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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | David A. Handler |Kathy Reichs |Lisa Jewell
Overlong and not very mysterious, but a welcome prequel to the hero’s more jaded adventures. Back in 1982, when his first novel has just catapulted him to fame, Hoagy meets stage and movie actress Merilee Nash, and they instantly fall in love and adopt a basset hound they christen Lulu.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kathy Reichs |Lisa Jewell
A crunchy detective novel set in the world of California surfers. Two beach-lovers set up a detective agency in Jones’ mystery novel, the second in a series. Thad Hanlon, surfer and certified public accountant, has just opened a private investigation business in the Five Cities area of the California Central Coast.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kathy Reichs |Lisa Jewell
A compelling tale of murder and small-town life with keen psychological insight. In Bradley’s mystery, a young, up-and-coming marketing professional is found murdered, and his ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect—but the investigating detective feels compelled to dig deeper.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kathy Reichs |Lisa Jewell
It's hard to read but hard to look away from. When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kathy Reichs |Lisa Jewell
It's hard to read but hard to look away from. When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Marty Essen |Janet Evanovich |Kathy Reichs
Essen presents a novel about two septuagenarians intent on changing the world in an unconventional way. Barry Swanson, a 70-year-old widower, moves into Blue Loon Village, a senior living center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the insistence of his daughter. He’s not entirely ready to give up on living an active life, but he’s also not one to rock the boat. His attitude changes, though, when he discovers that his old high school girlfriend, Beth, is living in the same residence.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Scott Turow |Janet Evanovich |Kathy Reichs
An accomplished but emotionally undercooked courtroom drama by the author who made that genre popular. Having been falsely convicted of murder himself years ago, prosecutor Rusty Sabich defies common wisdom in defending his romantic partner’s adopted son against the same accusation. Now 76, Rusty has retired to the (fictitious) Skageon Region in the upper Midwest, far removed from Kindle County, Turow’s Chicago stand-in, where he was a star attorney and judge.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Candace Robb |Louise Penny |Kathy Reichs
A story of love, danger, and political intrigue sure to please history buffs. Frantic over the disappearance of her husband, Tom, taverner Bess Merchet relies on their old friend Owen Archer, captain of York, to find him. Born in Wales, Owen walks a fine line in 1377 York, where competing forces may tear Britain apart. He knows little of Tom’s life before he bought the York Tavern, married Bess 10 years later, and together, turned the inn into a thriving business.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Bob Allen |Alex Michaelides |Kathy Reichs
A brooding novel of loyalty and corruption set on Chicago’s South Side. In Allen’s novel, a low-level politician on the verge of retirement struggles to hold his family together in the aftermath of a murder. One more election—that’s all Pat Sullivan, precinct captain of Chicago’s 51st Ward, has to make it through. For 32 years, he’s been in charge of curb repair, potholes, snow removal, and turning out votes in his working-class South Side neighborhood.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Walter Mosley |Kathy Reichs |David Baldacci
Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
