More Aaron Falk (!) for fans of procedurals and Australian crime novels. Aaron Falk deals with financial investigations as a federal investigator but takes a very rare leave from work to visit friends and his godchild. There, he’s plunged into a small community and the case of a mother who went missing one year ago from a busy festival, seemingly in front of everyone. Now Falk finds himself treading into people’s past and current relationships to untangle what may have happened, all while finally trying to find a personal life for himself.

For dark academia fans! J.B., Ramón, and Trey must adhere to the Urban Promise Prep School’s strict rules, which relies on extreme discipline to turn boys into men. When Principal Moore is murdered, the three boys end up at the top of the suspect list and realize coming together to solve the murder is their only hope of not being arrested.

This one is for fans of crime novels, crisis PR firms, and readers who have been anticipating a new novel since Harper’s last, She Rides Shotgun. Mae works for a PR firm that basically helps crappy people get away with things — her boss prides herself on rebranding the MeToo movement into the MeToo moment. Chris is no longer a cop and is now working in private security. The two are reconnected after a murder, which they decide to investigate, and they both start questioning whether their current place in the world of helping to cover up the crimes of the rich is really where they want to be. But more importantly, can they get out alive?

For fans of isolated mysteries, procedurals, and cold settings! Point Mettier, Alaska, has 205 residents living in a high-rise building, and a severed hand and foot have just washed ashore. A blizzard strands Anchorage detective Cara Kennedy in the small town, forcing her to team up with a local officer to solve the case. But with a nearby gang and a town full of secrets, it won’t be easy…

For fans of dark humor and social commentary! Geeta didn’t kill her husband, but since his disappearance, everyone believes she did. So much so that no one messes with her, they buy her jewelry out of fear of her, and some have started coming to her for help. And by help, I mean someone wants Geeta to murder her husband…

Tracy Clark has a great PI series set in Chicago, Broken Places, and now is starting a new police detective series set in the same city. Detective Harriet Foster is navigating a new team and new partner, while still grieving the death of her past partner, when she’s assigned a murder case of a woman whose body was left with lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Not only is Foster already up against a lot, but soon it’s clear she’s looking for a serial killer she must stop…

Nova Albright is found murdered the day after she was meant to be crowned homecoming queen at Lovett High. Not only was the crown meant as a win for Nova, but also for all the Black kids since it was the first time a Black girl would have won. Nova’s bestie, Duchess Simmons, is absolutely certain that Tinsley McArthur murdered Nova. Why? Because Tinsley comes from a long line of homecoming queen winners and would never let anything get in the way of her win. With no one willing to believe Duchess, she decides to prove it herself. But Tinsley isn’t above playing games, either…

For fans of secrets from the past coming for you! Twenty-plus years ago, a group of kids put away a serial killer with their testimony when one of them was attacked and survived. But now one of them is ready to release a secret and another to actually look into what really happened. And that just never ends well…

Let’s start with a nice change of pace: the husband, not the wife, is missing. Nina doesn’t think anything of her husband not coming home after their fight, assuming he’s just cooling off. But then days pass and clearly something is wrong. Her best friend Lily tells her husband that she thinks she was the last one to see Jake and his response is to never tell Nina or anyone about that. Except Nina is searching for answers…

This one’s for fans of cozy foodie mysteries! Lyndsay Murray is opening a West Indian bakery with her family in Brooklyn. The problem is Claudio Fabrizi, a bakery owner who doesn’t want competition, turns up dead after Lyndsay tells him off in front of a lot of people. Naturally she’s the prime suspect, so she’ll just have to go full sleuth to prove her innocence and point the finger at someone else!

For fans of funny crime books. Finlay Donovan is a single mom and author who spends most of her time trying to get out of the criminal trouble she’s somehow found herself in. For example: after the mob helped her out of a jam recently — while she was trying to stop a hit on her ex-husband that she accidentally stumbled upon — she now owes them a favor. She’ll just have to identify and find a contract killer for the mob. Oh, and it has to be before the cops do. No pressure!

