PaperBack: “One Grave Too Many”

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.



One Grave Too Many, by Ron Goulart (Ace, 1974). The last of four novels featuring Southern California private eye John Easy.

Cover illustration by Tom Adams.

Bluesky Dreaming

I’ve had it with Elon Musk. Since his acquisition of the social networking site Twitter (sometimes known as X) in 2022, the South African billionaire car-maker and conspiracy nut has turned what was once a useful Web service into a haven for right-wing hatemongers and disinformation purveyors. His reprehensible embrace of convicted felon and sexual predator Donald Trump in last year’s U.S. presidential race, and his efforts ever since (as some kind of unelected co-president) to undermine our nation’s democratic processes, have turned many stomachs, my own included.

Other than by voting and by protesting (both collectively and singularly), there’s sadly little I can do to stop Musk’s destructive endeavors. But I don’t have to support them—and I would be doing so were I to remain a contributor to Twitter.

I joined Twitter years ago, together with Facebook and Google+ (the last of which shut down in 2019). Although I’m not a busy social-media user (I don’t post my favorite recipes or cute photos of cats), I thought those sites might help me to promote the latest additions to my Rap Sheet and Killer Covers blogs. Back then, Twitter was a relatively more responsible platform, willing to prevent or at least flag the dissemination of propaganda. I found it even brought some new readers to my blogs. However, Musk’s purchase of the site and his subsequent elimination of guardrails curtailed my interest. The last time I posted to The Rap Sheet’s X page was in April 2024, and I won’t be putting up anything else while Musk is in charge.

This week I debuted a new Rap Sheet page on Bluesky, a rival “microblogging service” that was launched in 2019 and has grown dramatically since Musk assumed control of Twitter. It claims to have more than 29 million users so far. That’s far fewer than the 106 million Americans said to spend time on X, but it’s still nothing to sneeze at. And visiting Bluesky doesn’t make me want to take a shower afterward. It’s actually very muck like pre-Musk Twitter, but with a more upbeat air, fewer trolls, and less political rancor. (There are still those pesky cat shots, though. They’re inescapable!)

Undoubtedly, there will be naysayers. People who contend that Musk and his agitprop machine simply cannot be beaten, and that alternatives on the order of Mastadon, Threads, Bluesky, and others will eventually lose their value as draws for dissenters. They may be correct. In the meantime, though, there’s plenty of space on the Internet for these services to take their shots at success.

I’ve posted only a handful of things on The Rap Sheet’s Bluesky page to date, mostly links to stories that have already appeared in the blog. As with every new toy, though, one can’t help playing with it, experimenting to see what it can do, so expect more from it in the near future. Thus far, the page has only 21 followers, a fraction of the 581 who were keeping track of the old Twitter page. But abandoning Musk in his hour of greed is well worth that loss!

Come join me, if you’d like!

Herron’s Genre Contributions Recognized

(Above) Mick Herron at CrimeFest, 2014. (Photo by Ali Karim)

Mick Herron, who’s given us the popular Slough House series as well as other mystery and thriller novels, has been named as the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger winner for 2025. A CWA press release explains that this prize “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.”

Herron is quoted as saying: “I’ve spent the best part of my life—not the majority of it; just the best part—in the crime writers’ community, and to receive this accolade from these friends and colleagues is both a career highlight and a personal joy. I’m touched and thrilled beyond measure, and will try to live up to the honour.”

Past Diamond Dagger honorees include Ian Rankin, Lynda La Plante, Walter Mosley, Ann Cleeves, Andrew Taylor, Lindsey Davis, Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, and John le Carré.

The Guardian has more to report on this development.

Eager for the Edgars

Earlier today, the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) announced the nominees for its 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. There are nine categories of contenders. The winners will be revealed and their commendations presented during a special ceremony on Saturday, May 1, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square.

Best Novel:
• The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
• Rough Trade, by Katrina Carrasco (MCD)
• Things Don’t Break on Their Own, by Sarah Easter Collins (Crown)
• My Favorite Scar, by Nicolás Ferraro (Soho Crime)
• The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
• Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera (Celadon)
• The In Crowd, by Charlotte Vassell (Doubleday)

Best First Novel by an American Author:
• Twice the Trouble, by Ash Clifton (Crooked Lane)
• Cold to the Touch, by Kerri Hakoda (Crooked Lane)
• The Mechanics of Memory, by Audrey Lee (CamCat)
• A Jewel in the Crown, by David Lewis (John Scognamiglio)
• The President’s Lawyer, by Lawrence Robbins (Atria)
• Holy City, by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Best Paperback Original:
• The Paris Widow, by Kimberly Belle (Park Row)
• The Vacancy in Room 10, by Seraphina Nova Glass (Graydon House)
• Shell Games, by Bonnie Kistler (Harper Paperbacks)
• A Forgotten Kill, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Road to Heaven, by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Dundurn Press)

Best Fact Crime:
• Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers, by Frank
Figliuzzi (Mariner)
• The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective, by Steven Johnson (Crown)
• A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton, by Deb Miller Landau (Pegasus Crime)
• The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy that Let a Killer Go Free, by Gregg Olsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery, by Earl Swift (Mariner)
• The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age, by Michael Wolraich (Union Square)

