This has been such a peculiar time for the book-publishing industry. Because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic (now projected to kill at least 170,000 Americans by October), release dates for many works have been delayed, author signings have been scrubbed, book festivals have been cancelled, and reviewers (including yours truly) have witnessed a marked reduction in the quantity of advance copies they have been sent, as publicists shelter at home from the virus rather than commute to their offices. I look back at The Rap Sheet’s extensive list of anticipated spring releases, and can’t help but cringe a bit, knowing that a number of those titles—including Loren D. Estleman’s latest Valentino mystery (Indigo), Samantha Downing’s He Started It, James Lee Burke’s 23rd Dave Robicheaux yarn (A Private Cathedral), and Laura Lippman’s book of essays (My Life as a Villainess)—failed to appear when I said they would.
Thankfully, most such belated crime, mystery, and thriller works will finally reach print this summer, together with myriad other books to help take our minds off the unrelenting health crisis and the concurrent economic recession, if all too briefly. Just this month, for instance, we are welcoming fresh fiction from familiar authors such as Patrick Hoffman, Megan Miranda, Ragnar Jónasson, Laurie R. King, Quentin Bates, Peter May, and Roz Watkins, in addition to new editions of classic tales by both Erle Stanley Gardner (timed to the June 21 launch of HBO-TV’s new Perry Mason mini-series) and Sue Grafton’s lawyer-novelist father, C.W. Grafton. The reading prospects for June and July are no less inviting. You can expect to see S.A. Cosby’s much-heralded Blacktop Wasteland, Camilla Läckberg’s revenge-laden The Golden Cage, Edward Marston’s Rage of the Assassin, Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s Gallows Rock, Michael Robotham’s When She Was Good, Denise Mina’s The Less Dead, Peter Lovesey’s The Finisher, Karen Dionne’s The Wicked Sister, William Shaw’s Grave’s End, Val McDermid’s Still Life, and Gary Phillips’ retro-adventure, Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem.
Below I’ve selected more than 370 works that should appeal to a broad diversity of crime-fiction fans, all set to premiere between now and Labor Day, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. These are primarily novels and short-story collections, but there are also a few non-fiction titles that are likely to be of interest to readers of this genre. Books marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the rest are fiction.
JUNE (U.S.):
• All of Us, by A.F. Carter (Mysterious Press)
• All the Broken People, by Leah Konen (Putnam)
• All Things Left Wild, by James Wade (Blackstone)
• Arrowood and the Thames Corpses, by Mick Finlay (HQ)
• The Art of Deception, by Leonard Goldberg (Minotaur)
• The Bad Fire,
by Quintin Jardine (Headline)
• Baroni, by Alfred Harris (Brash)
• Black Sun Rising, by
Matthew Carr (Pegasus Crime)
• The Blues Don’t Care,
by Paul D. Marks (Down & Out)
• Borrowed Time, by David Mark (Severn
House)
• A Burning, by Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
• The Case of the Baited Hook, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(American Mystery Classics)
(American Mystery Classics)
• The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Case of the Gilded Lily, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Case of the Lazy Lover, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Case of the Lonely Heiress, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Case of the Terrified Typist, by Erle Stanley Gardner
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
(Mysterious Press/Open Road)
• The Choice, by Gillian McAllister (Putnam)
• Clean Hands, by Patrick
Hoffman (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris, by Arthur J. Magida (Norton)*
• Copy Boy, by Shelley
Blanton-Stroud (She Writes Press)
• Cruel Acts, by
Jane Casey (HarperCollins)
• Dark August, by Katie Tallo
(Harper)
• Dead Girl Blues, by Lawrence Block
(LB Productions)
• Dead
Letter, by Jane Waterhouse (Brash)
• Death
in White Pyjamas / Death Knows No Calendar, by John Bude (Poisoned Pen
Press)
• Death
of a Prominent Citizen, by Cora Harrison (Severn House)
• Death of a Typographer, by Nick Gadd (Arden)
• Deep As Death, by Katja Ivar (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Devolution:
A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, by Max Brooks (Del Rey)
• The Dilemma, by B.A. Paris
(St. Martin’s Press)
• The Distant Dead, by
Heather Young (Morrow)
• Don’t Make
a Sound, by T.R. Ragan (Thomas & Mercer)
