So Much Crime for the Summertime

Philip Marlowe is heading back to Los Angeles’ mean streets. Over the more than half a dozen decades since Raymond Chandler released Playback (1958), his seventh and final novel featuring the wisecracking private eye, Marlowe has undertaken a handful of investigations brought his way by other authors. Robert B. Parker initially revived him for Poodle Springs (1989), and followed that up with Perchance to Dream (1991). “Benjamin Black,” aka John Banville, trotted him out to help an alluring young perfume heiress track down her missing paramour in The Black-Eyed Blonde, a 2014 novel adapted to film as Marlowe (2022), starring Liam Neeson. In Only to Sleep (2018), Lawrence Osborne imagined an older but no luckier Marlowe living in Mexico and probing the “accidental” swimming death of a debt-ridden con man/developer. And in last year’s The Goodbye Coast, Joe Ide time-warped Chandler’s gumshoe into modern-day L.A., where he sought the overindulged stepdaughter of a Hollywood filmmaker, a task he undertook with help from his alcoholic ex-cop father.

Now comes Scottish author Denise Mina, the first woman to put Philip Marlowe through his fictional paces. In The Second Murderer—due for publication in Britain in mid-July, and in the States come the start of August—she dispatches the lonely shamus in search of Chrissie Montgomery, a naïve 22-year-old socialite due to inherit a fortune … and perhaps not wishing to be located. He’s joined in this quest by Anne Riordan, a woman to whom we were introduced in Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely (1940), and who’s since established her own rival sleuthing agency. Publishers Weekly gives this 1940s-set yarn an avid thumbs-up, opining that “On top of nailing Chandler’s atmospherics (‘Out on Santa Monica the heat was oiling up from the ground. Dust whipped past us on a spiteful breeze;), Mina delivers a truly surprising plot.”

Every season, there are two or three new crime novels I most look forward to reading, and Mina’s The Second Murderer is on the top of my list for the coming summer months. I already have an advance reader copy waiting in my office for attention, though I’ve so far resisted cracking it open, because there are so many other books in this genre scheduled for release on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean before August.

Among those treats are fresh works by the likes of S.A. Cosby, Ruth Ware, Reed Farrel Coleman, Ann Cleeves, Martin Walker, Naomi Hirahara, Linwood Barclay, Julia Heaberlin, Greg Iles, Sarah Hilary, Vaseem Khan, Laura Lippman, and Steve Cavanagh. You can also anticipate finding Lawrence Block’s “autobiography” of his fictional gumshoe, Matt Scudder; a historical whodunit penned by Ragnar Jónasson and Iceland’s 28th prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdóttir; Richard North Patterson’s latest and previously much-rejected legal thriller; a Georgian-era mystery from Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Daughters of Night) starring a high-society fortune teller; Northern Irish writer Adrian McKinty’s seventh novel headlined by Belfast Detective Inspector Sean Duffy; Swedish author Karin Smirnoff’s debut installment in the Lisbeth Salander series, created by Stieg Larsson; a brand-new Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin story by Robert Goldsborough; and the U.S. publication of Andrew Taylor’s The Shadows of London, his sixth 17th-century thriller starring Cat Hakesby (née Lovett) and James Marwood. Expected to appear in short order, as well, are retitled reprints of Edward Marston’s two architect Merlin Richards mysteries, backdropped by the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, plus other reissues from John Wyndham, Christina Koning, John Dickson Carr, Christianna Brand, Jacques Futrelle, and Eric Ambler.

The extensive inventory below, containing works of interest to crime, mystery, and thriller readers, lists more than 425 titles! That’s certainly not all of what can be expected from this genre during the coming three summer months. However, it represents what I hope is a cross-section of books that will soon become available. If you are aware of other notable English-language releases due out this season, but that are not mentioned here, please let me know.

As usual, books marked with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction, while the rest are novels or collections of short stories.

