Top 10

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

Sarah Harman. Putnam, Mar. 11 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-85146-3)

A retired pop star must defend her 10-year-old son when one of his classmates goes missing
and suspicion falls on him.

The Dark Maestro

Brendan Slocumb. Doubleday, May 13 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-68761-1)

A cello prodigy from the Washington, D.C., projects is forced into witness protection after his drug dealer father informs on his cartel bosses. When the Feds prove inept, the cellist and his family take matters into their own hands.

Dissolution

Nicholas Binge. Riverhead, Mar. 25 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-85216-3)

A woman learns that someone is stealing her husband’s memories. With the help of a stranger, she hacks into her husband’s mind, and stumbles on a world-threatening conspiracy.

The Doorman

Chris Pavone. MCD, May 20 ($29, ISBN 978-0-374-60479-0)

The doorman at a ritzy New York City apartment building bridges the divide between its residents and staff when violent protests erupt across the city. Before the end of his shift, someone will die.

Fever Beach

Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, May 13 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-32094-5)

Hiaasen’s latest comic crime saga features an ex–Proud Boy, an angry environmentalist, an inept congressman, and scheming billionaires.

Glory Daze: A Glory Broussard Mystery

Danielle Arceneaux. Pegasus Crime, Mar. 4 ($27.95, ISBN 978-1-63936-843-3)

In the sequel to the Edgar-winning Glory Be, small-time, churchgoing bookie Glory Broussard investigates the murder of her ex-husband with the help of his new wife.

Lovers of Franz K.

Burhan Sönmez, trans. by Sami Hêzil. Other Press, Apr. 1 ($22, ISBN 978-1-63542-537-6)

After Franz Kafka dies, his best friend publishes work the late novelist hoped would never see the light of day. That decision courts the ire of young radicals, who plot to assassinate him.

Murder Takes a Vacation

Laura Lippman. Morrow, June 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-299810-1)

A prim grandmother and ex-PI falls for a handsome stranger on a flight to France. When he’s found dead a day later, she reignites her investigative instincts to find out what happened.

Saint of the Narrows Street

William Boyle. Soho Crime, Feb. 4 ($28.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-640-3)

A woman in South Brooklyn kills her husband in a fit of rage, then pulls her sister and her husband’s friend into the cover-up. Over the next two decades, the three wrestle with the fallout.

With a Vengeance

Riley Sager. Dutton, June 10 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-47240-8)

In the 1950s, a woman lures six people onto a train from Philadelphia to Chicago in hopes of getting them to confess to conspiring against her family. When one of them is murdered, the stakes skyrocket.

longlist

Akashic

Sacramento Noir, edited by John Freeman (Mar. 4, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63614-201-2). Akashic’s regional noir series sets its sights on California’s capital, with 13 stories that nod to Sacramento’s frontier history.

Amistad

Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies by Connie Briscoe (Mar. 18, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-333856-2) draws on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to tell the story of a private chef on Martha’s Vineyard who marries a Black billionaire, only to learn that he and his staff are haunted by the death of his first wife.

Atlantic Monthly

Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee Burke (June 3, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6452-0) continues the author’s Holland Family series with a thriller about 14-year-old Bessie Holland standing up to a nefarious Texas oil company.

Atria

Coram House by Bailey Seybolt (Apr. 15, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5700-1). While working on a book about an unsolved disappearance at a Vermont orphanage, a journalist discovers another body in a nearby lake. Despite pushback from the police, she grows convinced the cases are connected.

Ballantine

The Maid’s Secret: A Maid Novel by Nita Prose (Apr. 8, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-87541-4). When an Antiques Roadshow–esque TV program starts filming at the Regency Grand, Molly the Maid brings in jewelry for appraisal. It turns out to be hugely valuable, and then it’s stolen, pointing Molly toward a mystery with links to her late grandmother’s past.

Bantam

Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine (June 17, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-87520-9). The pseudonymous authors of The Last Mrs. Parrish deliver a standalone thriller featuring a woman who struggles with disturbing dreams about her family’s safety. Eventually, she realizes she’s seeing the future.