• Don’t Turn Around, by
Jessica Barry (Harper)
• Every Step She Takes, by Kelley Armstrong (Kla Fricke)
• Execution, by S.J. Parris (Pegasus)
• The Falling Woman, by Richard Farrell (Algonquin)
• The
Full Scoop, by Jill Orr (Prospect Park)
• The Girl from Widow
Hills, by Megan Miranda (Simon & Schuster)
• Gone to Darkness,
by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Guest List, by Lucy Foley (Morrow)
• Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction, edited Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff (by Syracuse University Press)*
• The Half Sister, by Sandie Jones
(Minotaur)
• Hold
Your Breath, China, by Qiu Xiaolong (Severn House)
• Home Before Dark, by
Riley Sager (Dutton)
• The House Guest, by Mark Edwards
(Thomas & Mercer)
• The House of Long Ago, by Steve Berry and M.J. Rose
(Blue Box Press)
(Blue Box Press)
• The House of Whispers,
by Laura Purcell (Penguin)
• The House on Fripp Island,
by Rebecca Kauffman (Houghton Mifflin)
• Hunting Ground, by
Meghan Holloway (Polis)
• Interlibrary Loan,
by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Johnny
Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics—The Complete Adventures of Pete
Morisi’s Wild Man of Chicago, edited by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
(Yoe)*
• The Last Flight, by Julie
Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Legacy
of Lies, by Robert Bailey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Lockdown, by Peter May (Quercus)
• Lockdown:
Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic, edited by Nick
Kolakowski and Steve Weddle (Polis)
• A Long Night in Paris,
by Dov Alfon (Pegasus Crime)
• Lost River, by J. Todd Scott (Putnam)
• Love & Other
Crimes: Stories, by Sara Paretsky (Morrow)
• Maigret’s
Madwoman, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia
Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Mist,
by Ragnar Jónasson (Minotaur)
• Molten City, by Chris Nickson (Severn House)
• A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age, by Paul Starobin (PublicAffairs)*
• The Mountains Wild,
by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Minotaur)
• Murder on the Silver Screen,
by Margaret Dumas (Henery Press)
• Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, by Howard Blum (Harper)*
• Not a Gentleman’s Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth, by Gerard Koeppel (Hachette)*
• Nothing Can Hurt You, by
Nicole Maye Goldberg (Bloomsbury)
• One
Last Lie, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Outside the Lines, by Ameera
Patel (Catalyst Press)
• Perfectly Famous, by Emily Liebert
(Gallery)
• Playing for Keeps, by Jane
Waterhouse (Brash)
• The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope, by C.W. Grafton
(Poisoned Pen Press)
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Reckoning, by M.J. Trow (Crème de la Crime)
• Red, Red Snow, by Caro Ramsay (Severn House)
• Remain Silent, by Susie Steiner (Random House)
• The Request, by David Bell (Berkley)
• Riviera Gold, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
• Running from the Dead, by Mike Knowles (ECW Press)
• Safe, by S.K. Barnett (Dutton)
• Scavenger Hunt, by Dani Lamia
(Level 4 Press)
(Level 4 Press)
• Seven Lies, by Elizabeth Kay
(Pamela Dorman)
(Pamela Dorman)
• Seven Years of Darkness,
by You-Jeong Jeong (Penguin)
by You-Jeong Jeong (Penguin)
• Shadowplay, by Joseph O’Connor
(Europa Editions)
(Europa Editions)
• Shattering
Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology, edited by Heather Graham (Nasty Woman
Press)
• Spring Girls, by
Karen Katchur (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Stone Girl, by Dirk
Wittenborn (Norton)
• Stranger in the Lake, by Kimberly Belle (Park Row)
• The Summer of Kim Novak, by Håkan Nesser (World Editions)
• The Swap, by Robyn Harding (Gallery/Scout Press)
• That Old Dead Magic, by Robert J. Randisi (Speaking Volumes)
• They Did Bad Things,
by Lauren A. Forry (Arcade Crimewise)
• This Little Family, by
Inès Bayard (Other Press)
• Vera
Kelly Is Not a Mystery, by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House)
• What’s Left of Me
Is Yours, by Stephanie Scott (Doubleday)
• A Woman Alone, by Nina Laurin (Grand
Central)
• You Can Go Home Now,
by Michael Elias (Harper)
JUNE (UK):
• The
Astounding Murder at Cloverwood House, by David D. Victor (MX)
• Awakening of Spies, by Brian
Landers (RedDoor Press)
• Bedlam,
by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• The Burning Land, by George
Alagiah (Black Thorn)
• Cast
the First Stone, by Catherine Hanley (The Mystery Press)
• Cold Malice, by
Quentin Bates (Constable)
• The Curator, by M.W.
