Distractions for Disorderly Times

Over the last several months, I spent a goodly number of hours researching crime, mystery, and thriller novels scheduled for publication during this new year. Two thousand twenty-five may be a turbulent period, filled with political rancor, economic disruptions, and unjust deportations—at least here in the United States. If those predictions become reality, the need for escapes of the literary sort will be considerable. Fortunately, 2025 will ultimately give us new fiction from the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Carl Hiaasen, Val McDermid, S.A. Cosby, Samantha Downing, John Connolly, Denise Mina, Stephen King, and other notable contributors to this genre.

But, you ask, what can we look forward to in the near term?

Well, among the fresh offerings due to arrive in bookshops between now and March 30—on one side of the Atlantic or the other—are Walter Mosley’s third escapade for New York City private eye King Oliver (Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right) and Elly Griffith’s first entry in a new series about time-traveling “cold case” investigators (The Frozen People); John Farrow’s Bright Shining as the Sun, his 11th case for Quebec police detective Émile Cinq-Mars; Kristen Max Allan Collins’ 14th posthumous collaboration Perrin’s How to Seal Your Fate, a sequel to last year’s How to Solve Your Own Murder; with Mickey Spillane, Baby, It’s Murder, marking an end to the famous Mike Hammer series; Scott Turow’s third outing for conflicted prosecutor Rusty Sabich, Presumed Guilty; Victorian Psycho, Virginia Feito’s account of “a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance”; A Serpent in the Garden, the opening mystery in what promises to at least be a trilogy from Howard Linskey, set in late 16th-century England and testing the espionage skills of one William Shakespeare; Simon Mason’s A Voice in the Night, his fourth pairing of mismatched Oxford Detective Inspectors Ray and Ryan Wilkins; Barbara Nadel’s East Ham Golem, introducing a couple of London gumshoes in a story that involves a most-peculiar corpse gone missing from a Jewish cemetery; Hang On St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty’s eighth case for Northern Irish Detective Inspector Sean Duffy; and When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth, described as “a rom com gone rogue.”

In addition, these first three months of 2025 will give us reprints of classic crime yarns. Last year was abundant with such welcome reissues, and we can look forward to still more coming soon, including books by Cornell Woolrich, Ethel Lina White, and Anthony Berkeley. Oh, and we cannot forget about all the crime-related non-fiction on its way. British writer Hallie Rubenhold, who penned a wonderful book about Jack the Ripper, 2019’s The Five, is back with a study of early 20th-century wife-murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen; and Nell Darby captivates us this month with her recollections of “the man who was once Britain's best-known private detective.”

The following list contains more than 425 books to watch for this season, covering a wide range of subgenres and storytelling styles. As usual, titles marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the remainder are novels or collections of short stories.

JANUARY (U.S.):
• Abduction of a Slave, by Dana Stabenow (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Ace, Marvel, Spy, by Jenni L. Walsh (Harper Muse)
• Agates Are Forever, by Logan Terret (SparkPress)
• Aurora Fragment, by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes (Severn River)
• Barracuda Bay, by Carmen Amato (Laurel & Croton)
• Beast of the North Woods, by Annelise Ryan (Berkley)
• Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
• Best House on the Block, by T.R. Ragan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
• The Big Empty, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation, by Michael Cannell (Minotaur)*
• Bronshtein in the Bronx, by Robert Littell (Soho Press)
• The Business Trip, by Jessie Garcia (St. Martin’s Press)
• Bye Bye Blackbird, by Elizabeth Crowens (Level Best/Historia)
• Chain Reaction, by James Byrne (Minotaur)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Pamela Dorman)
• Close Your Eyes, by Teresa Driscoll (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Crash, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Cross My Heart, by Megan Collins (Atria)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (Mira)
• Darkness Rising, by Chris Mullen (Wolfpack)
• Dead Money, by Jakob Kerr (Bantam)
• A Death in Diamonds, by S.J. Bennett (Crooked Lane)
• Deceived by the Light, by Damien Boyd (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Drowning Game, by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
• Eleanor and the Cold War, by Ellen Yardley (Kensington)
• Elita, by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (TriQuarterly)
• Empress Creed, by Tarris Marie (Kensington)
• Enigma Girl, by Henry Porter (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Family Inside, by Katie Garner (Mira)
• February Fever, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Fools Walk In / So Wicked My Love, by Bruno Fischer
(Stark House Press)
• The Forger’s Requiem, by Bradford Morrow (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Forget Me Not, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• The Forest of Lost Souls, by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer)
• Grave Danger, by James Grippando (Harper)
• Head Cases, by John McMahon (Minotaur)
• Her Prodigal Husband, by Becky Masterman (Severn House)
• Holmes Is Missing, by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (Little, Brown)
• In at the Death, by Judith Cutler
(Severn House)
• The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, by Vicki Delany (Crooked Lane)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Pamela Dorman)
• In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown’s Most Powerful Crime Boss, by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier (Citadel)*
• January Thaw, by Jess Lourey
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Johnny Careless, by Kevin Wade (Celadon)
• Karma Doll, by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland)
• The Katharina Code, by Jørn Lier Horst (Simon & Schuster)
• The Killer in the Cold, by Alex Pine (Avon)
• A Killer’s Code, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood, by Stacy Horn (Zando/Gillian Flynn)*
• The Last Room on the Left, by Leah Konen (Putnam)
• Leave No Trace, by Jo Callaghan (Random House)
• A Lethal Walk in Lakeland, by Nicholas George (Kensington Cozies)
• Loose Lips, by Kemper Donovan (John Scognamiglio)
• The Lost House, by Melissa Larsen (Minotaur)
• The Mailman, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Mysterious Press)
• Malma Station, by Alex Schulman (Pegasus Crime)
• Mask of the Deer Woman, by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)
• Murder by the Clock, by Rufus King (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Murder in the Dressing Room, by Holly Stars (Berkley)
• Murder on the Spanish Seas, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• My Bonney Lies Under, by Susan Cummins Miller (Artemesia)
• Mystery at the Station Hotel, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• The Naming of the Birds, by Paraic O’Donnell (Tin House)
• Never Blow a Kiss, by Lindsay Lovise (Forever)
• The Note, by Alafair Burke (Knopf)
• The Oligarch’s Daughter, by Joseph Finder (Harper)
• The Perfect Home, by Daniel Kenitz (Scribner)
• The Pot Thief Who Studied Calvin, by J. Michael Orenduff
(Open Road)
• Presumed Guilty, by Scott Turow (Grand Central)
• Pro Bono, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
• The Psychopath Next Door, by Mark Edwards (Thomas & Mercer)
• Queen of Diamonds, by Beezy Marsh (Morrow Paperbacks)
• The Queen of Fives, by Alex Hay (Graydon House)
• The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, by Astrid Dahl
(Simon & Schuster)
• Rebellious Grace, by Jeri Westerson (Severn House)
• The Reunion, by M.J. Arlidge and Steph Broadribb
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• River of Lies, by James L’Etoile (Oceanview)
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder, by Matthew Pearl (Harper)*
• Schooled in Murder, by Victoria Gilbert (Crooked Lane)
• A Sea of Unspoken Things, by Adrienne Young (Delacorte Press)
• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story,
by Pagan Kennedy (Vintage)*
• See How They Hide, by Allison Brennan (Mira)
• A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, by Asia Mackay (Bantam)
• The Serpent Under, by Bonnie MacBird (Collins Crime Club)
• The Seven, by Robyn Delvey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• She Doesn’t Have a Clue, by Jenny Elder Moke (Minotaur)
• The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne, by Kate Winkler Dawson (Putnam)*
• The Stolen Queen, by Fiona Davis (Dutton)
• Strange Pictures, by Uketsu (HarperVia)
• The Suicides, by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB Classics)
• Sweet Fury, by Sash Bischoff (Simon & Schuster)
• Tell Me What You Did, by Carter Wilson (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Texas Murders, by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Little, Brown)
• They All Fall the Same, by Wes Browne (Crooked Lane)
• Track Her Down, by Melinda Leigh (Montlake)
• A True Verdict, by Robert Rotstein (Blackstone)
• Trust Issues, by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands (Dutton)
• Turnpike Confidential, by Neal Savage (Brandylane)
• Vantage Point, by Sara Sligar (MCD)
• A Voice in the Night, by Simon Mason (Mobius)
• We Are Watching, by Alison Gaylin (Morrow)
• Wicked Jenny, by Matt Hilton (Severn House)
• The Winter Visitor, by James Henry (Quercus)
• Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made, by Eric Dezenhall (Harper)*

