By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamacge Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.

By Tana French

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache/Three Pines Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

After a stranger is murdered in a bistro and antiques store in the village of Three Pines and the bistro's owner becomes the main suspect, Chief Inspector Gamache must sift through a number of clues and cross the continent in order to solve the case.

By James Lee Burke
Series Dave Robicheaux
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

"While in a New Orleans recovery unit, detective Dave Robicheaux meets a Creole girl whose subsequent disappearance prompts his search for the girl's sister against a backdrop of a bayou-threatening oil well rupture in the Gulf of Mexico (From the Publisher)."

By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mystery
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.

By Michael Connelly

These intricately plotted and gritty mysteries feature Harry Bosch, an anti–establishment LAPD detective who routinely flouts the authority of his superiors, who (to be fair) are often corrupt or making questionable choices. These stand–alone police procedurals are character–driven and psychologically astute, giving readers great insight into Bosch’s inner world.

By Emilya Naymark
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Fleeing the city when her cover is blown during a racketeering case, New York undercover cop Laney Bird finds the limits of her skills tested by her son’s disappearance and an encounter with a confidential informant from her past.

By Tana French
Series Dublin Murder Squad

Detective Rob Ryan invesigates the murder of a twelve year old girl in the same Dublin woods, in which 20 years ago, he was found gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood–filled sneakers and unable to recall the fate of his three friends. The memories and the current case take its toll on Ryan and his partner Cassie Maddox.

By Elizabeth George
Series Inspector Lynley Novels

Supporting a friend who has lost custody of his young daughter, Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, are further shocked when the girl’s mother reports that the child has been kidnapped as a part of a plot that risks Barbara’s career.

By Rachel Howzell Hall
Series Detective Elouise Norton Novels

A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou’s sister.

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Dylan Klein Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough, as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal (From the Publisher)."

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a damaged mind.

By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When the body of an elderly widow turns up in the desert, Sheriff Joanna Brady searches for a killer among the victim’s greedy offspring, her mysterious much younger live-in handyman turned lover, and corrupt local politicians

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Tom and Judy Gordon are found murdered in their Long Island home, NYPD detective John Corey uncovers a chilling link between the couple’s deaths and the theft and illegal sale of genetically altered viruses, and races against time to stop the possible release of a deadly plague.

By Alex Grecian

Victorian London—a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives—The Murder Squad—are expected to solve the thousands of crimes committed here each month.

By Tana French
Series Dublin Murder Squad Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Investigating a disturbing photo of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with abrasive detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the tight-knit cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.

By Kate Saunders
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Archdeacon's widow and private investigator Laetitia Rodd goes undercover as a governess in order to assist her barrister brother during a case involving the illicit affairs of a nobleman's son.

By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“… Joanna Brady becomes caught up in a deadly family tragedy initiated by a pair of star-crossed lovers … (From the Publisher).

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries/Three Pines Mysteries
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Québec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Moe Prager Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"Haunted by the mystery that he has never solved, Moe Prager receives a mysterious phone call that produces a new lead, prompting him to reopen a twenty-year old investigation into the disappearance of a college student (From the Publisher)."

By Paula McLain
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective's past.