Craven (Constable)
• Cut
to the Bone, by Roz Watkins (HQ)
• Devil’s
Garden, by Aline Templeton (Allison & Busby)
• The Graves of Whitechapel,
by Claire Evans (Sphere)
• The Heatwave, by Katerina Diamond
(Avon)
• Inspector French: Man Overboard! by Freeman Wills Crofts
(Collins Crime Club)
(Collins Crime Club)
• Inspector French and the Loss of the ‘Jane Vosper’, by Freeman Wills Crofts (Collins
Crime Club)
• Jeremiahs
Bell, by Denzil Meyrick (Polygon)
• The
Last Wife, by Karen Hamilton (Wildfire)
• Murder
at the Playhouse, by Helena Dixon (Bookouture)
• The Other Passenger, by Louise
Candlish (Simon & Schuster)
• The Perfect Couple, by Jackie
Kabler (One More Chapter)
JULY (U.S.):
• Afterland, by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland)
• Alice Knott, by Blake Butler
(Riverhead)
• All Up, by J.W. Rinzler (Permuted Press)
• Blacktop Wasteland, by
S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• The Bone Jar, by S.W. Kane (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Bones of Wolfe, by James Carlos Blake (Mysterious Press)
• Bonnie, by Christina Schwarz (Atria)
• Breathing Through the Wound, by Víctor del Árbol (Other Press)
• The Bright Lands, by John Fram (Hanover Square Press)
• The Burden of Truth, by Neal Griffin (Forge)
• The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories,
by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• A Choir of Crows, by Candace Robb
(Crème de la Crime)
(Crème de la Crime)
• Cut to the Bone,
by Ellison Cooper (Minotaur)
by Ellison Cooper (Minotaur)
• A Dangerous Breed,
by Glen Erik Hamilton (Morrow)
by Glen Erik Hamilton (Morrow)
• Dangerous Pursuits,
by Jo Bannister (Severn House)
by Jo Bannister (Severn House)
• The Daughters of Foxcote Manor,
by Eve Chase (Putnam)
by Eve Chase (Putnam)
• Death Rattle, by Alex Gilly (Forge)
• The
Devil’s Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Minotaur)
• East of Hounslow,
by Khurrum Rahman (HQ)
• Empire of Wild, by Cherie
Dimaline (Morrow)
• The End of Her, by Shari
Lapena (Pamela Dorman)
• Exit Strategy, by
Jen J. Danna (Kensington)
• Find Me, by Anne Frasier
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Florida Man, by Tom Cooper (Random House)
• Fools’ Gold, by Dolores Hitchens (Library of America)
• From the Grave,
by David Housewright (Minotaur)
• The Golden Cage, by Camilla Läckberg (Knopf)
• The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld, by Ravi Somaiya (Twelve)*
• The
Grove of the Caesars, by Lindsey Davis (Minotaur)
• Hell
in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls, by Jax
Miller (Berkley)*
• He Started It, by
Samantha Downing (Berkley)
• Hidden
Creed, by Alex Kava (Prairie Wind)
• His & Hers, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• The Horizontal Man, by Helen Eustis (Library of America)
• The
House on Widows Hill, by Simon R. Green (Severn House)
• House Privilege,
by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Indigo, by Loren D. Estleman (Forge)
• I Saw Him Die, by Andrew Wilson (Washington Square Press)
• The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch, by Miles Harvey (Little, Brown)*
• The Lantern
Men, by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Left for Dead,
by Caroline Mitchell (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Lost Girls of Devon, by
Barbara O’Neal (Lake Union)
• Love and Theft, by Stan Parish (Doubleday)
• Low Down Dirty Vote: Volume 2, edited by Mysti Berry
(Berry Content)
(Berry Content)
• Maigret and
the Loner, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
• Malorie, by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth, by Jay Stringer (Pegasus)
• Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem,
by Gary Phillips (Agora)
by Gary Phillips (Agora)
• Meet Your
Maker, by Matthew Mather (Blackstone)
• Miss Graham’s
Cold War Cookbook, by Celia Rees (Morrow)
• More Better Deals, by Joe R.
Lansdale (Mulholland)
• Murder in Chianti,
by Camilla Trinchieri (Soho Crime)
• Muzzled,
by David Rosenfelt (Minotaur)
• Never Ask Me, by Jeff Abbott (Grand
Central)
• The Night of
Shooting Stars, by Ben Pastor (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Of
Mutts and Men, by Spencer Quinn (Forge)
• Once
You Go This Far, by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur)
• The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones
(Gallery/Saga Press)
(Gallery/Saga Press)
• Opium and Absinthe, by
Lydia Kang (Lake Union)
• The Order, by
Daniel Silva (Harper)
• Out of Time, by David Klass
(Dutton)
• Outsider,
by Linda Castillo (Minotaur)
• The Patient, by Jasper DeWitt (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)
• Playing Nice, by J.P. Delaney
(Ballantine)
• Puppies, by
Maurizio de Giovanni (World Noir)
• The Red Right Hand, by Joel Townsley Rogers (American Mystery Classics)
• Relative Silence, by Carrie Stuart
Parks (Thomas Nelson)
• The Revelators, by Ace Atkins (Putnam)
• Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes,
by Harold Schechter (Little A)*
by Harold Schechter (Little A)*
• A Royal Affair,
by Allison Montclair (Minotaur)
by Allison Montclair (Minotaur)
• The Safe Place, by Anna
Downes (Minotaur)
• Shadow Garden, by Alexandra Burt
(Berkley)
• The Shadows, by Alex North
(Celadon)
• The
Silence of the White City, by Eva Garcia Saenz (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
• Size Zero, by Abigail Mangin (Visage Media)
• Skin Deep, by Sung J. Woo (Agora)
• Strong
from the Heart, by Jon Land (Forge)
• The
Suicide House, by Charlie Donlea (Kensington)
• Survival Instincts, by
Jen Waite (Dutton)
• Survivor Song, by Paul
Tremblay (Morrow)
• The Tease / Sin for Me, by
Gil Brewer (Stark House)
• Their Last Secret, by Rick Mofina
(Mira)
• A Tortured Soul, by L.A. Detwiler (L.A. Detwiler)
• Trouble the Saints, by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
• The Two Mrs. Carlyles, by
Suzanne Rindell (Putnam)
• Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)*
• The Vacation, by T.M. Logan (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice, by David Hill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)*
• Watching You Without
Me, by Lynn Coady (Knopf)
• When She Was Good,
by Michael Robotham (Scribner)
• Wonderland, by Zoje Stage (Mulholland)
JULY (UK):
• All
Fall Down, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• All My Lies
Are True, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review)
• The
Anchoress of Chesterfield, by Chris Nickson (The Mystery Press)
• Blood Red City, by Rod Reynolds
(Orenda)
• Bodies from the Library 3, edited by Tony Medawar
(Collins Crime Club)
(Collins Crime Club)
• Bryant & May:
Oranges and Lemons, by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
• The Canning
Town Murder, by Mike Hollow (Allison & Busby)
• The City Under
Siege, by Michael Russell (Constable)
• Cracked,
by Louise McCreesh (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Dark
Skies, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• Dark Waters, by G.R.
Halliday (Harvill Secker)
• Deadly Revenge,
by Leigh Russell (No Exit Press)
• Deny Me, by Karen Cole (Quercus)
• Don’t Turn Around, by Jessica
Barry (Harvill Secker)
• A Double Life, by Charlotte Philby
(The Borough Press)
• The Englishman, by David
Gilman (Head of Zeus)
• The Falling Men, by Ross Armstrong
(HQ)
• Find Them Dead, by Peter
James (Macmillan)
• Finders,
Keepers, by Sabine Durrant (Hodder & Stoughton)
• From Aconite to the Zodiac Killer: A Dictionary of Crime,
by Amanda Lees (Robinson)*
by Amanda Lees (Robinson)*
• Gallows Rock, by
Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Grave’s
End, by William Shaw (Riverrun)
• The
House of Lamentations, by S.G. MacLean (Quercus)
• How to Be Nowhere, by Tim MacGabhann
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• How to Disappear, by Gillian
McAllister (Penguin)
• Hymn to Murder, by
Paul Doherty (Headline)
• If I Can’t Have You, by
Charlotte Levin (Mantle)
• If
Looks Could Kill, by Olivia Kiernan (Riverrun)
• Imposter
13, by Rob Sinclair (Orion)
• Like Mother, Like Daughter,
by Elle Croft (Orion)
• A Matter of Murder, by Ann Granger (Headline)
• Midnight Atlanta, by Thomas Mullen (Little, Brown)
• The New
Girl, by Harriet Walker (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Night Falls, Still Missing,
by Helen Callaghan (Michael Joseph)
• One
White Lie, by Leah Konen (Michael Joseph)
• The Part-Time Job, by P.D. James
(Faber and Faber)
• Precious You, by Helen Monks Takhar (HQ)
• Quiet Acts of Violence, by
Cath Staincliffe (Constable)
• The Resident, by David Jackson (Viper)
• The Sandpit, by Nicholas Shakespeare
(Harvill Secker)
• Senseless,
by Ed James (Headline)
• The
Shapeshifter’s Lair, by Peter Tremayne (Headline)
• Shed No Tears, by Caz Frear (Zaffre)
• The Syndicate, by G.M. Minett (Zaffre)
• Taken,
by Lisa Stone (HarperCollins)
• Tell