JANUARY (UK):
• At the Bottom of the Garden, by Camilla Bruce (Magpie)
• The Antique Store Detective and the May Day Murder, by Clare
Chase (Bookouture)
• Being Dead Is Easy, by Louise Sharland (Bloodhound)
• Black Tag, by Simon Mayo (Bantam)
• The Bone Fire, by Martina Murphy (Constable)
• The Bone Garden, by Simon Beckett (Orion)
• The Bookseller, by Tim Sullivan (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Bridesmaid, by Cate Quinn (Orion)
• Britain’s Greatest Private Detective: The Rise and Fall of Henry Slater, by Nell Darby (Pen & Sword)*
• The Broken River, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
• The Case of the Christie Conspiracy, by Kelly Oliver (Boldwood)
• The Cleaner, by Mary Watson (Bantam)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Headline)
• A Cold Wind from Moscow, by Rory Clements (Zaffre)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (HQ)
• The Day of the Roaring, by Nina Bhadreshwar (Hemlock Press)
• Dead Man’s Shoes, by Marion Todd (Canelo Crime)
• Death Comes in Threes, by Michael Jecks (Severn House)
• Death in the Arctic, by Tom Hindle (Century)
• The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead, by Antony Johnston
(Allison & Busby)
• The Doll’s House, by Natasha Boydell (Boldwood)
• An Ethical Guide to Murder, by Jenny Morris (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Famous, by Blake Crouch (Macmillan)
• Final Victim, by Gregg Olsen (Bookouture)
• Gone to Earth, by Jane Jesmond (Verve)
• Helle’s Hound, by Oskar Jensen (Viper)
• The House with Nine Locks, by Philip Gray (Harvill Secker)
• The Husband, by Daniel Hurst (Bookouture)
• I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin, by Katy Brent (HQ Digital)
• Into Thin Air, by Ørjan Karlsson (Orenda)
• The Killing Sense, by Sam Blake (Corvus)
• The King’s Court Murders, by Ellis Blackwood (Vintage Mystery Press)
• The Lake, by Rachel McLean (Ackroyd)
• The Last Truths We Told, by Holly
Watt (Raven)
• Lie of the Land, by Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Salt)
• The Lighthouse Murders, by Rachel
McLean (Canelo Hera)
• The Little Girl in the Wardrobe, by C.J. Grayson (Joffe)
• Love You to Death, by Rowen Chambers (Inkubator)
• The Man She Married, by Alison Stockham (Boldwood)
• The Mother’s Phone Call, by Victoria Jenkins (Bookouture)
• The Mother’s Secret, by Karen Clarke (HQ Digital)
• Murder as a Fine Art, by Carol Carnac (British Library Crime Classics)
• Murder for Busy People, by Tony Parsons (Century)
• Murder Mindfully, by Karsten Dusse (Faber & Faber)
• Murder on the Marlow Belle, by Robert Thorogood (HQ)
• Nightingale & Co., by Charlotte Printz (Corylus)
• Notes on a Drowning, by Anna Sharpe (Orion)
• The Perfect Boyfriend, by S.E. Lynes (Bookouture)
• The Perfect Guest, by Casey Kelleher (Bookouture)
• The Real Death in Paradise: Mystery, Murder and Mayhem—A True Story of a British Detective Fighting Crime in the Caribbean, by Richard Preston (John Blake)*
• The Resurrectionist, by A. Rae Dunlap (HarperNorth)
• Revenge of the Deadly Dozen, by Peter Berry (Bloodhound)
• A Serpent in the Garden, by Howard Linskey (Canelo)
• The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey (Swift Press)
• The Silent House of Sleep, by Allan Gaw (Polygon)
• The Sister-in-Law, by Joanne Ryan (Boldwood)
• The Storyteller’s Daughter, by Victoria Scott (Boldwood)
• The Stranger in the Room, by Luca Veste (Hodder Paperbacks)
• The Student, by H.M. Lynn (Boldwood)
• Sweat, by Emma Healey (>Hutchinson Heinemann)
• The Time of the Fire, by Emma Kavanagh (Orion)
• Tommy the Bruce, by James Yorkston (Oldcastle)
• The Troubled Deep, by Rob Parker (Raven)
• Vanished, by M.A. Comley (Independently published)
• The Violinist’s Secret, by M.J. Hollows (HQ Digital)
• What Kind of Mother, by Anna-Lou Weatherley (Bookouture)
• The Wrong Daughter, by Dandy Smith (Embla)
• Your Child Next, by M.J. Arlidge and Andy Maslen (Orion)
• Wild Swimming, by G.R. Jordan (Carpetless)

