Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand
(Viking)
“Like the greatest crime novelists, Johnson is a student of human nature. Walt Longmire is strong but fallible, a man whose devil-may-care stoicism masks a heightened sensitivity to the horrors he’s witnessed.”
–Los Angeles Times
Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith, Make Them Cry
(Ecco)
“Make Them Cry is one of those rare novels that is both artistically principled and marvelously fun to read, a combination of elegant, painstaking craftsmanship and suspenseful entertainment.”
–Tim O’Brien
Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
(Pamela Dorman Books)
“Suspenseful, funny, and poignant. The delightful, spirited characters from this witty, sometimes bittersweet story deserve a return engagement.”
–Booklist
Gilly Macmillan, To Tell You the Truth
(William Morrow)
“This deliciously multilayered tale provides genuine, shocking surprises that culminate in a satisfying and unexpected conclusion. Macmillan is a master of misdirection.”
–Publishers Weekly
Martin Edwards, Mortmain Hall
(Poisoned Pen Press)
“Set in 1930s England, Edgar winner Edwards’s sequel to 2019’s Gallows Court is a triumph, from its tantalizing opening, in which an unnamed dying man begins to explain an unspecified perfect crime, through its scrupulously fair final reveal.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Rachel Howzell Hall, And Now She’s Gone
(Forge)
“Smart, packed with dialogue that sings on the page, Hall’s novel turns the tables on our expectations at every turn, bringing us closer to truth than if it were forced on us in school.”
–Walter Mosley
Brian Freeman, Funeral For a Friend
(Blackstone)
”[Stride] is in the company of Bosch, Thorne, Tennison, and Skinner, some of my other favorite detectives time has not mellowed.”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune
Andy Weinberger, Reason to Kill
(Prospect Park Books)
“The tight plot is enriched with Amos’s wry observations…Hopefully, Amos still has a long career ahead of him.”
–Publishers Weekly
Robert Dugoni, The Last Agent
(Thomas and Mercer)
“Dugoni writes with such immediacy that readers will feel as if they’re standing alongside Jenkins as he contemplates his next death-defying move. Fans of espionage fiction are in for a high-octane thrill ride.”
–Publishers Weekly
Luke Arnold, Dead Man in a Ditch
(Orbit)
“[An] effortlessly readable series that could be the illegitimate love child of Terry Pratchett and Dashiell Hammett.”
–Kirkus