JUNE (U.S.):
• All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel (Knopf)*
• The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder, by Lawrence Block
(LB Productions)
• Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Because the Night, by James D.F. Hannah (Down & Out)
• Before She Finds Me, by Heather Chavez (Mulholland)
• Blind Man’s Bluff, by Baynard Kendrick (>American Mystery Classics)
• Blonde Bait, by Stephen Marlowe (Black Gat/Stark House Press)
• The Bone Riddle, by Sara E. Johnson (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality, by Kate Khavari
(Crooked Lane)
• The Bucharest Legacy, by William Maz (Oceanview)
• Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective, by Katie Siegel (Kensington)
• The Close, by Jane Casey (HarperCollins)
• Code of the Hills, by Chris Offutt (Grove Press)
• Constable Country, by Catherine Aird (Allison & Busby)
• Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964, by Chris Alexander (Headpress)*
• The Couples Trip, by Ulf Kvensler (Hanover Square Press)
• The Dark That Doesn’t Sleep, by Simon Mockler (Pegasus Crime)
• Dead Man’s Wake, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Death Among the Ruins, by Susanna Calkins (Severn House)
• Death Comes to Marlow, by Robert Thorogood (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Death in Fine Condition, by Andrew Cartmel (Titan)
• Death Message, by Damien Boyd (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Devil’s Playground, by Craig Russell (Doubleday)
• A Disappearance in Fiji, by Nilima Rao (Soho Crime)
• The Dissident, by Paul Goldberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Don’t Forget the Girl, by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Drowning Woman, by Robyn Harding (Grand Central)
• Eagle Bay, by Ken Cruickshank (Glendoveer Press)
• The Edge of Sleep, by Willie Block and Jake Emanuel with Jason Gurley (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia, by Samantha Leach (Legacy Lit)*
• A Fatal Affair, by A.R. Torre (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Fatal Illusion, by Anna Lee Huber (Berkley)
• The Final Cut, by Marjorie McCown (Crooked Lane)
• The First Death, by Kendra Elliot (Montlake)
• Flesh and Blood, by David Mark (Severn House)
• Foul Play Suspected, by John Wyndham (Modern Library)
• Gallows Dome, by Nolan Knight (Down & Out)
• The Get, by Dietrich Kalteis (ECW Press)
• Girls and Their Horses, by Eliza Jane Brazier (Berkley)
• The Good Ones, by Polly Stewart (Harper)
• The Guardian, by Joshua Hood (Blackstone)
• The Gulf, by Rachel Cochran (Harper)
• Have You Seen Her, by Catherine McKenzie (Atria)
• Hot Pot Murder, by Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)
• House Woman, by Adorah Nworah (Unnamed Press)
• How to Kill Men and Get Away with It, by Katy Brent (HQ Digital)
• In a Hard Wind, by David Housewright (Minotaur)
• Inside Threat, by Matthew Quirk (Morrow)
• The IPCRESS File, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• The Island of Lost Girls, by Alex Marwood (Harper Paperbacks)
• The Isolated Séance, by Jeri Westerson (Severn House)
• The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia, by Paul Moses (NYU Press)*
• The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories, by Edward D. Hoch (Crippen and Landru)
• A Killer’s Game, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• Killingly, by Katharine Beutner (Soho Crime)
• The Last Drop of Hemlock, by Katharine Schellman (Minotaur)
• The Last Sinner, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)
• Lay Your Body Down, by Amy Suiter Clarke (Morrow)
• Let Me In, by Claire McGowan (Thomas & Mercer)
• Little Caesar / The Silver Eagle, by W.R. Burnett (Stark House Press)
• Livingsky, by Anthony Bidulka (Stonehouse)
• The Long Way Back, by Nicole Baart (Atria)
• The Lost Pope, by Glenn Cooper (Grand Central)
• Maddalena and the Dark, by Julia Fine (Flatiron)
• Maeve Fly, by C.J. Leede (Tor Nightfire)
• The Man in the Corduroy Suit, by James Wolff (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Marion Lane and the Raven’s Revenge, by T.A. Willberg (Park Row)
• Misfortune Cookie, by Vivien Chien (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
• The Missing Heiress, by Robert Goldsborough (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
