Best Crime Mystery Authors - April 2024

The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.No one believes her story.The police think she's crazy.Her therapist thinks she's suicidal.Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk.They're all right--but did she see the killer?As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took place. Wracked by the lingering echoes of survivor's guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1683993039
• ASIN: 1683993039
• ISBN: 1683993039
• Manufacturer: Greyson Media Associates

Mystery: An Alex Delaware Novel

• ASIN: B004IPP8TQ
• ASIN: B004IPP8TQ
• Manufacturer: Ballantine 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

Greed: An Amber Monroe Crime Thriller Book 1

Washburn County Deputy Amber Monroe is following in the footsteps of her sister, Jade. She devours everything she can during her detective training in hopes of being promoted soon.Living in small-town USA has its advantages, like a sense of security, and disadvantages, like being close to Milwaukee and its crime. Washburn County has become the dumping ground of murder victims, courtesy of its neighboring county to the south.When two men are discovered on the outskirts of North Bend, each with a bullet to the head, Amber’s team, led by Lieutenant Jack Steele, hits the highway in search of a k... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07B8PKD64
• ASIN: B07B8PKD64

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.   On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Blake Pierce: Mystery Bundle (Before He Kills, Cause to Kill, Once Gone, A Trace of Death, Watching and Next Door)

A six book mystery bundle by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in six Blake Pierce series—The Mackenzie White, The Avery Black, The Riley Paige, The Keri Locke series, The Making of Riley Paige, and The Chloe Fine Psychological Suspense series—all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce’s series with over 300,000 words of reading.In BEFORE HE KILLS, a woman is found murdered in the cornfields of Nebraska, strung up on a pole,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NAE3565
• ASIN: B01NAE3565

I Am Watching You

An Amazon Charts bestseller.What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared.A year later, Anna is still missing. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1542046599
• ASIN: 1542046599
• ISBN: 9781542046596
• Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

Ice Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series Book 1)

"What made this ebook such pleasurable reading was not the murder or even the Police procedure, but the rather wonderful cast of characters that the author, Emma Jameson, has created to populate her world. In the space of about 184 pages, Emma has managed to give us a whole collection of individuals, each very nicely rounded out and real. Even very minor players - such as the tall PC who finds the pistol seems to be alive and obviously has a life outside the book." -- Tony Cole, eBookanoid.comAnthony Hetheridge, ninth Baron of Wellegrave, Chief Superintendent for New Scotland Yard, never ma... [Read More]

• ASIN: B004UB0WTY
• ASIN: B004UB0WTY
• Manufacturer: Lyonnesse Books

August Origins (An Action Mystery (Mackenzie August series) Book 1)

AN AMAZON MYSTERY BEST SELLER★★★★★ "A rousing crime novel." - Amazon Top ReviewerMack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys--until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coach. He's galvanizing the drug trade using vicious strong-arm tactics, and the police can't identify him.The Sheriff begs Mackenzie to take a temporary assignment t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06WRSNML4
• ASIN: B06WRSNML4
• Manufacturer: Sparkle Press

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: B00JTA9Z7G
• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece gracing the table. Death rang their doorbell and filled the air with the rat-a-tat-tat of an assault weapon discharging round after round into their bodies.Eric Williams and his wife, Kim, celebrated the murders with grilled steaks. Their crimes covered front pages around the world, many saying the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062363506
• ASIN: 0062363506
• ISBN: 0062363506
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Squall

This book is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.Bush pilot and family man Tom Stokes is about to face the worst day of his life. On a clear winter morning, he sets out to do some repairs on a remote hunt camp, leaving his five-year-old son and very pregnant wife snug in their beds.On the return trip, a squall forces him into an emergency landing and he winds up—quite literally—in the lap of petty criminal Dale Knight. Dale, now a fugitive from the law—and worse, from a merciless drug lord who just happens to be his brother—draws Tom into a web of mayhem and treachery that puts not o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00RPM9MJ6
• ASIN: B00RPM9MJ6
• Manufacturer: Red Tower Publications

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
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Stealing Power: Absolutely gripping crime fiction full of totally unputdownable mystery and suspense (Detectives Kane and Colt Thrillers Book 1)

Stealing women's power is easy ... restoring it is deadly.Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt lives his life in the limelight. The charismatic star of New Scotland Yard is public relations gold. Everyone loves him. Well, almost everyone. For three years a vicious serial rapist has been taunting and tormenting him, sending him recordings of every sickening crime he commits. But with no DNA from the devastated victims the trail is stone cold dead, until a familiar landmark leads Colt back to his hometown - the last place on earth he wants to be.It's also the last place on earth Detective India Kan... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CXAH1V6
• ASIN: B00CXAH1V6

Shame ON You (An Ozzie Novak Thriller, Book 4) (Redemption Thriller Series 16)

Two shattered lives bound by one haunting secret. The disturbing death of a teenage girl goes unexplained. A decade later, ravaged by drug addiction, the sister vanishes. Could the two incidents be connected? Pulled into the investigation by his friend, Ivy Nash, Ozzie quickly learns the art of the addicted: deceit is a way of life.The hunt for Chantel takes Ozzie and Ivy into a dark world where life has no price. A girl is bludgeoned to death -- they believe they have a key witness, but he slips away.When Ozzie and Ivy finally get a solid clue, what at first seems unthinkable could be reality... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0772WSXHM
• ASIN: B0772WSXHM
• Manufacturer: Sugar Hill Press

The Mammoth Book Best International Crime - eBook

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers.They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir

• UPC: 317126132
• Rating: 5.0

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 789038058
• Rating: 3.5

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

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

The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries - eBook

Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British crime fiction.This latest volume of the acclaimed annual collection presents over 20 short stories of murder mystery, selected from the very cream of

• UPC: 430617040
• Rating: 4.0

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps : The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s

Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective Fiction Weekly." These are the classic tales that created the genre

• UPC: 5620628
• Rating: 3.5

Kobo Presents The Year's Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016 - eBook

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John

• UPC: 995698674

All Thats Dead: The new Logan McRae crime thriller from the No.1 bestselling author (Logan McRae, Book 12) - eBook

Theres a darkness in the heart of Scotland The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear Inspector Logan McRae is looking

• UPC: 825998346

Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 - eBook

This superb annual anthology of the year?s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in unearthing the best short crime stories

• UPC: 893888313

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 775138182

6 Mystery, Suspense, Crime Anthology Books, 97 stories by best selling authors

• UPC: 143537637069
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

Best of Robicheaux : The Author's Choice by James Lee Burke

• UPC: 274075902268
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

Stitch Up (A Best Defence Mystery) By W. H. S McIntyre (author)

• UPC: 312990049764
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD

The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries (Mamm... by Various authors Paperback

• UPC: 392593160190
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

Book, The Shadow Patrol, By Alex Berenson #1 NYT Best Selling Author Hardcover

• UPC: 163968362818
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

Rather Be the Devil (Rebus Novel) by Rankin New York Times Best-Selling Author,

• UPC: 392558976978
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

Murder in the Merchant City - from the author of the best... by Angus McAllister

• UPC: 303095192594
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 6 USD

One Little Lie: From the best selling author comes a new crime thriller book for

• UPC: 362869396582
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 6 GBP

My Best Mystery Story: A Collection of Stories Chosen by Their Own Authors

• UPC: 133254640712
• Category: Fiction Books
• Price: 31 AUD

Toxic: The addictive new crime thriller from the best selling author that will h

• UPC: 113755859374
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP