Truly excellent mysteries
Discover truly excellent mysteries in this curated book list, featuring gripping fiction and legal thrillers. From Nancy Pickard's The Truth Hurts and John Grisham's riveting The Runaway Jury and A Time to Kill to Dorothy L. Sayers' classic Gaudy Night, explore top-rated suspense, courtroom drama, and unforgettable whodunits. Perfect for fans of compelling, award-worthy mystery novels.
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You've Got Murder
by Donna Andrews
From a winner of both the Anthony and Agatha awards comes the first mystery to feature a computer with a mind like Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.
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The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
A hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons.
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Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
“Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.” —Times Literary Supplement The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night is now back in print with an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.
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Miss Lizzie
by Walter Satterthwait
Thirty years after the murders for which the nation still holds her responsible, Lizzie Borden is spending the summer on the Massachusetts shore, when a similar murder occurs, forcing her to clear her name once and for all
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The Runaway Jury
by John Grisham
The jury in a Mississippi tobacco trial appears to be manipulated and controlled.
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The Truth Hurts
by Nancy Pickard
True-crime novelist Marie Lightfoot is asked by a killer to collaborate with him by becoming his next victim--and write a book about her own murder. For Marie, this psychopath may have the key to uncovering the truth about the disappearance of her parents.
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A Dangerous Road
by Kris Nelscott
In February, 1968, African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton is hired by white Laura Hathaway to find out why he's in her mother's will. Amid his investigation, riots erupt from a Memphis sanitation workers' strike, and Smokey's childhood friend, Martin Luther King, Jr., is due in town for a march. Martin's Press.
