Best Mystery Writers 2019 - April 2024

The Hideaway

In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718084225
• ASIN: 0718084225
• ISBN: 0718084225
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Silent Patient

• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• Manufacturer: Celadon 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 Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616149981
• ASIN: 1616149981
• ISBN: 1616149981
• Brand: Seventh Street Books
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Where the Crawdads Sing

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

A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

“‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal"Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewCatastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NTMH6DR
• ASIN: B07NTMH6DR
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Sold on a Monday: A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  A USA TODAY BESTSELLER  A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER An unforgettable novel by Kristina McMorris, inspired by a stunning piece of history. 2 CHILDREN FOR SALEThe sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079JQDJB5
• ASIN: B079JQDJB5
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

The Price of Time

Would your character change ...if you had all the money in the world?And all the time?Would you become a better person?Or worse?Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller._______________________________________There’s a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and surprisingly sinister that it needs to be concealed—at any price. Tim Tigner takes a step back from his bestselling Kyle Achilles series to introduce Zachary Chase and Skylar Fawkes in a fresh standalone novel that’s bound to keep you glued and gue... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NXXYG1G
• ASIN: B07NXXYG1G

Total Control

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller.Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secret... [Read More]

• ASIN: 153871180X
• ASIN: 153871180X
• ISBN: 153871180X
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Under Currents: A Novel

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250207096
• ASIN: 1250207096
• ISBN: 1250207096
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller (The Sara Winthrop Series Book 1)

She's never played a game like this before...Two years ago, Sara's husband left for the gym one morning...and never came back.His car was found. He wasn't.Unbelievably, the police report said, "No foul play suspected." There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.And the note under her windshield wiper asks one cryptic question: Are you ready to play the game?Reader Note - Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller is a USA Today best seller, wa... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009FBK5CI
• ASIN: B009FBK5CI
• Manufacturer: JCL Publishing Psychological Thrillers

The Boy: A Novel

Now a New York Times bestsellerAn unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet.   When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well. Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits with the grieving Geneviev... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MEFV17D
• ASIN: B01MEFV17D
• Manufacturer: Dutton

Cut and Run

Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton’s throat-clutching novel of suspense…Trauma victims are not new to medical examiner Faith McIntyre, but this one is different. The unconscious woman clinging to life after a hit and run is FBI agent Macy Crow. What the woman from Quantico was doing in a dark alley after midnight is just one mystery. The other is more unsettling: Macy is Faith’s mirror image—the twin sister she never knew she had.Faith knew that she was adopted, but now she’s finding that her childhoo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BDF7WKP
• ASIN: B07BDF7WKP
• Manufacturer: Montlake Romance

The Last Lie: The must-read new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author

The twisty new psychological thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of After Anna, Killing Kate and CopycatEveryone lies…but some lies are deadly.For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her. All she needs is to start a family of her own and things will be even better than good.They’ll be perfect.For Alfie, it couldn’t be more different. His life with Claire is built on a lie. A lot of lies. And she can never find out.Because Alfie has plans for her. Plans which must never c... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07L4754HZ
• ASIN: B07L4754HZ
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Ordinary Grace: A Novel

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: B008J2G5Y6
• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short

• UPC: 497261548

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

AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALISTTwelve 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

• UPC: 929869163
• Rating: 5.0

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

A collection of crime stories set in iconic Scottish

• UPC: 295463383
• Rating: 5.0

J.A. Jance Best Reading Order with Checklist and Summaries: Updated 2019 - eBook

JA Jance Reading List With Summaries and Checklist for your ReaderJA Jance Novels and Short Stories with Short Summaries - Updated in 2019This is the must-have reader’s guide for all JA JANCE fans.Includes a section

• UPC: 955962660

Now Write! Mysteries : Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

"Now Write!: Mysteries" is the essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno-thrillers, cozies, and everything in between, featuring never-before-published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery

• UPC: 16895482

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 - eBook

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction.For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that

• UPC: 122047102

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

Anthology 2019 Sleuths' Ink Mystery Writers

Anthology 2019 Sleuths' Ink Mystery

• UPC: 323795010

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Margery Allingham, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as Mystery Mile, Look to the Lady, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Margery Allingham, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as Mystery Mile, Look to th Height : 0.36 In Length : 9.69 In Width : 7.44 In

• UPC: 611033170

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Robert Arthur Jr., Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Secret of Terror Castle, the Mystery of Whispering Mummy, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Robert Arthur Jr., Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Secret of Terror Cas Height : 0.29 In Length : 9.69 In Width : 7.44

• UPC: 480544173