• A Most Agreeable Murder, by Julia Seales (Random House)
• Mother Howl, by Craig Clevenger (Angry Robot)
• Murder at Hendon Aerodrome, by Christina Koning (Allison & Busby)
• Murder at Jaipur, by Bharti Kirchner (Camel Press)
• Murder at the Crown and Anchor, by C.J. Archer (C.J. Archer)
• A Murder in Ashwood, by Robert Brighton (Ashwood Press)
• Murder in Berlin, by Christina Koning (Allison & Busby)
• Murdle, Volume 1: 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction, by G.T. Karber (St. Martin’s Griffin)*
• My Murder, by Katie Williams (Riverhead)
• Near Miss, by Stuart Woods and Brett Battles (Putnam)
• Nemesis, by Wilbur Smith (Zaffre)
• A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder, by Dianne Freeman (Kensington)
• The Night It Ended, by Katie Garner (Mira)
• Night of the Wolf, by Cassandra Clark (Severn House)
• Night Will Find You, by Julia Heaberlin (Flatiron)
• The 9th Man, by Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood (Grand Central)
• No Man’s Ghost, by Jason Powell (Agora)
• The Only One Left, by Riley Sager (Dutton)
• Orphan Road, by Andrew Nette (Down & Out)
• The Other Mistress, by Shanora Williams (Dafina)
• Passport to Spy, by Nancy Cole Silverman (Level Best)
• A Pen Dipped in Poison, by J.M. Hall (Avon)
• The Pigeon, by David Gordon (Mysterious Press)
• Praying Mantis, by RV Raman (Agora)
• Pulp Champagne: The Short Fiction of Lorenz Heller, by Lorenz Heller (Stark House Press)
• The Puzzle Master, by Danielle Trussoni (Random House)
• The Quiet Tenant, by Clémence Michallon (Knopf)
• Relentless Melt, by Jeremy P. Bushnell (Melville House)
• The Resort, by Sarah Goodwin (Avon)
• Retribution, by Robert McCaw (Oceanview)
• Rich Waters, by Robert Bailey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Robert B. Parker’s Bad Influence, by Alison Gaylin (Putnam)
• The Seat of the Scornful, by John Dickson Carr (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Shadow in Moscow, by Katherine Reay (Harper Muse)
• She Started It, by Sian Gilbert (Morrow)
• Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere, by Philip Purser-
Hallard (Titan)
• The Siberia Job, by Josh Haven (Mysterious Press)
• The Silent Bride, by Shalini Boland (Thomas & Mercer)
• Southern Man, by Greg Iles (Morrow)
• The Spare Room, by Andrea Bartz (Ballantine)
• Speak of the Devil, by Rose Wilding (Minotaur)
• The Spectacular, by Fiona Davis (>Dutton)
• The Spy Across the Water, by James Naughtie (Head of Zeus)
• A Stolen Child, by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Minotaur)
• Stray Dogs, by Richard John Parfitt (Third Man)
• The Street, by Susi Holliday (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Thinking Machine, by Jacques Futrelle (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder, by Mark O’Connell (Doubleday)*
• The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard, by Kate Robards (Crooked Lane)
• The Traitor Beside Her, by Mary Anna Evans (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Trial, by Richard North Patterson (Post Hill Press)
• Try Not to Breathe, by David Bell (Berkley)
• Twist of Fate, by D.L. Mark (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Unnatural Ends, by Christopher Huang (Inkshares)
• The Velvet Fleece, by Lois Eby and John C. Fleming
(Stark House Press)
• The Water Tower, by Amy Young (Level Best)
• What Remains, by Wendy Walker (Blackstone)
• What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator, by Barbara Butcher (Simon & Schuster)*
• What the Neighbors Saw, by Melissa Adelman (Minotaur)
• The Whispers, by Ashley Audrain (Pamela Dorman/Viking)
• The Woman Inside, by M.T. Edvardsson (Celadon)
• You Can Trust Me, by Wendy Heard (Bantam)
• You Look Beautiful Tonight, by L.R. Jones (Thomas & Mercer)
• Zero Days, by Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press)

JUNE (UK):
• An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb, by Louise Wolhuter (Ultimo Press)
• Bad Liar, by Tami Hoag (Orion)
• Black Fell, by Mari Hannah (Orion)
• Black Valley Farm, by Sheila Bugler (Canelo)
• A Blind Eye, by Marion Todd (Canelo)
• Blood on the Shore, by Simon McCleave (Avon)
• Burning Bridges, by Stephanie Harte (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• By Treason We Perish, by A.J. Mackenzie (Canelo Adventure)
• The Chemical Code, by Fiona Erskine (Point Blank)
