Well, after severe time pressures this last spring compelled me to limit my list of forthcoming crime, mystery, and thriller works to U.S.-published titles alone, I’m finally back with a fresh assortment of both American and British works due out over the next three months. And what a seasonal selection it is: more than 400 books long!
I’ve tried to include something to satisfy most reading tastes within this genre. Everything from James Ellroy’s Red Sheet, his latest criminal roller-coaster ride for corrupt Los Angeles private investigator Freddy Otash, to Jess Kidd’s Murder at the Spirit Lodge, which brings back feisty former nun Nora Breen (introduced in last year’s Murder at Gull’s Nest); from Jurica Pavičić’s Mother of Sorrows, a striking story of war, murder, and their respective consequences in Croatia, to Karen Odden’s An Artful Dodge, about a notorious all-female gang of thieves in 1870s London, one member of which hopes to foil the machinations of her vengeful ringleader; and from Abir Mukherjee’s new standalone thriller, The Pinnacle, giving us a past-his-prime American actor struggling to escape blame for the slaying of his Bollywood-star spouse, to Hilary Davidson’s Every Lie I Told, the head-spinning tale of a public-relations fixer determined to protect her younger sister from blame in the deaths of sexually abusive men. Gary Phillips earns a place in this rundown with a heist thriller, The Haul, said to be his homage to Donald E. Westlake’s famous Parker series. UK actress and author Catherine Steadman shows up with her psychological suspense novel Nine Lives (that title acknowledging how a Persian cat kicks off her plot). Donna Moore makes the cut with Knit One, Heist One, just the first of several compelling stories here that involve gray-haired protagonists. And Linwood Barclay delivers a “chilling” yarn, Not a Word, built around a guy who discovers his aged parents dead in their bed, possible murder-suicide victims … but probably not.
Oh, and I should not forget to highlight a Cold War-era nail-biter, Skring Water, begun by Louis L-Amour (yes, that Louis L’Amour) in the late 1950s and completed more recently by his son, Beau.
Literary Hub predicts that horror fiction will make the biggest publishing splash this summer, but crime has at least as much to offer. Clare Mackintosh, Martin Edwards, Isabella Maldonado, Freida McFadden, Lee Goldberg, and John Connolly all have novels appearing between now and September 1, as do Daniel Silva, Jennifer Hillier, Steve Cavanagh, Lindsey Davis, Chris Chibnall, Sophie Hannah, Rory Clements, and Shari Lapena. Keep an eye
peeled as well for the debut of Charles Cumming’s Icarus 7, the fourth installment in his Box 88 series; George Pelecanos’ The Blue Flame, the long-awaited sixth case for Washington, D.C., gumshoe Derek Strange; Asia Mackay’s “rollicking” Self-Help for Serial Killers; Ron Currie’s We Will See You Bleed, his sequel to 2025’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne; Dervla McTiernan’s Three Reasons for Revenge, focusing on ostensibly unrelated people endangered by someone possessing secrets from their pasts; Killer Art, a whodunit featuring academics determined to solve a fellow professor’s murder, penned by “Jon St. Denis” (aka J. Sydney Jones); and The Tailor, Tim Sullivan’s eighth outing for that brilliant but autistic Bristol police detective, George Cross. Even several wordsmiths not commonly associated with this field have mysteries in the offing, notably Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Russo, and Amy Bloom.In addition to its deluge of brand-new tales, the list below mentions a variety of reprints worth your time by authors such as Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Stanley Ellin, and the sadly forgotten French writer Hélène Bessette. Plus, I’ve included some works of crime non-fiction (identified with asterisks), one of them a biography of 20th-century “mob accountant” Meyer Lansky, put together in part by his grandson.
