Our Fall Mystery Collection

Four affable, spirited residents of a retirement village gather each Thursday to speculate about unsolved crimes over lemon drizzle cake. When a developer of their community turns up dead, the foursome decides to put their practice to use and solve the case. A clever romp that doesn’t skimp on twist and turns.    

When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall, she plans to renovate it, sell it, and move on with her life. But the locals aren’t happy to see Maggie return; her father’s memoir about the supposedly haunted estate made them unpleasantly notorious. Maggie’s never believed a word of it, but as she gets to work, strange happenings cause her to question everything.

A noir revenge thriller, this crackling debut follows femme fatale Jo as she works off a massive debt by blackmailing LA’s most depraved men. She works for a powerful woman known only as the Lady Upstairs, and when a case goes sideways, she finds herself in hot water—and with no choice but to take on her riskiest job yet.

The New York Times calls Carl Hiaasen’s latest “akin to a Greatest Hits collection” of his razor-sharp, irreverent work. It begins with a murder in the high-society Florida swamps among a group of presidential supporters who call themselves the POTUSSIES, and only gets more riotous from there. 

The newest recipient of Jack Reacher’s protection is Rusty Rutherford, a down-on-his-luck IT guy who was fired after a data breach in his small Tennessee town. Rusty’s bent on clearing his name, but someone else is bent on keeping Rusty—and the rest of the world—in the dark.

As a court-appointed defense attorney, this isn’t the first time Jake Brigance has been certain of his client’s innocence. But in the case of 16-year-old Drew, who’s facing death by gas chamber in 1990 Mississippi, Jake is desperate to find proof. John Grisham is at the height of his powers in this masterful courtroom drama. 

A father convinced that his 5-year-old daughter, taken in front of his eyes, is still alive. A mother and daughter on the run, in possession of knowledge that could cost them their lives. As chilling as it is engrossing, C. J. Tudor’s The Other People is impossible to put down.