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TOP 10 Above the Rain Victor del Arbol, trans, by Lisa Dillman. Other Press, May 25 ($18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-995-4) In Malmo, Sweden, the daughter of Moroccan immigrants has [...]

Women dominate this season's highlights, whether they're exploring the pitfalls of pregnancy, heading high-risk investigations, or warding off sinister men. Plus, Stephen King and James Ellroy return, and Cedric the [...]

Stephanie Wrobel's debut is notable for its original take on mother-daughter conflict, but other authors this season, including Lauren Beukes, Jess Kidd, and Matt Ruff, deliver books with fresh, arresting [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton makes her fiction debut this season with a political thriller coauthored with Louise Penny, and a number of veteran genre authors also have big books, including Megan [...]

Monstrous villains stalk this season's crop of mysteries and thrillers, including a killer who manages to get on a jury, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who does strange things to his [...]

Chris Pavone follows The Expats, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, with The Accident, in which a New York literary agent receives a nonfiction manuscript submission that [...]

Major authors deliver a number of highly anticipated books this season, while talented newcomers demonstrate the enduring strength of the mystery/thriller genre with impressive first novels. TOP 10 Artemis Andy [...]

Thrillers from major publishers typically occupy about half the slots on any given bestseller list. Meanwhile, niche imprints and smaller presses offer a wide range of mysteries for every taste. [...]

Indie crime press Brash Books recently released All Kinds of Ugly by Ralph Dennis, the 13th installment in his Jim Hardman series. Dennis died in 1988, and the story behind [...]

The Lost Night Andrea Bartz. Crown, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-57471-2 It's 2009, at the height of the recession, and Lindsay Bach, the narrator of Bartz's accomplished debut, and her friends [...]

Blood Orange Harriet Tyce. Grand Central, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6273-8 Rising London criminal defense lawyer Alison Wood, the complex and deeply flawed narrator of British author Tyce's promising debut, welcomes [...]

The Antiquities Hunter: A Gina Miyoko Mystery Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68177-857-0 This energetic series launch from bestseller Bohnhoff (The Last Jedi with Michael Reaves) introduces [...]

Highlights this spring include major books from a number of bestselling thriller authors as well as some exciting debuts. Steve Berry, a founding member of the International Thriller Writers, has [...]

Highlights this season include major books from such established authors as James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, and Louise Penny, as well as some firsts: Chelsea Cain's first in a new crime [...]

Roger Hobbs, a recent graduate of Oregon's Reed College, delivers Ghostman, a first novel whose protagonist Random House's Gary Fisketjon likens to 'the character played by Harvey Keitel in Quentin [...]

James Sallis, a master of literary noir, serves up a hallucinatory, almost visionary novel of suspense set in Phoenix, Ariz., The Killer Is Dying. Three alienated characters must each deal [...]

International bestseller Henning Mankell, who published his first Kurt Wallander novel in the U.S. in 1997, may not have captured the imagination of American readers in the same way as [...]