New & Novel: Mysteries

NANCY DREW COVER, 1930. - 'The Secret of the Old Clock.' 1930 jacket illustration from The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series by Edward Stratemeyer and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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While you're waiting for new titles by Paula Hawkins, Donna Leon, Anne Hillerman, and other bestsellers with long hold lists, why not check out some other mysterious and suspenseful reads you might have missed?

Standalones

Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery by Plum Sykes

DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye 

What's Become of Her by Deb Caletti

What My Body Remembers by Agnete Friis 

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham [YA]

I'll Eat When I'm Dead by Barbara Bourland

Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens

I See You by Clare Mackintosh

A Fever of the Blood by Oscar De Muriel 
 

Series

The Thirst by Jo Nesbo [Harry Hole, 11]

Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves [Shetland, 7]

The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths [Ruth Galloway, 9]

Duplicity by Ingrid Thoft [Fina Ludlow,4]  

Take Out by Margaret Maron [Sigrid Harald, 9]  

The Templars' Last Secret by Martin Walker [Bruno, Chief of Police, 10] 

Glass Houses by Louise Penny [Inspector Gamache, 13] 

Old Bones by Trudy Nan Boyce [Sarah Alt, 2] 

What the Dead Leave Behind by Rosemary Simpson [Gilded Age, 1] 

The Secrets of Gaslight Lane by M.R.C. Kasasian [Gower St. Detective, 4]

Alice and the Assassin by R. J. Koreto [Alice Roosevelt, 1]

The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein [YA; prequel to Code Name Verity]