JUNE (U.S.):
• The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne, by Darcie Wilde (Kensington)
• The Adventures of Juan Planchard, by Jonathan Jakubowicz
(Grand Central)
• An Artful Dodge, by Karen Odden (Soho Crime)
• The Au Pair, by Teddy Wayne (Harper)
• Backstabbers, by Eliza Jabore (Bantam)
• Based on a True Story, by Sarah Vaughan (Harper)
• Beach Thriller, by Jamie Day (St. Martin’s Press)
• Big Money, Small Town, by Thomas E. Ricks (Pegasus Crime)
• Birds of Prey: New Crime Stories, edited by Harlan Coben and C.J. Box (Mysterious Press)
• A Bitter Cut, by Anna Lee Huber (Berkley)
• Blood on Old Stones, by Alex Gray (Sphere)
• Blood River Witch, by T.J. Martinson (Counterpoint)
• Blunt Instrument, by Amy Blood (Mysterious Press)
• Bone Horn, by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain (Soft Skull)
• The Bone Stalker, by Victor Methos (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Bookseller, by Tim Sullivan (Atlantic Crime)
• A Botanist’s Guide to Tradition and Treachery, by Kate Khavari (Crooked Lane)
• The Break-Up Retreat, by Camilla Sten (Minotaur)
• Broadcast Murder, by J.G. Colgan (Independently published)
• The Butler, by Clare Mackintosh (Podium)
• But Not Foreclosed, by BJ Bourg (Death Shadow Press)
• Cause of Death: Rock and Roll, by Big Boy Pete (Stark House Press)
• Choke Point, by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Clock House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Complications Always Ensue: A Collection of Essays on Heist, Caper, and Confidence Jobs in Books, Movies, and Television, by Paul
Bishop (Genius)*
• The Confession Artist, by Christine Carbo (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Dangerous Stranger, by Simon Mason (Hachette Mobius)
• Death at the Castle Gates, by Nick Oldham (Severn House)
• Death Do Us, by Ruthy Mason (Union Square)
• Death on the Lanai, by Rachel Ekstrom Courage (Hyperion Avenue)
• Death Was Not on the Guest List, by Jenni L. Walsh
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Declan, by Anne Emery (ECW Press)
• The Disaster Gay Detective Agency, by Lev AC Rosen
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Dogwalkers’ Detective Agency, by Michael Hogan (Pegasus Crime)
• The Driftwood Bones, by Peter Colt (Thomas & Mercer)
• An Ending on Elliott Bay, by D.D. Black (Independently published)
• Every Lie I Told, by Hilary Davidson (Blackstone)
• Exit Wound, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield, by Claudia Gray (Vintage)
• Fear the Reaper, by David Housewright (Minotaur)
• Feast, by Catherine Kurtz (Berkley)
• The Fervent Whites, by De’Shawn Charles Winslow (One World)
• The Fire Agent, by David Baerwald (Spiegel & Grau)
• Florentine Finish, by Cornelius Hirschberg (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Forty-Year Grudge, by Liza Tully (Berkley)
• The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Debutante Detective, by Bruce Rule (Titan)
• The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes III, by Caiden Cooper Myles (MX)
• The Girl on the Beach, by Carol Snow (Crooked Lane)
• The Grapevine, by Alexandra Sokoloff and Craig Robertson (Blackstone)
• Great White, by Richard Helms
(Barbadoes Hall)
• Heather, by Caitlin Mullen (Celadon)
• Hemlock Bay, by Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen Press)
• It’s About Time, by Carol J. Perry (Kensington Cozies)
• The Last Boundary, by Dave Stanton (Vinci)
• Her Last Breath, by M.J. Arlidge and Alex Khan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Housemaid’s Wedding, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Housewife, by Natalie Barelli (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Hysteria, by LJ Ross (Poisoned Pen Press)
• I Did a Bad Thing, by Louise Jensen (HQ)
• The Inconvenient Corpse / Murder in Haste, by Elizabeth Fenwick (Stark House Press)
• It Could Have Been Her, by Lisa Jewell (Atria)
• Keep Them Close, by David Ellis (Putnam)
• Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution, by Katherine Grandjean (Random House)*
