Period-correct and darkly hilarious, Little Underworld is reminiscent of gumshoe movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Kate Brody’s debut novel, Rabbit Hole, is both a suspenseful mystery and a provocative portrait of a broken family.
Visit an alternate America where European colonization never took place in this intricately plotted police procedural from Francis Spufford.
Engagingly twisty with a memorable cast of characters, Jenny Hollander’s Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead explores the aftermath of a journalism school massacre.
A pop star is murdered at a remote rehab center in Cate Quinn’s deft and surprising The Clinic.
Tana French’s immersive, thought-provoking The Hunter revels in the quiet moments, but knows true peace is elusive.
Nicolas Ferraro’s My Favorite Scar is a nihilistic, hair-raising road trip through Argentina’s criminal underworld.
Nightwatching is best suited for the thriller reader with nerves of steel—while rarely violent, it is a truly scary book.
Jonathan Kellerman’s The Ghost Orchid is another excellent addition to a series full of excellent editions.
The Busy Body is reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Knives Out, both in the unlikeliness of the mystery and the cleverness of its solution.
Author Mariah Fredericks turns Gilded Age author Edith Wharton into a detective in this absorbing historical mystery.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect is a delightful locked-room mystery that is rife with references to classic detective fiction.
Speaking of formally impressive, Janice Hallett is back with another uniquely structured mystery. This time around, she’s combining the email format of her debut (The Appeal) with the audio transcriptions of her sophomore novel (The Twyford Code) to track the process of true crime author Amanda Bailey. Amanda is attempting to write the definite book on the Alperton Angels doomsday cult, and through the emails she sends and the interviews she conducts, it becomes clear that the case is not nearly as cut and dried as she first assumed.
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