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Discover recommended authors of the mystery genre below. Click an author's name to search the physical collection within the OCLN catalog; check out OverDrive's Libby and/or hoopla as well for digital content.

 

 

Amish Mystery

• Castillo, Linda

 

Archaeological Mystery

• Peters, Elizabeth

 

Chicklit Mystery

• Strohmeyer, Sarah

 

Cozy Mystery

• Adams, Ellery
• Beaton, M.C.
• Berenson, Laurien
• Brook, Allison
• Cass, Laurie
• Childs, Laura
• Davis, Krista
• Day, Maddie
• James, Miranda
• McKevett, G.A.
• McKinlay, Jenn
• Meier, Leslie
• O'Connor, Carlene
• Page, Katherine Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crime/Detective Fiction

• Adler-Olsen, Jussi
• Andrews, Mary Kay
• Atkinson, Kate
• Black, Cara
• Bradley, Alan
• Brett, Simon
• Camilleri, Andrea
• Christie, Agatha
• Cleeves, Ann
• Craig, Philip R.
• Dorsey, Tim
• Edwards, Martin
• Fairstein, Linda
• Fowler, Christopher
• Grafton, Sue
• Griffiths, Elly
• Grimes, Martha
• Harper, Jane
• Hiaasen, Carl
• Hogan, Chuck
• Indridason, Arnaldur
• Khan, Vaseem
• Longworth, M.L.
• Malliet, G.M.
• Mankell, Henning
• Maron, Margaret
• May, Peter
• Mayor, Archer
• McDermid, Val
• Nesbo, Jo
• Pandian, Gigi
• Paretsky, Sara
• Parker, Robert B.
• Quinn, Spencer
• Rankin, Ian
• Reichs, Kathy
• Rendell, Ruth
• Robb, J.D.
• Simenon, Georges
• Simpson, Dorothy
• Stabenow, Dana
• Stanley, Michael
• Stewart Taylor, Sarah
• Turston, Helene
• Turton, Stuart
• Walker, Martin
• Woods, Stuart

 

Culinary Mystery

• Fluke, Joanne
• Kilpack, Josi S.
• Manansala, Mia P.
• McKevett, G.A.
• McKinlay, Jenn

 

Historical Mystery

• Bowen, Rhys
• Fredericks, Mariah
• Freeman, Dianne
• Greenwood, Kerry
• Ireland, D.E.
• Kerr, Philip
• Lorac, E.C.R.
• March, Nev
• Mukherjee, Abir
• Nagendra, Harini
• Perry, Anne
• Raybourn, Deanna
• Saunders, Kate
• Stewart, Amy
• Thomas, Will
• Thompson, Victoria
• Todd, Charles
• Tremayne, Peter
• Weaver, Ashley
• Winspear, Jacqueline

 

Sherlock-Inspired Mystery

• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
• Carr, Caleb
• Donald, Thomas
• Doyle, Arthur Conan (original author!)
• Goldberg, Leonard
• Horowitz, Anthony
• King, Laurie R.
• Macbird, Bonnie
• Meyer, Nicholas
• Purser-Hallard, Philip

 

Western Mystery

• Banks, Leo W.
• Box, C.J.
• Johnson, Craig
• McCauley, Terrence

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