• The Last Time We Drowned, by Saratoga Schaefer (Cosmo Reads)
• The Last Time We Saw Her, by Jaclyn Goldis (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Long Con, by Jenna Voris (Dial Press)
• Lovers XXX, by Allie Rowbottom (Soho Press)
• Man of My Dreams, by Olivia Worley (Minotaur)
• The Man Who Led a Dream Life, by David Handler (Mysterious Press)
• The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, by Matthew Campbell (Portfolio)*
• Marion, by Leah Rowan (St. Martin’s Press)
• Midnight Patriots, by Paul Levine (Nittany Valley)
• Midnight Ridge, by Rita Herron (Bookouture)
• Missing in Soho, by Holly Stars (Berkley)
• A Morbid Passion, by Robert Holtom (Titan)
• Murder and Mayheim, by Ronica Black and Toni Logan (Bold Strokes)
• Murder and the Missing Treasure, by C.J. Archer (C.J. Archer)
• Murder at the Spirit Lounge, by Jess Kidd (Atria)
• Murder by Design, by Lee Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Murder in Springtime, by Martin Walker (Knopf)
• The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo, by Angela Buckley (Shad Thames Press)*
• My Twin the Murderer, by Lindsay Kent (BookBaby)
• Names Have Been Changed, by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
(Tiny Reparations)
• Nasty Little Secrets, by Gabbie Hanks (Zando)
• The Neighbors Are Watching, by Aggie Blum Thompson (Minotaur)
• Nine Lives, by Catherine Steadman (Bantam)
• No Solace for the Wicked, by Nancy Herriman (Beyond the Page)
• Obstetrix, by Naomi Kritzer (Tordotcom)
• 138 Main, by Gavin Bell (Gallery/Scout Press)
• Our Marriage Is Murder, by Carol Goodman (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Pact, by Lisa Walker (HQ Digital)
• A Pair of Aces, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher
Murray (Berkley)
• The Pinnacle, by Abir Mukherjee (Little, Brown)
• Played to Death, by Mike Ripley (Severn House)
• Poppy Montgomery Gets Even, by Gordon Jack (Mysterious Press)
• Pour Choices, by Adrian Andover (Chestnut Avenue Press)
• The Probability of Murder, by J.D. Barker and Patrick Logan (Hampton Creek Press)
• A Rage of Desire, by Clayton Matthews (Stark House Press)
• Reaper, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
• Red Sheet, by James Ellroy (Knopf)
• Rescue Me, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Swallow Press)
• Restless Bones, by Gillian French (Minotaur)
• A River Red With Blood, by John Connolly (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Road Longer Than Memory, by Melanie McCabe (Oceanview)
• Rocket’s Red Glare, by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann (Little, Brown)• Rules for Aging and Larceny, by Julia London (Kensington)
• Sandbar Sinister, by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• Scandalize My Name, by Fiona Sinclair (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Secret Attic, by Chelsea Conradt (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Secret Thread, by Eve Chase (Ballantine)
• Self-Help for Serial Killers, by Asia Mackay (Bantam)
• Sex on Murder Island, by Jo Firestone (Bantam)
• The Shark, by Emma Styles (Pegasus Crime)
• She Walks at Night, by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Skyring Water, by Louis L'Amour and Beau L'Amour (Bantam)
• Somebody Worth Killing, by Jessica Payne (Berkley)
• Someone Else’s Husband, by Kimberly McCreight (Knopf)
• Some Sort of Justice, by Peter Grainger (Union Square)
• The Spin, by Faith Gardner (Mirror House Press)
• Staged, by Caitlin Rother (Thomas & Mercer)
• Storm Tide, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Strangers Behind Closed Doors, by Catherine Adel West (Park Row)
• Stuart Woods’ Deep Water, by Brett Battles (Putnam)
• Summer’s Never Over, by Darby Bozeman (Berkley)
• Sweet Spot, by Kemper Donovan (John Scognamiglio)
• Teach the Torches to Burn, by Christina Dodd (John Scognamiglio)
• Tell Your Friends, by Lauren Wilson (Pine & Cedar)
• There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, by Rasheed Newson (Flatiron)
