New in September: Mystery!

When fall rolls around and the days are getting shorter, nothing beats a good mystery novel to grip you while sipping tea or coffee to beat off a chill. Here are five brand new releases you're going to sink right into just like your favorite cozy chair.

1. Death of an Avid Reader by Frances Brody

Private detective Kate Shackleton agrees to help Lady Coulton locate the daughter she gave up soon after birth. Kate’s search for the now-grown daughter takes her to Yorkshire, where she ends up participating in a ceremony to expel alleged ghosts from an old library in Leeds. In the library’s dark cellar she happens on the strangled body of a well-known mathematician, as well as an organ grinder who’s barely alive. Kate must set out to find the killer.

2. Devil Sent the Rain by Lisa Turner

Fresh from solving Memphis' most sensational murder case, Homicide Detective Billy Able and his ambitious new partner Frankie Malone are called to a bizarre crime scene on the outskirts of town. A high society attorney has been murdered while dressed in a wedding gown. Billy is shocked to discover he has a very personal connection to the victim. When the attorney's death exposes illegal practices at her family's prestigious law firm, the scandal is enough to rock the southern city's social world.

3. Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah

The world's most famous detective returns in this delicious new mystery.

Lady Playford, one of the world's most beloved children's authors, springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her mansion, she's decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among the visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard.

4. Salem’s Cipher by Jess Lourey

Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe, shackled to a narrow routine by her fear of public places. When her mother's disappearance is linked to a plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, Salem finds herself both target and detective in a modern-day witch hunt. Dan Brown fans will eagerly anticipate more Salem and Bel adventures down the road.

5. Sun, Sand Murder by John Keyse-Walker

Teddy Creque is the only police presence on a remote, sun-drenched island in the British Virgin Islands. In all his years on the job, Teddy never considered the possibility he might have to address an actual crime on his peaceful island. That is, until he receives a hysterical call about a dead man on the beach. Teddy is shocked to discover Paul Kelliher, a biologist who traveled to the island every summer for research, lying dead on the beach, killed by a single shot to the head. And when the BVI’s “real police” task Teddy with informing Kelliher’s nearest kin of his death, Teddy makes an even more surprising discovery: there’s no record that Paul Kelliher ever existed.