Brighter Days Bring Bounteous Diversions

That woman shown above, reading in a sunny lavender field, looks so relaxed—I wish I felt the same way. But the political horror show unfolding in Washington, D.C., is undermining my faith in the future, and is having a deleterious effect on my concentration. On top of that, I feel quite overwhelmed by books right now, both those I received last year and failed to address in anything approaching a timely fashion, and all of the 2025 releases destined to appear erelong.

Updating and extending the register of coming attractions I posted in January, I came up with more than 380 intriguing-looking crime, mystery, and thriller titles due out—on one side of the Atlantic or the other—between March 1 and May 31. Among the authors of those novels are a wealth of familiar names: Abigail Dean, Gerald Seymour, Lynda La Plante, David Baldacci, Anne Hillerman, Denzil Meyrick, Catherine Ryan Howard, Michael Connelly, Catriona McPherson, John Connolly, Nita Prose, Andrey Kurkov, Christa Faust, Carl Hiaasen, Harlan Coben, Sarah Pinborough, Linwood Barclay, and Stuart MacBride.

Well-timed in the wake of Los Angeles’ devastating fires comes Lee Goldberg’s Hidden in Smoke, which finds his arson investigators, Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, on the hunt for a serial torcher of apartment buildings. S.J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee are back with The Railway Conspiracy (the first sequel to last year’s The Murder of Mr. Ma), in which Judge Dee Ren Jie—an updated version of the fictional Tang Dynasty Judge Dee—and his Watson-like sidekick, self-effacing academic Lao She, seek to foil a nefarious stratagem connecting Imperial Russia, Japan, and China. And the discovery, in Jo Callaghan’s forthcoming Human Remains, of a headless and handless corpse on a farm in Warwickshire, England, kicks off a yarn that sees Detective Chief Superintendent Kat Frank accused of misidentifying a multiple murderer from years ago, and her partner, AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, having to stretch beyond the limits of his determined logic to make sense of it all.

In Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz returns to the trouble-fraught world of Susan Ryeland (Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders), who has ditched her Greek island existence (and her Greek inamorato) in favor of a return to London, and is now editing an Atticus Pünd continuation novel that may hold clues to the alleged poisoning death of a fabled children’s author. Catherine Ryan Howard spins the tale of a ghostwriter, in Burn After Reading, who becomes increasingly doubtful about the innocence of her subject, a world-class cyclist suspected of offing his spouse and setting their house afire in order to cover it up. The funeral of Velda Sterling, Mike Hammer’s secretary turned partner turned wife, leaves the now-aged New York City gumshoe reminiscing about his efforts in the 1970s to save her kid sister from drugs and other bad choices in Baby, It’s Murder, the gritty final collaboration between Max Allan Collins and the late Mickey Spillane. Finally, I must mention Simon Scarrow’s A Death in Berlin, the third outing for his World War II-era cop, Inspector Horst Schenke, who is tasked this time with probing a high-profile underworld slaying that may expose links between Berlin’s criminal class and the upper echelons of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.

When it comes to classic reprints, watch for works by the likes of Dolores Hitchens, Carter Brown, Christianna Brand, and C. Daly King. Additionally, there’s a trio of standouts this spring in the field of crime non-fiction: Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies’ scrupulous history of David Janssen’s 1970s private series, Harry O; Hallie Rubenhold’s The Story of a Murder, about early 20th-century wife murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen; and the American edition of Kate Summerscale’s grim account of postwar London strangler Reg Christie, who concealed his victims inside the walls of his Notting Hill rowhouse.

The inventory below of new or still-awaited books covers a wide range of stories and storytelling styles available within this genre. As is my custom, I’ve marked non-fiction releases with asterisks (*); the remainder are novels or collections of short fiction.

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)
• Baby, It’s Murder, by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (Titan)
• Backfire / Never Kill a Cop! & Other True Crime Stories, by Charles L. Burgess
(Stark House Press)
• 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 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)
• Bad Blood, by Sarah Hornsley (Hodder & Stoughton)
• A Brush with Death, by J.M. Hall (Avon)
• The Bureau, by Eoin McNamee (Riverrun)
• The Burial Place, by Stig Abell (Hemlock Press)
• The Cambridge Siren, by Jim Kelly (Allison & Busby)
• 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)

