I Did It For You is a tense and immersive mystery that considers the delight and darkness of living in a close-knit small town.
Gwendolyn Bainbridge and Iris Sparks’ latest matchmaking candidate ends up dead in Allison Montclair’s Agatha Christie-esque mystery.
Michael Koryta is a force to be reckoned with in modern suspense, and An Honest Man is one of his finest achievements to date.
A con artist faces off against her mentor in Sabine Durrant’s sun-drenched thriller set in the south of France.
A disgraced nurse and an aspiring novelist go head-to-head in the small-town library where they both work in Laura Sims’ scary and satirical thriller.
Leonie Swann gives the “quirky older sleuths” trope a jolt of black comedy in The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp.
In Gytha Lodge’s highly original and impressive A Killer in the Family, a woman enters her DNA on an ancestry site and discovers she might be related to a serial killer.
Billy Boyle’s attempt to take a vacation in rural England is quickly ruined when a British officer turns up murdered in a German plane in James R. Benn’s first-rate Proud Sorrows.
William Kent Krueger’s page-turning, rewarding mystery The River We Remember is a superb exploration of the prejudices and complexities of post-World War II America.
Denise Mina seamlessly resurrects Raymond Chandler’s supersleuth Philip Marlowe in The Second Murderer.
A Chateau Under Siege, one of French police chief Bruno Courreges’ more unusual adventures, is by turns suspenseful, amusing and, in its Gallic way, nothing short of charming.
Sly and suspenseful, The Secret Hours is both a marvelous standalone novel and a stunning companion to Mick Herron’s Slough House series.
Jessica Knoll’s Bright Young Women is a primal scream for women past and present.
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