Feisty heroines, neo-Victorian melodrama, strange sounds, awful smells, a semi-demonic cat, and murder most foul – all wrapped up in a nice tidy package for your perusal in our Mysteries Recent Picks this month.

Just a few of the titles featured this month… Liars Anonymous is Shamus Award-winner Louise Ure’s new book, wherein damaged heroine and emergency roadside operator Jessie Dancing is drawn into a web of intrigue when she answers an emergency call from a driver who sounds as if he’s being murdered. Also on our reading list this month: the new Dalziel & Pascoe novel from Reginald Hill; an Irish tale of world politics, industry and organised crime in Brian McGilloway’s Bleed a River Deep; and Scott Frost’s new Lieutenant Alex Delillo book – the Lieutenant has a serial killer on his hands when the bodies of prominent community members start showing up posed as a copy of a Goya painting. Plus, for semi-demonic cats and all manner of the macabre, check out Daniel Edward Craig’s Murder at Graverly Manor.

Are you a fiction fan? Our Contemporary Fiction Recent Picks and our Mysteries Fiction Recent Picks for this month have just been released! So don’t wait, check them out!

James Crumley, the hard boiled American crime writer has died aged 68. He was a much acclaimed novelist, who published only seven private eye novels. His detectives were often drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, violent and enjoyed the use of profanities, but all were likeable, complex characters, that reflected some of their creator’s life experiences. His first published novel in 1969, was his only non-detective novel titled, One to Count Cadence. The Last Good Kiss published in 1988, was considered by most to be his best novel. The Right Madness was his last work published in 2005. He was divorced four times and is survived by his fifth wife.

The Private Patient is the title of the new Adam Dalgiesh murder mystery from the queen of contemporary crime writting P. D. James. Rhoda Gradwyn, an investigative journalist of notorious repute, was so pleased to be having a long-standing, disfiguring facial scar removed by the brilliant surgeon, Mr Chandler-Powell, at his private clinic in Dorset. She thought it would be the beginning of a new life, never thinking it would be the end of her life. Adam Dalgiesh is called to investigate, and a second death causes him even more complications.

For more new murder mysteries check out Mysteries Recent Picks on My Library

This month’s fiction feature is on murder mysteries translated from German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Hans Werner Kettenbach’s psychological thriller ‘Black ice’ is a particular highlight. Argentinian Guillermo Martinez’s ‘The Oxford murders’ is set at that university’s mathematics department. Other featured mysteries are set in Havana, Bologna, Paris and Turku, Finland.

Was the home-baked quiche poisoned? Will the sewers beneath Victorian London reveal all? Where did the little girl vanish to? Find out in our new mysteries for July.

Yes, it’s time for a new Sue Grafton mystery. What will she do when she’s finished with the alphabet? We also have new mysteries from Lisa Scottoline, Italian Giampiero Rigosi and Jessica Mann.

We have added to our murder mystery genres. Use our easy search box to find your favourite kind of mystery, whether it involve cats, war, English country life, the supernatural, rail travel or noir.

Check out our new bestsellers to read the most popular books in NZ. And then you can drop plot twists into conversation and annoy everyone who isn’t so up-to-date! Our new bestsellers include titles by Booker short-listed Peter Carey and David Mitchell, plus thrilling new murder mysteries.

Among our new Mysteries are books by Colleen McCullough, Tami Hoag and Robert B. Parker. Plus chick-lit writer Jennifer Weiner tries her hand at the mystery genre with Goodnight nobody.