Mystery Past Readings
2023
- Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
- Antti Tuomainen, The Man Who Died
- Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
- Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2022
- Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
- Ross MacDonald, The Galton Case
- Jane Harper, The Dry
- Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
- Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
- Nicolas Freeling, Love In Amsterdam
- Anne Perry, Christmas Garland
2020
- Peter May, The Man with No Face
- Susan Hill, The Various Haunts of Men
2019
- P.D. James, The Mistletoe Murder
- Edmund Crispin, Buried For Pleasure
- Joe Ide, IQ
- P. D. James, Cover Her Face
- Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love
- Becky Masterman, A Twist of the Knife
- Erle Stanley Gardner, The D.A. Calls it Murder
- Clayton Rawson, Death from a Top Hat
- David Downing, Jack of Spies
- Philip Kerr, March Violets
- Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
- S.J. Rozan, China Trade
- Denise Mina, The Long Drop
2018
- Jess Kidd, Himself
- Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
- Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
- Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business
- Kaite Welsh, The Wages of Sin
- Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game
- Bill Pronzini, Bones
- Amanda Cross, In the Last Analysis
- Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
- Colin Cotterill, The Coroner’s Lunch
- Tom Rosenstiel, Shining City
- P.D. James, The Mistletoe Murder
2017
- Noah Charney, The Art Thief
- Charles Todd, A Test of Wills
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
- Cara Black, Murder on the Quai
- Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance
- Peter Lovesey, Another One Goes Tonight
- Dorothy Bowers, Shadows Before
- Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger
- John McAleer, Coign of Vantage
- Lawrence Block, Burglars Can’t Be Choosers
- Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
- John D. MacDonald, Deep Blue Good-by
- Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time
2016
- Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman
- Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
- Maurizio De Giovanni, I Will Have Vengeance
- Patricia Highsmith, Strangers On A Train
- Ross MacDonald, The Instant Enemy
- Donna Leon, By Its Cover
- Muriel Spark, Robinson
- Ellery Queen, The Player On The Other Side
- Tara French, In The Woods
- Sarah Waters, Affinity
- John D. Carr, The Three Coffins/The Hollow Man
- Noah Charney, The Art Thief
2015
- Anne Perry, A Christmas Guest (novella
- Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor (a novella)
- Dorothy Sayers and Jill P. Walsh, Thrones, Dominations
- Anne Cleeland, Murder In Thrall
- Michael Connelly, Blood Work
- R. Austin Freeman, The Eye of Osiris
- Hillary Waugh, Last Seen Wearing
- Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder
- Steven Saylor, Roman Blood
- Fred Vargas (Frederique Audouin-Rouzeau), The Three Evangelists
- P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- Ed McBain, Ghosts
- Philip MacDonald, The Rasp
2014
- Elly Griffiths, Crossing Places
- Maureen Jennings, Except the Dying
- Peter May, The Blackhouse
- Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet
- Cyril Hare, Tenant for Death
- Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie
- Georges Simenon, The Yellow Dog
- Elspeth Huxley, Murder at Government House
- Cornell Woolrich (a.k.a. William Irish), Phantom Lady
- A.E.W. Mason, The House of the Arrow
- Adrian McKinty, The Cold, Cold Ground
- Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor (a novella)
2013
- Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
- G. M. Malliet, Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Novel
- Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham
- Victoria Jenkins, Unattended Death
- Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Charles Todd, Proof of Guilt
- M.L. Longworth, Death at the Chateau Bremont
- Max Allan Collins, Bye, Bye, Baby
- C.P. Snow, A Coat of Varnish
- Dennis Lehane, Live By Night
- Anne Perry, A Christmas Journey (a novella)
2011–2012
- Tess Gerritsen, Body Double
- John Grisham, The Firm
- Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Blood Sinister
- Michael Giuttari, A Florentine Death
- Ann Perry, The Face of a Stranger
- Zoe Ferraris, Finding Nouf
- Barbara Hambly, A Free Man of Color
- Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
- Thomas Perry, The Butcher’s Boy
- Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightening
2010
- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday
- Louise Ure, Fault Tree
- Sean Desmond, Adams Fall
- Patricia Moyes, A Six Letter Word for Death
- Michael Innes, Death at the President’s Lodging
- Michael C. White, A Brother’s Blood: A Novel
- Nicola Upson, An Expert in Murder
- Jill McGown, A Perfect Match
- Stieg Larson, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Don Winslow, California Fire and Life
- Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
- Mark Arsenault, Loot the Moon
2009
- Morag Joss, Half Broken Things
- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery
- AndrewMartin, Necropolis Railway
- Michael Walters, Shadow Walker
- Noah Charney, Art Thief
- Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly