Toasts of London

I must have missed the memo about all of this. I didn’t realize that any prizes were scheduled to be given out during this weekend’s inaugural Capital Crime festival in London. But apparently there were: the 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards. Mystery Fanfare reports the winners, in nine categories.

Best Mystery: In A House of Lies, by Ian Rankin

Also nominated: Cruel Acts, by Jane Casey; The Sentence Is
Death, by Anthony Horowitz; The Island, by Ragnar Jónasson; and Metropolis, by Philip Kerr

Best Thriller: London Rules, by Mick Herron

Also nominated: Twisted, by Steve Cavanagh; Out of the Dark, by
Gregg Hurwitz; A Treachery of Spies, by Manda Scott; and Changeling, by Matt Wesolowski

Best Debut: My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Also nominated: The Rumour, by Lesley Kara; Blood & Sugar, by
Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Blood Orange, by Harriet Tyce; and To the Lions, by Holly Watt

Best E-book: Sleep, by C.L. Taylor

Also nominated: Brothers in Blood, by Amer Anwar; Last of the Magpies, by Mark Edwards; The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides; and Nine Perfect Strangers, by Liane Moriarty

Best Audiobook: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, read by Jot Davies

Also nominated: Lethal White, by Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister; The Sentence Is Death, by Anthony Horowitz, read by Rory Kinnear; Something in the Water, by Catherine Steadman, read by Catherine Steadman; and Blood Orange, by Harriet Tyce,
read by Julie Teal

Best Independent Voice: Red Snow, by Will Dean

Also nominated: Little, by Edward Carey; Good Samaritans, by Will Carver; What Was Lost, by Jean Levy; and Changeling,
by Matt Wesolowski

Best Crime Novel: In a House of Lies, by Ian Rankin

Also nominated: Our House, by Louise Candlish; The Mobster’s Lament, by Ray Celestin; The Puppet Show, by M.W. Craven; and Stone Mothers, by Erin Kelly

Best Feature Film: BlacKkKlansman

Also nominated: American Animals, John Wick 3, The Sisters
Brothers, and Widows

Best TV Show: Killing Eve

Also nominated: Bodyguard, Bosch, Line of Duty, and You

Congratulations to all of this year’s contenders!

Revue of Reviewers, 9-29-19

Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more.

Caught on the Web

• There’s finally a trailer out to promote The Rhythm Section, the Blake Lively-led film due out in theaters come January 2020. “While an adaptation of Mark Burnell’s 1999 spy novel would be something for spy fans to be seriously excited about anyway,” says the blog Double O Section, “it’s even more exciting because it hails from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson’s EON Productions, the producers behind the James Bond movies. While EON has been venturing outside the realm of 007 lately, this marks their first new foray into the genre that defined them—and that they defined, under the auspices of first-generation Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. And it’s not only a new EON spy movie; it’s potentially the start of a new, female-fronted EON spy series!” Watch the trailer here.

• The New York Times reported this week: “Sol Stein, a prolific novelist and playwright, savvy publisher and visionary editor who helped fashion a collection of trenchant essays by James Baldwin, a former high school classmate, into a literary classic, Notes of a Native Son, died on Thursday at his home in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 92.” The Gumshoe Site subsequently connected Stein to crime fiction. It explained that “He was a co-founder of the publishing house Stein and Day with his then-wife Patricia Day, publisher, editor-in-chief, playwright, and novelist. He worked as the editor of Elia Kazan, David Frost, Budd Shulberg, Marilyn Monroe, F. Lee Bailey and Jack Higgins among others, and wrote nine novels including the defense lawyer George Thomassy trilogy: The Magician (Delacorte, 1971); Other People (Harcourt Brace, 1979); and The Touch of Treason (St. Martin’s, 1985).” We offer our condolences to Stein’s family.

• Also passing recently was Los Angeles-born film, television, and theater performer Jack Donner. Shroud of Thoughts recalls that Donner’s face was familiar from an extensive variety of productions, including Have Gun—Will Travel, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, Judd, for the Defense, The Name of the Game, The Manhunter, Police Story, Kojak, and The Streets of San Francisco. Many people, though, remember him best for his role as Romulan Subcommander Tal in a third-season episode of the original Star Trek TV series. Donner was 90 years old.

• A couple of novels often categorized with crime and thriller fiction, Julia Phillips’ Disappearing Earth and Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy, are among the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The winner will be announced on December 10 during a Center for Fiction benefit and awards dinner in New York City.

