman from his past who may be

• UPC: 8300275
• Rating: 4.044

Melissa Craig Mystery: Murder on the Clifftops: An Utterly Addictive Cozy Mystery Novel (Paperback)

French cheese, fine wine and... a mystifying murder? A delightful afternoon stroll turns to disaster when the guests of an artists' retreat in the French mountains spot the body of a man at the bottom

• UPC: 533493906
• Rating: 3.0

The Department of Sensitive Crimes : A Detective Varg Novel

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.

• UPC: 757130824
• Rating: 3.0

Basil : The Inspiration for the Modern Detective Novel (Aziloth Books)

Wilkie Collins: Basil

• UPC: 53620088
• Rating: 3.6

Fool's Bluff : A Samantha Shepherd Mystery Novel

Fool's Bluff: A Samantha Shepherd Mystery

• UPC: 216838527

City of Saviors : A Detective Elouise Norton Novel

"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child"Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will

• UPC: 55520742
• Rating: 3.5

Detective Lucy Harwin Novel: Last Light: An Absolutely Gripping Thriller with Unputdownable Suspense (Paperback)

Lucy watches the doctor leave, then turns to the nameless victim on the table. 'I promise I will catch whoever did this to you, ' she whispers. In charge of a new team, Detective Lucy

• UPC: 201548926

Snap: ‘The best crime novel I’ve read in a very long time’ Val .9781784160852,

• UPC: 132796069695
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP

Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid

• UPC: 303161346905
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP

Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermi-ExLibrary

• UPC: 303161346930
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP