We Chase Shadows is a sequel-machine mystery that turns murder, trauma, organized crime, loneliness, marriage, grief, revenge, and global counterfeit-pharmaceutical rackets into one long string of quips. It wants to be charming, fast, warm, clever, international, and emotionally generous. Mostly, it is a baggy comic thriller that is so busy being pleased with its own […]
Miss Archer is a derivative dystopian literary-sci-fi novel that tries to combine The Handmaid’s Tale, Westworld, Never Let Me Go, Jane Eyre, The Truman Show, and a prestige-TV clone experiment, then expects the reader to treat the mixture as more original than it is. The book’s big idea is that a future artificial/intelligence ruling class […]
The Law of Attraction is a conspiracy thriller, romantic mystery, and meta-publishing novel about prediction, fate, manipulation, and the possibility that belief itself can alter events. Its heroine is Amy Shaw, a former Washington Post crime reporter now working as an assistant librarian at Harvard’s Widener Library while trying to sell a memoir about the […]
The Checkout Girl is a psychological thriller about obsession, class envy, reinvention, and the terrifying cost of wanting another woman’s life. It begins in June 2025, with a glamorous blonde woman walking into a Dublin supermarket with two little girls. She is rich, powerful, and beautifully dressed. She remembers Eleanor Nolan, “the checkout girl,” and […]
Dust Country is an outback thriller about a British backpacker, Beth Forrester, who tries to help a frightened child and is pulled into the path of a sadistic killer. It is also a survival story about heat, distance, male violence, and the terrifying emptiness of the Australian interior. The novel opens on Thursday with Inspector […]
Emerald Lake is a dual-timeline mystery and family saga set around a fictional Ontario lake, moving between the 1950s and the present day. It is narrated mainly by Jane Weber, an eighty-four-year-old widow dying of heart disease, and Officer Clair Mundy, a local police officer investigating human remains found in the swamp by Jane’s granddaughters. […]
No One Dies in This House is a comic historical-mystery set inside the House of Lords in July 1987. Its central joke is also its detective engine: because the Palace of Westminster is technically a royal palace, an ancient hereditary official called the Coroner of the Verge may still have jurisdiction over deaths inside it. […]
Nådeskudd is a new Harry Hole novel, but it is also partly an Oleg Fauke novel: a crime story about filmmaking, authorship, murder as performance, and the poisonous need to be seen. The Norwegian title means something like Mercy Shot or Coup de Grâce, and in the book it refers both to a final killing […]
The French Illusion is a kidnapping thriller built around an American honeymoon in Paris that turns into an international hostage crisis. The novel begins with one of its cleanest hooks: “The surveillance began on the third day of the honeymoon.” Paul Tanner and Chelsea Clayburn Tanner are attractive, privileged, newly married Americans visiting Paris after […]
A Sardinian crime novel, but also a book about narration, tourism, identity, journalism, middle age and the impossibility of fully “explaining” a place from outside. Its ostensible case is the murder of Antonio Maria Monni, shot in the countryside near the coastal town of Villapedrosa. Its deeper subject is Sardinia as both real place and […]