John Banville’s beautifully written The Lock-Up stretches the boundaries of the police procedural, intently focusing on the inner lives of his beloved sleuths.
Katie Siegel’s Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective has a wonderful, engaging premise: What happens when a precocious child detective grows up?
A Stolen Child is a nicely done police procedural, but it also offers an insightful look at a rapidly gentrifying part of Dublin.
Paul Doiron packs in lots of twists and turns, and enough suspense to keep you reading well past bedtime, in his 14th Mike Bowditch mystery.
The Paris Mystery is a fizzy, fast-paced caper full of glitz, glamour and intrigue set in the interwar City of Light.
The always-witty Flavia Albia returns to right the wrongs of ancient Rome in Fatal Legacy, Lindsey Davis’ intricate and entertaining 11th mystery starring the sleuth.
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.
Leonie Swann gives the “quirky older sleuths” trope a jolt of black comedy in The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp.
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.
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