Me How It Ends, by V.B. Grey (Quercus)
• Thirty-One
Bones, by Morgan Cry (Polygon)
• A
Time to Die, by Barbara Nadel (Allison & Busby)
• The Waiting Rooms, by Eve Smith
(Orenda)
• Written in Blood, by Chris Carter
(Simon & Schuster)
AUGUST (U.S.):
• Addis Ababa Noir,
edited by Maaza Mengiste (Akashic)
• Atomic Love, by Jennie Fields (Putnam)
• Auntie Poldi
and the Handsome Antonio, by Mario Giordano (Mariner)
• Bad
News Travels, by James Swain (Thomas & Mercer)
• Behind the Red Door,
by Megan Collins (Atria)
• The Best of Friends, by Lucinda
Berry (Thomas & Mercer)
• Blood Victory,
by Christopher Rice (Thomas & Mercer)
• Blood World, by Chris Mooney (Berkley)
• Blunt Force, by Lynda La Plante
(Zaffre)
• The Cabinets
of Barnaby Mayne, by Elsa Hart (Minotaur)
• Case
Pending, by Dell Shannon (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Convince Me, by Nina Sadowsky
(Ballantine)
• Cry
Baby, by Mark Billingham (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Darkest
Hearts, by Nelson George (Akashic)
• The Day Lincoln Lost, by
Charles Rosenberg (Hanover Square Press)
• Dead Man
Dancing, by John Galligan (Atria)
• Dead West, by Matt Goldman
(Forge)
• A
Desperate Place, by Jennifer Greer (Crooked Lane)
• Detectives
in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee (Johns Hopkins
University Press)*
• The Eighth Detective, by Alex Pavesi (Henry Holt)
• Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology, by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz (Morrow)*
• Ellery
Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan’s Greatest Detective & Crime
Writers, edited by Ellery Queen (Tuttle)
• The
Falcon Always Wings Twice, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• The Finisher, by Peter Lovesey (Soho Crime)
• The
Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes and the Crusader’s Curse,
by Stuart Douglas (Titan)
• Ghost
Ups Her Game, by Carolyn Hart (Severn House)
• The Glass Kingdom, by
Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)
• The Heatwave, by Kate Riordan (Grand
Central)
• Hidden Bones, by
Vivian Barz (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Hollow Ones, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
(Grand Central)
(Grand Central)
• The Honjin Murders,
by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Imperfect Women, by
Araminta Hall (MCD)
• The Inugami Curse,
by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Killer, Come
Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury, by Ray Bradbury (Hard Case
Crime)
• The
Last Mrs. Summers, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• The Less Dead, by Denise Mina
(Mulholland)
• The Lions of Fifth Avenue, by Fiona Davis (Dutton)
• Little Disasters, by Sarah Vaughan (Atria)
• Little Sister, by Robert
Martin (Stark House Press/Black Gat)
• Lone
Jack Trail, by Owen Laukkanen (Mulholland)
• The Lost Jewels, by Kirsty
Manning (Morrow)
• Maigret
and the Informer, by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
• The
Mockingbird’s Song, by Wanda E. Brunstetter (Shiloh Run Press)
• The Monsters We Make,
by Kali White (Crooked Lane)
• Mr. Campion’s Seance, by Mike Ripley (Severn House)
• Murder
in the East End, by Jennifer Ashley (Berkley)
• The Music Box Enigma, by R.N. Morris (Severn House)
• My Life as a Villainess: Essays, by Laura Lippman (Morrow)*
• Never Forget, by Michel Bussi (World Noir)
• The Nidderdale Murders, by J.R. Ellis (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Night Swim, by Megan Goldin
(St. Martin’s Press)
(St. Martin’s Press)
• No Room at the Morgue, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB Classics)
• The Nothing Man, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone)
• The Palace, by Christopher Reich (Mulholland)
• Payback, by Lorenzo
Carcaterra (Ballantine)
• A Private
Cathedral, by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
• Rage of the Assassin, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• Safecracker, by Ryan Wick
(Thomas Dunne)
• Shadows
in Time, by Julie McElwain (Pegasus)
• The Silence, by Kendra
Elliot (Montlake)
• The Silent Wife,
by Karin Slaughter (Morrow)
• Somewhere in the Dark,
by R.J. Jacobs (Crooked Lane)
• The Southland, by Johnny Shaw (Agora)
• Squeeze Me, by Carl Hiaasen
(Knopf)
• The
Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann (Little,
Brown)
• Stealing the
Crown, by T.P. Fielden (Thomas & Mercer)
• Tampa Bay Noir,
edited by Colette Bancroft (Akashic)
• Three, by D.A. Mishani (Europa Editions)
• Three Perfect Liars,
by Heidi Perks (Gallery)
• Then She
Vanished, by T. Jefferson Parker (Putnam)
• Under
Pressure, by Robert Pobi (Minotaur)
• Vanishing Falls, by Poppy
Gee (Morrow)
• The
Vinyl Detective: Low Action, by Andrew Cartmel (Titan)
• We Are All the Same in the Dark, by Julia Heaberlin (Ballantine)
• Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923, edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S.
