Top 10

The Fervent Whites

De’Shawn Winslow. One World, June 9 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-97791-0)

When a couple who were convicted of a double homicide are proven innocent and released back into their Upstate New York town, the community’s social fabric starts to unravel.

Heather

Caitlin Mullen. Celadon, June 9 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-40057-4)

A small-town New Jersey police chief reignites the decades-old cold case of missing twin sisters after she makes what appears to be a standard arrest in the latest from Edgar winner Mullen.

Helpless

Jessica Knoll. Scribner, July 7 ($28, ISBN 978-1-6680-6230-2)

In Knoll’s follow-up to Bright Young Women, a woman and her college boyfriend reconnect at their professor’s funeral. Then he drugs her and holds her captive in a secluded cabin for a week, determined to rekindle their love.

Marion

Leah Rowan. St. Martin’s, June 2 ($29, ISBN 978-1-250-41646-9)

This reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho asks what would happen if Marion Crane survived Norman Bates’s infamous shower attack, killed him, and then fled the scene, attempting to stay one step ahead of the law as she planned her next moves.

The Plans I Have for You

Lai Sanders. Simon & Schuster, Mar. 17 ($29, ISBN 978-1-6680-8792-3)

After suffering a viral meltdown on a New York City subway platform and fleeing to Florida, a young Asian American woman meets another Asian American woman who endured her own public shaming. Together, they seek revenge on the first woman’s enemies.

A Violent Masterpiece

Jordan Harper. Mulholland, Apr. 28 ($29, ISBN 978-0-316-45840-5)

A trashy live-streamer, a scrappy defense attorney, and a woman who organizes sex parties for power brokers collide in Los Angeles, where a serial killer is on the loose and a notorious sex offender’s arrest is in the news.

We Will See You Bleed

Ron Currie. Putnam, July 7 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-85169-2)

Currie’s prequel to The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne details how Babs went from union leader at her local mill in 1980s Maine to ruthless organized crime matriarch during a prolonged labor strike.

Wisdom Corner

David Heska Wanbli Weiden. Ecco, July 7 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-296898-2)

In the sequel to Winter Counts, a Native American vigilante for hire who’s trying to leave his killing days behind him gets caught in the whirlwind of a murder investigation, a heated tribal election, and a gang war between groups from neighboring reservations.

Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke. Knopf, Apr. 7 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-80421-6)

A famous tradwife influencer and mother of six goes to bed in the 2020s and wakes up in 1805, unsure if she’s losing her mind, being tested by God, or played by more earthly forces conspiring to bring her down.

You First: A Joe Goldberg Prequel

Caroline Kepnes. Random House, June 9 ($30, ISBN 978-0-399-59146-4)

Kepnes fleshes out the origin story of the psychopathic protagonist of her You series, beginning when he’s an obsessive 17-year-old book clerk who falls for an older woman.

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Atlantic Crime

The Hadacol Boogie: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke (Feb. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-8021-6660-9). When a killer delivers a corpse to Robicheaux’s doorstep, the Louisiana detective starts an investigation that puts him in contact with some of the most dangerous people in the bayou.

My Name Was Gerry Sass by Tiffany Hansen (May 12, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6705-7). Hansen’s debut follows the purgatory-wandering spirit of Iowa radio personality Gerry Sass, who had a secret life as a hit man. Meanwhile, Gerry’s best friend—a Catholic priest—and revenge-obsessed daughter deal with the fallout from his death.

Atria

Adrift by Will Dean (Feb. 17, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-8005-4). Budding authors Peggy and Drew move their small family to a secluded houseboat, then suffer the psychological consequences of isolating themselves from the world.

Ballantine

Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel by Anne Perry and Victoria Zackheim (Apr. 14, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-98251-8). In the final installment of Perry’s legal thriller series, junior attorney Daniel Pitt defends a man accused of sexual assault in 1912 London.

Bantam

He Told Me Not to Look by Liv Constantine (June 16, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-87523-0). An aspiring horror writer meets and falls for her hero, only to learn that he has a dark history of discarding his lovers.

Berkley

Missing in Soho by Holly Stars (June 2, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-81673-8). In this sequel to Murder in the Dressing Room, drag queen Misty Divine digs into the murder of a PI, encountering religious fanatics and shady venture capitalists along the way.