Best Critical/Biographical:
• James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, by Nathan
Ashman (McFarland)
• American Noir Film: From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl, by M. Keith Booker (Rowman & Littlefield)
• Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows, by David Geherin (McFarland)
• On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, by Ashley Lawson (Ohio State University Press)
• Ian Fleming; The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harper)

Best Short Story:
• “Cut and Thirst,” by Margaret Atwood (Amazon Original Stories)
• “Everywhere You Look,” by Liv Constantine (Amazon
Original Stories)
• “Eat My Moose,” by Erika Krouse (from Conjunctions, Spring 2024 “Works and Days” issue; Bard College)
• “Barriers to Entry,” by Ariel Lawhon (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Art of Cruel Embroidery,” by Steven Sheil (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July-August 2024)

Best Juvenile:
• The Beanstalk Murder, by P.G. Bell (Feiwel & Friends)
• Mystery of Mystic Mountain,by Janet Fox (BFYR)
• Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Quill Tree)
• The Spindle of Fate, by Aimee Lim (Feiwel & Friends)
• Find Her, by Ginger Reno (Holiday House)

Best Young Adult:
• Looking for Smoke, by K.A. Cobell (Heartdrum)
• The Bitter End, by Alexa Donne (Random House Books for
Young Readers)
• A Crane Among Wolves, by June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)
• Death at Morning House, by Maureen Johnson (Harper Teen)
• 49 Miles Alone, by Natalie D. Richards (Sourcebooks Fire)

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
• “Episode Five,” Rebus, written by Gregory Burke (Viaplay)
• “Episode One,” Monsieur Spade, written by Tom Fontana and
Scott Frank (AMC)
• “Episode One,” Moonflower Murders, written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece PBS)
• “Mirror,” Murderesses, written by Wiktor Piatkowski, Joanna Kozłowska, and Katarzyna Kaczmarek (Viaplay)
• “Episode Two,” The Marlow Murder Club, written by Robert Thorogood (Masterpiece PBS)

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The MWA also gives out several additional annual prizes, for which this year’s contenders were also made known this morning.

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
• “The Legend of Penny and the Luck of the Draw Casino,” by Pat Gaudet (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], May-June 2024)
• “Head Start,” by Kai Lovelace (EQMM, September-October 2024)
• “Murder Under Sedation,” by Lawrence Ong (EQMM,
March-April 2024)
• “The Jews on Elm Street,” by Anna Stolley Persky (EQMM, September-October 2024)
• “Sparrow Maker,” by Jake Stein (EQMM, November-December 2024)

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award:
• The Rose Arbor, by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union)
• The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, by Michelle
Chouinard (Minotaur)
• The Mystery Writer, by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Return to Wyldcliffe Heights, by Carol Goodman (Morrow Paperbacks)
• Death in the Details, by Katie Tietjen (Crooked Lane)

The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award:
• Disturbing the Dead, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• A Game of Lies, by Clare Mackintosh (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Proof, by Beverly McLachlin (Simon & Schuster Canada)
• A World of Hurt, by Mindy Mejia (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• All the Way Gone, by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur)
• The Comfort of Ghosts, by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Crime)

The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award:
• The Murders in Great Diddling. by Katarina Bivald
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• Death and Fromage, by Ian Moore (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Booked for Murder, by P.J. Nelson (Minotaur)
• Murder on Devil’s Pond, by Ayla Rose (Crooked Lane)
• The Treasure Hunters Club, by Tom Ryan (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Laura Lippman and John Sandford (aka John Roswell Camp) were already chosen as this year’s MWA Grand Masters, while the 2025 Raven Award will go to Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts, in El Dorado Hills, California. Peter Wolverton, executive editor and vice president of St. Martin’s Press, has picked up the 2025 Ellery Award.

Revue of Reviewers: 1-19-25

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

The Old Network Switcheroo Trick

The Spy Command’s Bill Koenig is better at remembering cultural anniversaries than I am, because he notes that this weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the debut of Get Smart. That 1965-1970 spy-comedy TV series, starring Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt, saw its NBC debut on September 18, 1965. Koenig recalls:

The show originally was developed for television network ABC. Comedic actor Tom Poston was intended to be the original Maxwell Smart. …

[It] would consist of a mix of James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry would take the basic idea and turn it into a pilot script.

There was one problem. At least one ABC executive hated the idea that the arch-villain, named Mr. Big, would be revealed as a dwarf.

The story goes that Mel Brooks was disappointed. An NBC executive saw Brooks at one of his Southern California hangouts. The NBC guy asked what was wrong. Brooks filled him in on the ABC debacle.

However, NBC had Don Adams under contract. The network was paying Adams (birth name Donald James Yarmy) until the comedic actor got a series. The NBC executive wanted to hear more about the spy project.

NBC commissioned a pilot, to be filmed after the so-called “pilot season.” Brooks and Henry retooled their script to incorporate Don Adams comedy bits such as, “Would you believe…?” …

In the final version of the pilot, Maxwell Smart punched into a time clock when going on assignment for Control, his agency. Brooks contributed the idea of the shoe phone. Henry contributed the “Cone of Silence,” [which was] intended as a security measure but instead made it hard just to have a conversation. (“What?”)

But, as Brooks and Henry intended, Mr. Big, the villain of KAOS (the villainous organization), was played by dwarf actor Michael Dunn. Dunn would soon be seen on The Wild Wild West as arch-villain Dr. Loveless.

