Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency that takes on cases of missing persons, theft, and infidelity. With Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem, Phillips takes real life arctic explorer Matthew Henson and sticks him in 1920s Harlem, investigating crimes and encountering many a Harlem Renaissance figure. Make your Facebook feed more books and fewer weird memes from your uncle. Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, The Incident occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. Miracle Creek is about an experimental medical device owned by Young and Pak Yoo. They are all connected to the same man, and they are all in danger without knowing why.—LL. And Ghallib, an expert torturer who honed his skills under Saddam Hussein, is supposed to set a terrorist plot into motion after the death of 2117.—LL, Boris Akunin, She Lover of Death (Mysterious Press), Each of Boris Akunin’s acclaimed historical mysteries featuring aristocratic Inspector Fandorin takes on a different set of crime fiction tropes and makes them Akunin’s own, and She Lover of Death promises to continue the series’ tradition, as we venture with Fandorin into a turn-of-the-century suicide cult run by poets. A Yi, a former police officer, uses his procedural and forensic expertise to lend depth and gravitas to his thoughtful and evocative fiction.—OR, Olen Steinhauer, The Last Tourist (Minotaur), After three stand-alone novels, Steinhauer’s reluctant operative Milo Weaver is back for book four. Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Manchette & Tardi (Fantagraphics), Famed French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette and his mononymed countryman, Tardi, teamed up to write some of the bleakest and most beautiful noir imaginable, and now we get to read it thanks to a new edition from famed alternative comics publisher Fantagraphics. But when her best friend vanishes, Natasha soon discovers the school is hiding much more than a penchant for eating disorders.—MO. This one deserves it’s place on a list of the best legal thriller books! In Summer two boys, Erik and Edmund, have a collective crush on a teacher who resembles the actress Kim Novak. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program.

Marin lost one of the people dearest to her, and she’s prepared to go to drastic measures to make sure she doesn’t lose her cheating husband too.—LL, Sara Paretsky, Dead Land (William Morrow), The great V.I. In The Lady Upstairs, a Hollywood con artist who earns her living blackmailing Hollywood’s worst men finds herself with more trouble than she bargained for when one of her targets ends up murdered. (I'm already stressed! When the dream becomes a nightmare of a killing spree, the guests will have to solve the island's mystery if they want to make it out alive. But Alexa must keep it together in trying circumstances if she is going to help her friend and stay intact.—LL, In this heart-rending tale of motherhood and murder, Amy Engel takes us into the heart of the Ozarks, where the murder of two 12-year-old girls on a playground will have wide repercussions for their community and their town. There are few things Serge loves more than solving a good mystery and bestowing justice on miscreants who sully his beloved home’s good name. (Hard Case Crime). When her family is threatened by new investigations and old enemies, it’s time to drop the act and fight back.—MO, Jessica Moor has experience working to end violence against women and girls, and her new novel, The Keeper, draws liberally from that experience. A Brief History of Queer Women Detectives in Crime Fiction, On the Endless Symbolism of Jaws, Which Owes Its Dark Soul to Moby Dick, Taunts and Abuse: On What Really Happened Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good, All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World, The Night W.S. Hide Away begins with Rachel, a seemingly ordinary suburban mom taking care of her two young children and trying to balance work and life. Her new novel promises to *ahem* make you gasp in a whole other way, as she takes us to 1933 Berkeley, California, where Edward Oscar Heinrich, or “the American Sherlock,” is quietly plugging away at a new discipline: that of forensic science. From the City of Light to the rocky Maine coastline, Stone will need to summon all his wit and daring to halt the audacious plots threatening to reveal confidential intel, and catch the evasive traitor at last. That’s right: Sara Paretsky’s legendary detective returns in her twentieth installment. Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Scott GlennWhat it's about: Something about watching a movie about the world ending seems fitting during these times, especially when a planet-killing comet races to Earth and family man John (Butler) has only 48 hours to get his family to shelter.

The child brings his "new friend" into the house, and things start to get even more strange. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has claimed another three victims. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. When he loses contact with the team in South America, Pike is convinced he and the Taskforce are under assault. When she fails to track her errant family member down, she hires a drifter to impersonate her missing sister so as to be able to claim her inheritance. But another woman besides Sonny’s parents lays claim to the boy, and the kidnapping trial that ensues reveals that the truth is far from simple.—LL, Columbus Noir, edited by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Akashic), Like the rest of the state of Ohio, Columbus has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and the stories included in Akashic’s ode to the city are as full of misery as the city currently is in real life. On top of that, one of her regulars is competing in Wildwood Cove’s Golden Oldies Games—a sporting event for athletes 50 and over—and Marley wants to cheer her on. In Brian de Palma’s fiction debut, a politician gets involved with the wrong young woman—instead of staying silent, she’s going to take him down.

But the event is not just a drunken escapade: it upends their lives in ways they never could have imagined.—LL, Hakan Nesser, The Summer of Kim Novak (World Editions), I love Nesser’s quirky and compelling Van Veeteren books, but it’s a treat to see him branch out in this novel set in the 1960s in rural Sweden. Untamed Shore is an atmospheric treat from an author better known for her fantasy fiction, and ready to make a name for herself in crime.—MO, Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Simon & Schuster), Jerry Mitchell’s crucial book investigates the “Mississippi Burning” case, the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers at the hands of twenty klansmen, whose identities and guilt were widely known though they were not prosecuted for the crime. Our heroine, Romy, is a young, pregnant woman who has never lived outside the cult and has to fend for herself after the dissolution of the Ark.—LL, Originally published in 1990, this classic espionage novel about political tensions between the United States and Great Britain is back in print in a striking new edition. The victim is identified as Charlie MacCrimmon, an uncle believed to have died eleven years before Liss was born. In it Weaver is hiding out in the Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst comes to question him about terrorist chatter. With the firm belief that "behind extraordinary mystery books or pieces of art, there are extraordinary people", we search the globe to bring you the most captivating work from both established authors and creatives as well as emerging talents. Sulari Gentil, Give the Devil His Due (Poisoned Pen), The artist Rowland Sinclair is back in his seventh mystery in this beloved series from Australia. This is one of our favorite Scandinavian crime novels for January 2020 written by the critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Some started having visions. From the northernmost European capital to a rustbound fishing vessel to a remote farm a stone’s throw from the arctic, Peter must confront his growing PTSD and the most powerful Icelandic snowstorm in a generation to find a killer, save an eight-year-old boy, and keep himself out of an Icelandic prison–or a cold Icelandic grave. How can this be so?—LL, Chan Ho-Kei’s new social noir tackles the issue of digital bullying; Second Sister begins with the suicide of a schoolgirl, immediately deemed suspicious by her librarian older sister, who is determined to investigate. We've also hand-picked the best romance, drama, horror, and comedy movies of 2020, if those are more your speed. So it’s no wonder that she decides to go rogue and hunt down a killer…, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, The Absolution (Minotaur), The Icelandic police are horrified to find out about a horrific murder from a video on Snapchat—of a teenage girl screaming for forgiveness. They're a part of "The Hunt," a little game where humans hunt humans...so, like The Hunger Games, but the 21st century. 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And then his colleague, who suspects that something sinister is afoot, vanishes, leaving him to put all the pieces together.—OR, Luke Geddes, Heart of Junk (Simon & Schuster), At last! Perfect for all those who remember how good Young Sherlock Holmes was!—MO, Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa (William Morrow), Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa is the fictional answer to Lolita we’ve all been waiting for. Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. It’s up to her not-so-faithful stooges to find out what’s going on, and uncover the dark secrets behind the founding of the company.