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These sites will let you know if your favorite author has a new book coming out:

• Bloodstained Bookshelf
• Stop, You're Killing Me!

Like your detective to be a hard-boiled private eye? A chief inspector? A cat?

Find a listing of books featuring your favorite type of detective at Martin Kich's helpful site, Detectives by Profession.

Download mystery audiobooks and eBooks from SuffolkWave.

Search for mystery fiction in the online catalog.

Read some articles on detective fiction in our Literature Resource Center database.

Our Novelist Plus database has several dozen Recommended Reads lists for mysteries of all types. Find them by going into Novelist Plus and clicking on Recommended Reads and then Mysteries. Try Cooking Up Crime, Getting Cozy, and Police Procedurals for some examples.

Marilyn Stasio recommends mystery books in the Crime column of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Her latest picks are listed below. Also, check out past Crime columns, and her recommendations for notable crime books of 2009.