Top 10

The Accomplice

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Amistad, Sept. 3 ($27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-331290-6)

The first Black female Texas Ranger enters a deadly game of cat and mouse with a Vietnam vet turned diamond thief in the rapper’s debut novel.

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel

Walter Mosley. Mulholland, Jan. 28 ($29, ISBN 978-0-316-57326-9)

Jazz musician Joe “King” Oliver tries to track down his estranged father while protecting a woman and her daughter from a violent billionaire.

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins. Mariner, Oct. 29 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-339652-4)

When experts determine that a sculpture by late artist Vanessa Chapman contains human bone, the discovery leads the manager of her estate to interview the companion who lived with Chapman on a remote Scottish Isle.

Imposter Syndrome

Joseph Knox. Sourcebooks Landmark, Dec. 10 ($17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-1926-9)

A wealthy London family hires a con man who looks like their missing son to help them track him down. After the con man realizes he’s imitating a criminal who’s angered his accomplices, the job goes sideways.

Johnny Careless

Kevin Wade. Celadon, Jan. 28 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-35510-2)

Former NYPD detective Jeep Mullane discovers his best friend’s body after returning home to Long Island. Despite warnings from the dead man’s family, Jeep launches an investigation.

The Many Lies of Veronica Hawkins

Kristina Pérez. Pegasus Crime, Sept. 3 ($27.95, ISBN 978-1-63936-771-9)

A newlywed moves to Hong Kong and falls under the spell of a glamorous socialite who suddenly disappears. In the aftermath, questions emerge about the missing woman’s true identity.

The Rivals

Jane Pek. Vintage, Dec. 3 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-47015-2)

While running a New York City detective agency that ferrets out fraudulent dating profiles, Claudia Lin stumbles on a corporate conspiracy plaguing dating apps. Soon, evidence emerges that its perpetrators are willing to kill to protect their secrets.

The Seventh Floor

David McCloskey. Norton, Oct. 1 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-08668-0)

A disgraced CIA officer teams up with an on-the-lam former agent to track down a Russian mole within the agency’s upper ranks.

Sweet Fury

Sash Bischoff. Simon & Schuster, Jan. 7 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-4325-7)

When an actor and her fiancé start working on a feminist adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
Tender Is the Night, it prompts a violent eruption of jealousy and revenge among their peers.

Those Opulent Days

Jacquie Pham. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 12 ($27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6380-6)

After four childhood friends gather at a mansion in 1928 Saigon, one of them is murdered.
Pham alternates between the perspectives of their mothers, servants, and lovers to illuminate
the tragedy and highlight its ties to French colonialism.

Mysteries & Thrillers longlist

Akashic

Honolulu Noir, edited by Chris McKinney (Nov. 5, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63614-198-5). For the latest entry in Akashic’s regional noir series, 13 writers deliver crime stories that complicate the perception of Hawaii as a paradise.

Arcade

To the Kennels: And Other Stories by Hye-young Pyun, trans. by Sora Kim-Russell and Heinz Insu Fenkl (Oct. 1, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-956763-66-9). South Korean bestseller Pyun compiles eight of her off-kilter, noirish stories that pull from folk tales and contemporary Korean history.

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Forger’s Requiem by Bradford Morrow (Jan. 14, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6415-5). In Morrow’s final Forger novel, art crook Will squares off against his nemesis, Henry Slader, one last time. Meanwhile, Will’s daughter tries her own hand at forgery.

Atria

Now or Never by Janet Evanovich (Nov. 5, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0313-8). New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum returns to take on a case that could shatter her already fragile personal life.

Ballantine

The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella by Nita Prose (Oct. 1, $22, ISBN 978-0-593-87544-5). Regency Grand Hotel maid Molly Gray questions her new romance when a Secret Santa gift exchange goes sideways in this follow-up to The Mystery Guest.

Bantam

The Trap by Ava Glass (Sept. 3, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-97219-9). En route to the G7 summit in Edinburgh, British spy Emma Makepeace receives a tip that Russian forces are planning an assassination there, leaving her to figure out who the target might be.