APRIL (U.S.):
• Bitterfrost, by Bryan Gruley (Severn House)
• Booked for Revenge, by Karen Rose Smith (Kensington Cozies)
• Chow Maniac, by Vivien Chien (Minotaur)
• The Cleveland John Doe Case, by Thibault Raisse (Crime Ink)
• Cold Burn, by A.J. Landau (Minotaur)
• Come Home to Death, by John Creasey (Open Road Media)
• Coram House, by Bailey Seybolt (Atria)
• Dark Rising, by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson (Blackstone)
• Death in the Dressing Room, by Simon Brett (Severn House)
• The Death of Us, by Abigail Dean (Viking)
• Desperate Deadly Widows, by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, and Vanessa Lillie (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner, by Douglas Waller (Dutton)*
• A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
• Easeful Death, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (Severn House)
• Fair Play, by Louise Hegarty (Harper)
• Fall to Pieces, by Douglas Corleone (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Fashionably French Murder, by Colleen Cambridge (Kensington)
• Follow Me, by Elizabeth Rose Quinn (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Fourth Girl, by Wendy Corsi Staub (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Gatsby Gambit, by Claire Anderson-Wheeler (Viking)
• Hard Town, by Adam Plantinga (Grand Central)
• Heartwood, by Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)
• Hello, Juliet, by Samantha M. Bailey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Hidden in Smoke, by Lee Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• How to Seal Your Own Fate, by Kristen Perrin (Dutton)
• Hunkeler’s Secret, by Hansjörg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press)
• If Two Are Dead, by Rick Mofina (Mira)
• Impact of Evidence, by Carol Carnac (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Impossible Thing, by Belinda Bauer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Influencers, by Anna-Marie McLemore (Dial Press)
• Karma Never Sleeps, by R. John Dingle (Tule)
• The Last Session, by Julia Bartz (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Mademoiselle Alliance, by Natasha Lester (Ballantine)
• The Maid’s Secret, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
• The Matchmaker, by Aisha Saeed (Bantam)
• Murder at Gulls Nest, by Jess Kidd (Atria)
• Murder by Cheesecake, by Rachel Ekstrom Courage (Hyperion Avenue)
• Murder Runs in the Family, by Tamara Berry (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Murder Show, by Matt
Goldman (Forge)
• The Museum Detective, by Maha
Khan Phillips (Soho Crime)
• No Precious Truth, by Chris Nickson
(Severn House)
• Not Dead Yet, by Jeffrey Siger (Severn House)
• Novel Threat, by Traci Hunter Abramson (Shadow Mountain)
• Obelists en Route, by C. Daly King (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• One Death at a Time, by Abbi Waxman (Berkley)
• OverKill, by J.A. Jance (Gallery)
• The People Next Door, by Kate Braithwaite (Lume)
• The Perfect Divorce, by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)
• Perspective(s), by Laurent Binet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Proof of My Innocence, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions)
• A Proposal to Die For, by Molly Harper (Berkley)
• The Railway Conspiracy, by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J.
Rozan (Soho Crime)
• Remote: The Six, by Eric Rickstad (Blackstone)
• Ruth Run, by Elizabeth Kaufman (Penguin Press)
• Season of Death, by Will Thomas (Minotaur)
• Shadow of the Solstice, by Anne Hillerman (Harper)
• Smoke and Murders, by J.L. Blackhurst (HQ)
• A Song for Katy Shayne, by Jim Fusilli (Level Best)
• Splintered Justice, by Kim Hays (Seventh Street)
• Splintered Reeds, by Jodie Cain Smith (Aethon)
• Strangers in Time, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
• This Is Not a Game, by Kelly Mullen (Dutton)
• To Catch a Thief, by David Dodge (Poisoned Pen Press)
• To Catch a Spy, by Mark O’Neill (Poisoned Pen Press)
• 2 Sisters Murder Investigations, by James Patterson and Candice
Fox (Little, Brown)
• The Vinyl Detective: Underscore, by Andrew Cartmel (Titan)
• An Unquiet Peace, by Shaina Steinberg (Kensington)
• Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), by Jesse Q.
Sutanto (Berkley)
• Vice and Virtue, by Libby Klein (Kensington)
• Waters of Destruction, by Leslie Karst (Severn House)
• When She Was Gone, by Sara Foster (Blackstone)
• Who Will Remember, by C.S. Harris (Berkley)
• Written in Stone, by Paige Shelton (Minotaur)
• Your Steps on the Stairs, by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Other Press)