Click here to read all of Koenig’s fine anniversary tribute.

Distractions for Disorderly Times

Over the last several months, I spent a goodly number of hours researching crime, mystery, and thriller novels scheduled for publication during this new year. Two thousand twenty-five may be a turbulent period, filled with political rancor, economic disruptions, and unjust deportations—at least here in the United States. If those predictions become reality, the need for escapes of the literary sort will be considerable. Fortunately, 2025 will ultimately give us new fiction from the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Carl Hiaasen, Val McDermid, S.A. Cosby, Samantha Downing, John Connolly, Denise Mina, Stephen King, and other notable contributors to this genre.

But, you ask, what can we look forward to in the near term?

Well, among the fresh offerings due to arrive in bookshops between now and March 30—on one side of the Atlantic or the other—are Walter Mosley’s third escapade for New York City private eye King Oliver (Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right) and Elly Griffith’s first entry in a new series about time-traveling “cold case” investigators (The Frozen People); John Farrow’s Bright Shining as the Sun, his 11th case for Quebec police detective Émile Cinq-Mars; Kristen Perrin’s How to Seal Your Fate, a sequel to last year’s How to Solve Your Own Murder; Max Allan Collins’ 14th posthumous collaboration with Mickey Spillane, Baby, It’s Murder, marking an end to the famous Mike Hammer series; Scott Turow’s third outing for conflicted prosecutor Rusty Sabich, Presumed Guilty; Victorian Psycho, Virginia Feito’s account of “a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance”; A Serpent in the Garden, the opening mystery in what promises to at least be a trilogy from Howard Linskey, set in late 16th-century England and testing the espionage skills of one William Shakespeare; Simon Mason’s A Voice in the Night, his fourth pairing of mismatched Oxford Detective Inspectors Ray and Ryan Wilkins; Barbara Nadel’s East Ham Golem, introducing a couple of London gumshoes in a story that involves a most-peculiar corpse gone missing from a Jewish cemetery; Hang On St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty’s eighth case for Northern Irish Detective Inspector Sean Duffy; and When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth, described as “a rom com gone rogue.”

In addition, these first three months of 2025 will give us reprints of classic crime yarns. Last year was abundant with such welcome reissues, and we can look forward to still more coming soon, including books by Cornell Woolrich, Ethel Lina White, and Anthony Berkeley. Oh, and we cannot forget about all the crime-related non-fiction on its way to store shelves. British writer Hallie Rubenhold, who penned a wonderful book about Jack the Ripper, 2019’s The Five, is back with a study of early 20th-century wife-murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen; and Nell Darby captivates us this month with her recollections of “the man who was once Britain's best-known private detective.”

The following list contains more than 425 books to watch for this season, covering a wide range of subgenres and storytelling styles. As usual, titles marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the remainder are novels or collections of short stories.