• Three Hitmen and a Baby, by Rob Hart (Putnam)
• A Twist in the River, by Stig Abell (Harper Perennial)
• Two Missing Girls, by Kerry Wilkinson (Bookouture)
• Vale of Tears, by David Mark (Severn House)
• Valley of the Moms, by Hannah Selinger (Little, Brown)
• Wait and See, by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen (Grand Central)
• Waves of Burden, by Curtis Ippolito (Rock & a Hard Place Press)
• What Goes Around, by Debra Webb (Thomas & Mercer)
• What the World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach, edited by Martin Edwards (Level Short)
• While We Were Silent, by Alex Myers (Severn House)
• Whisper Creek, by Allison Brennan (Minotaur)
• Wish Upon a Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by Fairy Tales, edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson (Level Short)
• The Writers Retreat, by Victoria Brownlee (Affirm Press)
• You First, by Caroline Kepnes (Random House)
• You Girls Play Nice, by K.D. Aldyn (Poisoned Pen Press)
JUNE (UK):
• Actually, I’m a Corpse, by Terry Deary (Constable)
• Against the Tide, by G.D. Wright (Avon)
• All of Them Lied, by Gill Perdue (Sandycove)
• Bad Deeds, by Andrew Hunter Murray (Hutchinson Heinemann)
• Bad Influence, by Will Carver (Orenda)
• Blood Root, by Jill Johnson (Black & White)
• The Case of the Christie Wedding Affair, by Kelly Oliver (Boldwood)
• A Dangerous Justice, by John Pilkington (Boldwood)
• Darling Bud, by C.J. Skuse (HQ Digital)
• Death and Déjà Vu, by Ian Moore (Farrago)
• Death by Noir, by Olly Smith (Baskerville)
• Death on the Pearl River, by A.E. Goldin (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Death Row Club, by V.A. Vazquez (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Deception, by Jack Jordan (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Defence, by Rob Rinder (Century)
• Dirt Road Dead, by TG Reid (Glass Work Press)
• Fake Out Make Out, by Kate Williams (Ink Road)
• Fellow Creatures, by Emma Lowther (Quercus)
• The Gardens, by Emma Babbington (HQ Digital)
• The Girl on Floor 29, by D.E. White (Boldwood)
• A Girl’s Girl, by Emma Robertson (Zaffre)
• Grave Intent, by Sarah Ward (Canelo Crime)
• Keep You Safe, by Rona Halsall (Boldwood)
• A Killer Plot, by E.C. Nevin (Zaffre)
• The Kill Switch, by Robert Peston (Zaffre)
• Liar Liar, by Luca Veste (Avon)
• The Long Isle, by Andrew Raymond (Vinci)
• The Mayan Betrayal, by Lex Faulkner (Boldwood)
• Mother of Sorrows, by Jurica Pavičić (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Murder at Canterbury Cathedral, by Jim Eldridge (Allison & Busby)• Murder at St. Alfred’s, by Julie
Wassmer (Constable)
• Murder on the Red River, by Marcie
Rendon (Viper)
• Murder on the Upper East Side, by Gigi Waldorf (Simon & Schuster UK)
• My Sister’s Secret, by Jane Corry (Penguin)
• No Way Out, by Max Connor (HQ Digital)
• One of the Family, by Mark Edwards (Michael Joseph)
• The Pinnacle, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill)
• The Propaganda Murders, by Lynn Brittney (Iris)
• Puzzles of the Parish: Short Tales of Ministers, Murder and Mystery, edited by Martin Edwards (British Library)
• Relatively Guilty, by William McIntyre (Vinci)
• Rich Little Liars, by A.J. Carter (Boldwood)
• Run for Your Life, by Jackie Kabler (One More Chapter)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Aeronauts, by Linda Stratmann (Sapere)
• Solitary Agents, by David Goodman (Headline)
• The Teacher’s Pet, by M.A. Hunter (Boldwood)
• The Tembusu Tree Mystery, by Ovidia Yu (Constable)
• Two Little Liars, by Michelle Harrison (No Exit Press)
• Veil of Secrets, by Rachel McLean (Ackroyd)
• We Know What You Did, by Kirsty Lockwood (Orion)
JULY (U.S.):
• Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery, by Nancy West (Adams Media)*
• All Aboard for Murder, by Ellen Byron (Kensington Cozies)
• Backtrack, by Marc Cameron (Kensington)
• Beach Blonde Betrayal, by Elaine Viets (Severn House)
• The Beginning of Everything, by Charles Salzberg (Regalo Press)