​APRIL (UK):
• All the Other Mothers Hate Me, by Sarah Harman (Fourth Estate)
• Black Water Rising, by Sean Watkin (Canelo Crime)
• Bone of Contention, by Blake Mara (Simon & Schuster UK)
• A Boy Called Saul, by Fiona Cummins (Pan)
• The Boyfriend, by John Nicholl (Boldwood)
• Burn After Reading, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Bantam)
• Burying Jericho, by William Hussey (Zaffre)
• Carved in Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Castle, by John Sutherland (Orion)
• Crossfire, by Wilbur Smith with David Churchill (Zaffre)
• Crucified, by Lynda La Plante (Zaffre)
• The Dark Edge, by Nick Louth (Canelo Crime)
• The Dead City, by Michael Russell (Constable)
• Death of an Englishman, by Anna
Beer (Book Guild)
• Death on Dartmoor Edge, by Stephanie Austin (Allison & Busby)
• The Devil’s Code, by Michael Wood
(One More Chapter)
• Don’t Believe a Word, by Susan
Lewis (HarperCollins)
• Don’t Trust Him, by Karen
King (Bookouture)
• A Duty of Care, by Gerald Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Earth to Earth: Lives and Violent Deaths of a Devon Farming Family: A True Crime Classic Revisited, by John Cornwell (Riverrun)*
• The Edinburgh Murders, by Catriona McPherson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Final Wife, by Jenny Blackhurst (Canelo Suspense)
• Fortress of Evil, by Javier Cercas (MacLehose Press)
• How to Read a Killer’s Mind, by Tam Barnett (Boldwood)
• Human Remains, by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
• I Found a Body, by Becky C. Brynolf (Black & White)
• In Service of Death, by J.D. Kirk (Canelo Crime)
• Isolation Ward, by Martine Bailey (Allison & Busby)
• The Lake House, by Helen Phifer (HQ Digital)
• Landfall, by James Bradley (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Liar, by Louise Jensen (HQ)
• Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse, by Simon Brett (Constable)
• The Margaret Code, by Richard Hooton (Sphere)
• The Midnight King, by Tariq Ashkanani (Viper)
• Mirage, by Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus (Hemlock Press)
• Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kaur (HQ)
• The Missing Hour, by Robert Rutherford (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Mistake, by M.J. Arlidge and Lisa Hall (Orion)
• The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, by Allan Gaw (Polygon)
• Murder at St. Paul’s Cathedral, by Jim Eldridge (Allison & Busby)
• Murder on Bluebell Hill, by Jane Bettany (HQ Digital)
• Murder on Line One, by Jeremy Vine (HarperCollins)
• My Loving Husband, by Sheryl Browne (Bookouture)
• Nine Hidden Lives, by Robert Gold (Sphere)
• One Dark Summer, by Saskia Sarginson (Boldwood)
• One Less Snake, by Rhys Dylan (Wyrmwood)
• The Penthouse, by Catherine Cooper (HarperCollins)
• Scandalize My Name, by Fiona Sinclair (British Library Crime Classics)
• The Second Wife, by Alex Kane (Canelo Hera)
• The Secret Room, by Jane Casey (Hemlock Press)
• Sleeper Beach, by Nick Harkaway (Corsair)
• Suspicion, by Seichō Matsumoto (Penguin Classics)
• Sweet Fury, by Sash Bischoff (Bantam)
• There Will Be Bodies, by Lindsey Davis (Hodder & Stoughton)
• This Is Not a Game, by Kelly Mullen (Century)
• To Read a Killer’s Mind, by Tam Barnett (Boldwood)
• The Venetian Heretic, by Christian Cameron (Orion)
• Viper in the Nest, by Georgina
Clarke (Verve)