• Meanwhile, Bonnie “B.V.” Lawson, who writes the distinguished blog In Reference to Murder, is one of three winners of the 2019 Golden Fedora Prize. As she notes, this commendation—given to Lawson specifically for her short tale “Alien Nation”—is sponsored by the periodical Noir Nation. The Golden Fedora “reward[s] noir crime writing short forms, with the inaugural award in 2018 for poetry and this year’s prize for short stories (the prize will alternate each form every other year).” In addition to Lawson, Erika Nichols-Frazer and Anne Swardson are recipients of the 2019 prize. Honorable Mentions went to James Chesky, Jennifer Giacalone, A.M. Gregori, Mark Moran, Tyler Real, Gita Smith, and J.M.P. Zute.

• As rabid Trump supporters rush to identify and somehow discredit the whistleblower whose complaint against the amateur, paranoid U.S. prez has saddled the White House with yet another scandal and initiated a formal congressional investigation that may lead to Trump’s impeachment, The Washington Post recalls how the identity of “Deep Throat,” that paper’s essential source during Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, was not as secret as it may be remembered. It seems author-screenwriter Nora Ephron knew his identity early on.

• Finally, a few author interviews worth your attention: Attica Locke talks with National Public Radio about Heaven, My Home, her new, second Darren Matthews novel; for CrimeReads, Scott Montgomery goes mano-a-mano with Craig Johnson (Land of Wolves); Lesa Holstine fires off some questions to Ann Cleeves, who’s debuted a new protagonist in The Long Call; Tom Liens interrogates Rob Pierce on the subject of the latter’s latest release, Tommy Shakes; Cross-Examining Crime blogger Kate Jackson has a few questions for John Curran, the writer behind the much-anticipated non-fiction work, The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club; Speaking of Mysteries host Nancie Clare chats with Paddy Hirsch about his second Justy Flanagan historical thriller, Hudson’s Kill; Crimespree Magazine’s Elise Cooper draws a few details from Kyle Mills on the matter of his fifth Mitch Rapp yarn, Lethal Agent; and journalist-turned-TV writer David Simon, creator of Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire, is the focus of a four-part discussion posted in Crime Story.

Time to Step Up Your Reading Pace

Perhaps the only favorable consequence of my having recently broken a few bones, is that I now have a bit of extra, enforced quiet time in which to read. I’ve been enjoying a variety of books related to a couple of assignments for CrimeReads, and others that are associated with a future column for Down & Out: The Magazine. In addition, I am working my way though a backlog of novels first published over the last nine months, one or two of which might wind up on my favorites-of-the-year list. And I have begun to tackle a tall stack of books due for release between now and the end of 2019.

Autumn arrived in the northern hemisphere just this last Monday, September 23, and that fact makes me acutely aware of how much reading I still wish to do before New Year’s Day, 2020. As usual, I probably won’t get to every book I have my sights on; after all, there are so many. But there’s no harm in dreaming big, right?

Since entering what I am told will be a six-week period of convalesce (sigh), I’ve put together a wide-ranging critic’s choice selection of more than 400 potentially interesting crime, mystery, and thriller novels, all due for publication in either the United States or the United Kingdom during this fall-winter quarter. Such works include fresh arrivals by Anne Perry, Linwood Barclay, Catriona McPherson, John le Carré, Martha Grimes, Peter Robinson, Max Allan Collins, Emily Littlejohn, Joseph Kanon, Susan Hill, Michael Connelly, Ken Bruen, Tess Gerritsen, Alan Furst, and Abir Mukherjee. We’ll soon welcome Nicholas Meyer’s latest Sherlock Holmes novel, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols; Bonnie MacBird’s own third Holmes yarn, The Devil’s Due; the seventh Émile Cinq-Mars thriller from “John Farrow” (aka Trevor Ferguson), Ball Park; Attica Locke’s Heaven, My Home, her sequel to 2017’s award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird; Soho Crime’s paperback re-release of all six entries in James Sallis’ acclaimed Lew Griffin private-eye series, beginning with The Long-Legged Fly; the U.S. publication of Liam McIlvanney’s Scottish Crime Book of the Year, The Quaker; Elizabeth Hand’s Curious Toys, about a teenage girl stalking a merciless murderer in 1915 Chicago; Good Man Gone Bad, the seventh Aaron Gunner P.I. tale from Gar Anthony Haywood—and his first in 20 years; Martin Cruz Smith’s latest Arkady Renko novel, The Siberian Dilemma; Tara Laskowski’s debut novel, One Night Gone; Daniel H. Wilson’s The Andromeda Evolution, his unexpected sequel to Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain; a third 42nd Street Library Mystery from Con Lehane, Murder Off the Page; Janet Roger’s post-World War II London gumshoe outing, Shamus Dust; Jake Hinkson’s Dry County, dealing with blackmail in the Arkansas Ozarks; a new Tony Hill/Carol Jordan story by Val McDermid, How the Dead Speak; and a fast-paced Prohibition-era crime-comedy by Declan Burke, The Lammisters.