• Buyer Beware, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Simon & Schuster)
• Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, by Pamela Colloff (Knopf)*
• City of Promises, by Victoria Thompson (Berkley)
• The Cloak and Dagger Club, by Jackie McMahon (Berkley)
• Cloudthief, by Nathaniel Rich (MCD)
• Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• The Corpse with the Steely Gaze, by Cathy Ace (Four Tails)
• Country Christie: Country Tales from the Queen of Mystery, by Agatha Christie (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Country Road Murders, by James Patterson and Mike
Lupica (Little, Brown)
• Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die, by Mallory Arnold (Poisoned
Pen Press)
• Cyanide in the Sun: And Other Stories of Summertime Crime, edited by Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Dark Path and Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories, by Linda Castillo (Minotaur)
• The Date, by T.H. Murdock (Thomas & Mercer)
• Deadly Does It, by Abbi Waxman (Berkley)
• Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch, by David Rosenfelt (Minotaur)
• Death at King’s Cross, by Rosanne Limoncelli (Crooked Lane)
• A Death in the Deluge, by Brian Thiem (Severn River)
• The Death Row Club, by V.A. Vazquez (Gallery/Scout Press)
• The Delivery, by Gregg Hurwitz (Thomas & Mercer)
• Desert Heist, by Alex Dekker (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Don’t Look Away, by Daniel Kenitz (Scribner)
• The English Speakers, by Agatha Zaza (Datura)
• Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
• Furious Violet, by Sarai Walker (Harper)
• Get Lost, by Justin Halpern (Cardinal)
• Getting Away with Murder, by Shari Lapena (Pamela Dorman)
• Golden Age Suspense Stories, edited by Otto Penzler (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• The Great Game, by Arvind Ethan David (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Haul, by Gary Phillips (Soho Crime)
• Helpless, by Jessica Knoll (Scribner)
• Hidden Strangers, by Minka Kent (Thomas & Mercer)
• Hot Girl Murder Club, by Ashley Winstead (Minotaur)
• Houdini: The Man Who Died Twice, by Larrian Gillespie
(Cipher House)*
• The House Without the Door, by Elizabeth Daly (Classic Mayhem)
• How to Kill a Crime Writer, by Sarah Lotz (Berkley)
• Icarus 17, by Charles Cumming (Mysterious Press)
• If Books Could Kill, by Kate Eberle (Penguin)
• The Intrigue, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Intruder, by Adriane Leigh (Podium)
• January and July, by Jeff Abbott (Blackstone)
• Killer Vibes, by Jack Friday (Minotaur)
• Lady X, by Molly Fader (Ballantine)
• The Lansky Legacy: The Life and Letters of Meyer Lansky, by Meyer Lansky II and S.J. Peddie (Citadel)*
• Last Night Was Killer, by Mary Pauline Lowry (Morrow)
• The Last to Drown, by Noelle Ihli (Dynamite)
• The Man, by Laura Sims (Putnam)
• The Masala Chai Mystery Club, by MJ Soni (Crooked Lane)
• McKenna’s Guy, by Mike Lawson (Blackstone)
• The Mortal Enemy Murder Club, by Gloria Chao (Park Row)• The Mortons, by Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld (Pamela Dorman)
• Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hide a Body, by Jennifer Holdich (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Murder in Purple and Gold, by Lindsey Davis (Severn House)
• Murder in the Crooked House, by Soji Shimada (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Murder on Devil’s Ridge, by Irina
Shapiro (Storm)
• The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts, by Robert Thorogood
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Neighbor’s Guide to Murder, by Louise Candlish (Grand Central)
• The Next Lie, by Camden Baird (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Night Hunter, by Natalie Moss (Berkley)
• The Novel Detective, by Teresa Dovalpage (Soho Crime)
• One Bad Deed, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Our Marriage Is Murder, by Carol Goodman (Morrow)
