When he released Forfeit in 1969, Dick Francis was already a legend, at least among racing fans in England. As a jockey, Francis won more than 350 races between 1946 and 1957 and was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s personal jockey from 1953 to 1957. His triumphs on the track were well chronicled, as were…
The Unquiet Heart is Kaite Welsh’s sequel to the acclaimed The Wages of Sin―and once again set in moody fin de siecle Edinburgh―Sarah Gilchrist finds herself trying to prove her fiancé’s innocence in the midst of his murder trial. The second entry in Kaite Welsh’s Sarah Gilchrist series finds the amateur detective/medical student getting her life…
Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo’s glamorous over-the-top reflection on his time—both real-life and on-screen—spent with the Italian mob in the 1980s. Gianni Russo’s memoir, Hollywood Godfather, opens with a scene that wouldn’t be out of place in a Martin Scorsese movie. It’s the mid-1980s and Russo is the owner of an exclusive Las Vegas nightclub. What…
Smoke and Ashes is the third novel in Abir Mukherjee’s prize-winning Sam Wyndham series in which Wyndham continues to battle his opium addition, sparked by a WWI injury, as he investigates two murders, both involving similarly mutilated bodies. Unfortunately, Wyndham has a dilemma: one of the bodies is discovered in an opium den he visited…
Craig Russell’s new historical thriller The Devil Aspect centers around an asylum for the criminally insane in Prague, 1935. As a new serial killer emerges in the city, a young psychiatrist works with the asylum’s serial killer-patients to research whether they exhibit an archetype of evil called “The Devil Aspect.” Dread hangs heavy over the Hrad Orlů…
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks tells the unsettling story of Swine Hill, a dying American town plagued by ghosts both real and imagined. Micah Dean Hicks’ debut novel is, like the pig men that populate its pages, a strange, discomforting hybrid. It’s an allegorical autopsy of what could be any…
The Plotters by Un-su Kim is a fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. In Un-su Kim’s The Plotters, the assassins who stalk the shadowy streets of Seoul’s underworld are working stiffs. Killing others for fun and profit is a living—better than starving on the streets or…
Joseph Finder’s Judgment is a new thriller about a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her–and her family’s–downfall. Juliana Brody, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge and the protagonist of Joseph Finder’s latest thriller, Judgment, is as straight-laced a hero as you can find in the genre. She meticulously obeys the speed limit,…
Inspired by the true story of Ohio’s first female sheriff, The Widows by Jess Montgomery is a powerful debut about two women’s search for justice as they take on the corruption at the heart of their community. The characters in Jess Montgomery’s debut novel, The Widows, wait for signs. The cry of a hawk wheeling in…
There’s never been a better time to be a board game fan—and as the hobby continues its current surge in popularity, it’s also never been a better time to be a mystery or thriller fan who also likes board games. In other words, forget Clue. Whether you’re a new or casual gamer who wants to…