We can also look forward to the premiere of three valuable, hot-off-the-presses non-fiction books: Lee Child’s The Hero, a study of how myths of valor and daring have shaped our culture; Barry Forshaw’s latest genre reference work, Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide; and Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980, edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre—a work originally slated for publication this last summer, and to which I contributed an essay. Works marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the rest are novels or collections of short stories.

If you think this list covers all of the crime and thriller novels scheduled to reach bookstores this season, think again. There are plenty more where these came from. If you want to recommend others, please do so in the Comments section at the end of this post.

SEPTEMBER (U.S.):

• After the Storm, by Marietta Miles (Down & Out)

• After the War, by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions)

• Ain’t Nobody Nobody, by Heather Harper Ellett (Polis)

• All That’s Dead, by Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins)

• All the Devils, by Barry Eisler (Thomas & Mercer)

• Ball Park, by John Farrow (Severn House)

• The Beijing Conspiracy, by Shamini Flint (Severn House)

• Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation, by Steve Vogel (Custom House)*

• Blood in the Water, by Jack Flynn (Minotaur)

• Body Broker, by Daniel M. Ford (Santa Fe Writer’s Project)

• The Body on the Beach, by Anna Johannsen (Thomas & Mercer)

• Bomber’s Moon, by Archer Mayor (Minotaur)

• The Bone Fire, by S.D. Sykes (Pegasus)

• Carved in Bone, by Michael Nava (Persigo Press)

• Chasing China White, by Allan Leverone (Shotgun Honey)

• The Chestnut Man, by Søren Sveistrup (Harper)

• Clear My Name, by Paula Daly (Atlantic Monthly Press)

• Cold Storage, by David Koepp (Ecco)

• The Crossed-Out Notebook, by Nicolás Giacobone (Scribner)

• A Dangerous Engagement, by Ashley Weaver (Minotaur)

• Death in Focus, by Anne Perry (Ballantine)

• Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief, by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart (Amistad)*

• The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction, by Susannah B. Mintz (Bloomsbury)*

• Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War, by Matthew Avery Sutton (Basic)*

• Elements of Fiction, by Walter Mosley (Grove Press)*

• Elevator Pitch, by Linwood Barclay (Morrow)

• The Fifth Column, by Andrew Gross (Minotaur)

• Fiddling with Fate, by Kathleen Ernst (Midnight Ink)

• Foreign Exchange, by Jimmy Sangster (Brash)

• Gallows Court, by Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen Press)

• A Girl Named Anna, by Lizzy Barber (Mira)

• The Glass Woman, by Caroline Lee (Harper)

• A Golden Grave, by Erin Lindsey (Minotaur)

• The Good Cop, by Peter Steiner
(Severn House)

• The Greatest Heist Stories Ever Told, edited by Tom McCarthy (Lyons Press)*

• The Headstone Detective Agency, by Robert J. Randisi (Down & Out)

• Heaven, My Home, by Attica Locke (Mulholland)

• His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined, edited by Dahlia Adler (Flatiron)

• Hudson’s Kill, by Paddy Hirsch (Forge)

• The Institute, by Stephen King (Scribner)

• Ice Cold Heart, by P.J. Tracy (Crooked Lane)

• Iced in Paradise, by Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park)

• Judge Thee Not, by Edith Maxwell (Beyond the Page)

• The Killer in the Choir, by Simon Brett (Crème de la Crime)

• Kopp Sisters on the March, by Amy Stewart
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Land of Wolves, by Craig Johnson (Viking)

• The Long-Legged Fly, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• The Lost Shrine, by Nicola Ford (Allison & Busby)

• Maigret Defends Himself, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)

• A Means to An End, by Lissa Marie Redmond (Midnight Ink)

• Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology, edited by Elizabeth Zelvin
(Level Best)

• Missing Person, by Sarah Lotz (Mulholland)

• A Mistake, by Carl Shuker (Counterpoint)

