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Storm Child. By Michael Robotham. July 2024. 336p. Scribner, $28.99 (9781668030998); e-book (9781668031018). Readers who fell for teenager Evie in Robotham's earlier novels (When She Was Good, 2021; Lying beside […]

After Oz. By Gordon McAlpine. Aug. 2024. 240p. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (9781639107858); e-book (9781639107865). Readers confronting this novel--especially if they're unfamiliar with McAlpine's work-might wonder whether this is a tiresome [...]

Death Pact. By Matt Hilton. July 2024. 240p. Severn, $29.99 (9781448310845); e-book (9781448310852). Fans of British author Hilton know what to expect: a tightly wound tale with doses of dry [...]

Joe Hustle. By Richard Lange. June 2024. 272p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $29 (9780316568470); e-book (9780316568494). Lange describes a sunset with wind that is 'hot and pushy. Black clouds limned with moonglow [...]

Don't Let the Devil Ride. By Ace Atkins. June 2024. 384P. Morrow, $30 (9780063293380); e-book (9780063293410). Addison McKeller, wife and mother, tries to contact her husband after he's gone off [...]

The New Detective. By Peter Steiner. Dec. 2023. 192p. Severn, $31.99 (9781448306428); e-book (9781448306503). In the newest entry to Steiner's remarkable four-book series (which also includes The Inconvenient German, 2022), [...]

Chaos Agent. By Mark Greaney. Feb. 2024. 560p. Berkley, $30 (9780593548141); e-book (9780593548158). This is the thirteenth offering in Greaney's Gray Man series, and it's likely to burnish his reputation [...]

Girl in the Smoke. By Matt Hilton. Feb. 2024. 240p. Severn, $31.99 (9781448310821); e-book (9781448310838). Danni's birth mother was a member of a crime gang that terrorized England. One day, [...]

Freakshow. By Jacquin Sanders. Jan. 2024. 240p. Stark House/Black Gat, paper, $12.99 (9798886010718). Bat Fidler, narrator of Sanders' amazing 1954 novel, has done most things and been most places by [...]

Last Seen in Havana. By Teresa Dovalpage. Feb. 2024. 360p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641295390); e-book (9781641295406). In the follow-up to the delightfully creepy Death under thePerseids (2021), Dovalpage offers readers a [...]

Fast Charlie. By Victor Gischler. Dec. 2023. 256p. Hard Case Crime, paper, $15.95 (9781803364483); e-book (9781803364490). Readers dipping a toe into noir fiction have been heard to cry out, 'The [...]

Impervious. By Laurie Buchanan. May 2023.312p. SparkPress, paper, $17.95 (9781684631940); e-book (9781684631957). Buchanan has shown she can concoct a spicy ragout out of some unlikely ingredients--witness last year's Iconoclast--and she's [...]

Doyle's World Lost & Found: The Unknown Histories of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. By Daniel Friedman and Eugene Friedman. Nov. 2023. 344p. Square One, $29.95 (9780757004483); e-book [...]

The Price You Pay. By Nick Petrie. Feb. 2024. 432p. Putnam, $29 (9780593540558); e-book (9780593540565). The latest addition to Petrie's (The Runaway, 2022) lauded Peter Ash series begins with a [...]

Deadly Game. By Michael Caine. Dec. 2023. 320p. Mobius, $28 (9781399702508). For a half-century now we've been watching Michael Caine movies in which he shares screen time with even bigger [...]

Blood Lines. By Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille. Oct. 2023. 512p. Scribner, $29.99 (9781501101816); e-book (9781501101830). Following 2019's The Deserter, the current offering by the father-son DeMille duo is haunted [...]

Sweet Thing. By David Swinson. Nov. 2023.336p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $29 (9780316528610); e-book (9780316528627). The action in this bracing procedural begins when Washington, DC, police detective Alex Blum is rummaging around [...]

Guilt Strikes at Granger's Store. By Terry Shames. Oct. 2023. 240p. Severn, $31.99 (9781448311279); e-book (9781448311262). Jarrett Creek, a tiny town cooking under the West Texas sun, seems like a [...]

Lying beside You. By Michael Robotham. Feb. 2023.352P. Scribner, $27.99 (9781982166489); e-book (9781982166502). When Cyrus Haven was a boy, his brother slaughtered their parents and twin sisters. Cyrus was in [...]

Doomed Legacy. By Matt Coyle. Nov. 2022.320p. Oceanview, $27.95 (9781608094790); e-book, $14.95 (9781608094806). We're accustomed to sleuths with problems, but PI Rick Coyle really raises the bar. The title refers [...]

Dark Angel. By John Sandford. Apr. 2023.384P. Putnam, $29.95 (9780593422410); e-book (9780593422427). A young woman is in a gun standoff. She knows there's going to be shooting, and she's going [...]

* The Rescue. By T. Jefferson Parker. Apr. 2023. 352p. Forge, $28.99 (9781250793560); e-book (9781250793584) Are you planning on concealing your stash from the sniffer dogs by dousing it with [...]

The Numbers. By Nick Pirog. Mar. 2023.350p. Blackstone, paper, $15.99 (9781982673925). Pirog's last Nicholas Prescott novel, Jungle Up (2021), had an unusual structuring device. The opening was about one thing--an [...]

Sunset Empire. By Josh Weiss. Mar. 2023.358p. Grand Central, $28 (9781538719473); e-book (9781538719466). Morris Baker is an L.A. private eye in the late 1950s, endowed by his creator with all [...]

Good Dog, Bad Cop. By David Rosenfelt. Mar. 2023.288p. Minotaur, $27.99 (9781250828965); e-book (9781250828972). Fans of pooch-loving Rosenfelt will feel at home with the familiar plot of his latest novel. [...]