FEBRUARY (U.S.):
• Acts of Murder: Murder in a Small Town, by L.R. Wright
(Classic Mayhem)
• Afraid to Death, by Marc Behm (Arcadia)
• After the Storm, by G.D. Wright (Avon)
• The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea, by C.L. Miller (Atria)
• The Ballad of the Great Value Boys, by Ken Harris (Black Rose)
• Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall, by David Hewson (Orion)
• Battle Mountain, by C.J. Box (Putnam)
• Beartooth, by Callan Wink (Spiegel & Grau)
• Because She Looked Away, by Alison Bruce (Constable)
• Big Name Fan, by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (Kensington)
• The Black Curtain, by Cornell Woolrich (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Blackout, by Ethel Lina White (Crippen & Landru)
• Blood Ties, by Jo Nesbø (Knopf)
• Bonded in Death, by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
• Boystown, by John Shannon (Unnamed Press)
• Bright Shining as the Sun, by John Farrow (Exile Editions)
• The Call, by Gavin Strawhan (A&U New Zealand)
• Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, by Lisa Unger (Park Row)
• Cold As Hell, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• The Contest, by Jeff Macfee (Datura)
• The Crime Brûlûe Bake Off, by Rebecca Connolly (Shadow Mountain)
• Dead Fall, by A.K. Turner (Zaffre)
• Dead in the Frame, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)
• Death of a Smuggler, by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green (Grand Central)
• Death Takes Me, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
• Death Upon a Star, by Amy Patricia Meade (Severn House)
• The Department, by Jacqueline Faber (Oceanview)
• The Dollhouse Academy, by Margarita Montimore (Flatiron)
• An Excellent Thing in a Woman, by Allison Montclair (Severn House)
• Fagin the Thief, by Allison Epstein (Doubleday)
• Faith of Their Fathers, by Samuel M. Sargeant (Neem Tree Press)
• Famous Last Words, by Gillian McAllister (Morrow)
• Fatal Crossing, by Lone Theils (Arcadia)
• The First Girl, by Claire McGowan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ghosts of Rome, by Joseph O’Connor (Europa Editions)
• A Girl Like Us, by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go to Funerals, by Sharon J. Mondragón (Kregel)
• The Harvard Murders, by Robert Mrazek (Compass Rose)
• Ice Town, by Will Dean (Hodder & Stoughton)
• I Died for Beauty, by Amanda
Flower (Berkley)
• Into the Fall, by Tamara L. Miller
(Thomas & Mercer)
• An Island of Suspects, by Jean-Luc Bannalec (Minotaur)
• A Killing Cold, by Kate Alice Marshall (Flatiron)
• The Killing Plains, by Sherry Rankin (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Last Hamilton, by Jenn Bregman (Crooked Lane)
• Leo, by Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight, by Sara Gran (Dreamland)
• Little Vic and the Great Mafia War, by Larry McShane (Citadel)*
• A Long Time Gone, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
• March of Crimes, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Medici Return, by Steve Berry (Grand Central)
• Midnight Black, by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
• The Midwives, by Anna Schofield (HarperNorth)
• Murder in an Irish Garden, by Carlene O’Connor (Kensington Cozies)
• Nemesis, by Gregg Hurwitz (Minotaur)
• The Next Deadly Chapter, by V.M. Burns (Kensington Cozies)
• No Comfort for the Dead, by R.P. O’Donnell (Crooked Lane)
• Notes on Surviving the Fire, by Christine Murphy (Knopf)
• Nothing Ever Happens Here, by Seraphina Nova Glass
(Graydon House)
• Not Our Daughter, by Chad Zunker (Thomas & Mercer)
• Not Who We Expected, by Lisa Black (Kensington)
• One Minute More, by Robert Rotenberg (Simon & Schuster)
• Open Season, by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
• Oromay, by Baalu Girma (Soho Press)
• Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son, by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex (La Trobe University Press)*
• Paranoia, by James Patterson and James O. Born (Little, Brown)
• Partners in Crime, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Prey, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
• The Profiler, by Helen Fields (Avon)
• Pursued by Death, by Gunnar Staalesen (Orenda)
• The Queens of Crime, by Marie Benedict (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Quiet Librarian, by Allen Eskens (Mulholland)
• Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets, by Christopher
Farnsworth (Putnam)
• The Ruins, by Steve Wick (Pegasus Crime)
• Runaway Horses, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
(Bitter Lemon Press)
• Saint of the Narrows Street, by William Boyle (Soho Crime)
• The Second Grave, by Jeffrey B. Burton (Severn House)
• Secret Places, by Don Stuart (Epicenter Press)
• Shoot the Moon, by Ava Barry (Pegasus Crime)
• Sierra Bravo, by Les Roberts (Down & Out)
• A Slant of Light, by Kathryn Lasky (Severn House)
• A Slash of Emerald, by Patrice McDonough (Kensington)
• Smoke on the Water, by Loren D. Estleman (Forge)
• Someone from the Past, by Margot Bennett (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Something in the Walls, by Daisy Pearce (Minotaur)
• Spoiler’s Prey, by Robin Blake (Severn House)
• Stone Certainty, by Simon R. Green (Severn House)
• Their Shadows Deep, by Peter Golden (Lake Union)
• This Violent Heart, by Heather Levy (Montlake)
• Treasure Coast, by James Foley (Black Rose)
• Two Weddings and a Murder, by Alyssa Maxwell (Kensington)
• Unshackled, by Amanda DuBois (Flashpoint)
• Untouchable, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Victorian Psycho, by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
• We Don’t Talk About Emma, by J.D. Barker and E.J. Findorff (Hampton Creek Press)
• We Would Never, by Tova Mirvis (Avid Reader Press)
• Whiteout, by R.S. Burnett (Crooked Lane)
• Within the Circle, by Arne Dahl (Crooked Lane)
• With Love, Marjorie Ann, by Marcia Talley (Crippen & Landru)
• The Wolf Tree, by Laura McCluskey (Putnam)
• You Are Fatally Invited, by Ande
Pliego (Bantam)

FEBRUARY (UK):
• Belsay, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt (Ultimo Press)
• The Daughter, by T.M. Logan (Zaffre)
• Death on Ice, by R.O. Thorp (Faber & Faber)
• Declared Dead, by James Craig (Constable)
• Dirty Money, by Charlotte Philby (Baskerville)
• The East Ham Golem, by Barbara Nadel (Allison & Busby)
• The Enemy Within, by Rob Sinclair (Boldwood)
• The Frozen People, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• Gangland, by Jessie Keane (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Garden Club Murders, by Jonathan Whitelaw (HarperNorth)
• Give Him to Me, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review)
• The Glass House, by Rachel Donohue (Corvus)
• The Grave in the Ice, by Satu Rämö (Zaffre)
• Here Lie the Dead, by J.D. Kirk (Canelo Crime)
• The Hidden Dead, by Tracy Whitwell (Pan)
• How to Seal Your Fate, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)
• How to Slay on Holiday, by Sarah Bonner (Boldwood)
• The Impossible Thing, by Belinda Bauer (Bantam)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Century)
• In the Shadows, by Anna Smith (Quercus)
• Line of Sight, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Little Red Death, by A.K. Benedict (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Making a Killing, by Cara Hunter (Hemlock Press)
• Memorial Park, by Louisa Scarr (Canelo Crime)
• Mrs. Hudson and the Capricorn Incident, by Martin Davies
(Allison & Busby)
• Murder at the Orpheus Theatre, by Irena Shapiro (Storm)
• Murder in the Tuscan Hills, by T.A. Williams (Boldwood)
• Murder of an Oxford Scientist, by Fiona Veitch Smith (Embla)
• One Came Back, by Rose McDonagh (Trapeze)
• One Man Down, by Alex Pearl (Roundfire)
• One True Word, by Snæbjörn Arngrímsson (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Only Murders in the Abbey, by Beth Cowan-Erskine (Hodder)
• Other People’s Houses, by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
• Pagans, by James Alistair Henry (Moonflower)
• The Perfect Mother, by Claire Allan (Boldwood)
• The Quiet Wife, by Diane Saxon (Boldwood)
• A Scandal Has Wings, by Graham Donnelly (Book Guild)
• Scythe & Sparrow, by Brynne Weaver (Piatkus)
• Seven Lively Suspects, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• The Spiral Staircase, by Ethel Lina White (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Stolen Child, by Carmel Harrington (Headline Review)
• The Stolen Heart, by Andrey Kurkov (MacLehose Press)
• The Surf House, by Lucy Clarke (HarperCollins)
• The Ten Teacups, by Carter Dickson (British Library Crime Classics)
• That’ll Teach Her, by Maz Evans (Headline)
• To Pay the Ferryman, by Pat Black (Polygon)
• The Uninvited Guest, by Ruby Speechley (Boldwood)
• Wolf Six, by Alex Shaw (Boldwood)
• The Wonders of Doctor Bent, by Paul Crawford (Cranthorpe Millner)

