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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

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There’s something delightfully audacious about the premise of A Deadly Episode. The latest instalment in Anthony Horowitz’s long-running Hawthorne series begins with a murder that appears, at first glance anyway, to be deeply personal: private detective Daniel Hawthorne is stabbed to death. Except he isn’t….
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A Plot to Die For by Ardal O’Hanlon

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Few settings are more deceptively dangerous than a picturesque rural community. As many have found to their misfortune, beneath the herbaceous borders, parish council meetings and carefully maintained public image lurk old grudges, quiet humiliations and lives that have curdled into resentment. A Plot to…
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You Can Tell Me by Melinda Leigh

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Another right-in-this-moment new thriller, Melinda Leigh’s You Can Tell Me takes on the potential downsides of true crime reporting. Crime authors have given some memorable depictions of the excesses and dangers of this current societal preoccupation. I’m thinking of Paul Cleave’s The Pain Tourist or…
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Echoes of the Lost by Cindy Brown

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Echoes of the Lost, the new mystery by Oregon-based author Cindy Brown, takes several fresh approaches to the classic whodunnit. Most striking is her evocative sense of place. She captures the oppressive feel of winter in the rainy, chilly city where she lives and backdrops…
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The Bone Mother by Suzy Aspley

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In 2024, The Crow Moon was an intriguing debut by British author Suzy Aspley and The Bone Mother is its sequel. Both books are gothic mysteries featuring Martha Strangeways as she investigates an unusual murder. The author concepts a special blend weaving together modern murder…
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Marked for Death by RO Thorp

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Universities are supposed to be places of quiet scholarship, polite disagreement and excessive footnotes… not suspicious deaths. Yet in RO Thorp’s Marked for Death, the cloistered world of academia proves just as dangerous as any dark alley, picturesque English village or research trip to the…
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