JANUARY (U.S.):
• Abduction of a Slave, by Dana Stabenow (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Ace, Marvel, Spy, by Jenni L. Walsh (Harper Muse)
• Agates Are Forever, by Logan Terret (SparkPress)
• Aurora Fragment, by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes (Severn River)
• Barracuda Bay, by Carmen Amato (Laurel & Croton)
• Beast of the North Woods, by Annelise Ryan (Berkley)
• Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
• Best House on the Block, by T.R. Ragan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
• The Big Empty, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation, by Michael Cannell (Minotaur)*
• Bronshtein in the Bronx, by Robert Littell (Soho Press)
• The Business Trip, by Jessie Garcia (St. Martin’s Press)
• Bye Bye Blackbird, by Elizabeth Crowens (Level Best/Historia)
• Chain Reaction, by James Byrne (Minotaur)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Pamela Dorman)
• Close Your Eyes, by Teresa Driscoll (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Crash, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Cross My Heart, by Megan Collins (Atria)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (Mira)
• Darkness Rising, by Chris Mullen (Wolfpack)
• Dead Money, by Jakob Kerr (Bantam)
• A Death in Diamonds, by S.J. Bennett (Crooked Lane)
• Deceived by the Light, by Damien Boyd (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Drowning Game, by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
• Eleanor and the Cold War, by Ellen Yardley (Kensington)
• Elita, by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (TriQuarterly)
• Empress Creed, by Tarris Marie (Kensington)
• Enigma Girl, by Henry Porter (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Family Inside, by Katie Garner (Mira)
• February Fever, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Fools Walk In / So Wicked My Love, by Bruno Fischer
(Stark House Press)
• The Forest of Lost Souls, by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Forger’s Requiem, by Bradford Morrow (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Forget Me Not, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• Gone Viral, by Mary Stone and Angela Kay (Independently published)
• Grave Danger, by James Grippando (Harper)
• Head Cases, by John McMahon (Minotaur)
• Her Prodigal Husband, by Becky Masterman (Severn House)
• Holmes Is Missing, by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (Little, Brown)
• In at the Death, by Judith Cutler
(Severn House)
• The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, by Vicki Delany (Crooked Lane)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Pamela Dorman)
• In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown’s Most Powerful Crime Boss, by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier (Citadel)*
• January Thaw, by Jess Lourey
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Johnny Careless, by Kevin Wade (Celadon)
• Karma Doll, by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland)
• The Katharina Code, by Jørn Lier Horst (Simon & Schuster)
• The Killer in the Cold, by Alex Pine (Avon)
• A Killer’s Code, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood, by Stacy Horn (Zando/Gillian Flynn)*
• The Last Room on the Left, by Leah Konen (Putnam)
• Leave No Trace, by Jo Callaghan (Random House)
• A Lethal Walk in Lakeland, by Nicholas George (Kensington Cozies)
• Loose Lips, by Kemper Donovan (John Scognamiglio)
• The Lost House, by Melissa Larsen (Minotaur)
• The Mailman, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Mysterious Press)
• Malma Station, by Alex Schulman (Pegasus Crime)
• Mask of the Deer Woman, by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)
• Murder by the Clock, by Rufus King (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Murder in the Dressing Room, by Holly Stars (Berkley)
• Murder on the Spanish Seas, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• My Bonney Lies Under, by Susan Cummins Miller (Artemesia)
• Mystery at the Station Hotel, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• The Naming of the Birds, by Paraic O’Donnell (Tin House)
• Never Blow a Kiss, by Lindsay Lovise (Forever)
• The Note, by Alafair Burke (Knopf)
• The Oligarch’s Daughter, by Joseph Finder (Harper)
• The Perfect Home, by Daniel Kenitz (Scribner)
• The Pot Thief Who Studied Calvin, by J. Michael Orenduff
(Open Road)
• Presumed Guilty, by Scott Turow (Grand Central)
• Pro Bono, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
• The Psychopath Next Door, by Mark Edwards (Thomas & Mercer)
• Queen of Diamonds, by Beezy Marsh (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Queen of Fives, by Alex Hay (Graydon House)
• The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, by Astrid Dahl
(Simon & Schuster)
• Rebellious Grace, by Jeri Westerson (Severn House)
• The Reunion, by M.J. Arlidge and Steph Broadribb
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• River of Lies, by James L’Etoile (Oceanview)
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder, by Matthew Pearl (Harper)*
• Schooled in Murder, by Victoria Gilbert (Crooked Lane)
• A Sea of Unspoken Things, by Adrienne Young (Delacorte Press)
• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story,
by Pagan Kennedy (Vintage)*
• See How They Hide, by Allison Brennan (Mira)
• A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, by Asia Mackay (Bantam)
• The Serpent Under, by Bonnie MacBird (Collins Crime Club)
• The Seven, by Robyn Delvey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• She Doesn’t Have a Clue, by Jenny Elder Moke (Minotaur)
• The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne, by Kate Winkler Dawson (Putnam)*
• The Stolen Queen, by Fiona Davis (Dutton)
• Strange Pictures, by Uketsu (HarperVia)
• The Suicides, by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB Classics)
• Sweet Fury, by Sash Bischoff (Simon & Schuster)
• Tell Me What You Did, by Carter Wilson (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Texas Murders, by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Little, Brown)
• They All Fall the Same, by Wes Browne (Crooked Lane)
• Track Her Down, by Melinda Leigh (Montlake)
• A True Verdict, by Robert Rotstein (Blackstone)
• Trust Issues, by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands (Dutton)
• Turnpike Confidential, by Neal Savage (Brandylane)
• Vantage Point, by Sara Sligar (MCD)
• A Voice in the Night, by Simon Mason (Mobius)
• We Are Watching, by Alison Gaylin (Morrow)
• Wicked Jenny, by Matt Hilton (Severn House)
• The Winter Visitor, by James Henry (Quercus)
• Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made, by Eric Dezenhall (Harper)*
• You Will Know Me by My Deeds, by Mike Cobb (Waterside)

