Our Most Anticipated Reads: September 2023
By Crime HQ
August 28, 2023
The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series.
Reykjavík by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir
With over four million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík, about a 30 year old mystery that resurfaces during Reykjavík’s 200th anniversary celebration.
Holly by Stephen King
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz
Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it’s all pretend—until one of them is murdered. One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out in this glamorous locked-room mystery.
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.
A lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder.
Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
A standalone horror novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
There are tensions and secrets, whispers in the woods, and before long, the discovery of a hand poking up from the earth. Then the body that goes with it…
The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret by Nev March
In The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret, award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-century world of the transatlantic voyage, one passenger’s secret at a time.
This is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs
A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How We End Things follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua
Amy Chua’s debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.
Dead on Target by M. C. Beaton
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton’s cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Dead on Target.
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman
It’s rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
From the megabestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of America’s first celebrity serial killer.
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the middle.
Ghost Tamer by Meredith R. Lyons
Death is one thing, it’s what you do afterward that matters.
For readers who enjoy Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Clay McLeod Chapman’s Ghost Eaters.
Case of the Bleus by Korina Moss
What in the bleu blazes is happening in Yarrow Glen now? When a fellow cheesemonger dies under mysterious circumstances, everyone falls under suspicion. beloved cheese shop owner Willa Bauer adores Church Bleu as much as the next cheese connoisseur, but it’s not to die for. Is a killer trying to get away with murder…and the cheese?
Bonus Title:
Murdle: Volume 2 by G. T. Karber
G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the next collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles―a perfect gift for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a series of crimes.