Berkley

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Apr. 1, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-54625-3). San Francisco tea shop owner Vera Wong agrees to help a young woman find her missing friend, then discovers a dossier on that friend among the possessions of her son’s police officer girlfriend.

Blackstone

Don’t Tell Me How to Die by Marshall Karp
(Mar. 4, $26.99, ISBN 979-8-8748-2439-6). With three months to live, a woman sets out to find the ideal woman for her husband to marry next—even if it means getting her hands a little bloody along the way.

CamCat

Hotel Melikov by Jonathan Payne (May 13, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-7443-1180-8). Orlov, a fishmonger turned government minister for an unnamed European country on the brink of civil war, becomes enmeshed in a political plot being run out of a mountain convent.

Celadon

The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North (May 13, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-75789-0). After escaping from a serial killer as a child, Dan Garvie makes a career as a criminal profiler. When his dad dies, he returns to his island hometown and starts to suspect the killer has returned.

Crooked Lane

The Last Hamilton by Jenn Bregman (Feb. 11, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-63910-991-3). After Elizabeth Walker, the final heir in Alexander Hamilton’s line, dies suspiciously, reports surface that she spent her final days in a paranoid fog. Soon, her best friend learns Elizabeth was part of a secret society tied to a massive financial conspiracy.

Crown

Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco by Gary Krist (Mar. 11, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-44421-4) is a true crime account of a woman who murdered her lover on a ferry in 1870 and immediately confessed to the crime, sending reporters into a frenzy.

DOUBLEDAY

Coded Justice by Stacey Abrams (May 27, $28, ISBN 978-0-385-54834-2). The former Georgia state representative continues her Avery Keene series with a legal thriller about a health tech firm whose newest AI tool might be more of a death machine than a medical miracle.

Flatiron

Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor (Mar. 11, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-36217-9) follows an Australian rock climber as she navigates a love triangle between her girlfriend and her best friend—until one of them falls to their death.

Forge

Smoke on the Water by Loren D. Estleman (Feb. 11, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-89255-3). Detroit PI Amos Walker probes a hit-and-run that killed a junior law associate who was guarding a file of top-secret papers.

Grand Central

Hard Town by Adam Plantinga (Apr. 8, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-3990-7). A former Detroit police officer is taking a breather in a small Arizona town when a woman asks him to help find her missing husband in this sequel to The Ascent.

Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben (Mar. 25, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-5635-5). The sequel to Fool Me Once centers on a man who runs into his former girlfriend 20 years after her supposed death—for which he’s long believed he was responsible.

Hard Case Crime

The Get Off by Christa Faust (Mar. 18, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83541-173-5). On the run from the law, pregnant ex-porn star Angel Dare sets off across the West in hopes of finding refuge with a couple on the U.S.–Mexico border.

Harper

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (May 13, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-330570-0). Book editor Susan Ryeland starts working on the manuscript for a new mystery by a promising young writer, only to discover that its pages are filled with clues about the murder of his famous grandmother. Then the author himself is killed.

Kensington

Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears by Jack Ford (May 27, $28,
ISBN 978-1-4967-5031-0) focuses on real-life WWII reporter Lee Carson, combining a fictionalized account of her work on the front lines with an espionage plot set in the mid-1950s.

Knopf

Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, trans. by Robert Ferguson (Feb. 11, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-80361-5). Nesbø’s sequel
to The Kingdom follows murderous Norwegian brothers Carl and Roy Opgard as they interfere with plans for a new highway while dodging a suspicious sheriff.

Melville House

The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips (July 15, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-171-8) follows a Black British professor as
he hatches a plan to steal a valuable African mask from a London museum.

Minotaur

Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay (May 6, $28, ISBN 978-1-250-36072-4). Five college students disappear from their Northern California campus while their families are visiting, prompting a media storm that illuminates their class differences and the sins of their parents.

Morrow

Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson (June 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-343362-5). Told in reverse, this unconventional domestic thriller explains why a poet develops a plan to murder her English professor husband.

