Mystery & Thriller

S.A. Cosby has spent the last several years establishing himself as the most vital voice in Southern crime fiction, and King of Ashes is the book where he stops proving himself and starts building a legacy. Set in the fictional town of Jefferson Run, Virginia, this novel takes the family crime saga, a form most…

Stuart Neville is one of the finest crime writers working in contemporary literary fiction, and Those We Left Behind is among his best work — a novel that uses the conventions of the police procedural to explore questions of guilt, loyalty, and the malformation of love with unusual psychological depth. Set in Belfast, it follows…

Real Tigers by Mick Herron is a compelling and brilliantly crafted espionage thriller that delivers biting satirical wit alongside genuine suspense in the third installment of the acclaimed Slough House series. About the Book Mick Herron’s Slough House series follows the “slow horses”—MI5 agents who have been sidelined for various failures and incompetencies, relegated to…

The Widows of Malabar Hill, published by Soho Crime in 2018, opens a historical mystery series with a protagonist who earns her place among the most compelling figures in contemporary crime fiction. Perveen Mistry is one of India’s first female lawyers, working in Bombay in 1921, a city of layered beauties and daily injustices where…

Ilaria Tuti’s Flowers Over the Inferno, translated from the Italian by Ekin Oklap and published by Soho Crime in 2019, announces a major new voice in European crime fiction with the assurance of a novelist who knows exactly what she is doing. The novel introduces Teresa Battaglia, a senior detective and criminal profiler working in…

What My Body Remembers by Agnete Friis is a harrowing and deeply humane psychological thriller that follows a young mother with post-traumatic stress disorder as she fights to protect her son and uncover the truth about a violent past she cannot fully access — a crime novel that takes the interior life of trauma as…

The final Maisie Dobbs novel: Jacqueline Winspear closes her beloved series with a postwar London meditation on grief, trauma, and the slow work of making peace with a life fully lived.

Thomas Harris published The Silence of the Lambs in 1988, and the novel has never really left the cultural conversation since. It follows Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee from a working-class background in West Virginia, who is sent to interview the imprisoned psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The assignment is not casual curiosity:…

Kwei Quartey’s Death by His Grace is the fourth novel in his Inspector Darko Dawson series, published in 2017. Set in Accra, Ghana, the book opens with a violent murder that sends Dawson into a world of evangelical churches, Pentecostal fervor, and the complex social dynamics of a modern West African city navigating tradition and…

Helene Tursten has spent two decades building one of Scandinavian crime fiction’s most durable and quietly remarkable careers, and Snowdrift, published in Swedish in 2019 and in English translation by Marlaine Delargy in 2020, represents a late addition to her catalog that demonstrates exactly why she has earned that reputation. The novel is set during…