For fans of past unsolved mysteries and puzzles! Steven Smith has just been released from prison and decides to dig deeply into a childhood mystery of his. His teacher had gone missing on a field trip, after he’d found a book he’d shown her where she thought the margin notes were code and clues to a puzzle. And to make this a bit more interesting, the book is all the audio files recovered from Steven’s iPhone…

If that title alone hasn’t already sold you, I’m not sure anything will, but here goes! This is a remote mystery nodding at the tropes of Golden Age mysteries. Ernest Cunningham writes self-published guides on writing mystery books and is forced to attend a family reunion at a ski resort. Which is when, of course, everyone becomes snowed in and the first body is found. Ernest has to put his passion for Golden Age detective novels to the test by solving the very real case he’s in.

Detective Stephen Lavender was one of the early Bow Street Runners, the precursor to the detectives of today. Charlton takes Lavender’s story and adds fiction, to charming results. Currently there are six Detective Lavender Mysteries, two of which are based on Lavender’s real-life cases.

Denvil’s readers enjoy her detailed descriptions of 15th century England, and are lucky enough to have eight volumes of the Historical Mysteries Collection. The cover claims you can read them in no particular order, although I’ll end up reading them in numerical order anyway.

As you can see from the photo, the Dublin Trilogy runs more than three books. In fact, it runs to seven volumes and is “the funniest crime series” many readers have ever encountered.

I will never stop recommending this cozy series by Vivien Chien. Her characters are delightful and everything about this (currently) nine book series is fun. I’ve taken to listening to them while cooking so they don’t leave me hungry for noodles.

Currently standing at 11 volumes, Messina’s cozy mystery series is sure to delight fans of historical fiction who like a little detecting and a scattering of delicious wit mixed in.

The Emma Frost series has earned Willow Rose the title “Queen of Plot Twists.” Stretching to 13 volumes, this series may find you oscillating between making popcorn and reading — or doing both at once during particularly exciting chapters.

Victor Methos is a former defense attorney-turned-author who has written many two-to-three book series, many of which are available on Kindle Unlimited. Dixon & Baudin, in particular, is a dark series about the grey areas of detective work.

Asha Kade was trafficked in her youth and is now a PI, burdened both with her past and the dying wish of an elderly acquaintance. In tracking down their family, she uncovers a deadly family secret — and that’s just in book one (of six, currently).

A best-selling novelist is found murdered in a locked room. Detective Kyochiro Kaga is tagged to investigate, and while doing so he recognizes a face from his own — and the victim’s — past. Higashino is an acclaimed author in Asia, and it’s delightful to see him getting recognition in English-speaking countries.

This book is her most recently published one. It’s two stories in one. In one story, a visiting Australian writer meets three strangers at the Boston Public Library when the silence is interrupted by a woman screaming. The four become close friends quickly. But the scream that drew them together? The woman is found murdered. The writer fears that one of her new friends might be responsible. The second story is about the writing of the story. There’s a series of letters from a writing partner to the author of the library story commenting on it and giving suggestions how to improve. It’s a thrilling narrative that gave me goosebumps.

This is Gentill’s Golden Age Detective Series featuring Rowland Sinclair. Set in the 1930s, he’s the younger brother in a wealthy landed family in Australia but has chosen a Bohemian life. He’s an artist living with his fellow artist friends in the family’s mansion in Sydney. His older brother and head of the family strongly disapproves of Rowland’s choices and the company he keeps. But Rowland manages to live his life…that is, until his favorite uncle is brutally murdered. That sets Rowland into the world of politics as competing factions of fascism and communism clash. It’s the first in ten books (so far)! In addition to being delightful mysteries, these books give me a sense of the historical forces in Australia in the 1930s.