The Rising Tide. By Ann Cleeves. Sept. 2022.384p. Minotaur, $27.99 (9781250204530); e-book, $14.99 (9781250204554). The gray seascape of Northern England, the air like the wind off an iceberg; a gathering [...]

Fatal Conflict. By Matt Hilton. June 2022. 240p. Severn, $28.99 (9780727850751); e-book (9781448309009). Hilton was a policeman in England, where he now devotes his time to writing American private eye [...]

The Darkest Game. By Joseph Schneider. Apr. 2022. 320p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $16.95 (9781728245041). Good thing Joseph Schneider is a crackerjack crime novelist. As readers of his quirky first novel, [...]

Murder in Haxford. By Rick Bleiweiss. Feb. 2023. 350p. Blackstone, $26.99 (9781665046718). The detective is named Pignon Scorbion. Where that moniker came from, and how to pronounce it, author Bleiweiss [...]

Bloody Martini. By William Kotzwinkle. Feb. 2023. 350p. Blackstone, $26.99 (9781094009261). Tommy Martini shows his hard-boiled PI creds right off in this riot of a novel, letting us know that [...]

The End of the Road. By Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Apr. 2023. 312P. Penzler, $26.95 (9781613163825); e-book (9781613163863). Welsh-Huggins doesn't waste ink getting to the wild stuff. A gunshot victim is 'spun [...]

Burner. By Mark Greaney. Feb. 2023. 528p. Berkley, $29 (9780593548103); e-book (9780593548110). Greaney took a turn as Tom Clancy's collaborator, but since then he has done well with a series [...]

The Long Way Out. By Michael Wiley. Jan. 2023.240p. Severn, $29.99 (9781448309849); e-book (9781448309856). This is a second look at Wiley's glum hero Franky Dast, who has plenty to be [...]

Early Grave. By Paul Levine. Jan. 2023.363p. Herald Square, paper, $16.95 (9781734505696); e-book (9781734505689). After his last battle with lawyers, judges, college admissions officers, and other 'pieces of slimy whale [...]

The Investigator. By John Sandford. Apr. 2022. 400p. Putnam, $29 (9780593328682); e-book, $14 (9780593328699). After more than 30 novels in the Prey series, starring the wily and obliquely funny Minnesota [...]

The Silent Sisters. By Robert Dugoni. Feb. 2022. 400p. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (9781542029919); e-book, $5.99 (9781542008358). Crime-fiction fans are treated to a bogo here, two crime fighters for the [...]

Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes. By Lyndsay Faye. Dec. 2021. 295p. Mysterious, $25.95 (9781613162613). Sherlock Holmes scholarship has evolved. We know those stories aren't about [...]

* A Quiet Teacher. By Adam Oyebanji. Nov. 2022.224p. Severn, $29.99 (9781448309429); e-book (9781448309733) Imagine John le Carre attempting an Agatha Christie mystery. Or the other way around. In any [...]

The Inconvenient German. By Peter Steiner. Nov. 2022. 192p. Severn, $29.99 (9781448306411); e-book (9781448306497). Fans of Steiner's no-nonsense Munich police detective Willi Geismeier shouldn't be put off when they realize [...]

The Devil's Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943. By Robert J. Harris. Nov. 2022.276p. Pegasus, $26 (9781639362486); e-book, $13.99 (9781639362493). Sherlock Holmes never existed. His fans know that, but we see the [...]

* Alligator Alley. By Mike Lawson. Feb. 2023.288p. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (9780802160522); e-book, $27 (9780802160539). At first, this comes off as a polished crime tale, smooth if a tad routine. [...]

Seventeen: Last Man Standing. By John Brownlow. Nov. 2022.352p. Hanover Square, $27.99 (9781335469595); e-book, $18.99 (9780369720498). This is clearly a spy novel. But of what ilk? The spy, known as [...]

Welcome to Jimmy's Place. By Michael Mayo. Sept. 2022. 320P. Coffeetown, paper, $16.95 (9781684920266); e-book, $5.99 (9781684920273). It's the 1930s. The Depression is spreading. Prohibition is ending. Hider is ranting. [...]

Welcome to the Game. By Craig Henderson. Oct 2022. 320P. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (9780802159700); e-book, $27 (9780802159717). We've met Spencer Burnham's kind before, notably in Michael Mann's 1981 film Thief. [...]

My Dirty California. By Jason Mosberg. Sept. 2022.432p. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (9781982178666). Remember that Beatles line, 'Though she feels as though she's in a play, she is anyway'? That [...]

The Deepest Black. By Randall Silvis. Sept 2022.368p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $16.99 (9781728223612). He never got that bit about, 'It's the journey, not the destination,' a character announces near the [...]

Duplicity. By Shawn Wilson. Oct. 2022.256P. Oceanview, $27.95 (9781608095100); e-book, $14.95 (9781608095117). The spark for this entertaining novel is, well, novel. A Washington, DC, criminology professor proposes having her students [...]

Monument. By Howard Owen. Nov. 2021.232p. Permanent Press, $29.95 (9781579626471); paper, $24 (9781579626518). Readers familiar with Owen's series starring Willie Black, the Richmond, Virginia, newspaper reporter, might open this latest [...]

A Simple Choice. By David Pepper. Aug. 2022.432p. Putnam, $28 (9780593419731); e-book, $14.99 (9780593419748). Amity Jones is tending her cancer-stricken mother, who likely has only a few days left. As [...]

* Do No Harm. By Robert Pobi. Aug. 2022.432p. Minotaur, $27.99 (9781250793645); e-book, $14.99 (9781250793652). In Pobi's Under Pressure (2020), he used Manhattan as a stage setting for a series [...]