The CrimeReads editors pick the month’s best new books out in paperback.
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Lucy Foley, The Guest List
(William Morrow)
“Lucy Foley has honed her unique brand of reverse-whodunit suspense down to a science—and thank goodness for that. … The Guest List—set at a ritzy wedding-gone-wrong on a remote Scottish isle—starts with a murder, and then plays a game of keep-away with the victim’s identity until the very last pages.” –Harper’s Bazaar
Alex Pavesi, The Eighth Detective
(Picador)
One of the most innovative mysteries in recent memory. –The Wall Street Journal
C.J. Box, Dark Sky
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
A suspenseful, action-packed yarn set in the vividly described wilderness.”–Associated Press
Kate Reed Petty, True Story
(Penguin Books)
“Unfolds like a mystery, flitting between genres to weave an inventive tale . . . that keeps you hooked until the very end.” –BuzzFeed
Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
(Penguin Books)
“Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” –Parade
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Trouble the Saints
(Tor Books)
“Expect a multidimensional approach to the context of the early 1940s, complete with World War II, being non-white in America, and misogyny, and how its characters imperfectly wade through it as they hurt, heal, protect, and betray… A wonderfully deep read for the forlorn New Yorker’s heart.” –Black Nerd Problems
Mark Billingham, Cry Baby
(Soho)
“How much tighter can Billingham turn the screws before his climactic twist? . . . Expertly grueling.” –Kirkus Reviews
Denise Mina, The Less Dead
(Mulholland)
“The Less Dead is at once a gripping thriller and an examination, and vindication, of a group of women who are often faceless, unsympathetic victims.” –BookPage
Emily Gray Tedrowe, The Talented Miss Farwell
(Custom House)
A page-turner about a con woman who steals from her town government to make it big in the art world. … A fantastic character—and compelling story. –Alma
Riley Sager, Home Before Dark
(Dutton)
“[An] outstanding supernatural thriller. . . . Sager, who makes the house a palpable, threatening presence, does a superb job of anticipating and undermining readers’ expectations. Haunted house fans will be in heaven.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
