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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Book one of 'The Inheritance Games' series

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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

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The Cousins by Karen McManus

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After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.

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The Ivies by Alexa Donne

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I recently asked Laurel, a member of our circulation team, for a recommendation. Laurel was deep into We Begin at the End (2021) by British author Chris Whitaker.

Get ready to embark on a fun, quirky adventure with Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (2019) by Kate Racculia. After eccentric billionaire Vincent Price dies, he invites Boston residents to join a treasure hunt. Tuesday Mooney is a loner, researcher, and reluctant socializer. She has secrets (who doesn’t?) and soon becomes engaged in the quest to solve the puzzle.

Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, came to me as a recommendation from a friend who hadn’t read it, yet heard about it and thought of me. I’d take recommendations from a dirty shoe, so I went for it, and I had a great time.

In Before She Knew Him, artist Hen and her husband Lloyd have just moved to the suburbs to get a new start after her recovery from a manic episode during which she became obsessed with the unsolved murder of a young man named Dustin Miller. When their new neighbors, Matthew and Mira, invite them over for dinner, Hen is shocked to see a trophy in Matthew’s office that was taken from the scene of Miller’s murder.

Most mystery readers love a good series. It’s fun to get to know a character, while secure in the knowledge that there will be more adventures after you’ve turned the last page. Few series, however, have as many titles to enjoy as J.D. Robb’s Eve Dallas Mysteries.

If you have read and enjoyed John Grisham’s first novel A Time to Kill, I believe you will enjoy Sycamore Row as well.

Although Case Histories is technically fiction, it is also a mystery. Or actually, mysteries. But what makes this book really stand out are the characters. The reader gets to know them, their thoughts, their flaws (and strengths), what motivates them, and what they feel. They are multilayered and complex, and most importantly for the reader, fascinating.

Steve Cavanagh is my new favorite author of a great legal thriller series.(Book #1 is The Defense.) In the second book, The Plea, he pens an exciting story filled with plot twists and naughtiness.

With her usual style of not letting any of the characters, let alone the reader, know everything that’s going on, Lapeña slowly reveals the secrets of a neighborhood. Someone has been breaking into homes and personal computers. When the hacker is discovered and confesses, good intentions turn deadly.