• Molten Mud Murder, by Sara E. Johnson (Poisoned Pen Press)

• Mosaic, by Caro Ramsay (Severn House)

• Mother Knows Best, by Kira Peikoff (Crooked Lane)

• Murder at Kensington Palace, by Andrea Penrose (Kensington)

• Murder by an Aristocrat, by Mignon G. Eberhart
(American Mystery Classics)

• Murder in the Balcony, by Margaret Dumas (Henery Press)

• Ms. Tree: One Mean Mother, by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty (Titan Comics)

• Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse (Titan)

• The Nanny, by Gilly Macmillan (Morrow)

• New Man in the House / Her High-School Lover, by Peter Rabe
(Stark House Press)

• Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry (Doubleday)

• No Way to Die, by Warren C. Easley (Poisoned Pen Press)

• The Off-Islander, by Peter Colt (Kensington)

• Opioid, Indiana, by Brian Allen Carr (Soho Press)

• The Orange Axe, by Brian Flynn (Dean Street Press)

• The Other End of the Line, by Andrea Camilleri (Penguin)

• The Quaker, by Liam McIlvanney (World Noir)

• Queen’s Gambit, by Bradley Harper (Seventh Street)

• Rewind, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone)

• The River Rat Murders, by Frank L. Gertcher (Wind Grass Hill)

• Robert B. Parker’s The Bitterest Pill, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Putnam)

• The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott (Knopf)

• The Spy Killer, by Jimmy Sangster (Brash)

• The Stranger Inside, by Lisa Unger (Park Row)

• A Talent for Killing, by Ralph Dennis (Brash)

• Tell Me Your Secret, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline)

• This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)

• Three-Fifths, by John Vercher (Agora)

• Three Hours, by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström (Quercus)

• The Titanic Secret, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul (Putnam)

• Tommy Shakes, by Rob Pierce (All Due Respect)

• To the Lions, by Holly Watt (Dutton)

• Trained to Hunt, by Simon Gervais (Thomas & Mercer)

• Treacherous Strand, by Andrea Carter (Oceanview)

• 29 Seconds, by T.M. Logan (St. Martin’s Press)

• Unbelievable: The Story of Two Detectives’ Relentless Search for the Truth, by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong (Broadway)*

• The Unseen Hand, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)

• The Vanished Bride, by Bella Ellis (Berkley)

• Violet, by Scott Thomas (Inkshares)

• The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II, by Helen Fry (Yale University Press)*

• We, the Survivors,
by Tash Aw (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• When Hell Struck Twelve,
by James R. Benn (Soho Crime)

• White Hot Silence,
by Henry Porter (Mysterious Press)

SEPTEMBER (UK):

• The Bad Place, by M.K. Hill (Head of Zeus)

• Bad Turn, by Zoë Sharp (Zace)

• The Black Hills, by M.J. Trow
(Creme de la Crime)

• Blood Song, by Johana Gustawsson (Orenda)

• Dark Truths, by A.J. Cross (Severn House)

• Death in the Cove, by Pauline Rowson (Fathom Rowmark)

• Death in the Village, by Betty Rowlands (Bookouture)

• The Devil Upstairs, by Anthony O’Neill (Black & White)

• The Essence of Evil, by Rob Sinclair (Canelo)

• False Prophet, by James Hazel (Zaffre)

• From the Grave, by Jay Brandon (Severn House)

• Frozen Secrets, by Michael L. Douglas (MCP)

• The Hiding Game, by Louise Phillips (Hachette Ireland)

• The Hocus Girl, by Chris Nickson (Severn House)

• The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club, by John Curran (Collins Crime Club)*

• The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis (Mantle)

• In the Absence of Miracles, by Michael J. Malone (Orenda)

• Kult, by Stefan Malmström (Silvertail)

• Lake Child, by Isabel Ashdown (Trapeze)

• The Liar’s Sister, by Sarah A. Denzil (Bookouture)

• Many Rivers to Cross, by Peter Robinson (Hodder & Stoughton)

• The Mermaid’s Call, by Katherine Stansfield (Allison & Busby)

• The Mitford Scandal, by Jessica Fellowes (Sphere)

• Murder at the Races, by David Pearson (Independently published)

• Murder Repeated, by Lesley Cookman (Accent Press)

• Murder, She Said: The Quotable Miss Marple, by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)*

• The Night You Left, by Emma Curtis (Black Swan)

• No Place to Die, by Neil Broadfoot (Constable)

• The Nursery, by Asia Mackay (Zaffre)

