Black-Eyed Susans
Tessa can’t remember 32 hours of her life: the hours during which she was abducted by a serial killer and left for dead. Now a man is about to be executed for the crime, but is he actually innocent?
The Ancient Dead
by Barbara Fradkin
A long-buried human skeleton. A photo of a cowboy in front of a weathered farmhouse. An uncle who’s been missing for thirty years. Amanda Doucette searches for connections —but someone wants to stop her.
A Million Reasons Why
by Jessica Strawser.
Two strangers discover they’re linked by a DNA test. Long-held family secrets are exposed. This novel, published in March 2021, was named one of the “12 Most anticipated books of 202.1.”
Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner.
Frankie Elkin is an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find missing people everyone else has given up on. She’s in Boston, looking for a missing teenage girl, Angelique.
The Water Rat of Wanchai
by Ian Hamilton.
The first book in the Ava Lee series. Ava, a brilliant young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant and martial arts practitioner, agrees to try to recover the $5 million an international seafood scammer stole from her client, travelling to Hong Kong, Thailand, Guyana, and the British Virgin Islands in her quest.
A Match Made for Murder
by Iona Whishaw.
Two murders, two investigations. One in Tucson AZ where Lane Winslow and her new police inspector husband are honeymooning, the other back home in Nelson BC. The seventh novel in this series delivers twists and surprises while taking us back to the late 1940s.
Still Life
by Val McDermid.
A body pulled out of the sea. A skeleton found in a camper van. Historic Cases detective Karen Pirie’s investigations turn hot, as the past intrudes on the present.
A Song for the Dark Times
by Ian Rankin.
Retired Edinburgh policeman John Rebus is 70 and has COPD, but his daughter Samantha wants his help to find her missing partner. And his former protégé on the force, Siobhan Clarke, is investigating the murder of a rich young Saudi student.
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.
