Darkrooms (2026) Rebecca Hannigan "A lush, moody mystery. Darkrooms is gripping and atmospheric, as two women wrestle with guilt and injustice."
Other People's Fun (2025) Harriet Lane "Thrilling, sharp, and hugely interesting. Like Jean Rhys and Patricia Highsmith, Harriet Lane writes with a gripping, inexorable sense of tension. Other People's Fun is very smart and darkly funny, a brilliant take on displacement, envy, and artifice. I couldn't put it down."
The Salvage (2025) Anbara Salam "A rich, gothic mystery, The Salvage has a moody, salt-drenched atmosphere, and layers of intrigue that span centuries. I couldn't put it down."
The Gatsby Gambit (2025) Claire Anderson Wheeler "Lively, smart, and fun, The Gatsby Gambit is both a clever murder mystery and a complex reckoning with a literary legacy. As charming as Daisy Buchanan herself, and as full of pathos."
Coram House (2025) Bailey Seybolt "Atmospheric and chilling, Coram House reckons with both the long aftermath of violence and the hazards of writing true crime. It is an eerie, suspenseful mystery, sure to find readers among fans of Tana French."
Death at the White Hart (2025) (Nicola Bridge, book 1) Chris Chibnall "A tremendous page-turner. Chris Chibnall marries a cool, sleek police drama with a warm, lived-in sense of his characters' inner lives. The result is exuberant, compassionate, and bewitching."
The Inheritance (2025) Trisha Sakhlecha "Menacing, smart, and absorbing, The Inheritance unwraps surprises through to its final line. You'll love being the guest of this irresistible, tangled family."
Death in the Air (2024) Ram Murali "Twisty and absorbing, Death in the Air is a knockout mystery with a dry, dark humour all its own. It has endless glamour in the old sense of the word: as a sinister enchantment, casting a spell."
The Return of Ellie Black (2024) Emiko Jean "Suspenseful and scary, The Return of Ellie Black is both a twisty, one-more-chapter-before-bed psychological thriller, and a haunting portrait of women fighting for justice, survival, and one another."
Kill Show (2023) Daniel Sweren-Becker "Riveting, original, and chillingly plausible, Kill Show is both an urgent reckoning with the ethics of true crime and a tense, twisty mystery in its own right. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."
Bright Young Women (2023) Jessica Knoll "Blistering and powerful, Bright Young Women is an almost unbearably vivid story of sisterhood and survival. With razor-sharp skill, Jessica Knoll deconstructs the myth of a criminal mastermind, revealing the women he seeks to destroy as the truly brilliant ones."
My Murder (2023) Katie Williams "Captivating and provocative, My Murder is at once a tense mystery and a bracing take on the realities of early motherhood. It's a sinister, daring thriller, with an absolute corker of an ending that I never saw coming."
Blaze Me a Sun (2023) (Halland Suite, book 1) Christoffer Carlsson "Blaze Me a Sun is at once a crime novel and a gripping study in how we struggle to understand our own lives."
People Like Them (2021) Samira Sedira "Icy and chilling, People Like Them is an investigation both of a crime and of the society that nurtured it. The novel’s precise, vivid writing brings to mind two other knock-outs from France, The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère and Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vignan. In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the beauty of a small French village, and the shocking acts of the people inside it."
Foxlowe (2016) Eleanor Wasserberg "Foxlowe is gorgeous and seductive. The story propels you toward an ending that feels both shocking and inevitable, and the last line is a stunner. I was completely gripped."
(b.1986)