• Playboy, by Joe Thomas (Arcadia)

• Play Dead, by Anne Penketh (Joffe)

• The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers, and Conundrums, by Kate Jackson (British Library)*

• The Quiet Ones, by Theresa Talbot (Aria)

• A Rush of Blood, by David Mark (Severn House)

• Scorpions in Corinth, by J.M. Alvey (Orion)

• Script for Scandal, by Renee Patrick (Severn House)

• A Shadow on the Lens, by Sam Hurcom (Orion)

• The Silent War, by Andreas Norman (Riverrun)

• The Sleepover, by Carol Wyer (Bookouture)

• Three Kingdoms, by Andy Maslen (Independently published)

• Time to Go, by Lisa Hartley (Canelo)

• The Wave, by Virginia Moffatt (One More Chapter)

• When Harry Met Cubby: The Story of the James Bond Producers, by Robert Sellers (The History Press)*

• Winter of Despair, by Cora Harrison (Severn House)

• Witchfinder, by Andrew Williams (Hodder & Stoughton)

• Without a Trace, by Mel Starr (Lion)

OCTOBER (U.S.):

• The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols,
by Nicholas Meyer (Minotaur)

• Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carré (Viking)

• The Art of Theft, by Sherry
Thomas (Berkley)

• Bad Memory, by Lisa Gray
(Thomas & Mercer)

• Before the Devil Fell, by Neil Olson (Hanover Square Press)

• Beginnings, by Laurie R. King (Bay)

• The Best American Mystery Stories 2019, edited by Jonathan Lethem (Mariner)

• The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films, edited by Otto Penzler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)*

• A Bitter Feast, by Deborah Crombie (Morrow)

• Black Rock Bay, by Brianna Labuskes (Thomas & Mercer)

• Blood Sugar, by Daniel Kraus (Hard Case Crime)

• Bloody Genius, by John Sandford (Putnam)

• Blue Moon, by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)

• Blues in the Dark, by Raymond Benson (Arcade)

• A Book of Bones, by John Connolly (Atria/Emily Bestler)

• Boxing the Octopus, by Tim Maleeny (Poisoned Pen Press)

• The Butterfly Girl, by Rene Denfeld (Harper)

• The Courier, by Kjell Ola Dahl (Orenda)

• A Cruel Deception, by Charles Todd (Morrow)

• The Crooked Hinge, by John Dickson Carr
(American Mystery Classics)

• Curious Toys, by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)

• The Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World’s Greatest Detective, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Levi Stahl, Stacey Shintani, and Michael Sims (University of Chicago Press)*

• The Darker Arts, by Oscar de Muriel (Orion)

• Dark Pattern, by Andrew Mayne (Thomas & Mercer)

• Death’s Dark Valley, by Paul Doherty (Headline)

• The Deserter, by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille (Simon & Schuster)

• The Devil’s Due, by Bonnie MacBird (HarperCollins)

• Drowning with Others, by Linda Keir (Lake Union)

• Dry County, by Jake Hinkson (Pegasus)

• Empire of Lies, by Raymond Khoury (Forge)

• Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives: Supernatural and Paranormal Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media, by Paul Green (McFarland)*

• Famous in Cedarville, by Erica Wright (Polis)

• Fishnet, by Kirsten Innes (Gallery/Scout Press)

• Forgiveness Dies, by J.J. Hensley (Down & Out)

• The Fragility of Bodies, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press)

• Full Throttle: Stories, by Joe Hill (Morrow)

• The Furies, by Katie Lowe (St. Martin’s Press)

• G.I. Confidential, by Martin Limón (Soho Crime)

• Good Man Gone Bad, by Gar Anthony Haywood (Prospect Park)

• The Guardians, by John Grisham (Doubleday)

• High Stakes, by John F. Dobbyn (Oceanview)

• The Hollows, by C.L. Monaghan (C.L. Monaghan)

• Home Invasion, by Patricia Abbott (Down & Out)

• The House of Brides, by Jane Cockram (Harper)

• A House of Ghosts, by W.C. Ryan (Arcade)

• Imaginary Friend, by Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central

• In the Shadow of Power, by Viveca Sten (Amazon Crossing)

• Joseph T. Shaw: The Man Behind Black Mask, by Milton Shaw
(Black Mask)

• The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural, by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)

• The Last Sword Maker, by Brian Nelson (Blackstone)

• Let Justice Descend, by Lisa Black (Kensington)

• Little Voices, by Vanessa Lillie (Thomas & Mercer)