Berkley

You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Aug. 20, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-54694-9). Two influencers and former friends play a dangerous game of cat and mouse after one gains access to the other’s social media accounts.

Blackstone

Gaslight by Sara Shepard and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte (Sept. 17, $26.99, ISBN 979-8-212-18922-4). When Rebecca’s friend, Danny, comes knocking at her door one morning, it brings back memories of their time in a dangerous cult. Rebecca has moved on, and Danny claims she has, too. Can Rebecca trust her?

CamCat

Burnt Ends by Laura Wetsel (Sept. 24, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-7443-1121-1). Kansas City PI Tori Swenson’s uncle dies while she’s investigating a murder at one of his restaurants. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone wants to topple her family’s barbecue empire.

Crooked Lane

After Oz by Gordon McAlpine (Aug. 6, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-63910-785-8) adapts The Wizard of Oz into a psychological thriller. Eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale goes missing, then reappears and swears she visited a magical land populated by talking lions and tin men. When police discover the body of an old woman who matches Dorothy’s descriptions of an evil witch, Dorothy becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

Delacorte

In Too Deep: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee and Andrew Child (Oct. 22, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-72580-1) finds the action hero handcuffed to a bed in a run-down hospital, stripped of his belongings and his short-term memory. How much ass will he have to kick, precisely, before he’s freed?

Doubleday

Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book by Kate Atkinson (Sept. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-385-54799-4). Yorkshire PI Brodie gets stranded in a snowstorm with a vicar, a soldier, and a dowager. In classic Agatha Christie fashion, people start dying.

Dutton

Locked in: A Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, trans. by Caroline Waight (Dec. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-47569-0). The reopening of a cold case threatens to put Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck behind bars when he’s framed for drug trafficking and murder by unsavory people from his past.

Flatiron

Nobody’s Hero by M.W. Craven (Dec. 3, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-86459-8). In this sequel to Fearless, Ben Koenig—born without the ability to feel fear—searches for a woman he helped into hiding years ago who’s at the center of a murder investigation with dire political implications.

Forge

Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen (Oct. 1, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-32244-9). Gay detective Andy Mills tries to track down a missing bookseller known for surreptitiously providing queer books to a long list of clients in 1950s San Francisco.

Grand Central

Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell (Oct. 15, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-7038-2). Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta reminisces about a long-ago summer fling when she’s called to
the scene of her former lover’s murder, which is surrounded by strange crop circles.

Graydon House

Zetas Till We Die by Amber and Danielle Brown (Dec. 3, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5258-3671-8). A group of college friends gather to remember their sorority sister, Lupe, on the 10th anniversary of her murder. Then one of them goes missing.

Hanover Square

The Drowned by John Banville (Oct. 1, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-335-00059-0). In a rural Irish town during the 1950s, a bizarre missing person’s case in which a husband claims his wife jumped into the sea digs up personal secrets for Det. Insp. Strafford and pathologist Quirke.

Hard Case Crime

Too Many Bullets by Max Allan Collins (Sept. 3, $15.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-78909-948-5). The Road to Perdition author puts “private eye to the stars” Nathan Heller on the case of finding out who really killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

Harper

Rip Tide by Colleen McKeegan (Aug. 13, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-330554-0). After 15 years away, two sisters return to their coastal New Jersey childhood home, only for past conflicts to resurface when a corpse turns up near the local yacht club.

Harper Paperbacks

The Arizona Triangle: A Jo Bailen Detective Novel by Sydney Graves (Oct. 22, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-337999-2). A queer PI who works for an all-female Arizona detective agency is pulled back to her hometown when she learns that her childhood best friend is missing.

Holt

Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney (Nov. 12, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-35759-5). A roadkill-obsessed teen finds her classmate’s body on the side of the highway and decides to track down his killer herself.

Kensington

The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap (Dec. 24, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-5034-1). In 1828 Scotland,
medical student James Willoughby cozies up to a charming “body snatcher,” who robs graves for anatomical research. Soon, James is ensnared in a deadly conflict between rival grave robbers.

Knopf

Fatal Gambit by David Lagercrantz (Aug. 20, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-31923-9). A man spots his supposedly dead wife in a photo taken 14 years after her funeral. While Swedish investigators Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargis investigate, Hans’s daughter starts dating a boy with ties to her father’s past.

