Mystery

QBD Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

2015

The Athenian Murders

by José Carlos Somoza, Sonia Soto

2002

In a dual story set in ancient Greece and modern times, the idealistic Diagoras teams up with Heracles Pontor to solve the murders of young Pluto's Academy students, and the present-day translator of the ancient text pursues what he bel…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1953

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Pete…

Emil and the Detectives

by Erich Kästner

1930

On his way to Berlin to visit his grandmother Emil fell asleep and had his money stolen by the man who shared his compartment. Altho he came from the country Emil was not stupid, and he determined to get that money back. He followed the man…

Trent's Last Case

by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

1995

A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? The artist and amateur detective Philip Trent …

The Quarry

by Damon Galgut

2004

America hurrah. Drama about "a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad".--back cover.…

Spider's Web

by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie

2000

Clarissa's efforts to dispose of the corpse in her drawing room before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder…

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1927

Volume 1.…

Waiting for Wednesday

by Nicci French

2014

While consulting on the murder of housewife who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she is t…

The Door to Time

by Pierdomenico Baccalario

2006

Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover a…

Skin Privilege

by Karin Slaughter

2011

It's no simple case of murder. The charred remains of a woman have been found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide. The evidence leads Sara Linton - Grant Country's resident medical examiner/pediatrician - and her husb…

Murder is Easy

by Agatha Christie

1941