• Coming to Find You, by Jane Corry (Penguin)
• Conviction, by Jack Jordan (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Couple in the Photo, by Helen Cooper (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Dead Don’t Speak, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• A Deadly Likeness, by Lesley McEvoy (Zaffre)
• Death at the Chateau, by Ian Moore (Farrago)
• A Death in the Parish, by Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Don’t Swipe Right, by L.M. Chilton (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• End Game, by Liz Mistry (HQ Digital)
• The End of Us, by Olivia Kiernan (Riverrun)
• The Expectant Detectives, by Kat Ailes (Zaffre)
• The Fallen, by John Sutherland (Orion)
• The Girls on Chalk Hill, by Alison Belsham (Bookouture)
• Hokey Pokey, by Kate Mascarenhas (Apollo)
• Homecoming, by Isabel Ashdown (Orion)
• The Homemaker, by Shari J. Ryan (Bookouture)
• The Horror of Haglin House, by M.R.C. Kasasian (Canelo)
• How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel, by Kate Jackson (British Library)*
• The Inmate, by Sebastian Fitzek
(Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Interpreter, by Brooke Robinson (Harvill Secker)
• The Last Goodbye, by Tim Weaver (Michael Joseph)
• The Launch Party, by Lauren Forry (Zaffre)
• Midnight, by Amy McCulloch (Michael Joseph)
• The Missing Mummies, by Lisa Tuttle (Jo Fletcher)
• Murder and the Moggies of Magpie Row, by Kate High (Constable)
• Murder in Merrywell, by Jane Bettany (HQ Digital)
• The Murder of Anton Livius, by Hansjörg Schneider
(Bitter Lemon Press)
• No Justice, by Kate Evans (Constable)
• No Sweet Sorrow, by Denzil Meyrick (Birlinn)
• The Other Mothers, by Katherine Faulkner (Raven)
• The People Watcher, by Sam Lloyd (Bantam)
• The Red House, by Roz Watkins (HQ)
• The Rule of Three, by Sam Ripley (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Run to Ground, by Stuart Johnstone (Allison & Busby)
• The Seventh Victim, by Michael Wood (One More Chapter)
• Speak of the Devil, by Rose Wilding (Baskerville)
• The Square of Sevens, by Laura Shepherd Robinson (Mantle)
• Suddenly at His Residence, by Christianna Brand (British Library)
• Their Wicked Games, by D.K. Hood (Bookouture)
• The Trial, by Rob Rinder (Century)
• Voices of the Dead, by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
• Winter’s Gifts, by Ben Aaronovitch (Orion)

JULY (U.S.):
• All Is Not Forgiven, by Joe Kenda (Blackstone)
• All the Demons Are Here, by Jake Tapper (Little, Brown)
• An Evil Heart, by Linda Castillo (Minotaur)
• At the End of Every Day, by Arianna Reiche (Atria)
• Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, by Jillian Lauren (Sourcebooks)*
• Between a Wok and a Dead Place, by Leslie Budewitz
(Seventh Street)
• The Bitter Past, by Bruce Borgos (Minotaur)
• Black River, by Matthew Spencer (Thomas & Mercer)
• Blind Fear, by Brandon Webb and John David Mann (Bantam)
• The Block Party, by Jamie Day (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Bones of the Story, by Carol Goodman (Morrow)
• Cascade Manhunt, by Rob Phillips (Latah)
• Chameleon, by Remi Adeleke (Morrow)
• The Collector, by Daniel Silva (Harper)
• Crook Manifesto, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• Crook o’ Lune, by E.C.R. Lorac (Poisoned Pen Press)
• A Cryptic Clue, by Victoria Gilbert (Crooked Lane)
• Cutting Teeth, by Chandler Baker (Flatiron)
• Dead Fall, by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Dead of Winter, by Darcy Coates (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Death on the Beach, by Steph Broadribb (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Devil’s Flute Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Do Tell, by Lindsay Lynch (Doubleday)
• Eventide, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Crime)
• Everyone Here Is Lying, by Shari Lapena (Pamela Dorman)
• Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in the Era of Reckoning, by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)*
• Excavations, by Hannah Michell (One World)
• Fatal Legacy, by Lindsey Davis (Minotaur)
• Fearless, by M.W. Craven (Flatiron)
• Flags on the Bayou, by James Lee Burke (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Go Find Daddy, by Steve Goble (Oceanview)
• Golden Age Bibliomysteries, edited by Otto Penzler (American Mystery Classics)