Blackstone

Murder at 30,000 Feet by Susan Walter (Feb. 17, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-228-35733-4). This mile-high spin on the locked-room mystery follows an air marshal who investigates a murder that takes place during a brief power outage on a flight to Puerto Rico.

Bloomsbury

Break Room by Miye Lee (Apr. 28, $23, ISBN 978-1-63973-907-3). Eight strangers are invited to appear on a high-stakes game show, then realize they landed their spots after being voted “office villain” by their colleagues.

CamCat

Never to Be Told by Audrey Lee (May 19, $26.99, ISBN 978-0-7443-2433-4). A frustrated writer is haunted by the ghost of his fiancée, who died at their engagement party a year earlier.

Canelo

The Case of the Mad Doctor by P.D. Lennon (July 14, $18 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-26945-7) takes inspiration from a real-life 18th-century murder spree in Jamaica for the story of a clerk and an insurance agent who travel from England to the Caribbean to investigate a string of suspicious deaths.

Crooked Lane

Out of the Loop by Katie Siegel (Feb. 10, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89242-394-6). After escaping a Groundhog Day–like time loop, a woman is thrust into investigating the murder of her neighbor.

Dutton

Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray (May 12, $19 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-217-17700-4). For her first murder case, a young lawyer defends a man accused of killing a judge. To make matters more intense, the prosecutor is her husband.

ECW

Thirty Feet Under by William Wodhams (Mar. 3, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77041-854-7). When a sphinx is stolen from an Italian museum, a junior member of the FBI’s art crimes team investigates. Before long, he’s unraveling an international conspiracy.

Flatiron

Indie Darling by Lauren Nossett (July 28, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-41382-6). Nashville PI Kelly Williams is troubled when a popular singer comes to her seeking help with a stalker. Then the musician disappears after being shot and wounded at one of her concerts.

Harper

The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (Apr. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-344461-4). After six budding novelists accept a bestselling mystery writer’s invitation to his private island, they find him dead and his latest novel unfinished. The late author’s agents offer one of the guests a chance to finish the book, spurring a bloody competition.

The Talking Bone by Rene Denfield (July 21, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-339689-0). An investigator who specializes in exonerating innocent men on death row heads to Georgia for her latest case, which is more complicated than it initially appears.

Harper Perennial

Mrs. Shim Is a Killer by Kang Jiyoung (Apr. 21, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-345732-4). To support her family, an unemployed Korean butcher takes work as a contract killer. She turns out to be so good at the job it jeopardizes her family’s safety.

HarperVia

Short Circuit by Wolf Haas, trans. by Jamie Bulloch (Apr. 21, $28, ISBN 978-0-06-346916-7). In this novel inspired by the optical illusions of M.C. Escher, two men—one who’s waiting for an electrician to arrive, one who’s in jail preparing to testify against his Mafia colleagues—read books about each other before their stories intertwine.

Kensington

Gimme Shelter by Libby Klein (Apr. 28, $27, ISBN 978-1-4967-4858-4). This series launch finds an ex-cop–turned–musician investigating the death of a schoolteacher while trying to figure out who’s blackmailing her famous dad.

Knopf

Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø, trans. by Robert Ferguson (Feb. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-80365-3). Across two converging timelines,
a disgraced cop and a crime novelist investigate a grisly serial killer case in contemporary Minneapolis.

Kensington/Scognamiglio

Teach the Torches to Burn by Christina Dodd (June 30, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-5022-8). As Rosalind, daughter of Romeo and Juliet, prepares to get married, a homicidal poisoner runs rampant on the streets of Verona.

MCD

Cloudthief by Nathaniel Rich (July 21, $29, ISBN 978-0-374-61979-4). A budding burglar and a pretty young Upper West Sider team up to commit data fraud in this contemporary heist thriller.

Minotaur

Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worley (June 2, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-37233-8). Bestselling romance author Ivy Harcourt meets and falls for a man who seems to be the protagonist of her next book come to life—which makes it especially painful when she suspects he might be a killer.

Mira

A Cruise to Die For by Heather Graham (Apr. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-0580-4). Two investigators try to find a murderer aboard a luxury cruise while passengers are picked off one by one.

Morrow

Hurricane Room: James Bond Is Back by Kim Sherwood (May 19, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-323661-5). Agent 007 tries to identify a mole within MI6 who’s helping a former Double O agent kidnap and kill his colleagues.

