The Fourth Rule offers up a tasty combination plate of humor, deception, suspense and villainy—and that’s just on the part of its protagonist.
Theater critic Alexis Soloski’s debut thriller, Here in the Dark, is flawless from curtain up to curtain call.
Hannah Morrissey’s small-town murder mystery When I’m Dead is nigh-on impossible to put down.
With its strong authorial voice and full embrace of the bumpy, twisty nature of retribution and revenge, The Favorites is a standout dark academia thriller.
With its period-perfect dialogue and snappy humor, Viviana Valentine and the Ticking Clock is another winner from Emily J. Edwards.
This thrilling mystery set in 1930s Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the best-written debuts of the year.
Dann McDorman’s extremely meta mystery, West Heart Kill, is sure to spawn exceptionally lively book club debates.
Lauren Nossett’s The Professor is an immersive and impressive whodunit with dark academia undertones.
Val McDermid’s Past Lying is another finely plotted Karen Pirie page turner that will leave readers wanting more.
Phryne Fisher, everyone’s favorite mystery-solving libertine, returns in Murder in Williamstown.
Sophie Hannah’s latest bitingly funny and meticulously plotted Hercule Poirot mystery effortlessly captures the Belgian sleuth’s essence.
An absorbing mystery with complexly crafted characters, What Meets the Eye shows that debut author Alex Kenna is a master in the making.
Cozy mystery fans will devour Against the Currant, which is set in a bakery in Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood.
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