This is Gentill’s other standalone book, a postmodern mystery novel. Madeleine d’Leon, the main character, is best known for her mystery novels featuring an amateur sleuth who works as a maid, but she’s got inspiration for a new character, Edward “Ned” McGinnity, a literary novelist. He’s thrilled to have written a new character for his book called Madeleine d’Leon. It feels like an Escher print in word form. The stories are interwoven and brilliantly combined. It’s a novel unlike any other I have found!

Let’s start with a heist on the Titanic — what could go wrong?! Josefa, Emilie, Hinnah, and Violet are each very different with one united goal: steal a jewel-encrusted book aboard the RMS Titanic. They have enough against them to make this a near impossible heist, but they may not even escape with their lives…

If you’re already a Truly Devious fan, run to this one! If you’ve never read the series, you can start with this one or with the previous one, The Box in the Woods. They both can read as standalones. However, the first three books in the series, starting with Truly Devious, are a trilogy and should be read accordingly. Okay, now that we’ve got that cleared up, let’s talk about Nine Liars. With her boyfriend studying in London high school, senior Stevie Bell convinces the principal to let her and her friends do a study abroad in London. Now, not only does Stevie get to be with her boyfriend, but she’s introduced to a woman with an aunt who once had two best friends murdered while the rest of the friends were playing a drunken, middle-of-the-night game of hide-and-seek. The case is still unsolved, and when the aunt goes missing, Stevie is on the case!

S. A. Cosby is the author of Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears, which were big hits. Now his debut novel, My Darkest Prayer, is being released. Nathan Waymaker is a former sheriff’s deputy and marine who currently takes on jobs where all other avenues have been exhausted. That’s how he ends up with the responsibility of making sure the local minister’s death isn’t ignored. Enter all the small town politics, corruption, and trouble coming Waymaker’s way.

While these can be read out of order regarding the cases in each book, there is a running mystery in the personal lives of the core characters that unfolds across the first and second book. Sunshine Vicram, a new sheriff because her parents got her the job without her knowing, is a single mom with plenty of personal life and work drama — including a raccoon terrorizing her partner. The case she’s currently working on involves missing women. If you like dark humor police procedurals and want to start at the beginning, pick up A Bad Day for Sunshine.

I will read every single book by Higashino that gets translated. He’s a great mystery detective author for fans of watching all the details and clues of a case unfold as it’s meticulously solved by a detective. Two things happen on the same night: a man is found stabbed to death, not where the attack happened; a man involved in a car accident is in a coma and had the murdered man’s wallet on him. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga is on the case to figure out why the stabbed man walked, injured, to die at the foot of a statue; how the other man came to have his wallet; and who committed the murder.

Here’s a social thriller focusing on climate change, and another author whose work I always read. Morgan Faraday thought her life was suddenly coming together: she’s going to marry Sebastian Reid, a billionaire oil tycoon who’s turning his company green. But too-good-to-be-true suddenly crashes into her life when she discovers it’s all talk and his company has caused several ecological disasters. She’s going to have to risk it all to find the evidence she needs to expose him…

Here’s a domestic thriller for “at all costs” fans. Taylor Hanson is being threatened by her father: her entire inheritance is hinging on her passing a drug test. Oh, and he is also marrying someone too close to Taylor’s age. So why not just get rid of the source of the problem? Thrown into her family’s orbit is Brandi Maxwell, a fashion house intern, who accidentally hears something she should not have at the Hansons’ party.

This is a perfect match for fans of cozy mysteries and family-run businesses. Sisters Juni, Tansy, and Maggie Jessup have opened up a music and coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas. Putting a damper on ownership, however, is finding a dead body in the supply closet and their uncle being arrested. When they bail him out and he disappears, it’s up to the Jessup sisters to figure out what is happening — and quick.

Ten years ago, Oliver Marks and six of his friends were attending a prestigious arts college studying Shakespeare. But with intense acting coaches forcing them to expose their insecurities, competitions for roles in their big production, and interpersonal drama, their friendships veer into dangerous territory, landing Oliver in prison for a murder. But now he’s out free, and the detective who initially investigated the case comes back to find out what really happened a decade ago.

