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Mysteries set in Georgia

Amp up the chill factor with these mysteries set Georgia.

Fulton County Library System

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  • When three graves are found with only two skeletons at an old mansion in Savannah, Georgia, crime writer Nikki Gillette can’t stay away from the story despite the warnings from her husband, Detective Pierce Reid, as this cold case leads to…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corporation, [2021] — FICTION JACKSON
  • As a gang war threatens to explode on Atlanta’s streets, Susannah Faulkner, living a dangerous and violent life, doling out punishment to those who deserve it, is tested as never before when her family faces life-threatening situations…
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane, 2022. — FICTION SWANN
  • Nancy Drew meets P-Valley as an Atlanta reporter investigates the gruesome ritualistic murder of a dancer at the female-owned strip club where she herself worked years before. Acclaimed author L. Divine makes her adult debut in this…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2024. — FICTION DIVINE
  • Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers;…
    PaperbackNew York : 37 Ink/Atria , 2016. — FICTION MULLEN
  • Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her closest friend, Thea. Then, a series of cruel rumors make her an outcast in the small Georgia community…
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane, 2024. — FICTION AUFFARTH
  • From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a…
    PaperbackNew York : Dell, 2016. — FICTION SLAUGHTER
  • A killer terrorizes the morally bankrupt residents of an upscale neighborhood, leading them to turn to—and on—one another to survive.
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company, [2024] — FICTION REIDA
  • For Stella "Granny" Reid, the 1980s in McGill, Georgia could be seriously predictable. Gossip would flow, her grandkids would stumble into the kind of harmless trouble only encountered when growing up, and a deadly mystery was all it took…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022. — FICTION MCKEVETT
  • Marvey, still adjusting to life in Peach Coast, Georgia, is at a library fundraising event when she comes across a list of four names. One is the name of someone who recently died--and who may have been murdered. Another is Spencer Holt,…
    Paperback[United States] : Hallmark Publishing, [2022] — FICTION MATTHEWS
  • In the years since the mysterious deaths of his wife and child, P.T. Marsh, a police detective in the small Georgia town of Mason Falls, has faced demons - both professional and personal. But when he is called to the scene of a school…
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2021. — FICTION MCMAHON
  • New York Times bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, tells an unforgettable story of a high-powered Atlanta lawyer who is forced to confront her painful past and prove her…
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. — FICTION MONTGOMERY
  • Peach Clobbered

    a Georgia B&B Mystery

    Gerard, Anna,
    What's black and white and dead all over? Georgia bed and breakfast proprietor Nina Fleet finds out when she comes across a corpse in a penguin costume.
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane, 2019. — FICTION GERARD