MARCH (U.S.):
• Accidents Happen, by F.H. Batacan (Soho Crime)
• Allegro, by Ariel Dorfman (Other Press)
• All the Other Mothers Hate Me, by Sarah Harman (Putnam)
• Ambush, by Colleen Coble (Thomas Nelson)
• The Angel Deception, by David Leadbeater (Avon)
• April Fools, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Baby, It’s Murder, by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (Titan)
• The Banker, by Peter Colt (Severn House)
• The Beijing Betrayal, by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale)
• Blood Moon, by Sandra Brown
(Grand Central)
• The Boxcar Librarian, by Brianna Labuskes (Morrow)
• Broken Fields, by Marcie Rendon
(Soho Crime)
• The Cambridge Siren, by Jim Kelly
(Allison & Busby)
• The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck, by Tarquin Hall (Severn House)
• The Case of the Lonely Accountant, by Simon Mason (Quercus)
• Cat’s Claw, by Dolores Hitchens (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• City of Destruction, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Claire, Darling, by Callie Kazumi (Bantam)
• Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz (NYRB Classics)
• Count My Lies, by Sophie Stava (Gallery/Scout Press)
• Dead Man’s List, by Karen Rose (Berkley)
• Death at the Playhouses, by Stuart Douglas (Titan)
• Don’t Tell Me How to Die, by Marshall Karp (Blackstone)
• Fear Stalks the Village, by Ethel Lina White (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave, by Elle Cosimano (Minotaur)
• The Four Queens of Crime, by Rosanne Limoncelli (Crooked Lane)
• Galway’s Edge, by Ken Bruen (Mysterious Press)
• The Get-Off, by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
• The Gift, by Sebastian Fitzek (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Girl Anonymous, by Christina Dodd (Canary Street Press)
• Girl Falling, by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
• The Girl from Greenwich Street, by Lauren Willig (Morrow)
• Glory Daze, by Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus Crime)
• Hang On St. Christopher, by Adrian McKinty (Blackstone)
• The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, by Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies (McFarland)*
• Homicide in the Indian Hills, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Kensington)
• Human Scale, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
• If It Isn’t One Thing …, by Steven F. Havill (Severn House)
• I Would Die for You, by Sandie Jones (Minotaur)
• Killer Potential, by Hannah Deitch (Morrow)
• Kills Well With Others, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• The Last Days of Kira Mullen, by Nicci French (Morrow)
• The Last Visitor, by Martin Griffin (Pegasus Crime)
• Lethal Prey, by John Sandford (Putnam)
• The Library Game, by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur)
• Living Is a Problem, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• The Man Who Swore He’d Never Go Home Again, by David Handler (Mysterious Press)
• The Memory Ward, by Jon Bassoff (Blackstone)
• Midnight Streets, by Phil Lecomber (Titan)
• A Mother’s Love, by Sara Blaedel (Dutton)
• Mr. Whisper, by Andrew Mayne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Murder of a Recluse, by Jeanne M. Dams (Severn House)
• A Murder in Zion, by Nicole Maggi (Oceanview)
• My Sister’s Shadow, by January Gilchrist (Crooked Lane)
• No. 10 Doyers Street, by Radha Vatsal (Level Best/Historia)
• Nobody’s Fool, by Harlan Coben (Grand Central)
• Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging, by Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown (Verse Chorus Press)*
• One Bullet Away, by Dale M. Nelson (Severn River)
• The Other People, by C.B. Everett (Atria)
• Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club, edited by Martin Edwards (Severn House)
• Play with Fire, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen (Scribner)*
• The Reluctant Sheriff, by Chris Offutt (Grove Press)
• Retreat, by Krysten Ritter (Harper)
• Sacramento Noir, edited by John Freeman (Atria)
• Saltwater, by Katy Hays (Ballantine)
• The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne, by Ron Currie (Putnam)
• A Scandalous Affair, by Leonard Goldberg (Pegasus Crime)
• Serial Killer Support Group, by Saratoga Schaefer (Crooked Lane)
• Silent as the Grave, by Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles (Minotaur)
• The Socialite’s Guide to Sleuthing and Secrets, by S.K. Golden (Crooked Lane)
• The Summer Guests, by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ten Worst People in New York, by Matt Plass (Crooked Lane)
• This Book Will Bury Me, by Ashley Winstead (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Trouble Up North, by Travis Mulhauser (Grand Central)
• Tunnel Vision, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• Twice as Dead, by Harry Turtledove (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy)
• The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, by Emily Critchley
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Unlucky Ones, by Hannah Morrissey (Minotaur)
• Vanishing Daughters, by Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Vanishing Kind, by Alice Henderson (Morrow)
• Victim, by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• What She’s Hiding, by Art Bell (Ulysses Press)
• Where the Bones Lie, by Nick Kolakowski (Datura)
• White King, by Juan Gómez-Jurado (Minotaur)
• Witness 8, by Steve Cavanagh (Atria)
• The Writer, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker (Little, Brown)
• You Deserve to Know, by Aggie Blum Thompson (Forge)
• You Killed Me First, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)

MARCH (UK):
• Acts of Malice, by Alex Gray (Sphere)
• A Brush with Death, by J.M. Hall (Avon)
• The Bureau, by Eoin McNamee (Riverrun)
• The Burial Place, by Stig Abell (Hemlock Press)
• The Collaborators, by Michael Idov (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Corpse Played Dead, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Date With Destiny, by Julia Chapman (Pan)
• Death and the Harlot, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Death at the White Hart, by Chris Chibnall (Michael Joseph)
• A Death in Berlin, by Simon Scarrow (Headline)
• Death on the Adriatic, by Georgina Stewart (Constable)
• A Fortune Most Fatal, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
• The Friday Girl, by R.D. McLean (Black & White)
• The Grapevine, by Kate Kemp (Phoenix)
• Her Sister’s Killer, by Mari Hannah (Orion)
• His Truth, Her Truth, by Noelle Holten
(One More Chapter)
• Hollow Grave, by Kate Webb (Quercus)
• Hunkeler’s Secret, by Hansjoerg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Lost Man’s Lane, by Scott Carson
(Free Press)
• The Mouthless Dead, by Anthony
Quinn (Abacus)
• Murder at the Palace, by N.R. Daws (Orion)
• No. 2 Whitehall Court, by Alan Judd (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Not to Be Taken, by Anthony Berkeley (British Library Crime Classics)
• Paperboy, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Rest Is Death, by James Oswald (Wildfire)
• The Shadow, by Ajay Chowdhury (Harvill Secker)
• Sick to Death, by Chris Bridges (Avon)
• Smoke and Silk, by Fiona Keating (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Someone Is Lying, by Heidi Perks (Penguin)
• Son, by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• A Spy at War, by Charles Beaumont (Canelo Action)
• Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Doctor Crippen, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)*
• There Came A-Tapping, by Andrea Carter (Constable)
• A Trial in Three Acts, by Guy Morpuss (Viper)
• A Troubled Tide, by Lynne McEwan (Canelo Crime)
• Ward D, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth (Avon)
• When Shadows Fall, by Neil Lancaster (HQ Digital)

Nobody’s perfect, and that includes me. There’s every chance I neglected some significant work of crime, mystery, or thriller fiction when putting together this extensive catalogue. If you’re aware of one that should definitely be considered, please don’t hesitate to let us all know about it in the post’s Comments section. I shall continue to update this list through February.

Fine Fall Finds

There are a few new-release books I’m particularly looking forward to diving into during this final quarter of 2024.

Those include: The Black Loch, the surprising fourth entry in British author Peter May’s “Lewis Trilogy,” again starring former police detective Fin Macleod; Midnight and Blue, which finds Ian Rankin’s formerly illustrious but currently incarcerated Scottish sleuth, John Rebus, digging into the brutal slaying of a fellow inmate; Silent Bones, Val McDermid’s eighth novel featuring Edinburgh inspector Karen Pirie; Hemlock Bay, Martin Edwards’ fifth Rachel Savernake mystery, which has the amateur sleuth and her reporter colleague, Jacob Flint, mixed up with a surrealistic painting, a psychic’s prediction of death, and a man determined to do away with someone he knows nothing about; Black River, the book that scored Indian journalist-author Nilanjana Roy considerable acclaim when it first reached print in the UK last year; Karla’s Choice, penned by John le Carré’s son Nick Harkaway and extending the career of his late pater’s most famous spy, George Smiley; Murder Town, another Australia-set thriller by Shelley Burr, who wrote 2022’s WAKE; Quarry’s Return, a short novel that sics Max Allan Collins’ series hit man, Quarry, on the trail of his daughter—who he only recently discovered he had, and who’s now gone missing; Holmes and Moriarty, by Gareth Rubin (The Turnglass), in which Sherlock Holmes and his infamous adversary, Professor James Moriarty, team up to unmask someone determined to kill them both; and Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II, a non-fiction work by Abbott Kahler (formerly Karen Abbott) that looks back at a social experiment in the Galápagos Islands gone horrifically wrong.

As I said, that’s a mere handful of the myriad new books and reprints in this genre we can expect to welcome between now and the end of 2024. Even my lengthy critic’s-choice list below—comprising more than 400 crime, mystery, and thriller works, all due out on one side of the Atlantic or the other—represents just a fraction of what publishers are preparing for our reading pleasure, mostly in time for holiday gift-giving. There will also be fresh fiction by Lee Goldberg, Attica Locke, Ragnar Jónasson, Lynda La Plante, Martin Walker, Louise Penny, Sam Wiebe, Candace Robb, M.W. Craven, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Jo Nesbø, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, Paula Hawkins, John Banville, Paige Shelton, William Boyd, Jane Thynne, and others.

