Summer Reads

For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world's elite. From film stars to foreign dignitaries, anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj.The last thing the venerable old hotel needs is a murder. . .When American billionaire...

The great Dorothy L. Sayers's classic tale of murder and scandal at a chic London advertising agency, featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey.   When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * Named A Best Book of Summer by Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Buzzfeed, TheSkimm, PopSugar, Bustle, HelloGiggles, Ms. Magazine, Oprah Daily, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Lit...

The past sure is tense in All Her Little Secrets, this debut trade paperback by Wanda M. Morris. And the present isn’t a cakewalk, either. Do you think you're having a bad day? Imagine Ellice Littlejohn who finds a dead body in her office within the...

No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver...

Ice cream shop owner Bronwyn Crewse is in for two scoops of murder in this charming mystery from Abby Collette.Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is gorgeous in the fall, and Bronwyn Crewse, owner of Crewse Creamery, knows just how to welcome the new season. At...

Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Vivien Chien's Hot and Sour Suspects."Pair your noodles with this steaming mystery, and you have the perfect chilly night combination!”—PopSugarAt the Ho-Lee Noodle House, murder...

"Every page is a delight—this is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant."—Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn HardcastleMarion Lane and the Midnight...

A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on...

(Available after June 30th, 2022) "[A] mordant debut novel....examines what it means to covet the lives of others, no matter the cost."—The New York Times   "Tense, twisty, and packed with shocks."—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back...

Two mathematicians must join forces to stop a serial killer in this spellbinding international bestsellerA paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and...

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick AwardAn investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a...

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent. The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the...

‘When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else’ The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to...

(Available after 3-20 days)First published in 2006, Jo Walton's Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism.Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her.   Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)An edgy and ambitious debut about neuroscience, death, and the search for the theory of human consciousness, by a powerful new voice in contemporary literary fictionMonday, Kierk wakes up. Once a rising star in...

“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...

***A CRIME READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR***The newest novel from one of Colombia’s most distinguished and beloved writers is a gripping thriller about corruption deep within the foundations of the Churches in Latin America.   When a horribly violent...