• Gone But Not Forgotten, by C. Michele Dorsey (Severn House)
• Goodbye Earl, by Leesa Cross-Smith Grand Central)
• The Guest Room, by Tasha Sylva (Henry Holt)
• Here in the Dark, by Meagan Lucas (Shotgun Honey)
• Her Father’s Daughter, by T.M. Dunn (Crooked Lane)
• Her, Too, by Bonnie Kistler (Harper)
• Homicide in Chicago, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• An Honest Man, by Michael Koryta (Mulholland)
• The Horoscope Writer, by Ash Bishop (CamCat)
• The Housekeepers, by Alex Hay (Graydon House)
• How Can I Help You, by Laura
Sims (Putnam)
• The Hunt, by Kelly J. Ford
(Thomas & Mercer)
• I Know What You Did, by Cayce Osborne (Crooked Lane)
• In the Shadow of the Bull, by Eleanor
Kuhns (Severn House)
• The Killer’s Wife, by Susan Furlong (Seventh Street)
• The Lady from Burma, by Allison
Montclair (Minotaur)
• The Last Dance, by Mark Billingham (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Last Ranger, by Peter Heller (Knopf)
• License to Die, by Haris Orkin (Black Rose)
• A Likeable Woman, by May Cobb (Berkley)
• The Little Dog Laughed, by Joseph Hansen (Soho Syndicate)
• The Long Ago, by Michael McGarrity (Norton)
• Love and Murder in the Time of Covid, by Qiu Xiaolong
(Severn House)
• Lowdown Road, by Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)
• A Man of Lies, by Ben Crane (Pegasus)
• The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
• Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge, by Spencer Quinn (Forge)
• Murder at the Arizona Biltmore, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• Murder Before Evensong, by Richard Coles (Titan)
• The Murder Wheel, by Tom Mead (Mysterious Press)
• Not by Blood, by Chris Narozny (Crooked Lane)
• The Ocean Above Me, by Kevin Sites (Harper)
• The Paris Agent, by Kelly Rimmer (Graydon House)
• Pink Lemonade Cake Murder, by Joanne Fluke (Kensington Cozies)
• Prom Mom, by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
• Queen Wallis, by C.J. Carey (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Record Keeper, by Charles Martin (Thomas Nelson)
• The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War, by Alan Philps (Pegasus)*
• The Sandbox, by Brian Andrews and Jeff Wilson (Blackstone)
• Satan Is a Woman / 13 French Street, by Gil Brewer
(Stark House Press)
• Shadow Drive, by Nolan Cubero (Blackstone)
• The Shadow Girls, by Alice Blanchard (Minotaur)
• The Shadows of London, by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins)
• The Shell House Detectives, by Emylia Hall (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Shimmer of Red, by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Kensington Cozies)
• Sinners of Starlight City, by Anika Scott (Morrow)
• Sleepless City, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Blackstone)
• The Soul Game, by Javier Castillo (Grupo)
• The Spider, by Lars Kepler (Knopf)
• The Spread, by Dana King (Down & Out)
• The St. Ambrose School for Girls, by Jessica Ward (Gallery)
• The Stolen Coast, by Dwyer Murphy (Viking)
• Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent (Gallery/Scout Press)
• Subject: Murder, by Clifford Witting (Galileo)
• Ten-Acre Rock, by Kris Lackey (Blackstone)
• Thicker Than Water, by Megan Collins (Atria)
• To Have and to Heist, by Sara Desai (Berkley)
• A Twisted Love Story, by Samantha Downing (Berkley)
• The Unforgiven Dead, by Fulton Ross (Inkshares)
• Urgent Matters, by Paula Rodríguez (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Viper, by John Verdon (Counterpoint)
• The Wayward Prince, by Leonard Goldberg (Minotaur)
• Wednesdays at One, by Sandra A. Miller (Zibby)
• What Harms You, by Lisa Black (Kensington)
• Windfall, by Wendy Corsi Staub (Morrow)
• With a Kiss We Die, by L.R. Dorn; (Morrow)
• The Woman in the Castello, by Kelsey James (John Scognamiglio)
• The Woods Are Waiting, by Katherine Greene (Crooked Lane)

JULY (UK):
• Alchemy, by S.J. Parris (HarperCollins)
• All of Us Are Broken, by Fiona Cummins (Macmillan)
• Barking Mad, by Leigh Russell (Crime & Mystery Club)
• Beast in the Shadows, by Edogawa Rampo (Penguin Classics)
• Black Thorn, by Sarah Hilary (Macmillan)
• The Blood of Others, by Graham Hurley (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Children of the Mist, by Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
