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| Definitely Maybe Not a Detective by Sarah FoxWith her bestie's help, jobless Emersyn Gray creates a fake detective agency to scare her ex into giving back the money he stole from her, money that she needs to care for her orphaned seven-year-old niece. Then her Bronx building superintendent is killed and the other residents find her fake business card, leading her to team up with a hunky guy to solve the case. For fans of: Bellamy Rose's Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder; Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan series. |
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A Field Guide to Murder
by Michelle L. Cullen
Once a globe-trotting anthropologist, Harry Lancaster is now certain that all his grand adventures are behind him. Recently widowed and suffering from a fractured hip, Harry spends his days and nights behind a pair of binoculars, nose-deep in his neighbors' affairs. His millennial caregiver, Emma, is determined to get him out of his armchair and back into the world. Fate intervenes when Harry's mysterious neighbor, Sue, phones, pleading for help. But instead of rescuing her, Harry and Emma find Sue dead.
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How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
by Nina McConigley
A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British.
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| Murder at Donwell Abbey by Vanessa KellyWhen Emma Knightley, née Woodhouse, learns her father is to remarry, she's alarmed about having excitable Miss Bates as a stepmother and having to plan a betrothal party in six days. When Emma's maid is discovered dead at the festivities, most think it was an accident, but suspicious Emma uses her quick, observant mind to investigate her 2nd case. For fans of: mysteries featuring Jane Austen or her characters, such as Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen mysteries. |
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| Murder in Manhattan by Julie MulhernFor her Gotham Magazine social column, reporter Freddie Archer frequents speakeasies and parties, mingling with people like Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, and the Fitzgeralds. After a man mentioned in her latest dispatch is murdered, Freddie looks for the fashionable woman she saw him with, taking her from ritzy locales to gritty tenements in this fun 1st in a new series. For fans of: Katharine Schellman's Last Call at the Nightingale novels; Nekesa Afia's Harlem Renaissance mysteries. |
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| The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Rob OslerIn 1898, 21-year-old detective agency junior field operative Harriet Morrow investigates when a journalist who'd been looking into corrupt government officials is fatally stabbed in a Chicago tenement house. Going undercover, Harriet dons a variety of guises to get to the truth in her richly detailed 2nd outing, which also sees her find a girlfriend. For fans of: Stephen Spotswood; Lev AC Rosen; Cathy Pegau's A Murderous Business. |
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| The Italian Secret by Tara MossPI Billie Walker inherited her dad's office in Sydney, Australia, so when she finds old love letters, she books a trip to Italy to find the letter writer to investigate if her dad had an affair. Meanwhile, a client is killed, and Billie suspects the woman's abusive husband either did it or hired gangster Vincenzo Moretti. Then, Moretti appears during Billie's Italian trip in this atmospheric 3rd in an engaging series. For fans of: Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries. |
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Wolf Hour
by Jo Nesbo
From the modern master of Nordic noir comes a shocking new thriller set in contemporary Minneapolis, in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders.
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| The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur IndridasonRetired Reykjavik police detective Konrad declines to investigate when a terminally ill woman asks him to find the son she gave up for adoption decades earlier. But when the woman is killed and her apartment ransacked, guilt forces Konrad to look into the murder, and what he finds may connect to his own life in his 3rd outing. Read-alikes: Stig Abell's Death Under a Little Sky; Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series. |
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| Wreck Your Heart by Lori Rader-DayChicago's Doll Devine hopes to make it as a country singer, but for now she's singing at a tavern owned by Alex McPhee, who's helped her since she was a kid. When her estranged mom briefly shows up after 20 years, followed by a woman claiming to be Doll's half-sister, Doll doesn't know what to think, and then her ex is found dead outside the bar. For fans of: standalone mysteries with a strong sense of place and a wisecracking main character. |
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