Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Louise Penny, The Black Wolf
(Minotaur)
“Penny’s talent for nail-biting suspense and quiet character moments fuse with surprisingly topical subject matter to deliver an unputdownable installment of an ever reliable series. Readers will cheer.”
–Publishers Weekly
Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie The Last Death of the Year
(William Morrow)
“Once again, Hannah proves both a quick study and an inventive thinker, delivering a whodunit that honors Poirot’s history without feeling like a mere retread. Golden age mystery fans are in for a treat.”
–Publishers Weekly
Andrew Klavan, After That, the Dark
(Mysterious Press)
“Brilliant . . . The solution, when it arrives, hits the sweet spot between logical and surprising, and Winter’s romantic entanglement adds depth to his characterization. The author’s prose, meanwhile, remains as darkly hypnotic as ever. This series continues to impress.”
–Publishers Weekly
Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Darker Days
(Harper)
“This masterly work of horror, gripping and terrifying on more than one level, is probably Olde Heuvelt’s best novel yet.”
–The Guardian
Stuart Neville, Blood Like Ours
(Hell’s Hundred)
“Many thrillers revolve around a parent trying to rescue a child, but few test the parent’s limits as fiercely as Stuart Neville’s gripping Blood Like Ours . . . From its first scene to its gratifying conclusion Blood Like Ours simultaneously evokes hope and a spiralling dread.”
–The Irish Times
Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 to Montreal
(Poisoned Pen)
“An intense, claustrophobic nod to the Christie classic Murder on the Orient Express.”
–Library Journal
Kate Van Der Borgh, And He Shall Appear
(Union Square & Co)
“[A] darkly glamorous debut. . . . He Shall Appear suggests that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, apt to see significance in all the wrong places, and vastly to overstate our importance in the minds of others. It’s an insight that strikes a greater chill than any amount of gloomy staircases and creaking floorboards.”
–The Guardian
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, What Darkness Does
(Blackstone)
“Readers will find Dornbush’s novel to be intricately plotted, with many subplots that will keep the pages turning.”
–Library Journal
Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, Coyote Hills
(Ballantine)
“Like their PI partners, Jonathan Kellerman and his son Jesse make a great team.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Colleen Cambridge, Two Truths and a Murder
(Kensington)
“Another clever homage to the Golden Age of mystery fiction…This is a treat.”
–Publishers Weekly