• The Clearing, by Simon Toyne (HarperCollins)
• Clean Kill, by Stephen Leather (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Conspirators, by G.W. Shaw (Riverrun)
• Consumed, by Greg Buchanan (Orion)
• Devil’s Breath, by Jill Johnson (Black & White)
• The Dive, by Sara Ochs (Bantam)
• Eye for an Eye, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• Fear the Silence, by Robert Bryndza (Raven Street)
• In the Dark, by Claire Allan (Avon)
• Journey into Fear, by Eric Ambler (Penguin Classics)
• Lowbridge, by Lucy Campbell
(Ultimo Press)
• Maigret and the Headless Corpse, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics)
• Murder at Church Lodge, by Greg Mosse (Hodder Paperbacks)
• Murder at the Tower of London, by Jim Eldridge (Allison & Busby)
• Murder in the Family, by Cara Hunter (HarperCollins)
• The New Wife, by J.P. Delaney (Quercus)
• Old Evils, by Alex Walters (Canelo)
• The Old Rogue of Limehouse, by Ann Granger (Headline)
• One Good Deed, by David Jackson (Viper)
• Outback, by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
• Out of the Ashes, by Louisa Scarr (Canelo Crime)
• Penance, by Eliza Clark (Faber and Faber)
• Prey for the Shadow, by Javier Cercas (MacLehose Press)
• Revenge of the Stormbringer, by Peter Tremayne (Headline)
• Sanderson’s Isle, by James Clarke (Serpent’s Tail)
• Sea Leopard, by Craig Thomas (Canelo Action)
• Silent Bones, by Rachel Lynch (Canelo)
• Silent Voices, by Patricia Gibney (Sphere)
• Someone You Know, by Erin Kinsley (Headline)
• The Venetian Candidate, by Philip Gwynne Jones (Constable)
• A Very Lively Murder, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• The Wheel Spins, by Ethel Lina White (British Library)
• The Wide World, by Pierre Lemaitre (Tinder Press)
• Wish You Were Here, by Nicola Monaghan (Verve)
• The Woman Who Lied, by Claire Douglas (Michael Joseph)
• You Can’t See Me, by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (Orenda)
• Zero Kill, by M.K. Hill (Head of Zeus/Aries)

AUGUST (U.S.):
• After That Night, by Karin Slaughter (Morrow)
• Best Served Cold, by David P. Wagner (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Birder, She Wrote, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• The Birthday Murder, by Lange Lewis (American Mystery Classics)
• The Blonde Identity, by Ally Carter (Avon)
• Board to Death, by .J. Connor (Kensington Cozies)
• Bomber, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• The Bone Hacker, by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
• The Borgia Portrait, by David Hewson (Severn House)
• The Bridge, by Matt Brolly (Thomas & Mercer)
• Broadway Butterfly, by Sara DiVello (Thomas & Mercer)
• To Catch a Storm, by Mindy Mejia (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• A Chateau Under Siege, by Martin Walker (Knopf)
• Cleveland Noir, edited by Michael Ruhlman and Miesha Wilson Headen (Akashic)
• Come With Me, by Erin Flanagan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Continental Affair, by Christine Mangan (Flatiron)
• The Coworker, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Dark Corners, by Megan Goldin (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Dark Edge of Night, by Mark Pryor (Minotaur)
• Dead and Gone, by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur)
• Deadlock, by James Byrne (Minotaur)
• Death Comes to Santa Fe, by Amanda Allen (Severn House)
• Death of Jezebel, by Christianna Brand (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Detective Up Late, by Adrian McKinty (Blackstone)
• The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf, by Alexander McCall
Smith (Pantheon)
• Double Illusion, by Barbara Nadel (Headline)
• The Drowning at Dyes Inlet, by D.D. Black (Independently published)
• The Enemy at Home, by Kevin O’Brien (Kensington)
• Evergreen, by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
• Fever House, by Keith Rosson (Random House)
• The Flying Z, by Leo W. Banks (Brash)
• The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, by Karin Smirnoff (Knopf)
• Gone Tonight, by Sarah Pekkanen (St. Martin’s Press)
• Good Bad Girl, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• Happiness Falls, by Angie Kim (Hogarth)
• Hard Country, by Reavis Z. Wortham (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Harlem After Midnight, by Louise Hare (Berkley)