My colleague Linda L. Richards this month introduces Insensible Loss, her fourth novel headlined by a highly conflicted, female hired assassin. In a completely different vein, we can anticipate seeing Qiu Xiaolong’s The Conspiracies of the Empire, which once more revisits the legendary mystery-solving career of Judge Dee Renjie, about whom Robert van Gulik composed his own 16-book series, mostly in the 1960s. Brad Parks, who I remember best for his half-dozen tales featuring New Jersey investigative journalist Carter Ross (Faces of the Gone), is returning with a new standalone, The Boundaries We Cross, focused on a boarding school teacher accused of improper behavior with a student—only to have him subsequently become the chief suspect in her disappearance. Julia Dahl is out now with I Dreamed of Falling, the dramatic story of a small-town newspaper reporter, who, after his girlfriend perishes under peculiar circumstances, goes searching for answers that may put his own life at risk. Steve Hockensmith has two spin-offs from his string of “Holmes on the Range” western whodunits rolling out this season: Hired Guns and No Hallowed Ground. Rob Hart and Alex Segura have teamed up to produce a science-fiction spy thriller called Dark Space. Peter Lovesey recounts the 22nd—and concluding—case for Detective Peter Diamond, in Against the Grain. Laurie Notaro’s The Murderess exploits the true story of 20th-century “blonde butcher” Winnie Ruth Judd (previously the inspiration for Megan Abbott’s Bury Me Deep) to sordid and sensational effect. And Vaseem Khan promises a November UK release for his fifth Malabar House mystery, City of Destruction. (A U.S. version of that same title is expected in March 2025.)

Beyond those, keep your eyes peeled for re-issues of the final three entries in Len Deighton’s series about British intelligence agent Bernard Samson (Faith. Hope, and Charity), as well as new editions of celebrated works by Thomas B. Dewey, Nancy Barr Mavity, John Dickson Carr, and A.A. Milne (The Red House Mystery—a rare detective yarn from the creator of Winnie the Pooh). In addition, there are other estimable non-fiction publications coming that will likely draw attention from crime fans, among them Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II.

As usual, books marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the remainder are novels or collections of short stories.

SEPTEMBER (U.S.):
• The Accomplice, by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Amistad)
• Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime, by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
• The Alaska Sanders Affair, by Joël Dicker (HarperVia)
• The Art of Ron Lesser Volume 2: Dangerous Dames and Cover Dolls, edited by Robert Deis, Bill Cunningham, and Daniel Zimmer (Independently published)*
• Ashes Never Lie, by Lee Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Bachelorette Party, by Sandra Block (Scarlet)
• Bad Liar, by Tami Hoag (Dutton)
• The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, by Wright Thompson (Penguin Press)*
• Between Lies and Revenge, by Hannah D. Sharpe (Rising Action)
• Bitter Is the Heart, by Mina Hardy (Crooked Lane)
• The Black Loch, by Peter May (Mobius)
• Black River, by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, by Elyse Graham (Ecco)*
• Break Every Rule, by Brian Freeman (Blackstone)
• The Butcher Game, by Alaina Urquhart (Zando)
• But Not for Me, by Allison A. Davis (Bronzeville)
• Charity, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• The Child Catcher: A Fight for Justice and Truth, by Andrew Bridge (Regalo Press)*
• Cold Trail, by Taylor Moore (Morrow)
• Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
• Crooked, by Dietrich Kalteis (ECW Press)
• Crow Moon, by Suzy Aspley (Orenda)
• Dangerous Play, by Elise Hart Kipness (Thomas & Mercer)
• Dearest, by Jacquie Walters (Mulholland)
• Death at Dead Man’s Stake, by Nick Oldham (Severn House)
• Death at the Sanatorium, by Ragnar Jónasson (Minotaur)
• Death at the Sign of the Rook, by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
• Death by Misadventure, by Tasha Alexander (Minotaur)
• Death Comes to Hong Kong, by Wayne Carey (Bold Venture Press)
• Desert Reunion, by Michael Craft (Questover Press)
• Devil’s Island, by Midge Raymond and John Yunker (Oceanview)
• A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan UK)
• Each Dawn I Die, by Jerome Odlum (Stark House Press)
• Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II, by Abbott Kahler (Crown)*
• The Examiner, by Janice Hallett (Atria)
• An Eye for an Eye, by Jeffrey Archer (HarperCollins)
• The Eye Hunter, by Sebastian Fitzek (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Faith, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• Fatal Gambit, by David Lagercrantz (Knopf)
• Fatal Intrusion, by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado
(Thomas & Mercer)
• The First Light of Dawn, by Jefferson Glass (Wolfpack)
• The Forest of Lost Souls, by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer)
• Fortunate Son, by Andrew Bridgeman (Mission Point Press)
• French Quarter Fright Night, by Ellen Byron (Severn House)
• Game Without Rules, by Michael Gilbert (Union Square)
• Gaslight, by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Sara Shepard (Blackstone)
• Gina Washington Slept Here, by Katherine Bolger Hyde
(Severn House)
• The Glass Box, by J. Michael Straczynski (Blackstone)
• A Grave in the Woods, by Martin Walker (Knopf)
• Graveyard Shift, by M.L. Rio (Flatiron)
• Grounds for Murder, by Betty Ternier Daniels (ECW Press)
• Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke (Mulholland)
• Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty (Crown)
• Hired Guns, by Steve Hockensmith (Rough Edges Press)
• The Hitchcock Hotel, by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley)
• Hope, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• Hunter at Large, by Thomas B. Dewey (Stark House Press)
• I Dreamed of Falling, by Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
• The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler,
by Robert Hutton (Pegasus)*
• Insensible Loss, by Linda L. Richards (Oceanview)
• Istanbul Crossing, by Timothy Jay Smith (Leapfrog Press)
• I Won’t Say a Word, by Joe Clifford (Square Tire)
• Jeykll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives, by Tim Major (Titan)
• A Killer Clue, by Victoria Gilbert (Crooked Lane)
• Lethal Standoff, by DiAnn Mills (Tyndale)
• Lies He Told Me, by James Patterson and David Ellis (Little, Brown)
• The Lightning Bottles, by Marissa Stapley (Simon & Schuster)
• The Little Sparrow Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Madwoman, by Chelsea Bieker
(Little, Brown)
• The Many Lies of Veronica Hawkins, by Kristina Pérez (Pegasus Crime)
• Mark Twain’s Tales of the Macabre & Mysterious, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen (Lyons Press)
• The Mesmerist, by Caroline Woods (Doubleday)
• A Messy Murder, by Simon Brett
(Severn House)
• The Midnight Club, by Margot Harrison (Graydon House)
• The Moonflowers, by Abigail Rose-Marie (Lake Union)
• The Most Famous Girl in the World, by Iman Hariri-Kia (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, by Ally Carter (Avon)
• Murder at King’s Crossing, by Andrea Penrose (Kensington)
• Murder in an Italian Café, by Michael Falco (Kensington Cozies)
• Murder in Berkeley Square, by Vanessa Riley (Kensington)
• The Murder Room, by Lisa Stone (HarperCollins)
• The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024, edited by Anthony Horowitz (Mysterious Press)
• Nathan Heller: A Mysterious Profile, by Max Allan Collins (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
• Negative Girl, by Libby Cudmore (Datura)
• The Night We Lost Him, by Laura Dave (S&S/Marysue Rucci)
• Not Born of Woman, by Teel James Glenn (Macabre Ink)
• Not the Killing Kind, by Maria Kelson (Crooked Lane)
• Now You Are Mine, by Amanda Brittany (Boldwood)
• Ocean Drive, by Sam Wiebe (Harbour)
• Once More from the Top, by Emily Layden (Mariner)
• Out of Service, by Joseph Heywood (Lyons Press)
• Passiontide, by Monique Roffey (Knopf)
• The Phantom Patrol, by James R. Benn (Soho Crime)
• Precipice, by Robert Harris (Harper)
• Princess of the Savoy, by Prudence Emery and Ron Base
(Douglas & McIntyre)
• Queen Macbeth, by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Ransomed Madonna / The House on K Street, by Lionel White (Stark House Press)
• The Reaping, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Red House Mystery, by A.A. Milne (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Retrograde Flaw, by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes (Severn River)
• Robert B. Parker’s Buzz Kill, by Alison Gaylin (Putnam)
• Safe Enough and Other Stories, by Lee Child (Mysterious Press)
• Saving Susy Sweetchild, by Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
• The Serial Killer’s Guide to San Francisco, by Michelle Chouinard (Minotaur)
• Seven Lively Suspects, by Katy Watson (Mobius)
• The 17th Letter, by Dorothy Cameron Disney (Stark House Press)
• The Shadow Key, by Susan Stokes-Chapman (Harper)
• Sick to Death, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Swallow Press)
• Silver Moon Rising, by A.M. Potter (Stark House Press)
• A Slay Ride with You, by Vicki Delany (Crooked Lane)
• Snake Oil, by Kelsey Rae Dimberg (Mariner)
• The Solstice, by Matt Brolly (Thomas & Mercer)
• Suddenly at His Residence, by Christianna Brand (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Swimmer, by Loreth Anne White (Montlake)
• Syndicate, by Felix Francis (Crooked Lane)
• Them Without Pain, by Chris Nickson (Severn House)
• The Trap, by Ava Glass (Bantam)
• The Truth You Told, by Brianna Labuskes (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Tule Marsh Murder, by Nancy Barr Mavity (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• Turkeyfoot, by Rick Childers (Shotgun Honey)
• Under Cover of Darkness: Murder in Blackout London, by Amy Helen Bell (Yale University Press)*
• We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)
• What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust, by Alan Bradley (Bantam)
• When the Devil Drives, by John L. French (Bold Venture Press)
• Where They Last Saw Her, by Marcie R. Rendon (Bantam)
• Whispers of Guilt, by John Carson (Independently published)
• The Whitewashed Tombs, by Kwei Quartey (Soho Crime)
• Whole Life Sentence, by Lynda La Plante (Zaffre)
• The Witching Hour, by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
• William, by Mason Coile (Putnam)
• XPD, by Len Deighton (Grove Press)
• Zetas Till We Die, by Amber and Danielle Brown (Graydon House)

