I am a sucker for a good postmodernist novel, and Scarlett Thomas’ The Sleepwalkers is just that best sort of brain candy for readers like myself. I should have known from the Contents page alone that this was going to be a book that dropkicked to the curb the well-worn tropes of privileged tourists uncovering…

I’ve been writing thrillers for years and let’s be honest—thrillers take place in a dark space. While there’s room for some levity and dark humor, it’s, well, dark. That’s part of the thrill, after all. Exploring things that go bump in the night and, for an author, making your reader’s heart race as they turn the…

The Tudor monarch mystery that I never knew I needed came to life in Karen E. Olson’s An Inconvenient Wife. Taking the classic history of King Henry VIII’s six wives and setting them in modern day, Olson creates a truly clever novel. She explores not only what these women may have been like today, but…

Young Will Schumacher considers himself lucky. Though poor and often hungry, he has steady work as a reporter for Seattle’s Daily Star, and a guaranteed one meal a day at the lodging house where he boards. That’s a lot more than most can say in 1933, with the whole country in the throes of the…

Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra The latest novel in the award-winning Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy involved in a dangerous plot that endangers the life of the visiting Prince of Wales. Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong MacmillanAudio · Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong, audiobook excerpt Disturbing the Dead is…

Harry Dolan is a critically acclaimed author of series and standalone suspense. His David Loogan saga is comprised of Bad Things Happen, Very Bad Men, and The Last Dead Girl; his singular works include The Man in the Crooked Hat and The Good Killer. Born in Rome, New York, he majored in philosophy at Colgate…

Lisa Scottoline’s latest novel is an absolutely gripping page-turner, equal parts legal thriller and domestic drama as a family of lawyers strives to hold it together in the face of lies and violence. TJ Devlin has always been the screw-up of his high-achieving family. While his parents and siblings worked hard to establish the family…

Newlywed Meddy Chan is looking forward to jetting straight from her European honeymoon with her beloved husband Nathan to her family’s hometown in Jakarta. She’s excited to introduce him to her motherland, accompanied, of course, by her own mother and her mother’s three sisters, collectively known as The Aunties. Nathan has been so amazing about…

House flipper Whitney Whitaker and her cousin and business partner, Buck, are looking for their next project when they find a historic firehouse in desperate need of rehab in Nashville’s trendy Germantown neighborhood. Their plan is to renovate the building into a quirky single-family home, the kind of thing that will appeal to rich hipsters…

Sulari Gentill takes her keen eye for meta-textual literary mysteries and applies them to the conspiracy theory in this, her latest compelling novel. If you, like me, haven’t much patience for real-life conspiracy theories, that could make this book a bit of a challenge to enjoy, as the escapist fiction of its plot relies heavily…