The upcoming middle-grades mystery, Georgie Summers and the Scribes of Scatterplot, by Isaac Rudansky, includes secret messages in the beginning of…
When The Last One, by Will Dean, opens, Caroline/Caz and her boyfriend Pete are setting off on a romantic cruise…
I flew through The Body Next Door, completing it two days. I started it on the plane to Germany, after…
The Midnight Feast, the newest thriller from Lucy Foley, takes place at the opening weekend of a luxe resort. Francesca…
Passenger to Frankfurt is not my favorite Christie mystery, at all. The spy ones and conspiracy ones just don't work…
In Darby Kane's newest novel, What the Wife Knew -- just like in her previous novel Pretty Little Wife -- Kane gives…
I wanted to read this because I'd absolutely loved Taffy Brodesser-Akner's first novel, Fleishman is in Trouble, but I didn't…
I really wanted to read this Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 collection because it included stories from Theodora…
I'm just gonna lead with it -- I think The Murder on the Links is one of the weakest Christie…
Happy Ides of March! Obviously, the best way to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar is by collectively stabbing the…
Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, by J. G. Lewis, is a series of historical murder mysteries, in which the very…
Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera, investigates a small-town mystery when a true-crime podcaster comes to town. Years ago,…
Murder on the Christmas Express, by Alexandra Benedict, was a really wild ride, with Quality Street chocolates and a Christmas-themed pub…
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first Hercule Poirot novel. When this novel opens, he's already a retired detective,…
In the beginning of The Institute, by Stephen King, Luke Ellis is freakishly smart, a tween ready to dual-enroll at…
The Mall, by Megan McCafferty, is a retro, over-the-top YA story about mall culture and the summer after high school.…
After the end of The Mimicking of Known Successes, Mossa and Pleiti discover another strange disappearance to solve in The…
The Hike, by Lucy Clarke, opens with the dramatically terrible news that one of the four women on this hiking…
After the perfectly good YA Well, That Was Unexpected, and the perfectly good cozy mystery Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For…
I heard this one had Gone Girl vibes, and it sort of did, but I thought it was much closer…
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill, is a thriller around a novelist, working on a thriller that might…
So Lying in the Deep had so many elements I love in thrillers, but my overall feeling was much more…
Even Though I Knew The End, by C. L. Polk, is a sapphic romance and a supernatural thriller, all with…
I enjoyed In A Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware, but it has a bit of a slow start, with…
I just loved this Atlas Obscura story about old ladies and the tiny, tidy defacing of library books. Immediately after…