In the compelling mystery novel "Hook", the social roles of killer and victim are reversed. In Steve Williams’s mystery novel "Hook", an investigation into a hit and run exposes trauma and revenge. From years of dedicated work on the... Read More

In the historical mystery novel "The Seer", a woman who makes her living selling lies faces the truth about her past. In Eva Shaw’s historical mystery novel "The Seer", a cunning young psychic is asked to use her abilities to uncover... Read More

Raj Haldar and Neha Rawat’s Word Travelers and the Missing Mexican Molé is an exciting middle grade mystery. After trick-or-treating on Halloween, best friends MJ and Eddie see a candy bar in their haul whose label is misspelled. This... Read More

In Sébastien Japrisot’s taut mystery novel "The Sleeping Car Murders", a woman’s corpse is found on a train that just arrived in Paris. The train originated in Marseilles, and the woman appears to have been strangled in the sleeping... Read More

The depths of madness, love, and myth converge in "The Hidden", Melanie Golding’s superlative fairytale-infused thriller. For Joanna, a detective and a satisfying heroine, an attempted murder and a missing child have hit close to home.... Read More

Tender and tortured in equal measure, Amy Crider’s "Disorder" is a mystery that gradually reveals itself to be a perceptive character study. In a wintry upstate New York town, literature student Diana has gone missing, and her roommate... Read More

A girl tells the story of how her mother killed her in Lily Hoang’s novel "Underneath". Arlene was only eleven when her mother, Martha, having already killed Arlene’s younger siblings, suffocated her in her own bed. Though Martha was... Read More

A flighty investigator distracts herself with the prospect of love in the lighthearted mystery novel "Lotty Enters the Building". Louise Embling’s cozy British mystery novel "Lotty Enters the Building" stars an inept but lovable... Read More