House of Correction
by Nicci French.
What if a person accused of murder has to investigate the crime from inside prison? And fires her lawyer so has to conduct her own defense in court? Especially if she’s undisciplined and prone to offensive outbursts?
The Searcher
By Tana French.
Disillusioned with his work as a Chicago police detective, Cal has moved to a remote Irish village where he’s rebuilding a derelict house. Then a local kid persuades him to search for an older brother who’s been missing for months.
The End of Her
by Shari Lapena.
Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies – then a woman from Patrick’s past shows up and disrupts everything.
Confessions on the 7:45
by Lisa Unger
In a chance encounter on a commuter train, Selena tells a stranger that her husband is having an affair with their nanny. She thinks she’ll never see that stranger again. But she’s wrong.
To Tell You the Truth
by Gilly Macmillan. One night when Lucy was nine years old, her little brother disappeared. He was never found. Now she’s a famous author, and thinks those events are in the past. But she has secrets she’s never told anyone, and it seems others have their own agendas too.
One by One
by Ruth Ware. A luxury chalet. An opportunity of a lifetime. Until guests start to disappear…
Twelve people are at a corporate retreat in a remote Swiss ski chalet when an avalanche isolates them from the village below. In a plot reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” guests start dying, one by one.
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell.
Seventeen-year-old Saffyre is obsessed with her former therapist, who never discovered her dark secret. Middle-aged Cate is wondering what’s happening with her marriage and her children. And thirtyish Owen, living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, has been suspended from his teaching position for inappropriate behavior with teenage girls. Then Saffyre disappears.
The Pull of the Stars
Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined.
Conviction
by Denise Mina.
Anna loves listening to true crime podcasts, especially early in the morning. They give her something to think about besides the mundane tasks of looking after her family.
Then she realizes that one of the victims named in this podcast is someone she knew in another life. When she had a different name, and a story she wants to keep hidden.
We Were Killers Once
by Becky Masterman.
Truman Capote wrote a true crime account In Cold Blood. But did he get the story wrong? Was he manipulated by his main informant?
Drawing on factual sources, Masterman uses fiction to explore a different story. Retired FBI agent Brigit Quin thinks Capote missed the most important details. Her investigations put Brigit, and her husband Carlo, in great danger.
Death by Association
by Madona Skaff-Koren.
That muscular man in the wheelchair—was he faking his handicap? And now he’s been charged with three murders, and wants Naya Assad to help him prove his innocence.
Second in a series by Ottawa writer Madona Skaff-Koren, this page-turner will keep surprising you right to the end.
You Are Not Alone
by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Shay keeps track of all kinds of statistics in her Data Book. And maybe the numbers don’t lie, but it seems almost everyone around her is lying. To save her life Shay has to figure out their hidden agendas.
My Lovely Wife
by Samantha Downing
“It didn’t start out as something bad. I still believe that.”
Millicent and her husband have found a way to spice up their marriage: murder. The first time was not planned. Nor was the second. But by then they were hooked. They need more victims.
The House We Grew Up In
by Lisa Jewell
A mother who’s become a compulsive hoarder. A daughter who moved to Australia and disappeared. A son who’s a bouncer in a brothel in Thailand. A father who’s living with his son’s former girlfriend. Cousins who’ve never met each other. What has happened to drive this family apart?
The Betrayal of Trust
by Susan Hill
Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is called in when heavy rains reveal a skeleton that was buried in a shallow grave next to a local highway bypass. Meanwhile a lot of other events are happening in the UK cathedral town of Lafferton, and secrets start coming to light. This is the sixth book in a long-running series.
Big Sky
With good Wifi, Jackson Brodie can run his investigations business from just about anywhere. As the novel opens, he’s in a coastal village in Yorkshire, rather bored with his current assignment and coping with a sullen teenager. Then he falls over a cliff while trying to prevent a suicide. A complicated plot unfolds with characters involved in sex trafficking, child abduction, criminal conspiracy, and much more.
The Murder List
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Harvard law student Rachel is married to Jack, the top defense attorney in Boston. She’s been offered a summer internship with Jack’s nemesis, the local District Attorney. Rachel figures she’ll learn the prosecutor’s tricks from the inside, positioning her perfectly to be Jack’s law partner when she graduates.
But Rachel confronts a dilemma. What’s more important: winning, or justice?
The Lying Room
by Nicci French
Neve, a married mother-of-three, has embarked on a clandestine affair with her boss. When she arrives at his flat one morning she discovers his dead body: he has been murdered. Frantic, she decides she has to remove all evidence of her presence to prevent the affair from becoming known. In this standalone novel, from the writing duo who brought us the Frieda Klein series, things go from bad to worse as events spiral out of control.