SEPTEMBER (UK):
• Because She Looked Away, by Alison
Bruce (Constable)
• Blood Ties, by Jo Nesbø (Harvill Secker)
• The Case of the Lonely Accountant, by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
• The Chidham Creek Murders, by Pauline Rowson (Joffe)
• Close to the Edge, by Anna Britton (Canelo Crime)
• The Darkening Hills, by Kerry Buchanan (Joffe)
• A Deadly Discovery, by Ciar Byrne (Headline Accent)
• Dead Town, by Stephen Williams (Joffe)
• Death on Dartmoor Edge, by Stephanie Austin (Allison & Busby)
• Getting Away with Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen, by Lynda La Plante (Zaffre)*
• Hemlock Bay, by Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Holmes and Moriarty, by Gareth Rubin (Simon & Schuster UK)
• How to Slay at Work, by Sarah Bonner (Boldwood)
• The Island of Lies, by O. Huldumann (Independently published)
• Isolation Island, by Louise Minchin (Headline)
• Istanbul Crossing, by Timothy Jay Smith (Leapfrog Press)
• The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural, by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
• Lights Out, by Louise Swanson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Living Is a Problem, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• March Roars, by Maureen Jennings (Cormorant)
• Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London’s Detectives, edited by Martin Edwards (British Library Crime Classics)
• Midnight in Vienna, by Jane Thynne (Quercus)
• Missing Person: Alice, by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
• Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West (Brabinger)
• Murder in Constantinople, by A.E. Goldin (Pushkin Vertigo)
• One Bad Apple, by Jo Jakeman (Constable)
• One of Us Is Dead, by Peter James (Macmillan)
• Opal, by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
• The Perfect Baby, by Sam Vickery (Bookouture)
• Poppy’s Christmas Cracker, by Leigh Russell (Crime & Mystery)
• A Reluctant Spy, by David Goodman (Headline)
• The Serial Killer Next Door, by Emma Kenny (Sphere)
• The Stalker, by Kate Rhodes (Simon & Schuster UK)
• A Suspicion of Spies: Risk, Secrets and Shadows, by Tim Spicer (Barbreck)*
• Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction, edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)*