• The Lying Room, by Nicci French (Morrow)

• Maigret’s Patience, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)

• The Man That Got Away, by Lynne Truss (Bloomsbury)

• Marley, by Jon Clinch (Atria)

• The Measure of a Man, by Marco Malvaldi (Europa Editions)

• Montparnasse, by Thierry Sagnier (Apprentice House)

• Moth, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• Motherland, by G.D. Abson (Mirror)

• The Night Fire, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

• The Noble Path, by Peter May (Quercus)

• One Night Gone, by Tara Laskowski (Graydon House)

• The Other Wife, by Claire McGowan (Thomas & Mercer)

• Owl Be Home for Christmas, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)

• ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Latinx Fiction for Puerto Rico, edited by Angel Luis Colón (Down & Out)

• Penny for Your Secrets,
by Anna Lee Huber (Kensington)

• The Poison Garden,
by A.J. Banner (Lake Union)

• The Professor of Immortality,
by Eileen Pollack (Delphinium)

• Pursuit, by Joyce Carol Oates
(Mysterious Press)

• Rabbit Heart, by Emily Deibler
(Wilde Nightingale)

• Remember, by Patricia Smith (Agora)

• The Royal Baths Murder, by John R. Ellis (Thomas & Mercer)

• The Sanctuary Murders, by Susanna Gregory (Sphere)

• Sarah Jane, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• Shamus Dust, by Janet Roger (Troubador)

• The Shape of Night, by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine)

• Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon, by James
Lovegrove (Titan)

• Sorry for the Dead, by Nicola Upson (Crooked Lane)

• Strangers at the Gate, by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur)

• Suicide Woods: Stories, by Benjamin Percy (Graywolf Press)

• Synapse, by Steven James (Thomas Nelson)

• Takes One to Know One, by Susan Isaacs (Atlantic Monthly Press)

• This Little Dark Place, by A.S. Hatch (Serpent’s Tail)

• To the Land of Long Lost Friends, by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)

• Trap Lane, by Stella Cameron (Crème de la Crime)

• Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, by Kate Racculia (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)

• The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television,
by Koren Shadmi (Life Drawn)*

• White Elephant, by Trish Harnetiaux (Simon & Schuster)

• Won’t Back Down, by J.D. Rhoades (Polis)

• Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha (Ecco)

OCTOBER (UK):

• And Then There Were None (80th anniversary special edition), by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)

• Ask Me No Questions, by Louisa de Lange (Orion)

• The Benefit of Hindsight, by Susan Hill (Chatto & Windus)

• The Black Cage, by Jack Fredrickson (Severn House)

• Black Sun, by Owen Matthews (Bantam Press)

• A Body in the Bookshop, by Helen Cox (Quercus)

• The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Mango)

• Burnt Island, by Kate Rhodes (Simon & Schuster)

• Cage, by Lilja Sigurdardóttir (Orenda)

• The Case of the Reincarnated Client, by Tarquin Hall (Severn House)

• The Conviction of Cora Burns, by Carolyn Kirby (No Exit Press)

• Cradle to Grave, by Rachel Amphlett (Saxon)

• Dead on Dartmoor, by Stephanie Austin (Allison & Busby)

• A Deathly Silence, by Jane Isaac (Legend Press)

• Dreams of Fear, by Hilary Bonner (Severn House)

• The Ex-Girlfriend,
by Nicola Moriarty (Penguin)

• The Family, by Louise Jensen (HQ)

• The Flood, by Kristina Ohlsson
(Simon & Schuster)

• The Flower Arranger, by J.J. Ellis (Agora)

• The Godmother, by Hannelore Cayre
(Old Street)

• The Guilty Mother, by Diane Jeffrey (HQ)

• Honey, by Brenda Brooks (ECW Press)

• Innocence Dies, by Colin Falconer (Constable)

• Journaled to Death, by Heather Redmond (Severn House)

• The Killer Inside, by Cass Green (HarperCollins)

• Little Siberia, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda)

• Murder in Black Tie, by Sara Rosett (McGuffin Ink)

• The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVI: Whatever Remains … Must Be the Truth (1881-1890), edited by
David Marcum (MX)

• No Mercy, by Martina Cole (Headline)

• Playing Dirty, by Helen Black (Constable)

• The Runaway, by Hollie Overton (Arrow)

• Safe House, by Jo Jakeman (Harvill Secker)

• The Secret of Cold Hill, by Peter James (Macmillan)

• Seven Days, by Alex Lake (HarperCollins)