​MAY (U.S.):
• After Pearl, by Stephen G. Eoannou
(Santa Fe Writer’s Project)
• Big Bad Wool, by Leonie Swann
(Soho Crime)
• The Birthday Party, by Shalini Boland (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Boomerang, by Robert Bailey
(Thomas & Mercer)
• The Busybody Book Club, by Freya Sampson (Berkley)
• The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark (Hell’s Hundred)
• The Children of Eve, by John Connolly (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Dark Maestro, by Brendan Slocumb (Doubleday)
• A Dead Draw, by Robert Dugoni (Thomas & Mercer)
• Death at a Highland Wedding, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• Death on the Caldera, by Emily Paxman (Titan)
• The Doorman, by Chris Pavone (MCD)
• An Ethical Guide to Murder, by Jenny Morris (Mira)
• FDR Drive, by James Comey (Mysterious Press)
• Fever Beach, by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
• Girls with Long Shadows, by Tennessee Hill (Harper)
• Going Home in the Dark, by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Gravedigger’s Almanac, by Oliver Pötzsch (HarperVia)
• Her Final Battle, by Mary Slinkard (Keylight)
• Julia Chan Is Dead, by Liann Zhang (Raven)
• Kaua‘i Storm, by Tori Eldridge (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Labyrinth House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin, by Alison Goodman (Berkley)
• The Language of the Birds, by K.A. Merson (Ballantine)
• The Lizard, by Domenic Stansberry (Molotov Editions)
• Making a Killing, by Cara Hunter (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Man Made of Smoke, by Alex North (Celadon)
• Marble Hall Murders, by Anthony Horowitz (Harper)
• Marguerite by the Lake, by Mary Dixie Carter (Minotaur)
• Midnight in Soap Lake, by Matthew Sullivan (Hanover Square Press)
• The Missing Half, by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester (Bantam)
• The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern, by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• Never Flinch, by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Nightshade, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding, by Catherine
Mack (Minotaur)
• One in Four, by Lucinda Berry (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ones We Love, by Anna Snoekstra (Dutton)
• Our Last Wild Days, by Anna Bailey (Atria)
• Parents Weekend, by Alex Finlay (Minotaur)
• The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Press)*
• The Poet’s Game, by Paul Vidich (Pegasus Crime)
• Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business, by Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter (Pantheon)
• The Retirement Plan, by Sue
Hincenbergs (Morrow)
• Return to Sender, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
• Rockets’ Red Glare, by William Webster and Dick Lochte (Blackstone)
• The Safari, by Jaclyn Goldis (Atria/
Emily Bestler)
• The Silversmith’s Puzzle, by Nev
March (Minotaur)
• Skin and Bones, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Slaying You, by Michelle Gagnon (Putnam)
• Smoke and Embers, by John Lawton (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Smokebirds, by Daniel Breyer (Rare Bird)
• The Soho Murder, by Mike Hollow (Allison & Busby)
• Something I Keep Upstairs, by J.D. Barker (Hampton Creek Press)
• South of Nowhere, by Jeffery Deaver (Putnam)
• The Stalker, by Paula Bomer (Soho Press)
• The Stolen Heart, by Andrey Kurkov (HarperVia)
• Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming, by Ian Fleming (Morrow)*
• The Tenant, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Thousand Natural Shocks, by Omar Hussain (Blackstone)
• We Live Here Now, by Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron)
• Whistle, by Linwood Barclay (Morrow)

​MAY (UK):
• Bad Influence, by C.J. Wrap (Orion)
• Capital Christie, by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
• Cat and Mouse, by Christianna Brand (British Library Crime Classics)
• The Chemist, by A.A. Dhand (HQ)
• The Cliffhanger, by Emily Freud (Quercus)
• Cold Justice, by Leigh Russell (No Exit Press)
• Count My Lies, by Sophie Stava (Century)
• Dead Water, by Simon Toyne (Hemlock Press)
• The Devil’s Playbook, by Markus Heitz (Arcadia)
• Exit Wounds, by Neil Broadfoot (Constable)
• The Girl in Cell A, by Vaseem Khan (‎Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Golden Age of Murder, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
• Innocent Guilt, by Remi Kone (Quercus)
• It Should Have Been You, by Andrea Mara (Bantam)
• Last Orders, by Denzil Meyrick (Bantam)
• A Lethal Cocktail, by Ciar Byrne (Headline Accent)
• The Marriage Rule, by Helen Monks Takhar (Random House)
• Murder at the Ponte Vecchio, by T.A. Williams (Boldwood)
• Murder in the House of Omari, by Taku Ashibe (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The One You Least Suspect, by Brian McGilloway (Constable)
• Private Dublin, by James Patterson and Adam Hamdy (Century)
• Red Water, by Jurica Pavičić (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Secrets in St. Ives, by Deborah Fowler (Allison & Busby)
• A Sharp Scratch, by Heather Darwent (Viking)
• The Spy and the Devil: The Untold Story of the MI6 Agent Who Penetrated Hitler’s Inner Circle, by Tim Willasey-Wilsey (Blink)*
• Such Quiet Girls, by Noelle Ihli (Pan)
• The Sunshine Man, by Emma Stonex (Picador)
• This House of Burning Bones, by Stuart MacBride (Macmillan)
• The Tradwife’s Secret, by Liane Child (HQ Digital)
• Traitor’s Legacy, by S.J. Parris (Hemlock Press)
• The Wood, by Rachel McLean and John Hames (Ackroyd)

While those are certainly not all of the crime, mystery, thriller, and suspense books slated for publication this spring, they’re all I have for the time being. I’ll continue adding to these selections as time goes on and I learn more. If you already believe I have missed something, please let me know in the Comments section below.