Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Val McDermid, 1989
(Atlantic Monthly Press)
“McDermid has fired up her time machine again and is taking us back to 1989 . . . A riveting look backward from Scotland’s Queen of Crime.”
–Booklist
Raquel V. Reyes, Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking
(Crooked Lane)
“As she proved in her 2021 debut, Miami author Raquel V. Reyes has found the right recipe for an engrossing, light mystery that blends Cuban-American culture, a love of food and appealing characters.”
–Oline H. Cogdill, Sun-Sentinel
Karen Odden, Under a Veiled Moon
(Crooked Lane)
“[An] exceptional sequel . . . Fans of Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham trilogy will be enthralled.”
–Publishers Weekly
Wendy Church, Murder on the Spanish Seas
(Polis)
“Church has penned a whip-smart, sarcastic, amateur sleuth and a tightly plotted story that’s perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Catriona McPherson, and Darynda Jones. Readers will want to see Jesse again.”
–Library Journal
Andy Davidson, The Hollow Kind
(MCD)
“Greed, trespass, revenge, and obsession provide the emotional palette for this breathless, wide-eyed horror fable that chronicles the unforgivable trespasses that cost multiple generations their souls.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Marcie R. Rendon, Sinister Graves
(Soho Crime)
“Marcie Rendon is writing an addictive and authentically Native crime series propelled by the irresistible Cash Blackbear—a warm, sad, sharp, funny and intuitive young Ojibwe woman. I want a shelf of Cash Blackbear novels! To my delight I have a feeling that Rendon is only getting started.”
–Louise Erdrich
Alice Henderson, A Blizzard of Polar Bears
(William Morrow)
“Action-packed doesn’t begin to describe A Blizzard of Polar Bears….The swift-paced book is hard to put down.”
–Denver Post
David Baldacci, Long Shadows
(Grand Central)
“The plot gets complex, with suspects galore. But the interpersonal dynamic between Decker and White is just as interesting as the solution to the murders, which doesn’t come easily.”
–Kirkus Reviews
S. K. Golden, The Socialite’s Guide to Murder
(Crooked Lane)
“A sprightly series launch . . . Golden channels the spirit of the late Hugh Pentecost’s Beaumont Hotel.”
–Publishers Weekly
Penn Jillette, Random
(Akashic)
“Jillette (Presto!), the magician best known as the verbal half of Penn and Teller, unveils an entertaining Las Vegas picaresque . . . Jillette’s acerbic wit and perfect pacing keep this afloat. Readers will hope Jillette has more fiction up his sleeves.”
–Publishers Weekly
