Translated by Quentin Bates — The Hotel Manager’s Guide to Murder is the first in a trilogy featuring detectives Hauker and Dagný. You may be familiar with the stories of the big London hotels that discreetly take care of everything for their guests, even the quiet handling of a natural death in the night, managed
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As August 2026 gets underway we’ve got a selection of new crime novels for you that includes some familiar names, like Martin Limón, for example, and some writers who are new to us and might be new to you as well. Today’s report includes new books by Jessica Housand, Olly Jarvis, Liv Constantine, Nina Simon
Police investigations were something Damien Boyd became very familiar with during his 25-year career as a solicitor, which included a spell working for the Crown Prosecution Service. A crime fiction lover just like us, he began writing as a hobby and before long had begun the DI Nick Dixon series of police procedurals. Damien’s novels
★ My Inner Child Wants to Kill A few months back, I had the double pleasure of reading Karsten Dusse’s Murder Mindfully while concurrently bingeing Netflix’s TV series based on the book. Both were comically macabre, and I am happy to report that the follow-up, My Inner Child Wants to Kill, also translated by Florian
Goodreads’ selection of the biggest fall debut novels includes a mix of familiar names and newcomers, and a variety of genres and categories, making for an exciting season of discovery. These books hitting U.S. shelves August through early December include three big names—one from an unexpected space: Trying to fit more global settings into your
The Princess Trap Compulsively readable and consistently a delight, Talia Hibbert’s The Princess Trap is for everyone who watched Harry fall for Meghan and thought, “What if?” Read more View Original Article Here
“How did I manage to change from a regular girl into an immigrant with an accent?” writes Yevgenia Nayberg in the author’s note of her playful new picture book, Another Tongue. “Life is full of surprises!” she adds, noting how incomprehensible English was when she first came to the United States at age 19. Born
The first few days in a new school are always a little stressful and a little exciting, but, in Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly’s Classroom?, they’re also quite intriguing and strange. In her first week at her new school, Grace, who “always put[s] her hand up in class,” confidently volunteers to return a
BIPOC Adaptation news has been all over the place. One the one hand, we got a date for the third Black Panther movie, and an announcement on Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy is coming to TV. There was also the trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, which racked up 16 million views in only three
Honor & Heresy While his country wages a relentless war, scholar Roy Dawnseve is offered an alternative to enlisting as a soldier: Alongside the irritating but talented Percival Atherton, he must research Northgard’s ancient enemies in a mystical and harrowing library. Max Francis’ debut, Honor & Heresy, throws readers into its vast and detailed world
Every month, the Unusual Suspects newsletter has a roundup of the best mystery, thriller, and true crime books out that month. But not every mystery reader is a thriller fan, and vice versa. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of the mystery books on those lists into a collection: The Best
Plenty of crime novels poke affectionate fun at the genre, but few manage it so well as Graham and the Flitchcombe Murders. David Fairer’s first cosy crime novel is simultaneously an engaging village mystery, a sharp satire of modern publishing and an insightful meditation on the craft of writing crime fiction. Graham Tomlinson has built
We’ve already seen a taste of what’s to come. Last year, Ohio Republicans changed how libraries across the state were funded. Once the crown jewel of library funding models in the country, the state-level funding model was abandoned by Republicans. Instead, they moved to a local-level funding model for public libraries. An immediate result of
We’re cooking here in the UK and people all across the Northern Hemisphere are feeling the heat as the Earth’s temperature keeps on ticking up. We’ve got some red hot crime fiction for you this week as well, starting with Damien Boyd’s new procedural, Seeing Red. There’s some new Venezuelan crime fiction, the case of
The premise of Robert B McCaw’s new Washington, DC-based political thriller, Traitors, is that a group of five Russian sleeper agents has, over time, worked its way up into the highest reaches of the US government. The new head of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Robert Cooper, must try to identify them and
Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the end of the world as we know it,”‘ as Michael Stipe once sang. Our narrator, 23-year-old Haru, is one of the few people
AI is already everywhere, and readers may not be as good at detecting it as we think we are. Using AI-detection tool Pangram, researchers from Stony Brook University found that one in five of the 14,000 randomly selected Kindle ebooks in their data set contained more than 25% AI-generated text. Particularly notable is the finding,
Dark academia is more than just a subgenre. To some it’s a subculture, playing on the idea that hidden away in the shadows of an ancient university lies the potential for both romance and murder. Crime author RL Heber’s upcoming novel Faculty of Liars pulls on both these threads but unlike many dark academia novels,
Motherhood makes for potent storytelling material. Horror fiction about motherhood highlights the vulnerability and physicality of childbearing and childrearing and all its companion terrors. In The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro, motherhood’s many complexities are brought to bear in a story inspired by La Llorona, the haunt of Mexican folklore. After learning the barebones
Bestselling author Carissa Broadbent returns to her Crowns of Nyaxia series with The Lion and the Deathless Dark, the first in a new duology. It’s a fine entry point into Broadbent’s backlist of interlinked stories set in the same world, though it may be a richer experience for readers who have started at the beginning,
At the start of Christine Hartman Derr’s wonderfully empowering debut, Raven, Rising, Raven Miller is indeed at a low point. Her parents recently died in an accident for which she feels responsible, and she and her Aunt Coral have just moved to Bear Creek Falls, where she is immediately tortured by a popular girl, Stella.
As a young girl in 1940s China, Yut Ying realizes she has the power to turn invisible. This power helps her survive the abusive household of her father and stepmother in Hong Kong, but 40 years later, she is at risk of disappearing altogether. Yut Ying’s daughter, Marigold, must uncover her mother’s past in order
In the opening scene of Furious Violet, true crime writer Violet “West” Shelley wakes up in a pool of blood in a hotel in Salt Lake City, where she has been conducting final interviews for her book about a cold case murderer known as the Crying Killer. Sarai Walker certainly knows how to draw readers
“If you expect me to read it, you better put a murder in it.” This is what Canadian author Nicole Lundrigan’s mother told her, when she said she was going to write a novel. Like all good crime fiction lovers, Nicole followed her mother’s advice and now she’s ten books deep into her career as
In her bold debut, Dietland, Sarai Walker took on the beauty industry, gender equality and America’s weight loss obsession, all in one deliciously funny, skewering bite. With her sophomore effort, The Cherry Robbers, Walker put a twisted feminist spin on gothic novels in a story about the lone survivor in a family of six cursed


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A gritty, enthralling depiction of life on an Indian reservation, Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden was an excellent book by any measure. Published in 2020, it won an Anthony, a Thriller, a Barry and a Macavity Award. It also won Editor’s Choice For Best Debut that in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2020.


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