The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am addicted to true crime stories, especially…
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper is a propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows—her father. Jordan Harper is a Missouri native who’s been fascinated with crime since childhood, likely due to a familial involvement in law enforcement.…
Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett is the first book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series—a richly atmospheric mystery with sweeping backdrops, explosive action, and memorable villains that will keep you guessing about the violent crime, the nature of family, and secret deeds done long ago on abandoned frontiers. As Ragged Lake opens, the reader is immediately…
Protocol by Kathleen Valenti is the first book in the new Maggie O’Malley Mystery series. There is something special about a new, likable, unique heroine hitting the world of crime fiction, and Kathleen Valenti’s Maggie O’Malley fits that bill perfectly. Quirky, passionate, funny, and lost in that cloud of uncertainty that everyone falls into right after…
Four women, haunted by a childhood trauma. What really happened that day—and what followed, for each of them, in the years after? Penance by Kanae Minato is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless. A lot of crime fiction focuses on the crime itself. However, there is a lot of fertile ground…
Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott is the first book in the Beryl and Edwina Mystery series featuring the unlikely sleuthing pair of the boisterous and brash American Beryl and the prim and proper British Edwina. Miss Edwina Davenport is a genteel Englishwoman of a certain age. Prim and proper, of course, but in…
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given…
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Oklahoma, 1920s. The Osage Nation is the richest group of people in the United States. An oil boom on their land has afforded…
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich is a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss. You’ll want to make sure you have some time when you start this lovely, devastating book because once you start, you won’t want to put it down until you’re finished. Wade Mitchell…
Called to Justice by Edith Maxwell is the second book in the Quaker Midwife Mystery series. Meet Rose Carroll, the 19th-century Quaker midwife who is one of my favorite creations in all of recent fiction. Though still quite young, she is the only practicing midwife in the Massachusetts town of Amesbury, home of the renowned…