Little, Brown

The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly (Nov. 5, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-56379-6). After new DNA evidence emerges, LAPD detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch’s daughter, Maddie, to track down a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold.

Mariner

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (Oct. 22, $19.99, ISBN 978-0-06-341286-6). Self-help author Ernest Cunningham gets wrapped up in a yuletide mystery involving the murder of famous magician Ryan Blaze’s benefactor.

Melville House

Disturbing the Bones by Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers (Oct. 15, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-68589-145-9). An archaeologist discovers unclassifiable bones at a highway construction project in Chicago, catching the attention of a local detective and threatening to derail an in-progress global peace summit.

MINOTAUR

The Dark Wives: A Vera Stanhope Novel by Ann Cleeves (Aug. 27, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-83684-7). Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope comes face-to-face with a frightening folk legend when she investigates the death of an employee at a home for troubled children in a coastal English village.

MIRA

The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan (Jan. 21, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-6811-3). An investigator who helped bring down an Irish serial killer 30 years ago has her quiet coastal life upended when a copycat strikes.

Morrow

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright (Aug. 13, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-296358-1). In 1980s Mississippi, PI Clementine Baldwin investigates the murder of a hit man in her declining, racially divided hometown of Meridian.

This Is Why We Lied: A Will Trent Thriller by Karin Slaughter (Aug. 20, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-333672-8). Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton have their honeymoon cut short when a murder occurs at the lodge where they’re staying. With a nasty family running the place and shady guests, the list of suspects is nearly endless.

Mysterious Press

Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child (Sept. 3, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-61316-566-9) collects 20 of the Jack Reacher author’s short stories featuring gangsters, good guys, and everyone in between.

Overlook

Scrap by Calla Henkel (Aug. 20, $28, ISBN 978-1-4197-7522-2). A wealthy woman hires an artist to build a scrapbook about her 25-year marriage. When the woman turns up dead, the artist uses the book to build a case against her husband.

Poisoned Pen

The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden (Oct. 1, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7282-9622-7). A New York City woman starts to fear that her too-perfect new boyfriend might be a serial killer.

Putnam

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Vendetta by Brian Freeman (Jan. 14, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-71648-9). After one of Jason Bourne’s former flames asks him to protect her husband, a high-ranking government official, he starts to wonder if she’s being played.

Random House

The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni (Oct. 8, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-59532-9). Puzzle master Mike Brink squares off against two sisters in a race to open the legendary Dragon Box, a 19th-century contraption said to contain a key Japanese imperial secret.

Scribner

The Collaborators by Michael Idov (Nov. 19, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5557-1). A burned-out CIA agent and an heiress team up to find the heiress’s missing father and stumble into a global conspiracy that takes them to Germany, Eastern Europe, and Rome.

Severn House

Two Times Murder by Adam Oyebanji (Nov. 5, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-4483-1245-0). While hiding in Pittsburgh after being falsely accused of a crime in England, a Russian teacher is roped into the investigation of a corpse dumped in the Allegheny River.

Simon & Schuster/Rucci

The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (Sept. 17, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0293-3). Two estranged siblings join forces to investigate the death of their hotel mogul father.

Soho Crime

Love the Stranger by Michael Sears (Dec. 3, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-545-1). In the follow-up to Tower of Babel, Queens, N.Y., attorney Ted Molloy investigates a murder tied to a controversial construction project.

St. Martin’s

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen (Aug. 6, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-28399-3). Attorney Stella Hudson is assigned to the case of a girl who witnessed her nanny’s death and then went silent. As Stella gets to know the girl’s family, she learns the case is more complicated than it looks.

Stone Bridge

Tokyo Swindlers by Ko Shinjo, trans. by Charles de Wolf (Nov. 12, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-61172-084-6). An aging Japanese detective tries to track down Harrison Yamanaka, the brains behind a massive real estate scam. In the process, the detective discovers Harrison has unusual ties to one of his underlings.

This article has been updated with new bibliographic information for the book The Night We Lost Him.

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