• The Hike, by Lucy Clarke (Putnam)
• The Hurricane Blonde, by Halley Sutton (Putnam)
• I’m Not Done with You Yet, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Berkley)
• In a Quiet Town, by Amber Garza (Mira)
• In Her Blood, by Caro Ramsey (Severn House)
• Just Another Missing Person, by Gillian McAllister (Morrow)
• Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out)
• The Last One, by Will Dean (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Lethal Range, by Ryan Steck (Tyndale House)
• Liquid Snakes, by Stephen Kearse (Soft Skull)
• Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward (Tor Nightfire)
• The Messenger, by Megan Davis (Pegasus Crime)
• Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld, by Catherine Lloyd (Kensington)
• Mister Magic, by Kiersten White (Del Rey)
• Mrs. Jeffries Aims to Win, by Emily Brightwell (Berkley)
• Murder at the Elms, by Alyssa Maxwell (Kensington)
• None of This Is True, by Lisa Jewell (Atria)
• North of Nowhere, by Allison Brennan (Minotaur)
• One Night, by Georgina Cross (Bantam)
• The Paris Assignment, by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union)
• Pet, by Catherine Chidgey
(Europa Editions)
• The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge, by Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Ravage & Son, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press)
• Ricochet, by Taylor Moore (Morrow)
• Saving Myles, by Carl Vonderau (Oceanview)
• The Second Murderer, by Denise
Mina (Mulholland)
• A Short History of the World in 50 Lies, by Natasha Todd
(Michael O’Mara)*
• Small Town Sins, by Ken Jaworowski (Henry Holt)
• Someone You Trust, by Rachel Ryan (Gallery)
• The Stranger in the Seine, by Guillaume Musso (Back Bay)
• Sun Damage, by Sabine Durrant (Harper Paperbacks)
• The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp, by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
• Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders, by John Glatt (St. Martin’s Press)*
• Tell Me What I Am, by Una Mannion (Harper)
• Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale, by Joe R. Lansdale (Tachyon)
• Those We Thought We Knew, by David Joy (Putnam)
• The Trade Off, by Sandie Jones (Minotaur)
• The Trap, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone)
• Three Fires, by Denise Mina (Pegasus Crime)
• Whalefall, by Daniel Kraus (MTV)
• What Never Happened, by Rachel Howzell Hall (Thomas & Mercer)
• Where the Dead Sleep, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)

AUGUST (UK.):
• All the Little Liars, by Victoria Selman (Quercus)
• Assassin Eighteen, by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Bay, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• A Bird in Winter, by Louise Doughty (Faber and Faber)
• The Body in Nightingale Park, by Nick Louth (Canelo)
• The City of God, by Michael Russell (Constable)
• A Cornish Seaside Murder, by Fiona Leitch (One More Chapter)
• Day’s End, by Garry Disher (Viper)
• Death of a Lesser God, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• A Discovery in the Costwolds, by Rebecca Tope (Allison & Busby)
• The Drone, by Adrian Magson (Canelo Action)
• The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction, by Robert Goddard (Bantam)
• Game of Spies, by Ava Glass (Century)
• He Who Whispers, by John Dickson Carr (British Library)
• The Hotel, by Louise Mumford (HQ Digital)
• I Know It’s You, by Susan Lewis (HarperCollins)
• The Inheritance, by Samantha Hayes (Bookouture)
• Just Between Us, by Adele Parks (HQ)
• The Killing Place, by Kate Ellis (Piatkus)
• Kill for Me Kill for You, by Steve Cavanagh (Headline)
• The Lie Maker, by Linwood Barclay (HQ)
• The Marriage Retreat, by Laura Elliot (Bookouture)
• Murder at the Residence, by Stella Blómkvist (Corylus)
• My Husband’s Killer, by Laura Marshall (Sphere)
• Over My Dead Body, by Maz Evans (Headline)
• The Raging Storm, by Ann Cleeves (Macmillan)
• The Red Room, by Mark Dawson (Welbeck)
• Reykjavik, by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir
(Michael Joseph)
• The Sentence, by Christina Dalcher (HQ)
• The Silent Man, by David Fennell (Zaffre)
• Taste of Blood, by Lynda La Plante (Zaffre)
• Three Card Murder, by J.L. Blackhurst (HQ)
• The Wild Coast, by Lin Anderson (Macmillan)
• Without Trace, by Leigh Russell (No Exit Press)