HPL 2025 Mystery & Suspense

Detective Sergeant George Cross can be difficult to work with, but he doesn't miss a clue. So when the body of an elderly homeless man is discovered, he insists on scrutinizing the smallest details, even after his police colleagues dismiss the murder as an act of random violence. As Cross delves into the dead man's past, he discovers a connection to a case that has been cold for fifteen years. The same tragedy that led to his homelessness may have...

"With River Valley Hospital in the midst of negotiations to averta nurses' strike, a wealthy benefactor is set to give a large donation to honor the Chief of Emergency Medicine: Dr. Elliott Chin, the brother of private investigator Lydia Chin. Before the donation can be finalized, a member of the nurses' negotiating committee is foundmurdered. A morgue assistant is arrested, and although he denies even knowing the victim, his father and brother--both...

"A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation"-- Provided by publisher. In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris--even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences...

"When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative's remote Gothic house on Dartmoor, he finds all the people he least wants to see in the world - his estranged brother, his loathsome cousins, and his bitter ex-lover, Gideon Grey. Nothing, he is certain, could possibly be worse. Then the grizzled old patriarch announces the true purpose of the gathering: He intends to leave the vast family fortune to whichever of the men marries Cousin Jessamine,...

"Two decades after an unsolved murder in a working-class town, another body turns up, ripping apart friendships and community--a captivating mystery and graceful investigation of brotherhood and family by a renowned criminologist."-- Provided by publisher.

"Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans of a substantial inheritance are thrown into doubt. As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming...

"New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series. It's Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of police - plan to enjoy it with their baby boy. On their list: visiting Santa, decorating the tree, and attending the church Christmas pageant. But when a beloved holiday parade is crashed...

It's almost summer in Cape Vincent, and as the heat rises, ex-professional ice hockey superstar Mikko Helle arrives, ready to move into his extravagantly renovated waterfront home. Mikko is 30, handsome, and wealthy. He's a stranger in town. There's no reason to suspect Mikko is anything other than he seems. Local married mother-of-two Nicole Durham works her connections hard to get hired as his cleaner. She needs this job--and not just because of...

"Lady Emily investigates the murder of a glamorous debutante in the latest irresistible mystery of Tasha Alexander's New York Times bestselling series. London, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is...

"Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia -- until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter...