Liz Moore’s best selling Long Bright River (2020) is both a very good thriller and a brutal examination of a community and a family destroyed by addiction. It’s the sort of book MFA students dream of publishing–literary, adored by critics, socially incisive. Moore’s latest, The God of the Woods, is–and this is a good thing–just…
I had no idea what to expect when I picked up this debut mystery. When I finished it, I thought, Crouch is gunning for Harlan Coben’s audience and she’s done a very good job. Like many of Coben’s stand alone thrillers, Middletide is, at its dark(ish) heart, a love story. Crouch’s prose is more literary…
This second book in Gregory Ashe’s new The Last Picks series of cosy mysteries picks up a few months after the events of Mystery Magnet, and finds our hero – Dashiell (“just Dash”) Dane settled in to Hemlock House, his friendships with the other ‘Last Picks’, and his… er… friendship (you keep telling yourself that,…
Get ready to lose some sleep! Alex Finlay’s latest, If Something Happens to Me, is so addictive you will gladly sacrifice a good night’s rest to get to the end. He had to change his name, switch colleges, and declare a new major. For five years, Ryan Richardson’s life has been defined by one night….
Popular author Ruth Ware turns paradise into a new form of hell in her latest novel, One Perfect Couple. Depending on who you ask, Lyla and Nico have been together for two-and-a-half years or three years. Nico counts their relationship as starting from their first hookup. Lyla doesn’t think that drunken groping was really the…
A Game of Lies is book two of the DC Ffion Morgan series. I recommend readers begin with the first volume, The Last Party, before starting this because that novel contains crucial relationship and character-building that will enrich your reading experience. And it is a heck of a good book on its own merit. Everyone…
The cosy mystery is not a genre I’m generally drawn to. I’ve read a few (mostly Josh Lanyon’s Secrets and Scrabble series and a few others) and the words “Gregory Ashe” and “cosy mystery” were not, until now, ones I’d have expected ever to see written in the same sentence. But here we are at…
How to Solve Your Own Murder is a cozy mystery set in a sweet little English village sporting one very peculiar denizen. When seventeen-year-old Frances is told by the fortune teller: Your future contains dry bones. Your slow demise begins right when you hold the queen in the palm of one hand. Beware the bird,…
Still See You Everywhere is the third book in the Frankie Elkin series, and deals with a serial killer, her sister, and a remote location that only looks like paradise from a distance. Perpetually broke, homeless, recovering alcoholic Frankie “has a gift for finding missing people,” which is why she is visiting the Mount View…
Tana French’s latest work, The Hunter, yet again solidifies her reign as the queen of literary mysteries. Set in the west of Ireland, it’s the story of a (somewhat) stranger who comes to town and the havoc his return creates. Taking this in are Cal Hooper and Trey Reddy. Cal is the retired Chicago detective…
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