Best Murder Mystery Writers - April 2024

A Dark and Stormy Murder (A Writer's Apprentice Mystery)

An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime in the first Writer's Apprentice mystery.   Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains...   Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana.   But Lena’s fortune soon changes f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425282600
• ASIN: 0425282600
• ISBN: 0425282600
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Silent Patient

• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• Manufacturer: Celadon Books

Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers

In Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers, Dr. D. P. Lyle culls the best of his popular "The Doctor Is In" question-and-answer column for the Mystery Writers of America, in which he answers medical and forensic questions from writers all over the country.A frequent advisor to published mystery writers, as well as writers for TV shows such as Law and Order, Dr. Lyle tackles subjects such as traumatic injuries, doctors and hospitals, weapons of death, poisons and drugs, police and the crime scene, the coroner and the crime lab, and more. In extreme... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312309457
• ASIN: 0312309457
• ISBN: 9780312309459
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Where the Crawdads Sing

• ASIN: B078GD3DRG
• ASIN: B078GD3DRG
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For

Hard-boiled breakfasts, thrilling entrees, cozy desserts, and more—this illustrated cookbook features more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors. Whether you're planning a sinister dinner party or whipping up some comfort food perfect for a day of writing, you'll find plenty to savor in this cunning collection. Full-color photography is featured throughout, along with mischievous sidebars revealing the links between food and foul play.  Recipes include:Mary Higgins Clark’s Celebratory Giants Game Night ChiliHarlan Coben’s Myron’s Crabmeat DipNelson DeMille’s Male Chauvi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594747571
• UPC: 884705835712
• ASIN: 1594747571
• ISBN: 9781594747571
• Brand: Quirk Books
• Manufacturer: Quirk Books

Cold Lake: An Electrifying Mystery Thriller

The truth emerges, one piece at a time. David Wolf and his deputies are back, facing the most disturbing case of their lives—one Wolf’s own father could not solve years ago. And someone will want it kept that way.A fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado. When Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, they quickly find more surprises lurk below. Their grim discoveries reopen a cold case Wolf’s father worked twenty-two years ago, and Wolf must try to succeed where his father failed before him. Wolf has the a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• Manufacturer: Cross Atlantic Publishing

The David Wolf Mystery Thriller Series: Books 1-4 (The David Wolf Series Box Set)

The David Wolf Mystery Thriller Series Books 1-4 by Amazon #1 bestselling author Jeff Carson have brought readers across the globe and back again to the high country of Colorado, leaving them breathless and desperate for more. If you love thriller mysteries with action, suspense, and a touch of humor and romance, then the David Wolf Series is for you.The David Wolf Series has been downloaded over 1,000,000 times! Now, for a limited time, you can purchase the first four books of the David Wolf Mystery Thriller Series for 45% off! FOREIGN DECEITSergeant David Wolf of the Sluice County SD headq... [Read More]

• ASIN: B073YGY4VG
• ASIN: B073YGY4VG

The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime

Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, and Donald Westlake describe how they would commit the perfect murder

• ASIN: 0060163402
• ASIN: 0060163402
• ISBN: 0060163402
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion Book 4)

The third thrilling novel in the Under Suspicion series by #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke follows television producer Laurie Moran as she tries to help a woman she believes was wrongfully convicted of killing her fiancé.Fifteen years after being convicted of murdering her fiancé—the famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III—Casey Carter is determined to clear her name. Though she has served her time, she finds that she is still living under suspicion. Going on the true crime show Under Suspicion seems to be her only hop... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01E4BC1VQ
• ASIN: B01E4BC1VQ
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Senator: A Blake Jordan Thriller (The Blake Jordan Series Book 1)

The senator is kidnapped. Can Blake Jordan save him?After his wife is murdered in Chicago, by-the-book agent Blake Jordan focuses on the one thing he’s always been good at: his job. But Blake is so consumed by grief, he doesn’t notice that someone is watching him from the shadows.When Senator Keller asks Blake to handle security the night he’s set to receive his party’s nomination for president, he accepts the assignment. But he didn't expect the senator to disappear under his watch.If he wants to get him back, Blake must break every rule he’s lived by. But what the kidnappers are pl... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01ENU0V5Q
• ASIN: B01ENU0V5Q

A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 4)

• ASIN: B002ASFQ3G
• ASIN: B002ASFQ3G
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won’t see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted.” —Booklist, starred review “Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell’s latest will please fans of Gon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501154656
• ASIN: 1501154656
• ISBN: 1501154656
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Murder House

Detective Jenna Murphy comes to the Hamptons to solve a murder-but what she finds is more deadly than she could ever imagine.Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, former New York City cop Jenna Murphy hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QQQL8JY
• ASIN: B00QQQL8JY
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Deadly Ashes: A fast-paced murder mystery with lots of twists, turns and humor (A British Seaside Cozy Mystery Book 3)

Doris Cudlow is a feisty reporter with a nose for the truth. When Doris takes a stroll on a blustery gray Skegness beach, the most she expects is a downpour. Instead, she walks straight into a baffling mystery—a body on the beach. It looks like the victim died of natural causes. No one believes it was murder, but Doris is not so sure. She soon finds out the town's elite knew the dead person and they don’t want a newcomer from London rocking the boat. Can Doris get to the bottom of a fiendish conspiracy that will expose a dark underbelly to English seaside life? “Hooked from the first pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07VSC1GLC
• ASIN: B07VSC1GLC

Redemption (Memory Man series Book 5)

• ASIN: B07G76M5LD
• ASIN: B07G76M5LD
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Ms. Murder : The Best Mysteries Featuring Women Detectives, by the Top Women Writers.

From Edwardian London to sleek modern Chicago, from discerning academics to gun-toting P.I.'s, "Ms. Murder" presents the best by the best. The detectives in these stories are shrewd, sophisticated, even hard-boiled. Amateur or professional, they

• UPC: 53676070

Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part : New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder

This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today including P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom

• UPC: 4724465
• Rating: 4.0

Murder is a Girl's Best Friend - eBook

From the national bestselling author of Murderers Prefer Blondes.** **All Paige Turner wants for Christmas is to make it through the season alive. New York City in 1954 can be bad for a girl’s health, especially

• UPC: 384930401
• Rating: 4.0

Bloody Scotland : New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

Twelve of Scotland's most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country's architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and

• UPC: 295463383
• Rating: 5.0

Magpie Murders

"From New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes Magpie Murders, a ... reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around

• UPC: 384813366
• Rating: 4.094

Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers - eBook

Twelve of Scotland’s most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country’s architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty

• UPC: 929869163
• Rating: 5.0

16th Seduction (Paperback)

9781538744413

• UPC: 247465327
• Rating: 4.333

Murder in the Merlot

Autumn has come to Cedar County. It's harvest time. The trees and vines in the orchards and vineyards are heavy with ripening fruit. However, there is one discordant note in this pastoral splendor, the crumpled

• UPC: 54936145
• Rating: 3.5

Magic, Mystery & Murder: 2nd Thursday Writers Short Story Anthology (Paperback)

A serial killer, a magical salamander, a long-dead Irish ancestor, a Navajo Medicine Man, a dragonfly, an abusive husband, a murderous surgeon, and an assortment of dysfunctional family members and ghosts, make up some of

• UPC: 625631807

Murder Is My Racquet : Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers

Murder Is My Racquet

• UPC: 53331048

Ms Murder: Best Mysteries Featuring Women Detectives, by the Top Women Writers

• UPC: 392223220691
• Category: Other Books
• Price: 4 USD