A young woman inherits a small private-investigations practice and confronts a suspicious death that forces her to take on a case that tests her competence and moral judgment. The plot focuses on unraveling motive and circumstance through interviews, legwork, and piecing together local relationships.

Three apparently separate family tragedies — a child's disappearance, a domestic killing, and an inexplicable murder — form the puzzle around a private investigator who reconstructs lives through interviews, documents, and visits.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, laid up with a broken leg, occupies himself by researching a centuries-old royal mystery: whether King Richard III was truly guilty of the crimes long attributed to him.

Set on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s, the novel follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man shaped by crushing poverty and social isolation.

A mystery told through several first-person documents and witness statements: an artist-teacher becomes entangled with a disturbing female figure and a dispute over inheritance and identity.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

A woman linked to an academic community returns to a college where puzzling acts and a climate of fear have erupted; an investigator connected to her seeks to discover who is behind the incidents and why.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.