Mysterious Press

Blunt Instrument by Amy Bloom (June 2, $28, ISBN 978-1-61316-760-1). After an unpopular professor is beaten to death with a bust of Nathaniel Hawthorne, university administrators hire an academic-turned-PI to race the cops to a solution in hopes of avoiding a scandal.

Norton

Traitors by Robert B. McCaw (July 7, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12399-6). A Department of Justice investigator attempts to ferret out a Russian double agent who’s infiltrated the FBI with plans to bring down the United States.

Oceanview

The Flack by Brad Parks (Feb. 3, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-60809-647-3) follows a man who realizes his new job might be too good to be true when the friend who recommended him turns up dead.

Other Press

The Broken Truths by Alessandro Robecchi, trans. by Gregory Conti (May 19, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-568-0). While making a movie about the unsolved death of a famous crime writer, an Italian filmmaker learns that his elderly neighbor has been murdered, and starts to investigate.

Park Row

Served Him Right by Lisa Unger (Mar. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-6005-6). After a woman throws a brunch to celebrate her breakup, her ex turns up dead, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

Penguin Books

Haven by Ani Katz (Mar. 10, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-14-313867-9). In an effort to bring her family closer, a woman agrees to attend a summer retreat with her husband’s tech company. Once she arrives, she starts to worry that the family has joined a cult.

Pine & Cedar

Tell Your Friends by Lauren Wilson (June 2, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-36248-3) follows the daughter of a famous vlogger who heads off to college, where she enlists the help of a journalist to take down her family’s media empire.

Podium

The Butler by Clare Mackintosh (June 16, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-3470-0926-8) centers on Baxter, a well-respected butler in the South of France, who assists the police in solving a murder at a debauched afterparty for the Cannes Film Festival.

Poisoned Pen

The Divorce by Freida McFadden (May 26, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-4963-1). After an acrimonious breakup, a woman becomes dangerously obsessed with her ex-husband’s new love interest.

Putnam

The Man by Laura Sims (July 7, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-17767-7). A 1960s housewife whose photography hobby garners attention from the art world starts to see the outline of a strange man in her pictures and fears it might be an assailant from her past.

Scarlet

The Daughters by Joanna Margaret (Mar. 17, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-61316-677-2). A grieving PhD student moves to Upstate New York and takes a job managing the archives of a wealthy family. As she combs through the papers, she realizes her new bosses are linked to a series of mysterious disappearances.

Simon & Schuster

Close Relationships with Strangers by Krista Diamond (June 23, $29, ISBN 978-1-6682-1105-2). Busboy and aspiring wildlife photographer Ben gets a ticket from Las Vegas to L.A. when he accepts a paparazzi job. After his life falls apart, he becomes obsessed with snapping lucrative shots of a spiraling Hollywood actor.

Soho Crime

An Artful Dodge by Karen Odden (June 2, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-762-2). In Victorian London, thief Kit Jameson is attempting to extricate herself from the all-woman band of crooks she’s been running with since she was a teenager. Then she’s pulled into one last job.

Crown City by Naomi Hirahara (Feb. 17, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-608-3). A young Japanese immigrant and his roommate are hired by a popular artist to track down his missing painting in 1903 California.

Sourcebooks Landmark

The Drop by S.R. Masters (Apr. 21, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-4592-3). Former college friends get stuck atop a 700-foot-tall roller coaster, where they’re forced to face long-simmering resentments.

Spiderline

The Longest Death by Kevin Jagernauth (June 16, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4870-1395-0). Lovers Marlon and Richard plan to rob a safe deposit company in a post-WWII American suburb. Only a crooked cop, a fellow thief, and an aging tycoon stand in their way.

Thomas & Mercer

What Happened Next by Edwin Hill (Mar. 17, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6625-3685-4). Twenty-five years after his father was accused of murdering a man, a true crime podcaster returns to his New Hampshire hometown to get the full story.

Titan

A Morbid Passion: The Selby Bigge Mysteries by Robert Holtom (June 9, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83541-319-7). Holtom’s sequel to A Queer Case finds amateur sleuth Selby Bigge investigating the murder of a gay man who turns up dead at a servants’ ball in 1930s London.

Zando

Nasty Little Secrets by Gabbie Hanks (June 16, $28, ISBN 978-1-63893-320-5). When a famous true crime writer’s younger sister goes missing, she returns to her hometown to join the search—and face unfinished business related to her first book.

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