• Terminal Black, by Adrian Magson (Severn House)

• Through the Wall, by Caroline Corcoran (Avon)

• The Trophy Taker, by Sarah Flint (Aria)

• The Understudy, by B.A. Paris, Clare Mackintosh, Holly Brown, and Sophie Hannah (Hodder)

• The Wages of Sin, by Judith Cutler (Severn House)

• What Lies Buried, by Margaret Kirk (Orion)

NOVEMBER (U.S.):

• The Accomplice, by Joseph Kanon (Atria)

• An Ale of Two Cities, by Sarah Fox (Kensington)

• The Andromeda Evolution, by Daniel H. Wilson (Harper)

• Anything for You, by Saul Black (St. Martin’s Press)

• The Bellamy Trial, by Frances Noyes Hart
(American Mystery Classics)

• The Bells of Hell, by Michael Kurland (Severn House)

• The Bishop’s Bedroom, by Piero Chiara (New Vessel Press)

• Black Hornet, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• Blind Search, by Paula Munier (Minotaur)

• The Body on the Train, by Frances Brody (Crooked Lane)

• A Bottle of Rum, by Steve Goble (Seventh Street)

• A Christmas Gathering, by Anne Perry (Ballantine)

• City of Scoundrels, by Victoria Thompson (Berkley)

• Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic)

• The Dead Don’t Sleep, by Steven Max Russo (Down & Out)

• The Dead Don’t Wait, by Michael Jecks (Crème de la Crime)

• Dead Heat, by Benedek Totth (Biblioasis)

• Echoes of the Fall, by Hank Early (Crooked Lane)

• An Equal Justice, by Chad Zunker (Thomas & Mercer)

• Eye of the Cricket, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell (Atria)

• From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings, edited by Lawrence Block (Pegasus)

• Galway Girl, by Ken Bruen (Mysterious Press)

• Guilty Not Guilty, by Felix Francis (Putnam)

• The Hero, by Lee Child (TLS)*

• Impossible Causes,
by Julie Mayhew (Bloomsbury)

• I Will Miss You Tomorrow,
by Heine Bakkeid (Raven)

• Killing Quarry, by Max Allan Collins
(Hard Case Crime)

• The Last Affair, by Margot Hunt (Mira)

• Lethal Pursuit, by Will Thomas (Minotaur)

• The Lost Are the Last to Die, by Larry D. Sweazy (Five Star)

• The Lying House, by Rick Mofina (Mira)

• Maigret and the Nahour Case, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)

• A Minute to Midnight, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)

• Murder Off the Page, by Con Lehane (Minotaur)

• A Noël Killing, by M.L. Longworth (Penguin)

• Not Dead Enough, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes)

• Nothing More Dangerous, by Allen Eskens (Mulholland)

• The Old Success, by Martha Grimes (Atlantic Monthly Press)

• Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders, by Tessa Arlen (Berkley)

• Queen of Bones, by Teresa Dovalpage (Soho Crime)

• Raven Lane, by Amber Cowie (Lake Union)

• River Run, by J.S. James (Crooked Lane)

• Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes, by Ace Atkins (Putnam)

• The Score, by H.J. Golakai (Cassava Republic Press)

• The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris (Knopf)

• Secret Service, by Tom Bradby (Atlantic Monthly Press)

• The Siberian Dilemma, by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster)

• Sidewalk Saint, by Phillip DePoy (Severn House)

• A Step So Grave, by Catriona McPherson (Quercus)

• Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980, edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre (PM Press)*

• Storm of Secrets, by Loretta Marion (Crooked Lane)

• 36 Righteous Men, by Steven Pressfield (Norton)

• Twisted Twenty-Six, by Janet Evanovich (Putnam)

• Under Occupation, by Alan Furst (Random House)

• The Unknowing, by Trey R. Barker (Down & Out)

• Warped Desire / The Strangest Sin, by Orrie Hitt (Stark House Press)

• What Would Wimsey Do? by Guy Fraser-Sampson (Felony & Mayhem)

• Widow’s Run, by T.G. Wolff (Down & Out)

• The Wrong Girl, by Donis Casey (Poisoned Pen Press)

• You Don’t Own Me, by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
(Simon & Schuster)

NOVEMBER (UK):

• The Bad Fire, by Quintin Jardine (Headline)

• Come a Little Closer, by Karen Perry (Penguin)

• Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, by Barry Forshaw (Oldcastle)*

• Death in the East, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)