Klinger (Pegasus)
Klinger (Pegasus)
• When These Mountains Burn,
by David Joy (Putnam)
• White Out, by
Danielle Girard (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Wicked Sister, by Karen
Dionne (Putnam)
• The Widening Stain, by W. Bolingbroke Johnson (American
Mystery Classics)
Mystery Classics)
• Winter Counts, by David
Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco)
• The Woman in
the Wardrobe, by Peter Shaffer (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Woods, by Vanessa Savage (Grand
Central)
AUGUST (UK):
• After
the Fire, by Jo Spain (Quercus)
• Arkhangel, by James Brabazon (Michael
Joseph)
• Chaos, by A.D. Swanston (Bantam Press)
• The
Clerkenwell Affair, by Susanna Gregory (Sphere)
• Cover Your Tracks, by
Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The
Dance of the Serpents, by Oscar de Muriel (Orion)
• Dead
to Her, by Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins)
• The
Dirty South, by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• End of Summer, by Anders de la Motte
(Zaffre)
• Final Cut, by S.J. Watson (Doubleday)
• Hinton Hollow Death Trip,
by Will Carver (Orenda)
• The Honey and the Sting, by
E.C. Fremantle (Michael Joseph)
• Innocent,
by Erin Kinsley (Headline)
• The Innocent Dead,
by Lin Anderson (Macmillan)
• Just Like the Other Girls,
by Claire Douglas (Penguin)
• The
Killings at Kingfisher Hill, by Sophie Hannah (HarperCollins)
• Knife Edge, by Simon Mayo (Doubleday)
• The
Lies You Told, by Harriet Tyce (Wildfire)
• The Majesties, by Tiffany Tsao
(Pushkin Vertigo)
• Midnight
at Malabar House, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Moonflower
Murders, by Anthony Horowitz (Century)
• Murder at the Natural History Museum, by Jim Eldridge
(Allison & Busby)
(Allison & Busby)
• One
Eye Open, by Paul Finch (Orion)
• The
One That Got Away, by Egan Hughes (Sphere)
• Painted in Blood, by Ilaria Tuti
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Play the Red Queen, by Juris
Jurjevics (No Exit Press)
• A
Price to Pay, by Paul Gitsham (HQ)
• The Quickening, by Rhiannon Ward
(Trapeze)
• A Ruined Girl, by Kate Simants
(Viper)
• The
Search Party, by Simon Lelic (Viking)
• The Second Life of Inspector Canessa, by Roberto Perrone
(Pushkin Press)
(Pushkin Press)
• The Silver Collar, by Antonia
Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Still Life, by Val McDermid (Little,
Brown)
• The Viper, by Christobel
Kent (Corvus)
• When I Was Ten, by Fiona Cummins (Macmillan)
Due to other, conflicting editorial commitments, I am publishing this list of books somewhat later than I’d originally intended. But I hope it will still help you to plan your reading endeavors over the next three months. And if you think I have failed to mention a summer release of extraordinary significance, please drop a note about it into the Comments section at the end of this post.
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to Soho Syndicate's July 7 release of "Difficult Lives Hitching Rides" by James Sallis.
https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Lives-Hitching-Rides-Sallis/dp/168199044X
Sadly, Chad, that book's re-publication now appears to have been postponed until January 2021.
Cheers,
Jeff
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