• The Paris Chase, by David Lewis (John Scognamiglio)
• The Parisian Heist, by Jo Piazza (Dutton)
• Payback, by Lawrence Light (Severn House)
• Perfect Life, by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores (Bantam)
• The Prank, by James W Ziskin (Level Best/Historia)
• A Quiet Place, by Seichō Matsumoto (Modern Library)
• Ransom, by Daniel Silva (Harper)
• Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils, by Sandra Jackson-
Opoku (Minotaur)
• Scary Movie Night, by Miranda Smith (Bantam)
• The Season of Sinking, by Daphne Woolsoncroft (Grand Central)
• The Shadow Step, by Mark Billingham (Atlantic Crime)
• Shrink Solves Murder, by Philippa Perry (Crown)
• Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska, by Rebecca Wright Stevens (Counterpoint)*
• The Spy and the Snake, by M.J. Robotham (Aria)
• Street of the Lost, by David Goodis (Stark House Press)
• Sweet and Deadly, by Verne Chute (Stark House Press)
• Sycamore Gap, by LJ Ross (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Talking Bone, by Rene Denfeld (Harper)
• Tenderness, by Rowan Beaird (Flatiron)
• This Changes Everything, by Lisa Scottoline (Grand Central)
• Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain: Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and The Bobby Gold Stories, by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury)
• Three Reasons for Revenge, by Dervla McTiernan (Morrow)
• Throw Away the Key, by Jason M. Hough (Crooked Lane)
• Traitors, by Robert B. McCaw (Norton)
• Twenty Minutes of Silence, by Hélène Bessette (New Directions)
• Unreliable Narrator, by Araminta Hall (Putnam)
• A Voice in the Dark, by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
• We Will See You Bleed, by Ron Currie (Putnam)
• What Happens in the Dark, by Kia Abdullah (HQ)
• Wisdom Corner, by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco)
JULY (UK):
• All Killers Aboard, by David Fennell (Orion)
• Better the Devil, by JD Kirk (Canelo Crime)
• Blood Caste, by Shylashri Shankar (Canelo Crime)
• Blood Enemy, by Douglas Jackson (Canelo)
• Broken Ranks, by Andrew Raymond (Vinci)
• The Burning Fears, by Katy Massey (Sphere)
• The Burning Tide, by William Shaw (Hemlock Press)
• The Child, by Mandasue Heller (Orion)
• The Cliff’s Edge Murders, by Priscilla Masters (Joffe)
• The Cornish Honeymoon Murder, by Fiona Leitch (One More Chapter)
• Death on a Lively Sea, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• Deception, by Alan Parks (Baskerville)
• Deliverance, by Saima Mir (Point Blank)
• The Depths, by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Eden Falls, by Ajay Chowdhury (Harvill)
• Everything She Didn’t Say, by Jane Casey (Hemlock Press)
• The Eyewitness, by Naomi Williams (Headline)
• The Family Break, by Ruth Irons (Zaffre)
• A Fatal Legacy, by Charlotte Vassell (Faber & Faber)
• Final Weeks, by Mel Sherratt (Independently published)
• From Murder with Love, by M.R.G.
Davies (One More Chapter)
• From the Shadows, by G.R. Halliday
(Point Blank)
• Hide and Seek, by Chris Carter (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The High Island, by Lin Anderson (Macmillan)
• The Hotel Manager’s Guide to Murder, by Erlendur Arason (Blekverk)
• In Deep Water, by Elle Blair (HQ Digital)
• A Killer in Paradise, by Tom Hindle (Penguin)
• A Killing in Lagos, by Amen Alonge (Quercus)
• The Kingpin, by A.A. Dhand (HQ)
• Kingsland, by Michael Steward (Independently published)
• The Llanelli Town Murders, by Stephen Puleston
(Independently published)
• Mad Mabel, by Sally Hepworth (Macmillan)
• The Madman, by Henning Mankell (Mountain Leopard Press)
• The Magic-Lantern Murders, by Carter Dickson (British Library)
• The Makoto Murders, by Richard Jerram (Titan)
• The Mermaid’s Cry, by Kate Rhodes (Orenda)
• Miss Hortense and the Last Rites, by Mel Pennant (Baskerville)
• The Missing Dead, by J.M. Dalgliesh (Penguin)
• Murder at the End of the World, by Akane Araki (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Never to Be Found, by Jo Spain (Zaffre)
