A lonely, stubborn teenager struggles to adjust to life in America in Juliana Delgado Lopera’s gripping novel, "Fiebre Tropical". Francisca’s life is upended when her recently divorced mother drags her family from Colombia to... Read More

Look forward to gorging on wit, food history, and strong opinions in Jay Rayner’s Last Supper, an entertaining, bon mots-studded consideration of the feast that the British journalist threw for a lucky circle of loved ones following... 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

"The Black Suitcase Mystery" looks back on a loving project that put couples, children, and combat veterans into conversation with one another. Gail Elliott Downs’s surprising education memoir "The Black Suitcase Mystery" recalls how... Read More

In this complex story about revenge and finding one’s calling, the characters are the stars. In Jim Dutton’s character-driven crime thriller "Path to Revenge", a case around a Mexican drug cartel seems like it’s business as usual,... Read More

Hinging on the question of whether it is sometimes necessary to kill in order to stop evil, Walker’s Key is a satisfying and dramatic historical novel. Set in the Florida Keys, Frank B. Haddleton’s suspenseful historical novel... Read More

Ronald S. Barak’s latest Brooks/Lotello thriller, "Payback", is a whodunit that takes place at the Thriller Jubilee, a mystery writers’ conference on a Spanish island. Cyrus Brooks, a retired federal court judge, and Frank Lotello, a... Read More