Staff Favorites: Mystery
From light and funny to dark and stormy, these mysteries are our most oft-recommended for those looking for an engrossing thrill.
Another Man's Moccasins
The Walt Longmire series: Book #4
By Craig Johnson / Narrated by George Guidall / 8 hours 46 minutes
Craig Johnson’s mystery stories have earned him an esteemed position in the pantheon of contemporary crime novelists. In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway. Read More »
The Cuckoo's Calling
A Cormoran Strike Novel: Book #1
By J. K. Rowling & Robert Galbraith / Narrated by Robert Glenister / 15 hours 54 minutes
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is... Read More »
Case Histories
A Novel
By Kate Atkinson / Narrated by Susan Jameson / 10 hours 41 minutes
Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.
Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.
Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
Thirty years... Read More »
Still Life
The Books of Elsewhere: Book #5
By Jacqueline West / Narrated by Lexy Fridell / 7 hours 29 minutes
The fifth and final book in The Books of Elsewhere, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, fan-favorite series--absolutely not to be missed.
Annabelle McMartin is gone for good, but something worse lurks just out of sight--watching, waiting, preparing to strike. Then a field trip to the local art museum reveals a shock. What Olive... Read More »
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
or, On the Segregation of the Queen
A Mary Russell Mystery: Book #1
By Laurie R. King / Narrated by Jenny Sterlin / 13 hours 20 minutes
An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee
Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent
Mystery Booksellers Association
From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Beekeeper's Apprentice.
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired... Read More »