Charlotte Vassell’s police procedural thriller The In Crowd is also an exceptional, relentless skewering of upper-class pretension.
In We Solve Murders, Richard Osman accomplishes the seemingly impossible: a cozy mystery-thriller mashup.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing the eerie beauty of western Washington in person, Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series will just about transport you there. Fans of the series will revel in this companion FBI dossier.
The first mystery in Louise Penny’s beloved Armand Gamache series draws Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surêté du Québec to the remote mountain village of Three Pines.
Sarah Easter Collins’ literary thriller, Things Don’t Break on Their Own, is a rare treasure, bursting with emotion and built to last.
Elise Bryant’s It’s Elementary is a hilarious and ambitious cozy mystery set in the emotionally charged environment of a local PTA.
Kimberly McCreight’s Like Mother, Like Daughter is intense, thought-provoking and completely unputdownable.
The explosive grand finale of A Refiner’s Fire, Donna Leon’s 33rd Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, is perhaps the best of her long and storied career.
The Night of Baba Yaga features all the elements you could hope for from a crime thriller set in the Land of the Rising Sun.
A Ruse of Shadows is an unmissable high point of Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock, a joyfully original historical mystery series with a romantic twist.
Joseph Kanon’s artful and compelling new thriller transports readers to 1930s Shanghai, the only city to let in Jewish refugees without a visa.
Set aside some time once you start reading Trust Her, because Flynn Berry’s return to the world of Northern Spy is nothing short of thrilling.
Riley Sager’s Middle of the Night dances tantalizingly on the edge of horror without ever totally crossing the line.
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