Billy Boyle breaks up a Nazi art smuggling ring in James R. Benn’s enthralling The Phantom Patrol, which will delight history buffs, art lovers and thrill-seekers alike.
Caroline Woods exposes the plight of Victorian women and transforms history into an intricately plotted mystery in The Mesmerist.
The Jig Is Up is a well-crafted cozy mystery that deftly explores complicated family dynamics while also transporting readers to an adorable Irish-themed town.
Fiona Barton’s Talking to Strangers is a police procedural like none other: Three protagonists separately investigate the same murders, often to counterproductive ends.
William Kent Krueger seamlessly incorporates Ojibwe legends and spirituality into his latest Cork O’Connor mystery.
Robb (a pseudonym for Nora Roberts) delights with a new mystery in which homicide detective Eve Dallas must contend with a wedding party murder that veers uncomfortably close to her past.
Fans of Gone Girl or the Ted Bundy-inspired film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” will enjoy this thriller. Marcie Bowers, an everyday attorney and mother, struggles with the possibility that her husband is a killer.
Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson rehashes a decades-old murder, and contains a final-pages surprise you’ll never see coming.
With Agony Hill, Sarah Stewart Taylor kicks off a thoughtful, thought-provoking historical mystery series set in a time with shocking parallels to the present.
In Alan Bradley’s 11th mystery starring preteen sleuth Flavia de Luce, the chemistry prodigy faces murder by mushroom and her own impending adulthood.
In Alan Bradley’s 11th mystery starring preteen sleuth Flavia de Luce, the chemistry prodigy faces murder by mushroom and her own impending adulthood.
Gripping, disturbing and absolutely wild, The Sequel is a more than worthy, well, sequel, to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot.
Rough Pages, Lev AC Rosen’s third postwar noir starring gay PI Andy Mills, is as unsettling as it is vital.
Regency romance author Vanessa Kelly hops genres but not time periods for this series starter, which follows Emma Knightley (née Woodhouse) as she solves crimes in her little town of Highbury, England. Mysteries inspired by or starring Jane Austen are certainly common, but Emma is an inspired choice for a sleuth: She loves gossip, has a great deal of freedom thanks to her status as Highbury’s queen bee, and is in desperate need of a meaningful hobby so she doesn’t fall back into old habits and start matchmaking again. Equally inspired is Kelly’s choice of first victim: the detestable Mrs. Elton.
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