Read Away This May Day

Today being May Day—yet another chance to applaud summer’s imminent arrival—Janet Rudolph has posted an updated list of crime fiction linked to the occasion. Everything from Octavus Roy Cohen’s The May Day Mystery and Anna Castle’s The Case of the Tangled Maypole to Wayne Hancock’s 30 Days in May and May Day in Magadan, by Anthony Olcott. She’s also inventoried mysteries that feature Morris dances, which are often performed at May Day events.

If you’re looking for still more ideas of what to read as the weather turns warmer (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), look to The Rap Sheet’s updated selections of crime, mystery, and thriller works due out from now until the start of June. Since that post went up in March, more than a dozen titles have been added, including Neil Albert’s Death in November (the 11th installment in his series about Philadelphia private eye Dave Garrett), Sara Foster’s debut psychological thriller, Come Back to Me, and Holy F*ck, Joseph Incardona’s tale of a saintly hooker targeted by twin contract killers. Learn about those and many more releases by clicking here.