Saffron Everleigh has the coveted position as Dr. Maxwell’s biology research assistant at University College in London, and also happens to be the only woman in the department in 1923. At a dinner party with her coworkers, the wife of Dr. Henry collapses, but was it a case of poisoning or just an allergic reaction? When police eyes turn to Dr. Maxwell because of a recent spat between him and Dr. Henry, Saffron is determined to clear her mentor before she loses her hard-won position in such a male-dominated space.

A decade after graduating from the renowned Duquette University, Jessica Miller returns for their class’s reunion, hoping they all see her as the perfect person she always wanted to be. But with the murder of her roommate haunting her and her old friends, forbidden relationships, and the cutthroat attitudes of the past back in the forefront, the reunion might not be so joyous after all.

After the death of a fellow student in the botany lab, Nell Barber is expelled from her PhD program where she was studying poisons. Obsessed with her mentor, she can’t let what she had slip away from her. She crowds her apartment with plants to study, dictating what she finds and the story of what happened in that lab in notebooks to her mentor, Joan. Hex is an exploration of devotion and what it can drive us to do.

Ines, isolated and off the rails, jumps at the free tuition, room and board, and amenities of the prestigious Catherine House school that produces bigwigs and household names in spades. There, she’s not allowed to contact anyone from the outside world, only focus on her courses. But when her roommate, Baby, dies, Ines is left wondering what happened and why the school seems so determined to get her to stop asking questions.

After years of hard work and navigating the racism rampant at their school, Chiamaka and Devon are selected as head boy and girl at Niveus Private Academy. But their status makes them a target of Ace, an anonymous account that posts their private photos and secrets for the world to see. The two must team up to take down Ace before the messages become dangerous for them both.

Mariana is a group therapist grieving over the loss of her husband. When her niece’s best friend dies while attending Cambridge University, Mariana returns to the campus to help. A secret society of female students, The Maidens, and a suspicion that Greek Tragedy processor Edward Fosca is the cause of the girl’s death collide, compelling Mariana to do some digging herself. But ancient traditions lie deep, and getting access into secret societies isn’t always the safest, especially when lives are at stake.

Jess leaves her family behind to pursue a degree at the University of Esat Anglia, studying Agatha Christie under her idol and English professor, Lorna Clay. There, she becomes obsessed with a journalist, Alec, despite his attachment to her new friend, Georgie. As the relationships between the students in the program get more and more complicated, tensions rise and Lorna Clay’s argument that artists must destroy their personal lives to create something great might just come true for them all.

Alicia Brenerson was an artist who seemingly killed her husband in cold blood and then stopped speaking entirely. Fascinated with her case, psychotherapist Theo Faber gets a job at the mental health facility where she’s being held to try to get to the bottom of what really happened. That proves hard to do, however, when the only person who was there refuses to speak a word.

Sydney, a recently divorced Black woman who moved in with her sick mother to take care of her, is doing everything she can to fight against the gentrification of her new neighborhood. She decides to set up a tour of the neighborhood to showcase its Black history with her friend Theo. But as their neighbors start disappearing one by one, quickly replaced by new white residents, Sydney and Theo just might be in the crosshairs to vanish next.

Jen’s son, Todd, is just like any other teenage boy until she witnesses him kill a stranger on the street. When she wakes up the next day, though, she realizes she’s moving backwards in time. Living through the past gives her the chance to find out what happened to the boy she raised and what brought him to that street corner with the bloody knife. And maybe, she thinks, she can fix things before it’s too late.

After the disappearance of two women and a 6-year-old girl on the same day, their families are left wondering what happened. When Delilah, the little girl, escapes her captors and returns home 11 years later, her brother is skeptical. She’s different than he remembers, but 11 years is a long time, and going through something like that is sure to change someone, right?