• A Death in Mayfair, by Mark Ellis (Accent Press)

• Die Alone, by Simon Kernick (Century)

• A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, by William Boyle (No Exit Press)

• Good Dark Night, by Harry Brett (Corsair)

• The Grid, by Nick Cook (Bantam Press)

• How to Play Dead, by Jacqueline Ward (Corvus)

• Into the Dark, by Karen Rose (Headline)

• Kitty Peck and the Parliament of Shadows, by Kate Griffin (Faber and Faber)

• The Lady of the Lake, by Peter
Guttridge (Severn House)

• The Last Hunt, by Deon Meyer
(Hodder & Stoughton)

• Magpie, by Sophie Draper (Avon)

• The Murder Map, by Danny Miller (Corgi)

• Night Train to Murder, by Simon R.
Green (Severn House)

• Nothing Important Happened Today,
by Will Carver (Orenda)

• Not Saying Goodbye, by Boris Akunin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

• One Fatal Flaw, by Anne Perry (Headline)

• A Quiet Death in Italy, by Tom Benjamin (Constable)

• Reap the Whirlwind, by Mark Timlin (Crime & Mystery Club)

• The Righteous Spy, by Merle Nygate (Verve)

• The Scorched Earth, by Rachael Blok (Head of Zeus)

• The Secret Chapter, by Genevieve Cogman (Pan)

• 17 Church Row, by James Carol (Zaffre)

• The Snow Killer, by Ross Greenwood (Boldwood)

• Unknown Male, by icolás Obregón (Michael Joseph)

• Violet, by S.J.I. Holliday (Orenda)

• Westwind, by Ian Rankin (Orion)

• What She Saw Last Night, by M.J. Cross (Orion)

DECEMBER (U.S.):

• Aftershock, by Adam Hamdy (Headline)

• All Roads Lead to Whitechapel, by Michelle Birkby (Felony & Mayhem)

• Beating About the Bush, by M.C. Beaton (Minotaur)

• Bluebottle, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)

• Bryant & May: The Lonely Hour, by Christopher Fowler (Bantam)

• City of Pearl, by Alys Clare (Severn House)

• The Dead Girls Club, by Damien Angelica Walters (Crooked Lane)

• Dread Journey, by Dorothy B. Hughes (American Mystery Classics)

• Fear on the Phantom Special, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)

• Ghost of a Flea, by James Sallis (Soho Crime0
• Good Girls Lie, by J.T. Ellison (Mira)

• How the Dead Speak, by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)

• Just Watch Me, by Jeff Lindsay (Dutton)

• The Kill Club, by Wendy Heard (Mira)

• Liars’ Legacy, by Taylor Stevens (Kensington)

• Lost Tomorrows, by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)

• A Madness of Sunshine, by Nalini Singh (Berkley)

• Maigret’s Pickpocket, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)

• Nine Elms, by Robert Bryndza (Thomas & Mercer)

• Now You See Them, by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• An Old Man’s Game, by Andy Weinberger (Prospect Park)

• Oppo, by Tom Rosenstiel (Ecco)

• A Place Called Fear, by Keith Houghton (Thomas & Mercer)

• Reputation, by Sara Shepard (Dutton)

• The Sacrament, by Olaf Olafsson (Ecco)

• Shatter the Night, by Emily Littlejohn (Minotaur)

• Skunk Train, by Joe Clifford (Down & Out)

• The Spy in a Box, by Ralph Dennis (Brash)

• Thin Ice, by Paige Shelton (Minotaur)

• Trace of Evil, by Alice Blanchard (Minotaur)

• Treachery, by S.J. Parris (Pegasus)

• When Old Midnight Comes Along, by Loren D. Estleman (Forge)

• Winter Grave, by Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)

DECEMBER (UK):

• The Assistant, by S.K. Tremayne (HarperCollins)

• The Cabin, by Jørn Lier Horst (Penguin)

• Dead Flowers, by Nicola Monaghan (Verve)

• Deathly Affair, by Leigh Russell (No Exit Press)

• The Dinner Party, by Richard Parker (One More Chapter)

• For the Dead, by Lina Bengtsdotter (Orion)

• Gone, by Leona Deakin (Black Swan)

• The Honjin Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)

• The Lammisters, by Declan Burke (No Alibis Press)

• Mister Wolf, by Chris Petit (Simon & Schuster)

• Snakes and Ladders, by Victoria Selman (Thomas & Mercer)

• Trust Me, I’m Dead, by Sherryl Clark (Verve)