• The Night Stairs, by Erin Kelly (Harvill)
• One Dark Summer, by Sarah Hornsley (Hodder & Stoughton)
• One of Us Is Guilty, by Steve Cavanagh (Headline)
• Out of the Ashes, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• The Outsider, by Valerie Keogh (Boldwood)
• The Parkwood Murders, by Chris Chibnall (Michael Joseph)
• The Saffron Thief, by T.L. Mogford (HarperCollins)
• Shadow of Madness, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
• The Summer We Lied, by Rebecca Hardy (Raven)
• Tell Tale, by Claire Parkin (Macmillan)
• Then She Lied, by Alice Leigh (Canelo Crime)
• A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing, by Emily Midorikawa
(Manilla Press)
• Vanished, by Ruby Speechley (Boldwood)
• The Venetian Redemption, by Philip Gwynne Jones (Constable)
• A Very French Corpse, by Ian Moore (Duckworth)
• The Violent Hour, by James Oswald (Wildfire)
• What the Dying See, by MJ Lee (Canelo Crime)
• When You Looked Away, by S.M. Govett (Michael Joseph)
• The Woman Who Wasn’t There, by William Hussey (Zaffre)
• Wrecked, by Tony Black (AEOS/NoirZ)
AUGUST (U.S.):
• All We Hide, by Robyn Gigl (Soho Crime)
• The Amateur, by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday)
• And Then There Were Bun, by Vivien Chien (Minotaur)
• Bad Intentions, by Iliana Xander (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Black Shield: An American Memoir of Family and Power, by Wilbert L. Cooper (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)*
• Blood and Fame: The Intersecting Lives of Roman Polanski & Charles Manson, by Peter Rowe (Crime Ink)*
• Blood, Rust, and Steel, by Stuart MacBride (Macmillan UK)
• The Blue Flame, by George Pelecanos (Cardinal)
• The Bravest Hour, by Anna Lee Huber (Kensington)
• Brimstone Hollow, by Archer Sullivan (Minotaur)
• The Butcher Legacy, by Alaina Urquhart (Zando)
• The Castle in the Glen, by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union)
• The Camino, by Anya Niewierra (Simon & Schuster)
• Cat and Mouse: A Mystery in Wales, by Christianna Brand (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Children of Wolves, by Lawrence Osborne (S&S/Summit)
• Clean Slate, by Brianna Labuskes
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Crescendo, by Robert J. Harris
(Pegasus Crime)
• The Crying Killer, by Jess Lourey
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Dark Harbor, by Bruce Robert Coffin (Severn River)
• Death at a Scottish Halloween, by Lucy Connelly (Crooked Lane)
• Deceptions, by Jeffery Deaver (Putnam)
• Delusional, by James Patterson and James O. Born (Little, Brown)
• Don’t Cross Mo Ellery, by Birdie Horne (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Enigma Challenge, by S.C. Godfrey (Pamela Dorman)
• The Five of Us, by Sian Gilbert (Blackstone)
• For Services Rendered, by Will Thomas (Minotaur)
• Freight, by Ryan Lowell (Little, Brown)
• Fruit Fly, by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane)
• God’s Country, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
• Heart of Glass, by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur)
• Illicit Still, by William McIntyre (Vinci)
• The Interpreter’s Secret, by Andrew Rosenheim (No Exit Press)
• Killer Art, by Jon St. Denis (Crooked Lane)
• Kill Zone, by Dan Ames (Independently published)
• Liars in Paradise, by Olesya Lyuzna (Mysterious Press)
• Maisy Bell Is Missing, by Kirsty Manning (Vintage)
• Miss Morton Takes the Waters, by Catherine Lloyd (Kensington)
• Murder at Rosecliff, by Alyssa Maxwell (Kensington)
• Murder in Blackfriars, by Jennifer Ashley (Berkley)
• My Inner Child Wants to Kill, by Karsten Dusse (Soho Crime)
• My Sister Is Going to Kill Me, by Nina Simon (Morrow)
• Nearshore, by Steve Hawk (Viking)
• Nelly’s Version, by Eva Figes (Dalkey Archive Press)
• No Higher Ground, by Nicole Brooks (Blackstone)
• No Rest for the Wicked, by Kat Anderson (Koehler)
• Not a Word, by Linwood Barclay (Morrow)
• One Good Eye, by Kevin Wade (Celadon)
• The One Who Walked Away, by Karen Rose (Berkley)