When a struggling Nora Watts gets a call from a couple about their missing daughter, she’s not sure she wants to get involved. But seeing a picture of the teenage girl brings her back to her past, when she gave up her daughter for adoption years ago. Despite the fact the couple shouldn’t have had any way to know that information after it was sealed, Nora decides to help, using her lie-detector skills to figure out what happened to the girl after the police refuse to track down the “runaway” teenager.

After her law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda gives over information and takes a job with the Bureau. They ask her to infiltrate a Black environmental justice organization in California the Bureau has its sights on. But as she gets to know the group and the people in it, she realizes the truth might not be so straightforward after all.

When Molly, a maid at the Regency Grand with a keen attention to detail and a need for clear social rules, finds the body of a long-time resident Mr. Black, dead in his room, she becomes the police’s prime suspect. Now, with her gran recently dead and her financials in disrepair, Molly’s left struggling to prove her innocence. With her love for puzzles and a few friends she didn’t know she had, though, she’s determined to figure out the secrets lying beneath this tragedy in the hotel she loves so much.

Jules, a magazine publisher, and Will, a TV actor, want privacy for their wedding. So, they bring their wedding party to a tiny Irish island to tie the knot and celebrate their relationship. Quickly, the lack of cell phone service and interpersonal drama have everyone on edge. And then someone ends up dead.

Chloe is one of seven college students who are offered scholarships to participate in a study. She, along with the others, is a diagnosed Psychopath, and a psychologist at John Adams is running a study on their daily habits. All she has to do is wear a watch and track her moods. Easy enough, right? But when one of the students turns up dead, Chloe and the others have to work together to figure out who the killer is, no matter how hard trust is to come by.

High school senior Megan and her classmate Nicole went missing from a beach party a year before Megan emerged, alive and telling the story of being trapped in a bunker in the woods. She turns her story into a bestselling book, inspiring the nation with her perseverance. But Nicole’s sister, a forensic pathologist, finds another body that’s seemingly connected to Nicole and Megan’s case, and it doesn’t seem to stop there. Together she and Megan must figure out who’s responsible before another body winds up in the morgue.

In this holiday novella, Davi’s beloved sleuth Sophie finds herself being roped into helping her sister plan a Swan Lake themed flash mob proposal. When the prima ballerina ends up murdered and the extravagant diamond engagement ring goes missing, all eyes are on the sisters as prime suspects. They must team up to clear their names and avoid spending the holidays behind bars or worse: on a slab at the city morgue.

Harry and her husband Fair are, to say the least, shocked when the Christmas tree that they’ve chosen for the holiday season comes decorated with the dead body of a local curmudgeon. When the bodies of even more of the well-known men of their community began to pile up, Harry knows that it’s up to her and her trusty feline friends to solve the mystery and stop the murders before she is added to the body count.

After her parade float is sabotaged, Merry, owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, believes someone has placed her firmly on the naughty list. When a visiting reporter who is severely lacking in the Christmas spirit is found dead, a gingerbread cookie from her best friend’s bakery is the suspected murder weapon, she knows that there is a malevolent Scrooge in their midst. Determined to clear her friend’s name and prevent her from having a very un-merry little Christmas, Merry vows to crack the case.

When one of Lila’s wayward cousins comes home for the holidays, bragging of his recent purchase in a successful winery, she suspects that trouble will soon follow. These suspicions soon prove to be well-founded after he is named as the number one suspect in a murder. Soon, secrets about him and the winery start being spilled left and right, much to the distress of her family. She decides to put aside her annoyance with her cousin, if for no other reason but the sake of her beloved Tita Rosie, and find out who is really behind the crime.

It’s Christmastime at the Buttercup Christmas Market and owner Lucy couldn’t be more thrilled. Between selling holidays gifts to meet-ups with her knitting circle, she has lots of ways to celebrate. When local citizen Randy is found dead with a knife in his back, the sheriff is convinced it was his wife. Lucy thinks there’s more to this and begins to investigate. As she does, she begins to discover that there was more to Randy’s life than anyone knew and that the suspect pool is much wider than she could have anticipated.

