A remote island, a Hollywood crew led by a tyrannical director, and a murder case that went cold decades ago. Elizabeth Little returns with her second novel Pretty as a Picture. Elizabeth Little made her crime fiction debut with 2014’s Dear Daughter, which won the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel; that title was…
In the second Detective Betty mystery, Kathleen Kent’s protagonist Det. Betty Rhyzyk goes rogue, leading her into the dark underworld of the Dallas drug cartel. Dallas native Kathleen Kent began her career in publishing by writing bestselling, award-winning historical novels—The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts. She made her crime fiction debut with…
New York Times and internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah has been thrilling readers stateside and across the pond for years with her novels of psychological suspense, whether singular stories, the Zailer and Waterhouse series, or Golden Age whodunits featuring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot. Also an accomplished poet and podcaster, and the visionary behind…
It’s not an exaggeration to say that my heart broke a bit with the news that Mary Higgins Clark, America’s “Queen of Suspense,” died last Friday at the age of 92. Any time a person passes who has been part of your life for as long as she was mine, the loss is profound. And…
Purgatory Bay by Bryan Gruley is the sequel to the Amazon Charts-bestselling Bleak Harbor, where misdeeds of the past must be faced in order to find kidnapping victims before it’s too late. Bryan Gruley is a veteran journalist who has shared in the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Wall Street Journal for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist…
Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison is a pulse-pounding new psychological thriller that examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies, and the desperate lengths people will go to in order to protect their secrets. J.T. Ellison is the New York Times- and USA Today-bestselling author of more than 20 novels; these include…
Nine Elms is the first novel in Robert Bryndza’s new Kate Marshall Mystery Series, in which former detective Kate Marshall must revisit her painful past to catch a serial killer. British scribe Robert Bryndza burst onto the scene in 2016 with the #1 International Bestseller, The Girl in the Ice. That title introduced series protagonist…
Lifelong New Yorker S.J. Rozan’s storied career has spanned decades and encompassed both writing and teaching. Her unique melding of substance, style, and structure has branded her one of the most decorated members on the contemporary mystery scene. Rozan has been the recipient of the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity Awards, as well as…
Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land is the 50th entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, where two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her…
Jan Burke wrote what would become the first of ten crime novels featuring journalist Irene Kelly in the evening hours after work. That manuscript, Goodnight, Irene (1993), sold to Simon & Schuster without the benefit of an agent or solicitation—and readers took note when then-President Bill Clinton mentioned it during his first White House interview…