JANUARY (UK):
• At the Bottom of the Garden, by Camilla Bruce (Magpie)
• The Antique Store Detective and the May Day Murder, by Clare
Chase (Bookouture)
• Being Dead Is Easy, by Louise Sharland (Bloodhound)
• Black Tag, by Simon Mayo (Bantam)
• The Bone Fire, by Martina Murphy (Constable)
• The Bone Garden, by Simon Beckett (Orion)
• The Bookseller, by Tim Sullivan (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Bridesmaid, by Cate Quinn (Orion)
• Britain’s Greatest Private Detective: The Rise and Fall of Henry Slater, by Nell Darby (Pen & Sword)*
• The Broken River, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
• The Case of the Christie Conspiracy, by Kelly Oliver (Boldwood)
• The Cleaner, by Mary Watson (Bantam)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Headline)
• A Cold Wind from Moscow, by Rory Clements (Zaffre)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (HQ)
• The Day of the Roaring, by Nina Bhadreshwar (Hemlock Press)
• Dead Man’s Shoes, by Marion Todd (Canelo Crime)
• Death Comes in Threes, by Michael Jecks (Severn House)
• Death in the Arctic, by Tom Hindle (Century)
• The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead, by Antony Johnston
(Allison & Busby)
• The Doll’s House, by Natasha Boydell (Boldwood)
• An Ethical Guide to Murder, by Jenny Morris (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Famous, by Blake Crouch (Macmillan)
• Final Victim, by Gregg Olsen (Bookouture)
• Gone to Earth, by Jane Jesmond (Verve)
• Helle’s Hound, by Oskar Jensen (Viper)
• The House with Nine Locks, by Philip Gray (Harvill Secker)
• The Husband, by Daniel Hurst (Bookouture)
• I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin, by Katy Brent (HQ Digital)
• Into Thin Air, by Ørjan Karlsson (Orenda)
• The Killing Sense, by Sam Blake (Corvus)
• The King’s Court Murders, by Ellis Blackwood (Vintage Mystery Press)
• The Lake, by Rachel McLean (Ackroyd)
• The Last Truths We Told, by Holly
Watt (Raven)
• Lie of the Land, by Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Salt)
• The Lighthouse Murders, by Rachel
McLean (Canelo Hera)
• The Little Girl in the Wardrobe, by C.J. Grayson (Joffe)
• Love You to Death, by Rowen Chambers (Inkubator)
• The Man She Married, by Alison Stockham (Boldwood)
• The Mother’s Phone Call, by Victoria Jenkins (Bookouture)
• The Mother’s Secret, by Karen Clarke (HQ Digital)
• Murder as a Fine Art, by Carol Carnac (British Library Crime Classics)
• Murder for Busy People, by Tony Parsons (Century)
• Murder Mindfully, by Karsten Dusse (Faber & Faber)
• Murder on the Marlow Belle, by Robert Thorogood (HQ)
• Nightingale & Co., by Charlotte Printz (Corylus)
• Notes on a Drowning, by Anna Sharpe (Orion)
• The Perfect Boyfriend, by S.E. Lynes (Bookouture)
• The Perfect Guest, by Casey Kelleher (Bookouture)
• The Real Death in Paradise: Mystery, Murder and Mayhem—A True Story of a British Detective Fighting Crime in the Caribbean, by Richard Preston (John Blake)*
• The Resurrectionist, by A. Rae Dunlap (HarperNorth)
• Revenge of the Deadly Dozen, by Peter Berry (Bloodhound)
• A Serpent in the Garden, by Howard Linskey (Canelo)
• The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey (Swift Press)
• The Silent House of Sleep, by Allan Gaw (Polygon)
• The Sister-in-Law, by Joanne Ryan (Boldwood)
• The Storyteller’s Daughter, by Victoria Scott (Boldwood)
• The Stranger in the Room, by Luca Veste (Hodder Paperbacks)
• The Student, by H.M. Lynn (Boldwood)
• Sweat, by Emma Healey (>Hutchinson Heinemann)
• The Time of the Fire, by Emma Kavanagh (Orion)
• Tommy the Bruce, by James Yorkston (Oldcastle)
• The Troubled Deep, by Rob Parker (Raven)
• Vanished, by M.A. Comley (Independently published)
• The Violinist’s Secret, by M.J. Hollows (HQ Digital)
• What Kind of Mother, by Anna-Lou Weatherley (Bookouture)
• The Wrong Daughter, by Dandy Smith (Embla)
• Your Child Next, by M.J. Arlidge and Andy Maslen (Orion)
• Wild Swimming, by G.R. Jordan (Carpetless)

