In his second Follet Valley cozy mystery, author Ian Moore captures the beauty and drama of life in the French countryside.
The snarky and complex Listen for the Lie is riveting all the way through to its jaw-dropper of a resolution.
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.
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.
Stuart Turton has only written two books, but since those two books are the stone-cold masterpieces that are The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water, he is entitled to take as much time as he wants in between releases. He will be gracing us a widely creative new whodunit this spring, set on an island that is the last safe place in the world after an unspecified apocalypse. The inhabitants of the island are kept safe by three scientists, but when one of the scientists dies, the villagers have to solve the crime before their home is overrun by the same mysterious fog that’s choked out all other life.
Sulari Gentill’s marvelous The Woman in the Library was praised by critics and fans alike, and her next mystery is another twisty novel set in the literary world: Aspiring author Theo Benton’s lover and mentor has been murdered, and her brother is the prime suspect.
Gillian Flynn’s new mystery & suspense imprint got off to a great start last year with Scorched Grace, poet Margot Douaihy’s debut mystery starring a queer and very punk New Orleans nun named Sister Holiday. Delightfully, this sequel sees Sister Holiday teaming up with Magnolia Riveaux, the fire inspector assigned to Scorched Grace’s arson spree, to form a new detective agency. Their first case? Figuring out who murdered a priest, all while extreme rains threaten to flood the city.
It’s been five years since Flynn’s debut thriller, The Woman in the Window, was seemingly everywhere. In the time since, a sadly abysmal film adaptation was released and a scandalous New Yorker article investigated his past, but now a sophomore novel is finally in sight. Billed as “part Knives Out, part Agatha Christie,” End of Story centers on mystery novelist Sebastian Trapp, who invites Nicky Hunter, an expert on detective fiction, to his luxurious home to help draft his memoirs. But while there, Nicky becomes obsessed with solving the mysterious disappearance of Sebastian’s first wife and son.
Beloved, critically acclaimed romance author Alyssa Cole made her thriller debut with 2020’s When No One Is Watching, and now she returns with another creative and suspenseful premise: Kenetria Nash has dissociative identity disorder and is a caretaker for a historic home on an isolated island. When a surprise visit from the members of the home’s trust ends in murder, Ken and her alternate personalities have to find the killer to clear their name.
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