Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Kwei Quartey, Sleep Well, My Lady
(Soho)
“Brilliantly executed . . . Quartey, also the author of the Darko Dawson series, is one of the strong voices in the current wave of African crime fiction.”
–Booklist
Amy Stewart, Dear Miss Kopp
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
“Stewart’s engrossing sixth Kopp Sisters novel (after 2019’s Kopp Sisters on the March) finds the three siblings, based on actual sisters, separated for the first time, though they keep in touch through letters written from May to December 1918.”
–Publishers Weekly
Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons
(Bantam)
“Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive.”
–Entertainment Weekly
Sulari Gentill, Shanghai Secrets
(Poisoned Pen)
“Eccentric but authentic characters bolster a cracking good plot. Gentill captures in telling detail a political, moral, and cultural milieu.”
–Publishers Weekly
Paraic O’Donnell, The House on Vesper Sands
(Tin House)
“By turns smart, surprising and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late-19th-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us.”
–Bookreporter
Nick Petrie, The Breaker
(Putnam)
“Nonstop action at a machine gun pace. If you aren’t reading Nick Petrie, now is the time to start.”
–C.J. Box
Cecilia Ekbak, The Historians
(HarperCollins)
“Two Swedish civil servants uncover a Scandinavian WWII conspiracy in this historical epic from Ekbäck.”
–Publishers Weekly
Fiona King Foster, The Captive
(Ecco)
“Beguiling….Part adventure novel and part crime novel. . . . Foster keeps the tension high. . . . [Foster] effectively keeps readers in suspense all the way through.”
–BookPage
Jeff Coen, Murder in Canaryville
(Chicago Review Press)
“In-depth and compelling investigative journalism that will resonate with those interested in organized crime and Chicago history and politics.”
–Library Journal
P.J. Tracy, Deep Into the Dark
(Minotaur)
“[A] riveting series launch. . . . The suspense rises as the plot takes some unexpected twists and turns. Readers will want to see more of Maggie, a complicated woman determined to succeed in a profession dominated by men, and the troubled Sam, who does his best to do the right thing.”
–Publishers Weekly