FEBRUARY (U.S.):
• Acts of Murder: Murder in a Small Town, by L.R. Wright
(Classic Mayhem)
• Afraid to Death, by Marc Behm (Arcadia)
• After the Storm, by G.D. Wright (Avon)
• The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea, by C.L. Miller (Atria)
• The Ballad of the Great Value Boys, by Ken Harris (Black Rose)
• Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall, by David Hewson (Orion)
• Battle Mountain, by C.J. Box (Putnam)
• Beartooth, by Callan Wink (Spiegel & Grau)
• Because She Looked Away, by Alison Bruce (Constable)
• Big Name Fan, by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (Kensington)
• The Black Curtain, by Cornell Woolrich (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Blackout, by Ethel Lina White (Crippen & Landru)
• Blood Ties, by Jo Nesbø (Knopf)
• Bonded in Death, by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
• Boystown, by John Shannon (Unnamed Press)
• Bright Shining as the Sun, by John Farrow (Exile Editions)
• The Call, by Gavin Strawhan (A&U New Zealand)
• Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, by Lisa Unger (Park Row)
• Cold As Hell, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• The Contest, by Jeff Macfee (Datura)
• The Crime Brûlûe Bake Off, by Rebecca Connolly (Shadow Mountain)
• Dead Fall, by A.K. Turner (Zaffre)
• Dead in the Frame, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)
• Death of a Smuggler, by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green (Grand Central)
• Death Takes Me, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
• Death Upon a Star, by Amy Patricia Meade (Severn House)
• The Department, by Jacqueline Faber (Oceanview)
• The Dollhouse Academy, by Margarita Montimore (Flatiron)
• An Excellent Thing in a Woman, by Allison Montclair (Severn House)
• Fagin the Thief, by Allison Epstein (Doubleday)
• Faith of Their Fathers, by Samuel M. Sargeant (Neem Tree Press)
• Famous Last Words, by Gillian McAllister (Morrow)
• Fatal Crossing, by Lone Theils (Arcadia)
• The First Girl, by Claire McGowan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ghosts of Rome, by Joseph O’Connor (Europa Editions)
• A Girl Like Us, by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go to Funerals, by Sharon J. Mondragón (Kregel)
• The Harvard Murders, by Robert Mrazek (Compass Rose)
• Ice Town, by Will Dean (Hodder & Stoughton)
• I Died for Beauty, by Amanda
Flower (Berkley)
• Into the Fall, by Tamara L. Miller
(Thomas & Mercer)
• An Island of Suspects, by Jean-Luc Bannalec (Minotaur)
• A Killing Cold, by Kate Alice Marshall (Flatiron)
• The Killing Plains, by Sherry Rankin (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Last Hamilton, by Jenn Bregman (Crooked Lane)
• Leo, by Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight, by Sara Gran (Dreamland)
• Little Vic and the Great Mafia War, by Larry McShane (Citadel)*
• A Long Time Gone, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
• March of Crimes, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Medici Return, by Steve Berry (Grand Central)
• Midnight Black, by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
• The Midwives, by Anna Schofield (HarperNorth)
• Murder in an Irish Garden, by Carlene O’Connor (Kensington Cozies)
• Nemesis, by Gregg Hurwitz (Minotaur)
• The Next Deadly Chapter, by V.M. Burns (Kensington Cozies)
• No Comfort for the Dead, by R.P. O’Donnell (Crooked Lane)
• Notes on Surviving the Fire, by Christine Murphy (Knopf)
• Nothing Ever Happens Here, by Seraphina Nova Glass
(Graydon House)
• Not Our Daughter, by Chad Zunker (Thomas & Mercer)
• Not Who We Expected, by Lisa Black (Kensington)
• One Minute More, by Robert Rotenberg (Simon & Schuster)
• Open Season, by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
• Oromay, by Baalu Girma (Soho Press)
• Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son, by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex (La Trobe University Press)*
• Paranoia, by James Patterson and James O. Born (Little, Brown)
• Partners in Crime, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Prey, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
• The Profiler, by Helen Fields (Avon)
• Pursued by Death, by Gunnar Staalesen (Orenda)
• The Queens of Crime, by Marie Benedict (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Quiet Librarian, by Allen Eskens (Mulholland)
• Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets, by Christopher
Farnsworth (Putnam)
• The Ruins, by Steve Wick (Pegasus Crime)
• Runaway Horses, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
(Bitter Lemon Press)
• Saint of the Narrows Street, by William Boyle (Soho Crime)
• The Second Grave, by Jeffrey B. Burton (Severn House)
• Secret Places, by Don Stuart (Epicenter Press)
• Shoot the Moon, by Ava Barry (Pegasus Crime)
• Sierra Bravo, by Les Roberts (Down & Out)
• A Slant of Light, by Kathryn Lasky (Severn House)
• A Slash of Emerald, by Patrice McDonough (Kensington)
• Smoke on the Water, by Loren D. Estleman (Forge)
• Someone from the Past, by Margot Bennett (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Something in the Walls, by Daisy Pearce (Minotaur)
• Spoiler’s Prey, by Robin Blake (Severn House)
• Stone Certainty, by Simon R. Green (Severn House)
• Their Shadows Deep, by Peter Golden (Lake Union)
• This Violent Heart, by Heather Levy (Montlake)
• Treasure Coast, by James Foley (Black Rose)
• Two Weddings and a Murder, by Alyssa Maxwell (Kensington)
• Unshackled, by Amanda DuBois (Flashpoint)
• Untouchable, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Victorian Psycho, by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
• We Don’t Talk About Emma, by J.D. Barker and E.J. Findorff (Hampton Creek Press)
• We Would Never, by Tova Mirvis (Avid Reader Press)
• Whiteout, by R.S. Burnett (Crooked Lane)
• Within the Circle, by Arne Dahl (Crooked Lane)
• With Love, Marjorie Ann, by Marcia Talley (Crippen & Landru)
• The Wolf Tree, by Laura McCluskey (Putnam)
• You Are Fatally Invited, by Ande
Pliego (Bantam)

FEBRUARY (UK):
• Belsay, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt (Ultimo Press)
• The Daughter, by T.M. Logan (Zaffre)
• Death on Ice, by R.O. Thorp (Faber & Faber)
• Declared Dead, by James Craig (Constable)
• Dirty Money, by Charlotte Philby (Baskerville)
• The East Ham Golem, by Barbara Nadel (Allison & Busby)
• The Enemy Within, by Rob Sinclair (Boldwood)
• The Frozen People, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• Gangland, by Jessie Keane (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Garden Club Murders, by Jonathan Whitelaw (HarperNorth)
• Give Him to Me, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review)
• The Glass House, by Rachel Donohue (Corvus)
• The Grave in the Ice, by Satu Rämö (Zaffre)
• Here Lie the Dead, by J.D. Kirk (Canelo Crime)
• The Hidden Dead, by Tracy Whitwell (Pan)
• How to Seal Your Fate, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)
• How to Slay on Holiday, by Sarah Bonner (Boldwood)
• The Impossible Thing, by Belinda Bauer (Bantam)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Century)
• In the Shadows, by Anna Smith (Quercus)
• Line of Sight, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Little Red Death, by A.K. Benedict (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Making a Killing, by Cara Hunter (Hemlock Press)
• Memorial Park, by Louisa Scarr (Canelo Crime)
• Mrs. Hudson and the Capricorn Incident, by Martin Davies
(Allison & Busby)
• Murder at the Orpheus Theatre, by Irena Shapiro (Storm)
• Murder in the Tuscan Hills, by T.A. Williams (Boldwood)
• Murder of an Oxford Scientist, by Fiona Veitch Smith (Embla)
• One Came Back, by Rose McDonagh (Trapeze)
• One Man Down, by Alex Pearl (Roundfire)
• One True Word, by Snæbjörn Arngrímsson (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Only Murders in the Abbey, by Beth Cowan-Erskine (Hodder)
• Other People’s Houses, by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
• Pagans, by James Alistair Henry (Moonflower)
• The Perfect Mother, by Claire Allan (Boldwood)
• The Quiet Wife, by Diane Saxon (Boldwood)
• A Scandal Has Wings, by Graham Donnelly (Book Guild)
• Scythe & Sparrow, by Brynne Weaver (Piatkus)
• Seven Lively Suspects, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• The Spiral Staircase, by Ethel Lina White (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Stolen Child, by Carmel Harrington (Headline Review)
• The Stolen Heart, by Andrey Kurkov (MacLehose Press)
• The Surf House, by Lucy Clarke (HarperCollins)
• The Ten Teacups, by Carter Dickson (British Library Crime Classics)
• That’ll Teach Her, by Maz Evans (Headline)
• To Pay the Ferryman, by Pat Black (Polygon)
• The Uninvited Guest, by Ruby Speechley (Boldwood)
• Wolf Six, by Alex Shaw (Boldwood)
• The Wonders of Doctor Bent, by Paul Crawford (Cranthorpe Millner)