OCTOBER (U.S.):
• The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit, by Evan Rail (Melville House)*
• Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, by Mark Aldridge (HarperCollins)
• The Amber Waves of Autumn, edited by David M. Olsen (Kelp)
• And He Shall Appear, by Kate van der Borgh (Union Square)
• Anna Hoyt, by Dana Cameron (Dcle)
• The Arizona Triangle, by Sydney Graves (Harper Paperbacks)
• The Bad Neighbor, by Jenifer Ruff (Greyt Companion Press)
• Banners of Hell, by Paul Doherty (Headline)
• Behind You, by Mike Omer (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024, edited by
S.A. Cosby (Mariner)
• Betrayal at Blackthorn Park, by Julia Kelly (Minotaur)
• The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
• Beyond Reasonable Doubt, by Robert Dugoni (Thomas & Mercer)
• Bloom, by Delilah S. Dawson (Titan)
• Blue Christmas Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Minotaur)
• The Blue Hour, by Paula Hawkins (Mariner)
• The Boyfriend, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Brew Unto Others, by Sandra Balzo (Severn House)
• Bronco Buster, by A.J. Devlin (NeWest Press)
• Brooklyn Kills Me, by Emily Schultz (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Case of Rage, by Chester Himes (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
• The Case of the Busy Bees, by Clifford Witting (Galileo)
• Catch You Later, by Jessica Strawser (Lake Union)
• Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge, by Kjersti Herland Johnsen (HarperVia)
• The Christmas Jigsaw Murders, by Alexandra Benedict (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zerán (Riverhead)
• Dark Space, by Rob Hart and Alex
Segura (Blackstone)
• Death Comes at Christmas, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Titan)
• Death Stake, by Andrew Mayne
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Disturbing the Bones, by Andrew Davis
and Jeff Biggers (Melville House)
• The Dry Diver Drownings, by A. Carver (Carver Culls)
• The Drowned, by John Banville (Hanover Square Press)
• Echoes of Us, by Joy Jordan-Lake (Lake Union)
• Eight Very Bad Nights: A Hanukkah Story Collection, edited by Tod Goldberg (Soho Crime)
• The Elias Network, by Simon Gervais (Thomas & Mercer)
• Every Moment Since, by Marybeth Whalen (Harper Muse)
• Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret, by Benjamin
Stevenson (Mariner)
• Exposure, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
• Gathering Mist, by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane)
• The Great Hippopotamus Hotel, by Alexander McCall
Smith (Pantheon)
• The Grays of Truth, by Sharon Virts (Flashpoint)
• Greta, by Manon Steffan Ros (Amazon Crossing)
• The Grey Wolf, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer, by Maxie Dara (Berkley)
• Identity: Unknown, by Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central)
• In Too Deep, by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press)
• It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, by Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey)
• Karla’s Choice, by Nick Harkaway (Viking)
• Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals, by Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi (Hachette)*
• Killing Time, by M.C. Beaton with R.W. Green (Minotaur)
• The Last One at the Wedding, by Jason Rekulak (Flatiron)
• Leave the Girls Behind, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Life and Death of Rose Doucette, by Harry Hunsicker (Oceanview)
• Lightborne, by Hesse Phillips (Pegasus)
• The Little Bird, by Ashby Jones (Addison & Highsmith)
• Long Time Gone, by Hannah Martian (Crooked Lane)
• Mandatory Reporting, by Jennifer Wilson O’Raghallaigh
(Seventh Street)
• The Man in Black and Other Stories, by Elly Griffiths (Mariner)
• The Mermaid Mystery, by Tamar Myers (Severn House)
• Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin (Mulholland)
• The Mistletoe Mystery, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
• The Mistress and the Key, by Ben Mezrich (Grand Central)
• The More the Terrier, by David Rosenfelt (Minotaur)
• Mr. Einstein’s Secretary, by Matthew Reilly (Macmillan Australia)
• Mr. Good-Evening, by John MacLachlan Gray (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Murder Among the Pyramids, by Sara Rosett (McGuffin Ink)
• The Murderess, by Laurie Notaro (Little A)
• Murder in Highbury, by Vanessa Kelly (Kensington)
• Murder in Lima, by Robert A. Levey (Cutting Edge)
• Murder on the Page, by Daryl Wood Gerber (Kensington)
• Murder Takes the Stage, by Colleen Cambridge (Kensington)
• My Darlings, by Marie Still (Rising Action)
• Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul, by Larry Millett (University of Minnesota Press)
• Mystery in the Title, by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson (Mira)
• A New Lease on Death, by Olivia Blacke (Minotaur)
• The Night Woods, by Paula Munier (Minotaur)
• No Hallowed Ground, by Steve Hockensmith (Rough Edges Press)
• No One Will Know, by Rose Carlyle (Morrow)
• Not Yours to Keep, by Zelly Ruskin (She Writes Press)
• The President’s Lawyer, by Lawrence Robbins (Atria)
• Prophet of Blood, by Peter Tremayne (Severn House)
• The Puzzle Box, by Danielle Trussoni (Random House)
• The Queen, by Nick Cutter (Gallery)
• The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, by Hisashi Kashiwai (Putnam)
• Rockin’ Around the Chickadee, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• Rough Pages, by Lev AC Rosen (Forge)
• Run, by Blake Crouch (Ballantine)
• Run Man Run, by Chester Himes (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
• Scrambled, by Jaime Maddox (Bold Strokes)
• The Secret War of Julia Child, by Diana R. Chambers
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey (Norton)
• Shallow Depths, by Milan Skrecek (Independently published)
• The Slate, by Matthew FitzSimmons (Thomas & Mercer)
• Society of Lies, by Lauren Ling Brown (Bantam)
• The Specimen, by Jaima Fixsen (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Sponsor, by Fred Das and Jeroen Terlingen (New In Chess)
• This Ends Now, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• This Girl’s a Killer, by Emma C. Wells (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Three Coffins, by John Dickson Carr (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• The Trip, by Phoebe Morgan (Morrow)
• The Treasure Hunters Club, by Tom Ryan (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Trials of Marjorie Crowe, by C.S. Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Troubling Death of Maddy Benson, by Terry Shames
(Severn House)
• Two Good Men, by S.E. Redfearn (Blackstone)
• Under a Lightning Sky, by Pam Lecky (Avon)
• The Undercurrent, by Sarah Sawyer (Zibby)
• The Usual Silence, by Jenny Milchman (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Waiting, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• What Are the Odds, by David List (Blackstone)
• The Wheel Spins, by Ethel Lina White (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Will End in Fire, by Nicole Bokat (She Writes Press)
• A Woman Underground, by Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press)
• You Better Watch Out, by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth (St. Martin’s Press)
• You Can Kill, by Rebecca Zanetti (Zebra)
• You Have Gone Too Far, by Carlene O’Connor (Kensington)
• The Young Widows, by S.J. Short (Avon)

OCTOBER (UK):
• And Then There Were None: The Ultimate Mystery Edition, by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
• The Bad Seeds, by C.J. Skuse (HQ Digital)
• The Bells of Westminster, by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
• The Burning Stones, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda)
• The Cursed Writer, by Holly Hepburn (Boldwood)
• Curtain Call to Murder, by Julian Clary (Orion)
• Dance to Death, by Shirley Ballas (HQ)
• The Dangerous Journey, by Frederick J. Hillberg (Brown Dog)
• Dark as Night, by Lilja Sigurdardóttir (Orenda)
• Dead Behind the Eyes, by Ian Moore (Duckworth)
• Dead Island, by Samuel Bjørk (Bantam)
• Death at the Old Curiosity Shop, by Debbie Young (Boldwood)
• Death Rites, by Sarah Ward (Canelo Crime)
• Dramatic Murder: A Lost Christmas Mystery, by Elizabeth Anthony (British Library Crime Classics)
• The Eleventh Grave, by Rachel Amphlett (Saxon)
• Guilty, by Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose (Headline)
• The Honeymoon, by Gemma Rogers (Boldwood)
• A Killer of Influence, by J.D. Kirk (Canelo)
• The Labyrinth House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Leo, by Deon Meyer (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency, by Josie Lloyd (HQ)
• Murder in My Backyard, by Ann Cleeves (Pan)
• Murder Under the Mistletoe, by Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Official Agatha Christie Puzzle Book (Laurence King)*
• Pay Back the Devil, by Graham Masterton (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)*
• Prize Catch, by Alan Carter (Fremantle Press)
• A Saxon Shadow, by H.L. Marsay (Tule)
• Silent Bones, by Val McDermid (Sphere)
• The Soho Murder, by Mike Hollow (Allison & Busby)
• Their Frozen Bones, by D.K. Hood (Bookouture)
• When the Germans Come, by David Hewson (Bloodhound)