• The Opposite of Murder, by Sophie Hannah (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Poker Wars: Murder, Mayhem, and the Bloody History that Led to the World Series of Poker, by Philip Guitar and Jim Martyka
(Crooked Lane)*
• Post Mortem, by David Lagercrantz (Knopf)
• Probable Caws, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• The Queen of Florida, by Jeff Bercuson (ECW Press)
• The Secret Dinner, by Raphael Montes (Celadon)
• The Secrets We Hide, by Karin Slaughter (Morrow)
• The Shadow Friends, by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Silent Appeal, by Janice Hallett (Atria)
• Sisters at an Exhibition, by Claudia Hagadus Long (Sibylline Press)
• The Sleeping Sisters, by Jennifer Givhan (Little, Brown)
• A Stranger in Corfu, by Alex Preston (Pegasus Crime)
• The Strangers, by Ryan David Jahn (Blackstone)
• Strip Rules, by Martin Limón (Soho Crime)
• Surviving the Lie, by James Queally (Counterpoint)
• The Tailor, by Tim Sullivan (Atlantic Crime)
• A Taste for Murder, by Matt Baker (Crooked Lane)
• They Say a Girl Died Here, by Sarah Pinborough (Pine & Cedar)
• A Thief’s Folly, by Jeanne M. Dams (Severn House)
• Time to Burn, by Ellery Lloyd (Harper)
• To All the Men I’ve Killed Before, by Katy Brent (HQ Digital)
• Toulouse Noir, edited by Charles-Henri Lavielle (Akashic)
• The Tragedy of Y, by Ellery Queen (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Under the Falls, by Richard Russo (Knopf)
• The Unknown, by Riley Sager (Dutton)
• Virgin Islands Noir, edited by Tiphanie Yanique and Richard
Georges (Akashic)
• The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die Quietly, by Katarina Bivald
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Women in White, by Sarah Pekkanen (St. Martin’s Press)
• You Know Why, by J.T. Ellison (Thomas & Mercer)
• You’ll Be Sorry, by Lisa Gardner (Grand Central)
AUGUST (UK):
• Agrippa, by Robert Harris (Hutchinson Heinemann)
• The Best of Enemies, by Julie Mae Cohen (Zaffre)
• Bookish, Volume II, by Matthew Sweet (Quercus)
• The British Agent, by Simon Conway (Michael Joseph)
• The Chapel of Bones, by Kate Ellis (Constable)
• City of Traitors, by Alex Gerlis (Canelo)
• Claws Out! by Bella Mackie (Borough Press)• Codename: 61, by Alex Shaw (Boldwood)
• Death Writ Large, by Susie Dent (Zaffre)
• Eyes on You, by Adele Parks (HQ)
• The Facts of Death, by Raymond Benson (Ian Fleming)
• Faculty of Liars, by R.L. Heber
(Point Blank)
• The Farmhouse Killings, by Wes Markin (Boldwood)
• A Fatal Love, by Louisa Treger (Bloomsbury)
• Freyja, by Margrét Ann Thors (Zaffre)
• Ghost Notes, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• The Husband I Buried, by Maryann Webb (Embla)
• I Know What I Saw, by Kathryn Croft (Headline)
• Invitation from a Dictator, by Rory Clements (Viking)
• The Killer’s Mark, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
• Killer Twist, by Jo Furniss (Zaffre)
• Knit One, Heist One, by Donna Moore (No Exit Press)
• Maybe Tomorrow, by Michael Wood (One More Chapter)
• The Millionaire Waltz, by Anthony Quinn (Abacus)
• Murder at Clover Farm, by Jane Bettany (HQ Digital)
• The New Wife, by Gemma Rogers (Boldwood)
• The Party at No. 5, by Shelley Smith (British Library)
• Robert B. Parker’s Big Shot, by Christopher Farnsworth
(No Exit Press)
• The Samurai Detectives: The Man in the Mist, by Shotaro
Ikenami (Penguin)
• A Shroud of Snow, by Sarah Hawkswood (Allison & Busby)
• We Tell Lies, by K.L. Slater (Michael Joseph)
• The Wythenshawe Dandy, by S. J. Galbraith (Salt)
I should note, as I traditionally do with these lists, that this is not a comprehensive collection of crime, mystery, and thriller works reaching print this season. It is representative of what will become available on both sides of the Atlantic. If you know of other superior releases I have missed, I encourage you to mention them in this post’s Comments section. It’s hardly unheard of for me to lengthen these compilations, if I learn later about other books of interest.