MARCH (U.S.):
• Accidents Happen, by F.H. Batacan (Soho Crime)
• Allegro, by Ariel Dorfman (Other Press)
• All the Other Mothers Hate Me, by Sarah Harman (Putnam)
• Ambush, by Colleen Coble (Thomas Nelson)
• The Angel Deception, by David Leadbeater (Avon)
• April Fools, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Backfire / Never Kill a Cop! & Other True Crime Stories, by Charles L. Burgess (Stark House Press)
• Baby, It’s Murder, by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (Titan)
• The Banker, by Peter Colt (Severn House)
• The Beijing Betrayal, by Joel C.
Rosenberg (Tyndale)
• The Big Fix, by Holly James (Kensington)
• Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective’s Obsession, and ’90s Los Angeles at the Brink, by Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough (Mulholland)*
• Blood Moon, by Sandra Brown
(Grand Central)
• The Boxcar Librarian, by Brianna
Labuskes (Morrow)
• Broken Fields, by Marcie Rendon (Soho Crime)
• The Butterfly Trap, by Clea Simon (Severn House)
• The Cambridge Siren, by Jim Kelly (Allison & Busby)
• The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck, by Tarquin Hall (Severn House)
• The Case of the Lonely Accountant, by Simon Mason (Quercus)
• Cat’s Claw, by Dolores Hitchens (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• City of Destruction, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Claire, Darling, by Callie Kazumi (Bantam)
• Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz (NYRB Classics)
• Count My Lies, by Sophie Stava (Gallery/Scout Press)
• Dead Man’s List, by Karen Rose (Berkley)
• Death at the Playhouses, by Stuart Douglas (Titan)
• Don’t Tell Me How to Die, by Marshall Karp (Blackstone)
• The Evening Shades, by Lee Martin (Melville House)
• Every Day a Little Death: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Stephen Sondheim, edited by Josh Pachter (Level Short)
• Everyone Is Lying, by D.E. White (Storm)
• Fear Stalks the Village, by Ethel Lina White (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave, by Elle Cosimano (Minotaur)
• The Four Queens of Crime, by Rosanne Limoncelli (Crooked Lane)
• Friends Helping Friends, by Patrick Hoffman (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Galway’s Edge, by Ken Bruen (Mysterious Press)
• The Get-Off, by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
• The Gift, by Sebastian Fitzek (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Girl Anonymous, by Christina Dodd (Canary Street Press)
• Girl Falling, by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
• The Girl from Greenwich Street, by Lauren Willig (Morrow)
• Glory Daze, by Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus Crime)
• The Golden State Killer Case, by William Thorp (Crime Ink)*
• Hang On St. Christopher, by Adrian McKinty (Blackstone)
• The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, by Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies (McFarland)*
• The Hellcat / The Lady is Transparent / The Dumdum Murder, by Carter Brown Stark House Press)
• Homicide in the Indian Hills, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Kensington)
• Human Scale, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
• If It Isn’t One Thing …, by Steven F. Havill (Severn House)
• I Would Die for You, by Sandie Jones (Minotaur)
• Killer Potential, by Hannah Deitch (Morrow)
• Kills Well With Others, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• The Last Days of Kira Mullen, by Nicci French (Morrow)
• The Last One to See Him, by Kathryn Croft (Bookouture)
• The Last Visitor, by Martin Griffin (Pegasus Crime)
• Lethal Prey, by John Sandford (Putnam)
• The Library Game, by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur)
• Living Is a Problem, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• The Man Who Swore He’d Never Go Home Again, by David Handler (Mysterious Press)
• The Memory Ward, by Jon Bassoff (Blackstone)
• Midnight Streets, by Phil Lecomber (Titan)
• A Mother’s Love, by Sara Blaedel (Dutton)
• Mr. Whisper, by Andrew Mayne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Murder of a Recluse, by Jeanne M. Dams (Severn House)
• A Murder in Zion, by Nicole Maggi (Oceanview)
• My Sister’s Shadow, by January Gilchrist (Crooked Lane)
• No. 10 Doyers Street, by Radha Vatsal (Level Best/Historia)
• Nobody’s Fool, by Harlan Coben (Grand Central)
• Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging, by Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown (Verse Chorus Press)
• One Bullet Away, by Dale M. Nelson (Severn River)
• The Other People, by C.B. Everett (Atria)
• Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club, edited by Martin Edwards (Severn House)
• Play with Fire, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder, by Bellamy Rose
(Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen (Scribner)*
• The Reluctant Sheriff, by Chris Offutt (Grove Press)
• Retreat, by Krysten Ritter (Harper)
• Sacramento Noir, edited by John Freeman (Atria)
• Saltwater, by Katy Hays (Ballantine)
• The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne, by Ron Currie (Putnam)
• A Scandalous Affair, by Leonard Goldberg (Pegasus Crime)
• Serial Killer Support Group, by Saratoga Schaefer (Crooked Lane)
• Silent as the Grave, by Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles (Minotaur)
• The Socialite’s Guide to Sleuthing and Secrets, by S.K. Golden (Crooked Lane)
• The Summer Guests, by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Switcheroo, by Emmett McDowell (Stark House Press/Black Gat)
• The Ten Worst People in New York, by Matt Plass (Crooked Lane)
• This Book Will Bury Me, by Ashley Winstead (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco, by Gary Krist (Crown)*
• The Trouble Up North, by Travis Mulhauser (Grand Central)
• Tunnel Vision, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• Twice as Dead, by Harry Turtledove (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy)
• The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, by Emily Critchley
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Unlucky Ones, by Hannah Morrissey (Minotaur)
• Vanishing Daughters, by Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Vanishing Kind, by Alice Henderson (Morrow)
• Victim, by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• What She’s Hiding, by Art Bell (Ulysses Press)
• Where the Bones Lie, by Nick Kolakowski (Datura)
• White King, by Juan Gómez-Jurado (Minotaur)
• Witness 8, by Steve Cavanagh (Atria)
• The Writer, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker (Little, Brown)
• You Deserve to Know, by Aggie Blum Thompson (Forge)
• You Killed Me First, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)

