The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
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Kidd’s boundless, imaginative powers drive the plot forward in this amateur detective story with a gothic twist.
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It’s a Mystery: “It is what we fear that happens to us”
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Nothing is predictable in this edgy, riveting, beautifully-wrought thriller.
Read MoreDeath of an Unsung Hero by Tessa Arlen
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The fourth in this series featuring the unlikely sleuthing duo of Clementine Talbot, the Countess of Montfort, and her chief housekeeper, Edith Jackson.
Read MoreMemento Mori by Ruth Downie
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Downie unfolds the investigation at her customary smooth, deliberate pace, filling her pages with well-realized characters
Read MoreThe Throne of Caesar by Steven Saylor
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Mystery fiction based on the most famous murder in history.
Read MoreHelp I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E. Westlake
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Maximum violence immediately. Except swap "joke" for "violence."
Read MoreThe Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur
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A soft-spoken and convincingly wise novel set in the rural vastness of Montana, ambitiously patterned on Hamlet.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Most things are both true and absurd”
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At the start of Strangers, Joanna Berrigan is home alone in her house near Munich when she is confronted by a man who is a complete stranger to her. He has let himself into the house with a key and insists he’s Erik Thieben, her fiancé, and that they live together. As he talks, attempting familiarity, nothing he says makes sense. The more he tries to comfort, the greater her terror. Furthermore, there is nothing in the house that suggests anyone else lives there. So why, the creepier he becomes, does she feel like she’s the one who’s crazy?
Read MoreRobicheaux by James Lee Burke
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It's oddly comforting that the only lazy or derivative thing about James Lee Burke's 21st novel featuring tough-guy New Orleans sheriff's detective Dave Robicheaux is its title; there's no good reason why this latest book should be called simply Robicheaux – or alternately, no good reason why any of the previous 20 couldn't have been called that; it feels like the title you'd give the final book in your series, the one in which your hero finally heat-shots and throat-punches his way to Valhalla.
Read MoreAn Innocent Client by Scott Pratt
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The incredible profusion in the last fifteen years of TV shows, movies, and books about lawyers has not, miraculously, glutted the market; readers’ fascination with the American legal system seems bottomless, which is certainly good news for anybody trying to break into that market.
Read MoreBlack and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
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Fairly ominous, when a book’s very title is a cliché, a pun, or a play on words. More ominous still when it’s all three, as in John Darnton’s new novel Black and White and Dead All Over, in which the ailing print newspaper trade forms the backdrop for a series of murders. In the newsroom of the New York Globe, an editor is found dead, and Smart, Ambitious Female Detective and Crusty, Righteous Guy Reporter team up to find the killer.
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