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From amateur sleuths to chief inspectors to retired veterans, follow these modern day mystery solvers through their most exciting cases.

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  • No Plan B

    a Jack Reacher Novel

    Child, Lee,
    One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death,…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, [2022] — F CHI JR#27
  • Stone Barrington is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what—or who—he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022] — THRILLER WOO SB61
  • After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde…
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FIC COB W2
  • Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when she hears Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier, walking out the door and leaving Mikkel devastated. As the local police begin…
    BookNew York : Dutton, 2022. — F Bla
  • Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against “The Five”, a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance. After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, the two are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their…
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — FICTION SANDFORD John #32Prey
  • Murders in London, Geneva, and on a luxury liner…..And at the heart of all three investigations are Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick, rising star of the department, and ex-undercover agent Ross Hogan, brought in from the cold.…
    BookLondon : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. — MYSTERY ARCHER #4 WilliamWarwick
  • When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Université de l'Estrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what sounds like a minor, even…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021. — FIC PEN
  • Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022. — MYS CLE
  • For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him but that he hasn’t been able to crack—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, 2022. — FIC CONNELLY, Michael
  • It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. The world of newspapers is undergoing a revolution, there's skullduggery in the medical research labs and there are seismic rumblings behind the Iron Curtain. When kidnap and murder are added to this…
    BookNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2022. — FICTION MCDERMID Val #2AllieBurns
  • A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Then writer David Thorne meets Maddison Sutton,…
    BookSeattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2021] — PS3561 .O55 O85 2021
  • A girl with a secret… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead. Andrea Oliver arrives in town with a…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — F Sla
  • Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel. Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Overboard lays bare the dark…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — FIC PARETSKY, Sara
  • Sandford fans rejoice! Letty Davenport next generation has arrived and she is exactly the kind of cool-eyed, smart-mouthed, lethally dangerous heroine we’ve been waiting for. Partnered with DHS investigator John Kaiser, they track a…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — MYSTERY Sandford, John LD#1
  • Working case after case, NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker each can predict the other’s next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — MYSTERY Patterson, James MB#14
  • Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022] — FIC BOX JP#22
  • This story follows Cork O’Connor in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.
    BookNew York : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, [2022] — F KRU 19
  • New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. No matter what, Lt. Eve Dallas must keep…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — F ROBB