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New/Upcoming Mysteries & Thrillers April 2024
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Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (release date 4/16)When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife.
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The Last Word by Elly Griffiths (release date 4/23)Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House. They find themselves in danger when another murder occurs there.
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The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee (release date 4/2)In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword.
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Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky (release date 4/16)In the new V.I. Warshawski novel, the veteran detective is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Death of a master chef by Jean-Luc Bannalec (release date 4/30)Commissaire Georges Dupin investigates the murder of a grand chef in a local market run by another restaurateur with whom he had a very public feud, in the ninth novel of the series following The Body by the Sea.
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Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman (release date 4/23)Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked to his investigation.
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The hollow tree by Philip Miller (release date 4/2)After witnessing a suicide, investigative journalist Shona Sandison looks into the death and is led to a forgotten town in northern England and an insular group of classmates with a dark secret. Shona Sandison was first introduced in Miller's previous novel The Goldenacre.
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Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth (release date 4/23)Two women who escaped an overly strict home with a foster mother on are called back to their childhood farm and into the orbit of their former guardian, when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
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Toxic Prey by John Sandford (release date 4/9)When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport calls in her father Lucas to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
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by Don Winslow (release date 4/2)
A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the third novel of the series following City of Dreams.
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