MARCH (UK):
• Acts of Malice, by Alex Gray (Sphere)
• A Brush with Death, by J.M. Hall (Avon)
• The Bureau, by Eoin McNamee (Riverrun)
• The Burial Place, by Stig Abell (Hemlock Press)
• The Collaborators, by Michael Idov (Simon & Schuster UK)
• A Convenient Traitor, by Adrian Magson (Independently published)
• The Corpse Played Dead, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• The Crime Writer, by Diane Jeffrey (HQ Digital)
• Date With Destiny, by Julia Chapman (Pan)
• Death and the Harlot, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Death at the White Hart, by Chris Chibnall (Michael Joseph)
• A Death in Berlin, by Simon Scarrow (Headline)
• Death on the Adriatic, by Georgina Stewart (Constable)
• Everyone in the Group Chat Dies, by L.M. Chilton (Head of
Zeus/Aries)
• A Fortune Most Fatal, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
• The Friday Girl, by R.D. McLean (Black & White)
• The Grapevine, by Kate Kemp (Phoenix)
• Her Sister’s Killer, by Mari Hannah (Orion)
• His Truth, Her Truth, by Noelle Holten
(One More Chapter)
• Hollow Grave, by Kate Webb (Quercus)
• Hunkeler’s Secret, by Hansjoerg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Lost Man’s Lane, by Scott Carson
(Free Press)
• Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread, by Lynn Knight (Bantam)
• The Mouthless Dead, by Anthony
Quinn (Abacus)
• Murder at the Palace, by N.R. Daws (Orion)
• My Husband’s Mistress, by Willow Rose (Bookouture)
• No. 2 Whitehall Court, by Alan Judd (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Not to Be Taken, by Anthony Berkeley (British Library Crime Classics)
• Paperboy, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Rest Is Death, by James Oswald (Wildfire)
• The Secret Detective Agency, by Helena Dixon (Bookouture)
• The Shadow, by Ajay Chowdhury (Harvill Secker)
• Sick to Death, by Chris Bridges (Avon)
• Smoke and Silk, by Fiona Keating (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Someone Is Lying, by Heidi Perks (Penguin)
• Son, by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• A Spy at War, by Charles Beaumont (Canelo Action)
• Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Doctor Crippen, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)*
• 10 Marchfield Square, by Nicola Whyte (Raven)
• There Came A-Tapping, by Andrea Carter (Constable)
• A Trial in Three Acts, by Guy Morpuss (Viper)
• A Troubled Tide, by Lynne McEwan (Canelo Crime)
• Ward D, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Wedding Vow, by Dandy Smith (Embla)
• When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth (Avon)
• When Shadows Fall, by Neil Lancaster (HQ Digital)
• The Whitechapel Widow, by Emily Organ (Storm)

Nobody’s perfect, and that includes me. There’s every chance I neglected some significant work of crime, mystery, or thriller fiction when putting together this extensive catalogue. If you’re aware of one that should definitely be considered, please don’t hesitate to let us all know about it in the post’s Comments section. I shall continue to update this list through February.