NOVEMBER (U.S.):
• Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy, edited by Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer (Down & Out)
• All’s Fair in Love and Treachery, by Celeste Connally (Minotaur)
• Antiques Slay Belles, by Barbara Allan (Severn House)
• April Storm, by Leila Meacham (Harper)
• The Author’s Guide to Murder, by Karen White (Morrow)
• Big Breath In, by John Straley (Soho Crime)
• The Boundaries We Cross, by Brad Parks (Oceanview)
• Bright Segments, by James Sallis (Soho Crime)
• Burn This Night, by Alex Kenna (Crooked Lane)
• Call Me Carmela, by Ellen Kirschman (Open Road Media)
• A Case of Matricide, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Biblioasis)
• The Coldest Case, by Tessa Wegert (Severn House)
• The Conspiracies of the Empire, by Qiu Xiaolong (Severn House)
• Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Henry Holt)
• Death and the Old Master, by G.M. Malliet (Severn House)
• Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s, by Timothy Silver (University of North Carolina Press)*
• Death Takes the Lead, by Rosemary Simpson (Kensington)
• Devil’s Defense, by Lori B. Duff (She Writes Press)
• The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses, by R.J. Roger (Citadel)*
• Double Barrel Bluff, by Lou Berney (Morrow Paperbacks)
• Drop Dead Sisters, by Amelia Diane Coombs (Mindy's Book Studio)
• The Fallen Sparrow, by Dorothy B. Hughes (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• Fatal Foul Play, by David S. Pederson
(Bold Strokes)
• Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense, by Joyce Carol Oates
(Mysterious Press)
• Guilt and Ginataan, by Mia P.
Manansala (Berkley)
• The Gonif, by Andy Weinberger
(Prospect Park)
• Heavy Are the Stones, by J.D. Barker and Christine Daigle
(Hampton Creek Press)
• He Who Whispers, by John Dickson Carr (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Honolulu Noir, edited by Chris McKinney (Akashic)
• Hotel Lucky Seven, by Kotaro Isaka (Overlook Press)
• I Know She Was There, by Jennifer Sadera (CamCat)
• I’ll Be Home for Mischief, by Jacqueline Frost (Crooked Lane)
• The Indian Rope Trick, by Tom Mead (Crippen & Landru)
• An Insignificant Case, by Phillip Margolin (Minotaur)
• Kill Yours, Kill Mine, by Katherine Kovacic (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Lake of Lost Girls, by Katherine Greene (Crooked Lane)
• The Last King of California, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
• Men of Action: Behind-the-Scenes of Four Classic TV Series, by Ed Robertson (Cutting Edge)*
• Misery Hates Company, by Elizabeth Hobbs (Crooked Lane)
• Mr. Campion’s Christmas, by Mike Ripley (Severn House)
• Murder at Glenloch Hill, by Clara McKenna (Kensington)
• Murder at Whitechapel Road Station, by Jim Eldridge
(Allison & Busby)
• Murder in the Ranks, by Kristi Jones (Crooked Lane)
• Murder Town, by Shelley Burr (Morrow)
• No Special Hurry, by Colman Conroy (Koehler)
• Now or Never, by Janet Evanovich (Atria)
• The Nuremberg Papers, by Jonathan E. Lewis (Stark House Press)
• Out in the Cold, by Steve Urszenyi (Minotaur)
• Pony Confidential, by Christina Lynch (Berkley)
• Quarry’s Return, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
• Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero, by Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson (Citadel)*
• Robert B. Parker’s Hot Property, by Mike Lupica (Putnam)
• Safecracker, by Jesse Deroy (Union Square)
• The Saint, by Carin Gerhardsen (Mysterious Press)
• Shell Games, by Bonnie Kistler (Harper)
• Silent Are the Dead, by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane)
• Smoke Season, by Amy Hagstrom (Lake Union)
• The Starlets, by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorpe (Harper Muse)
• Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family’s Darkest Secret, by Hillel Levin (Crime Ink)*
• These Opulent Days, by Jacquie Pham (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• To Die For, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
• Tooth and Claw, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
• The Trunk, by Kim Ryeo-Ryeong (Hanover Square Press)
• Two Times Murder, by Adam Oyebanji (Severn House)
• A Very Bad Thing, by J.T. Ellison (Thomas & Mercer)
• We Three Queens, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• Widows of Medina, by D.D. Black (Independently published)
• Widow’s Walk, by Raemi A. Ray (Tule)
• You Can’t Hurt Me, by Emma Cook (Hanover Square Press)

NOVEMBER (UK):
• The Berlin Agent, by Stephen Ronson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Black Swan Mystery, by Tetsuya Ayukawa (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Blood Sacrifice, by Douglas Jackson (Canelo Action)
• Blood Will Tell, by Christian Unge (MacLehose Press)
• The Bologna Vendetta, by Tom Benjamin (Constable)
• Can’t Run, Can’t Hide, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Christmas Stocking Murders, by Denzil Meyrick (Bantam)
• City of Destruction, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Cut and Run, by Alec Marsh (Independently published)
• Dead Cold, by T.F. Muir (Constable)
• Deadfall, by Aline Templeton (Allison & Busby)
• A Deadly Fall, by E.V. Hunter (Boldwood)
• Death of a Princess, by R.N. Morris (Independently published)
• The Enigma Girl, by Henry Porter (Quercus)
• Firefight, by Tom Wood (Sphere)
• Ghost Island, by Max Seeck (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Going to the Dogs, by Pierre Lemaitre (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Ice Town, by Will Dean (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Killer in the Cold, by Alex Pine (Avon)
• Last One Left Alive, by Michael Wood (One More Chapter)
• The Last Ride, by Nick Louth (Canelo Crime)
• Liars Island, by T. Orr Munro (HQ)
• A Lively Midwinter Murder, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• Mr. Hogarth’s Morning, by Tom Braun (Troubador)
• A Mother’s Revenge, by Alex Kane (Canelo Hera)
• Murder at the Crooked House, by Lesley Cookman (Headline Accent)
• Murder in Vienna, by E.C.R. Lorac (British Library Crime Classics)
• The Neighbour’s Secret, by Sharon Bolton (Orion)
• Nothing to See Here, by Susan Lewis (HarperCollins)
• Palisade, by Lou Gilmond (Armillary)
• The Revenge Pact, by Liz Mistry (HQ Digital)
• Sizar, by Susan Grossey (Susan Grossey)
• A Thief’s Blood, by Douglas Skelton (Canelo Adventure)
• The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey, by L.C. Tyler (Constable)
• The Traitor, by Jørn Lier Horst (Michael Joseph)
• Traitor, by Roberta Kray (Sphere)
• Victim, by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• The Village Killer, by Ross Greenwood (Boldwood)
• White City, by Dominic Nolan (Headline)
• You All Die Tonight, by Simon Kernick (Headline)

DECEMBER (U.S.):
• Against the Grain, by Peter Lovesey (Soho Crime)
• Alter Ego, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
• Bellevue, by Robin Cook (Putnam)
• Booked for Murder, by P.J. Nelson (Minotaur)
• Buried Road, by Katie Tallo (Harper)
• The Case of the Missing Maid, by Rob Osler (Kensington)
• The Close-Up, by Pip Drysdale (Gallery)
• Deadbeat, by Adam Hamdy (Atria)
• Desperate Blonde / Dungaree Sin, by Lorenz Heller
(Stark House Press)
• Dogs and Wolves, by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions)
• The Door, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Echo, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
• Gabriel’s Moon, by William Boyd (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Good Bride, by Jen Marie Wiggins (Crooked Lane)
• Good Lieutenant, by E.J. Copperman (Severn House)
• Havoc, by Christopher Bollen (Harper)
• I Might Be in Trouble, by Daniel Aleman (Grand Central)
• Imposter Syndrome, by Joseph Knox (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Invisible Helix, by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur)
• The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America, by T.J. English (Morrow)*
• Leviathan, by Robert McCammon (Lividian)
• Locked In, by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Dutton)
• Love the Stranger, by Michael Sears (Soho Crime)
• Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Vol. 5, by Michael Bracken
(Down & Out)
• My Darling Boy, by Helen Cooper (Putnam)
• The Next Grave, by Kendra Elliot (Montlake)
• Nobody’s Hero, by M.W. Craven (Flatiron)
• October Bride, by Neil Albert (Independently published)
• Past Redemption, by David Mark (Severn House)
• Perfect Storm, by Paige Shelton (Minotaur)
• The Resurrectionist, by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
• The Rivals, by Jane Pek (Vintage)
• The Secret of the Three Fates, by Jess Armstrong (Minotaur)
• The Silent Watcher, by Victor Methos (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Snake in the Barley, by Candace Robb (Severn House)
• Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour, by Brett Battles (Putnam)
• The Survivors, by Caroline Mitchell (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Theft of the Iron Dogs, by E.C.R. Lorac (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham, by Marcia Clark (Thomas & Mercer)*
• Trouble Island, by Sharon Short (Minotaur)
• The Turnglass, by Gareth Rubin (Union Square)
• We Are the Beasts, by Gigi Griffis (Delacorte Press)
• What the Wife Knew, by Darby Kane (Morrow)

DECEMBER (UK):
• City of Silk, by Glennis Virgo (Allison & Busby)
• Death on the Prowl, by Ann Granger (Headline)
• Katya: Arctic Betrayal, by David Bickford (Coinkydink)
• Murder on the Brighton Express, by C.J. Archer (C.J. Archer)
• Murder’s Snare, by Paul Doherty (Severn House)
• Scotzilla, by Catriona McPherson (Severn House)
• Tea on Sunday, by Lettice Cooper (British Library Crime Classics)
• 36 Hours, by Angela Marsons (Bookouture)

I’m sorry for posting this list now, rather than at the beginning of September, as I had planned to do. But life got in the way. Let’s hope these recommendations are received well, nonetheless. If you think I’ve missed mentioning any works of special merit, please don’t hesitate to let us all know about them in the post’s Comments section.