Detective School

Instant New York Times Bestseller! “Fascinating … deeply American … the story of a town that needs a different kind of hero. The plot is so propulsive, it blows you away. This is a great one.” —Morning Joe After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in...

Meet maverick British detective DI Skelgill... "mad, bad and just a little bit cozy." WHEN A LONG-SERVING MASTER at one of England’s most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide. It soon becomes clear...

The Case of the Smuggler’s Curse is the first in a brand-new series of adventure stories for kids that brings together the best traditions of Enid Blyton, Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams. Lucy, Max, Charlie and Joe aren’t looking for new friends – they have too many of their own...

Jake is considered to be a fine Amish man, and everyone adores him--except for Martha. Martha, an Amish schoolteacher in Unity, Maine, loves her job and her community. When Jake proposes to her and she turns him down, her stepmother thinks she is foolish. Whenever she's with Jake, all Martha wants is to be far away from him. She can't put her finger on it, but something about him makes her uneasy. When Isaiah moves to the community and meets Martha, their friendship sparks into something more. Their relationship causes conflict and turmoil within the community, including rumors that erupt ...

Thirteen-year-old Emily Poe has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: A chance to attend the exclusive Audyn School in Manhattan. But to win the scholarship, she has to pass a test like nothing she’s ever experienced before: A nearly bare room, a set of strange clues, a locked door. And a mysterious organization - the Leopold Foundation - that’s watching her every move.

Precious Ramotswe's comfortable existence as the only detective in Botswana is suddenly rattled when the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency opens, and its brochure proclaims, "Don't take any chances! Entrust your enquiries to a MAN!" As if the development isn't enough, Mma Ramotswe has also taken on two difficult cases, one of which hits close to home. But with wisdom on her side, Mma Ramotswe figures to crack both cases and upstage her competition.

In the neon-colored capital planet of Chigu, Karel enters the school believing she has to prove the worthiness of humans to the empire as a whole. However, just as we all think of ourselves as the “main character” of the universe, Karel is not the only new student dealing with this life changing transition.

Two fourteen-year-old girls go missing from an exclusive boarding school. Did they abscond, or have they been kidnapped? The girls’ parents - and indeed the parents of many other pupils – have considerable influence in very high places. Pressure is quickly brought to bear to get Scotland Yard involved. Concern for the girls’ safety is paramount. Detective Chief Inspector Adair and three of his officers are assigned to help the local police. Initially there is little to go on, but Adair soon determines that the children didn’t leave voluntarily. The first step – to ascertain how ...

Stepford Wives meets Big Little Lies in this twisty thriller that uncovers the untruths, petty grievances, and local school politics underneath a seemingly quaint small town. Hamilton, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home...

What happens when a legendary school treasure disappears just days before the biggest celebration of the year? In Calvin and Pudge in The Mystery Of The Principal's Missing Emergency Donut Whistle, young detective Calvin and his loyal beagle companion, Pudge, find themselves facing their strangest case yet. When the famous Emergency Donut Whistle vanishes from its display case at Maplewood Middle School, rumors spread faster than powdered sugar on a windy day. As mysterious clues begin appearing throughout the school, Calvin and Pudge discover hidden notes, secret passages, missing donuts, ...

When Mycroft Holmes arrives at 221B Baker Street bearing a case of vintage claret and a peculiar wager, Sherlock Holmes finds himself dispatched to St Aldhelm's College — a prestigious Berkshire boarding school plagued by a rash of inexplicable thefts. Seed cakes, potted meats, a prefect's badge, and — most scandalously — the Headmaster's ceremonial wig have all vanished without a trace. The prime suspect is Algernon Ravenswood — shy, solitary, fourteen years old, and the son of a clergyman whose upcoming parliamentary testimony could reshape the Church's role in English education. ...

When the grandmother of a student blamed for a deadly school shooting hires attorney Etch Danielson to clear her deceased grandson’s name, Danielson and legendary Texas lawman Red Roper open an investigation into the killings. The facts they uncover force them to conclude things are not as they appear and that responsibility for the tragedy lies on the person the community has deemed a hero. Sufficient Certainty is a cautionary tale about the rush to judgment, an indictment of a system that turns a blind eye to sexual harassment and racism, and a reminder that justice, even if it is ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in...

In April 1937, the body of a vagrant is found in the middle of a little-used country lane in Somerset. He was evidently run over by a motor vehicle. Who is the man? Who killed him? The autopsy suggests that all is not what it first seemed, and Detective Inspector Leo Paget is assigned to investigate. He finds that the matter is linked to a major fraud in Suffolk, and also to a case of false imprisonment in Bristol. In the second mystery, a boy is found battered to death in the bicycle shed of his prestigious boarding school. Who is responsible? And why was the boy killed? DI Paget ...

Retirement is bliss—or is it? Newly retired music teacher, Susan Wiles, puts her natural nosiness to work and discovers a talent for solving murders. In Murder is Elementary, Susan finds her former principal dead on the office floor, a half-eaten funfetti cupcake on the desk, and a list of suspects rivaling pre-pandemic lines at Disney! In book two, a dead body is discovered in a construction site behind a school. Susan puts her sleuthing skills into action to save her husband’s best friend, Tank, who is accused of the crime. While Susan works to solve this mystery and exonerate Tank, ...

New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. The...

MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, CrimeReads, BookBub and more! "Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to...

Alex Cross’s son Ali is an accomplished mystery-solver and #1 bestseller. A crime at a concert near his school sparks his newest investigation, and it gets dangerous fast. Sometimes it’s good to have a father in the detective business. Ali Cross just solved his first real case. Alex Cross...

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck—or readers—expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s...