Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself, "Is she going to just keep...

Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath of World War I in this...

I didn't feel drawn into this novel of the horrifying serial killing of children of color in a small Virginia community and the...

The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...

LaValle mixes a Western setting with strong feminist messages, magical realism, haunting elements, and the terrifying, freeing truth in...

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Falls is primarily an exploration of a complicated, loving, messy family and each...

ICYMI: Morton masterfully weaves together timelines, threads of family history, and long-held secrets now revealed, while her main...

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E. Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of...

This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery with a neurodivergent main protagonist, small-town...

ICYMI: Morton offers a strong historical fiction mystery, with assumed identities, dual timelines, twists and turns, and a richly wrought...

Morton's newest historical fiction involves two timelines, a decades-old tragedy, and a modern-day descendant's discovery of her family's...

The fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell series offers more of Raybourn's magic: witty dialogue, an unorthodox partnership,...

Emma Makepeace returns with new enemies in her sights--but this time she must work undercover on a Russian oligarch's yacht without MI6...

In this installment of Veronica and Stoker's Victorian England mystery-solving, they enter a sinister, gothic scene--and despite spending...

This third book in McManus's young-adult mystery series keeps the surprises coming, ties new twists into early events from the series,...

Heller's newest suspenseful wilderness story is full of danger, wonder, and emotional ties; the unforgiving nature and beauty of the...

Book two of Thomas's Lady Sherlock series offers a robust dual mystery, clever female characters, priceless gems of insight from...

David Joy's mystery, Those We Thought We Knew, set in the North Carolina mountains, explores issues of racism, corruption, generational...