Mystery Book Club Past Titles
Please look through and use the links below to gain inspiration from our past selections.
2023 List of Titles
The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green
Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1) by Amy Stewart
Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1) by S.J. Parris
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery, #1) by Mia P. Manansala
Who is Vera Kelly (Vera Kelly, #1) by Rosalie Knecht
Cheddar Off Dead (Cheese Shop Mystery, #1) by Korina Moss
Deception by Gaslight (A Gilded Gotham Mystery, #1) by Kate Belli
Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #1) by Colleen Cambridge
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
Murder at the 42nd Street Library (42nd Street Library, #1) by Con Lehane
2022 List of Titles
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Open Season (Joe Gunther, #1) by Archer Mayor
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1) by Ellis Peters
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
2021 List of Titles
The Revelators (Quinn Colson, #10) by Ace Atkins
Strange Shores (Inspector Erlendur, #11) by Arnaldur Indriðason (translated by Victoria Cribb)
Flipped for Murder (Country Store Mysteries, #1) by Maddie Day
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) by John Connolly
Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #22) by Agatha Christie
Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1) by Donna Leon
2020 List of Titles
China Trade (Lynda Chin & Bill Smith, #1) by S.J. Rozan
Little Black Lies by Sharon J. Bolton
The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1) by Robert Bryndza
The Scold’s Bridle by Minette Walters
The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) by Jeffery Deavers
Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1) by Ann Cleeves
- Click HERE to learn more about Shetland (TV series) from author Ann Cleeves’s website.
- Click HERE to watch Season 1, Episode 1 on YouTube for free (with ads) to get introduced to the show. Please note Season 2, Episodes 1&2 are based on Raven Black, and you can also watch them for free by clicking HERE.
The Pardon (Jack Swyteck, #1) by James Grippando
- Click HERE to catch up with Grippando through his Facebook page. Some posts even address things he’s written about vs. what is happening in 2020.
2019 List of Titles
A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1) by Deanna Raybourn
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
2018 List of Titles
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
2017 List of Titles
When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1) by Jonathan Kellerman
Naked in Death (In Death #1) by J.D. Robb
A Fool and His Monet (Serena Jones Mystery, #1) by Sandra Orchard
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr
The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1) by Craig Johnson
2016 List of Titles
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) by Jeffery Deaver
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Bat (Harry Hole, #1) by Joe Nesbø
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
2015 List of Titles
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1) by Jussi Alder-Olsen
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) by Dennis Lehane
Buried in a Bog (County Cork, #1) by Shelia Connolly
The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) by Dorothy L. Sayers
2014 List of Titles
A Tine to Live, A Tine to Die (Local Foods Mystery, #1) by Edith Maxwell
A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Clammed Up (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #1) by Barbara Ross
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1) by Anne Perry
2013 List of Titles
Baker Street Letters (Baker Street Letters, #1) by Michael Robertson
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) by Louise Penny
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1) by Susan Elia MacNeal
2012 List of Titles
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters
Homicide in Hardcover (Bibliophile Mystery, #1) by Kate Carlisle
The Man in the Queue (Inspect Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey
Wicked Appetite (Lizzy & Diesel, #1) by Janet Evanovitch
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
2011 List of Titles
The Ice House by Minette Walters
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) by Agatha Christie
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) by Kate Atkinson
Knit One, Kill Two (A Knitting Mystery, #1) by Maggie Sefton
Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7) by P.D. James
Murder at Ford’s Theatre (Capital Crimes, #19) by Margaret Truman
2010 List of Titles
The Highly Effective Detective (The Highly Effective Detective, #1) by Rick Yancey
Eye of the Red Tsar (Inspector Pekkala, #1) by Sam Eastland
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
2009 List of Titles
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1) by Henning Mankell
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10) by Agatha Christie
Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) by Rhys Bowen
2008 List of Titles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) by Agatha Christie
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1) by Diane Mott Davidson
A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1) by Charles Finch
Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #42) by Agatha Christie
The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy, #1) by Jill Paton Walsh
The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1) by Martha Grimes
2007 List of Titles
Ten Word Game (Lovejoy, #23) by Jonathan Gash
The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) by M.C. Beaton
A Murder in Mayfair by Robert Barnard
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) by Jacqueline Winspear