Cozy mysteries don’t get any cozier than Joanne Fluke’s, and her latest in the Hannah Swensen series, Coconut Layer Cake Murder, is no exception. Hannah is a baker and amateur sleuth who’s ordered to take a vacation after a... Read More

Fulfilling the promise that “the last shall be first,” Khristi Lauren Adams’s The Parable of the Brown Girl is a moving call to power for black women and girls. Drawing on biblical stories and Adams’s personal experiences as a... Read More

Marlin M. Jenkins invigorates a potent mythology with his collection "Capable Monsters", which is grounded in the beloved Pokémon franchise and which uses its lines to navigate a queer, black life. With entries made original by the... Read More

Somer Sivrioglu and David Dale’s "Anatolia" presents Turkish cuisine in a way that challenges “old theories about Turkish cooking and creat[es] a few new ones.” "Anatolia", from the ancient term for the geographical area now known... Read More

In Sophie Goldstein’s "An Embarrassment of Witches", magic is commonplace, and two women juggle careers, romance, family, and friends. Rory, a recent college graduate, is cast aside by her boyfriend at the airport before a trip to... Read More

A suspect’s hobby, an overheard word, and a bottle cap knocked eschew: everything is a clue in Riku Onda’s riveting novel "The Aosawa Murders", whose terrible central crime cannot be solved too many times. Some cases capture the... Read More

An imaginative thriller, "The Water Column" suggests more rousing adventures to come. Aran Jane’s "The Water Column" plunges into a mystery from the get-go. Wolf Holzinger appears in a student’s Chicago high-rise apartment seemingly... Read More

The winkingly endearing stories of Nancy McKinley’s "St. Christopher on Pluto" function like a scrapbook, capturing life in a small Pennsylvania town through connected anecdotes that span decades. Before their neighborhood Halloween... Read More