Art World Mystery

When priceless art disappears, the public remembers the spectacle. Quinn Alder remembers the paperwork. Quinn is a records-minded volunteer and city clerk who knows a secret most people ignore: big crimes don’t survive on genius. They survive on routines, tolerated gaps, and paperwork that looks perfect while the real world quietly breaks. In four true-crime–inspired art theft mysteries, each built from public-record logic and rendered with cozy, conversational narration, Quinn follows what courts, invoices, logs, and liability numbers reveal when eyewitness drama falls apart. A ...

From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a near future where artificial intelligence runs the world, involving a young medical student who must unravel family secrets to uncover the truth of his father’s mysterious death. In a time...

Available only in audio, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic lifts the lid on the moviemaking secrets behind the latest installment in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series. Narrator Dan Fogler (who plays No-Maj Jacob Kowalski) will guide you through the process of creating the magical on-screen world and explore the story, themes, and characters of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

“It isn’t easy to write a protagonist that blends the best qualities of Anita Blake and Stephanie Plum, but Kim Harrison carries it off with style. This is a fun book! Read it!” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the Hollows, the vampires come out to play… and...

Elmore Leonard meets Robert Ludlum in a rollicking comedic thriller set in 1985 from acclaimed author Ace Atkins, in which a suburban teen suspects his mom’s new boyfriend is the ultimate bad guy—a KGB agent. It’s 1985, what will soon become known as “The Year of the Spy,” and...

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”—Publishers Weekly In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of...

Struggling artist Hannah Brennan finds her muse in a gorgeous unfinished painting of a reclining woman at an amateur artist’s estate sale. It’s exactly the mix of classic and avant-garde that she’s aiming for. But inspiration crosses the line when, with just a few polishing touches, she passes off the dead man’s art as her own. Suddenly, Hannah is the one to watch in the New York art scene. And someone is watching. Someone who knows the truth about Hannah’s mysterious muse.

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A body posed like a Greek statue. Skin preserved like marble. And a killer who thinks he's creating art. When a wealthy New Orleans collector opens a shipping crate expecting a neoclassical sculpture, he finds something far worse—a woman's body, chemically preserved and arranged in a classical pose. Within days, a second victim surfaces in the ruins of a Mississippi Delta plantation, staged with the same chilling precision. FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her veteran partner Nina Shaw are sent ...

From London to Corsica to Paris—two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from a New York Times bestselling author as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother. Kate Darling's enigmatic mother—a once-famous ballerina—has passed away, leaving Kate bereft...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction and Classics “Wonderful reading.” —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the...

Can beauty survive life’s harshest realities? A mystery unfolds in this contemporary retelling of Eleanor H. Porter’s beloved literary classic JUST DAVID, the tale of ten-year-old David, a luminously gifted musician. Why would David’s father, a virtuoso violinist, have raised his prodigy son in seclusion on a mountaintop? Long-hidden secrets unravel when the father dies en route to introduce his guileless son to the people of the valley below. Radiantly naïve, David enters a small town orphaned and alone, knowing only his first name and nothing of his heritage. All David knows is ...

Your most delightful holiday read: the sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, from beloved Scottish author Jenny Colgan. Christmas comes early—far too early—to McCredie’s little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It’s summer, but an American production...

Ancient secrets. Hidden danger. A lost masterpiece. Darwin Lacroix seeks a tranquil year in Paris guest lecturing at the esteemed École du Louvre, but fate has other plans. Beneath the museum's grandeur lie secrets of a murky past. A clandestine group formed in the Age of Enlightenment secretly controls the collections. During the wars, its unscrupulous curators conspired to squirrel away booty, cutting out the rightful owners. Billions in art: bought and sold for private gain. When French authorities pressure Darwin to expose the group’s dark agenda, he pushes back. But he soon ...

Bestselling author and acclaimed entertainer Steve Martin examines the glamour and the subterfuge of the fine art world in in this captivating satirical novel. "Extremely entertaining." —The New York Times Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York City art...

The most terrifying secrets are not spoken but preserved, waiting for the right person to disturb their rest. This story taps into the universal fear of a past that refuses to stay dead and the chilling power of a single, damning image. It explores the dangerous allure of uncovering truth in places where everyone else has chosen to look away. Archivist Leo is tasked with sorting through the life's work of a reclusive artist in a house suspended between sea and sky. Within a trove of canvases, he finds a portrait so vivid it feels alive, depicting a woman the town believes disappeared ...

An Esquire Best Book of 2022! Written with inside access, comprehensive research, and a down-to-earth perspective, Phasers on Stun! chronicles the entire history of Star Trek, revealing that its enduring place in pop culture is all thanks to innovative pivots and radical change. For over five...

A school trip to the museum sounds boring. Look. Walk. Don’t run. Don’t touch anything. Until Alisa and Adeline get just a little too curious. Before they know it, the impossible happens: WOOSH! They’re pulled into a painting… Suddenly, they find themselves in the world of famous writers and artists. But how will they ever find their way back to the museum? A imaginative adventure about art, friendship, and the courage to explore. For curious readers aged 6 and up, perfect for reading aloud or for independent reading from age 8.

Follow Europe’s most cunning art thief, forger, and amateur sleuth as she tracks down priceless antiquities and foils nefarious plots.

Two decades have passed since the Great Demon War ended, leaving humanity to flourish while the underworld remained bound by the iron rule of Aradia. But when the Demon Queen vanishes without a trace, Tracs, her sworn protector, is the prime suspect. Hunted by Aradia’s demonic children—who hunger for vengeance as much as the throne—Tracs must navigate a web of betrayal to find his Queen. In a race against time, he’ll have to uncover the truth of her disappearance before the gates of the underworld swing open once more and he pays the ultimate price. Lost Soul is a dark, atmospheric ...

In Kettle Cove, Texas, the art is lovely. The murder weapon is a fifty-pound bronze tortoise. Nobody said the art world was subtle. When an art dealer turns up dead in a sculptor's studio — killed with her own bronze casting, leaving her as the obvious suspect — investigator Sable Wilder takes the case. She has a photographic memory, a low tolerance for sloppy framing, and a strong suspicion that a crime this obvious was designed to look that way. The deeper she digs into Kettle Cove's sun-bleached artist colony, the more she finds underneath: a gallery full of secrets, a fraud running ...