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…
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…
The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola is a thrilling debut based on the real case of Sarah Gale—a tense novel of human frailty and fear and of the terrible consequences of jealousy and misunderstanding. Anna Mazzola’s debut novel, The Unseeing, spins a fictional tale around the historical 1837 murder of Hannah Brown, also referred to as the…
In Black Fall by Andrew Mayne, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated—but equally bizarre and sinister—crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared. “I… lost a town.” A long pause. “Moffat?” There was no trace of surprise in his voice. Olivia froze. “Yeah, how’d…
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2018 Edgar Award nominees and special winners. The Edgars banquet—an annual black-tie gala celebrating crime fiction, non-fiction, and television writing—will be held on Thursday, April 26th, 2018, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. As always, it's a fantastic list of great work that deserves…
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice. The first person we meet in the little Texas town of Lark is Geneva Sweet, proprietor of Geneva Sweet’s Sweets, a small roadside café where you can get a good meal washed down with iced tea—or maybe something…
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee is the 1st novel in the enticing new historical Sam Wyndham crime series set in colonial-era Calcutta, India, where a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official. 1919. Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham survived the trenches of the Great War but lost…
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love is an astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White. Melissa Scrivner Love has written an absolutely remarkable and completely unforgettable heroine in Lola, the titular character of Love’s debut thriller. It should come…