Mulholland

The Good Liar by Denise Mina (June 3, $29, ISBN 978-0-316-24304-9). As a doctor prepares to deliver a speech about the faulty
evidence she gave in a high-profile murder case, flashbacks reveal how
she and her colleagues pieced together the inaccurate testimony.

Mysterious Press

FDR Drive by James Comey (May 20, $30, ISBN 978-1-61316-644-4). In former FBI director Comey’s follow-up to Westport, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton attempts to thwart a far-right attack on a U.N. rally with the help of the FBI.

Penguin Books

Can You Solve the Murder? by Anthony Johnston (July 1, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-14-313888-4). In this choose your own adventure crime novel, readers assume the perspective of a detective investigating the murder of a businessman at an English
wellness retreat.

Poisoned Pen

The Tenant by Freida McFadden (May 6, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-4636-4). After getting fired from his high-paying marketing job, Blake Porter decides to take in a beautiful roommate. Soon, her behavior alarms the neighbors, and she hints at knowing secrets about Blake’s past.

Putnam

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie (Mar. 25, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-85166-1). An all-female Maine crime syndicate faces twin threats when a drug kingpin sends a hired gun to help increase profits and the matriarch’s daughter goes missing.

Random House

A Terribly Nasty Business
by Julia Seales (June 24, $29,
ISBN 978-0-593-45001-7). The sequel to A Most Agreeable Murder sees budding Regency-era detective Beatrice Steele moving to London, establishing her own agency, and investigating a series of murders among the city’s wealthiest residents.

What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (June 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-44978-3). Teenage Jane has grown up with her father in an isolated Montana cabin. When she learns that he’s been hiding explosive secrets, she sets out for San Francisco, where she believes her mother died.

Scout

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware (July 8, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2562-8). A former travel journalist tries to reignite her career with a trip to a luxury Swiss hotel, where she meets a desperate woman who claims to be the mistress of the hotel’s billionaire owner.

Scribner

The White Crow by Michael Robotham (June 17, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-3102-5). A young London police officer—whose family are well-known criminals—tackles two intertwined cases involving a child who may have killed their parent and a violent jewel theft.

Severn House

Bitterfrost
by Bryan Gruley (Apr. 1, $29.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4483-1540-6) finds a disgraced hockey player, who nearly killed an opponent 13 years earlier, accused of a double homicide. He swears he doesn’t remember the night in question, setting up a showdown between his defense attorney and a seasoned detective.

Simon & Schuster

Florida Palms by Joe Pan (July 22, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5218-1). In 2009, buddies Eddy and Cueball graduate from high school and take jobs at a moving company whose criminal ties quickly entangle them in a dangerous drug-running operation.

Soho Crime

Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller by Yigit Karaahmet, trans. by Nicholas Glastonbury (May 27, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-586-4). A Turkish gay couple sees their 40-year relationship upended when a handsome teenager arrives on the quiet island where they live for the summer.

Sourcebooks Landmark

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark (June 3, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-4642-2128-6). For decades, horror writer Vincent Taylor has been plagued by rumors that he killed two of his siblings. When he hires his daughter to ghostwrite his latest project, she’s shocked to learn it’s a true crime tell-all about what really happened.

Thomas & Mercer

The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen (Mar. 18, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6625-1514-0). Retired spy Maggie Bird leaps back into action when a teenager in her quiet Maine neighborhood vanishes, and Maggie’s friend becomes the primary suspect.

Union Square

The Spectacle by Anna Barrington (July 8, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4549-6048-5). Art dealer Rudolph Sullivan ropes a young gallery assistant into his criminal operation, setting her up to take the fall for his double dealing.

Viking

The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (Apr. 15, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-83113-7). A divorced couple reunites for the trial of the home invader who nearly killed them 28 years earlier. In the decades since, they’ve had vastly different responses to the trauma.

Viking/Dorman

Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall (June 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-83157-1). The creator of the TV series Broadchurch spins a small-town detective story about the brutal murder of a pub owner.

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