Tearoom owner Gemma is looking forward to having an actual white Christmas in Oxford with her loved ones. Those plans are derailed just a bit when they discover a body in the library at the manor they are staying at. Together with her trusted tabby cat and a group of friends affectionately known as the Old Biddies, Gemma vows to solve the case and still have time to sing carols by the fire.

Coffeehouse manager Clare is distraught when Alfred, the man who has been portraying Santa at the Village Blend for years, is brutally gunned down in an alley. Not believing that this was a random mugging, Clare strikes out on her own to solve the case of who did in her favorite Jolly Old Saint Nicholas. She will need to tread carefully, though, because anyone who is willing to kill Santa would have no trouble taking down a coffee shop owner.

In the days following the holiday, Sam joins her Nana and some of her friends on a shopping trip in the city. On the bus ride back, one of their fellow passengers drops dead on the way back. The women quickly put their heads together to solve this mystery and seek justice for the elderly gentleman. This one may be splitting hairs just a bit, since it takes place after Christmas. But it’s close enough, so I’m counting it.

In this chilling medical thriller, surgeon Steve Mitchell’s life is turned upside-down when he botches a surgery and his patient dies. Already facing possible career-ending questions, Mitchell’s safety is threatened further when it becomes clear that the death was no accident; that someone in the hospital is deliberately killing patients and setting Steve up to take the fall.

Set against the background of the flu epidemic that hit just after the end of the First World War, A Beautiful Poison follows Allene, a young socialite who starts to suspect that some of the deaths of people she knows cannot be blamed on the virus. Believing that a poisoner is at work, Allene starts to investigate, along with medical examiner Jasper and her close friend Birdie.

Part of Cornwell’s highly-acclaimed Scarpetta series, The Body Farm sees chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta investigating the murder of a young girl. Reaching dead end after dead end, Scarpetta turns to the titular Body Farm, a famous forensic institute where experts can study corpses in various states of decomposition.

Attorney David Ransom believes he’s been hired for a straightforward medical malpractice case, planning to take a doctor down for negligently causing the death of her patient. However, when he meets Dr. Kate Chesne, she tells him that she’s being framed — and when another body turns up, Ransom becomes more inclined to believe her.

The debut novel by the co-host of hit true crime podcast Morbid, The Butcher and the Wren draws on Urquhart’s own experiences as an autopsy technician. Forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is investigating a serial killer who carries out medical experiments on his victims, desperately searching for clues as the killer closes in on her.

Nurse Korede is used to cleaning up the messes left by her young, beautiful sister Ayoola, who has an unfortunate habit of killing her boyfriends. While Ayoola insists she always acts in self-defense, Korede is far from convinced; but she loves her sister, and would never turn her in. But when Ayoola starts dating Korede’s long-time crush, a doctor at the hospital where she works, Korede must decide who she will save.

After the death of her beloved grandmother, Lena Johnson, in an attempt to help pay off her family’s medical debts, takes a job at the remote Lakewood in Michigan. Lena’s new job is highly paid and, at first, seemingly low-stress — all she has to do is take part in some medical experiments. Drawing on the real-world horrors of the medicalised torture of Black Americans, Lakewood is a chilling medical thriller.

If you like a supernatural twist with your medical mystery, Strange Practice is the book for you. Dr. Greta Helsing runs a medical institute for vampires, werewolves, and other mythical creatures. Her life of happily treating her patients is disrupted when a cult of murderous monks starts killing the supernatural creatures that Helsing works with, and she must stop them before it’s too late.

This suspenseful thriller centres on Rachel, a successful and well-established GP, who finds herself crossing ethical and legal boundaries as she starts an affair with her new patient, Luc. As Rachel’s life begins to spiral out of control, with her family falling apart and another patient potentially stalking her, she feels that things can’t get worse — and then one of her colleagues is murdered.