New Maureen Johnson Mystery, British Serial Killer Procedural, 500+ Page Mysteries & More!

For fans of reading about fictional serial killers, thrillers, and British procedurals!

DI Angelica Henley is not only faced with a difficult case, but it comes with an emotional and personal component: DCI Harry Rhimes is her former boss and mentor, and he’s now being investigated for corruption. Since his cases are being overturned, Henley and her team are forced to figure out if he got a serial killer case wrong 25 years ago. Then the killings start again…

Backlist readers who want to start at the beginning should definitely pick up The Jigsaw Man!

For fans of past and present mysteries, remote settings, and family drama!

Past: Phillip Ralston is a physician in the 1920s who adopted six children from England and is raising them, along with his biological child, with a strict exercise and study routine based on eugenics. Then, the youngest child is found dead, and an older sibling falls to her death.

Present: Marlowe Wexler takes a summer job on an island where the Ralston family’s mansion still stands. Marlowe is trying to escape the fallout from a truly disastrous date and unknowingly puts herself in real danger. Whatever has yet to come to light regarding the mysterious deaths of the Ralston’s children is something that someone is willing to kill to keep from being revealed.

I will continue to drop everything to read a delicious Maureen Johnson mystery, she understands the genre and delivers the tropes and mystery in a satisfying way for genre fans. If you’ve yet to read her backlist, absolutely pick up Truly, Devious (which starts the trilogy portion of the series). If you prefer a nod to slasher films and camp settings, you can also start with the fourth book, The Box in the Woods, since Johnson doesn’t spoil the trilogy resolve.

(TW: fire / forced drugging (edible) / murder-suicide mentioned, method detail/ child murder/ suspected teen suicide, method detail)

576 pages (according to Kirkus review)

For fans of Japanese crime novels, procedurals, job politics, and big satisfying endings you most likely will not guess!

Yoshinobu Mikami is in his mid-forties and working as the press director for the police department after a career as a detective. His teenage daughter is missing, his wife doesn’t leave the house, and he’s frustrated with the politics of the job. A cold case from almost 15 years ago, involving a botched kidnapping case where they’ve yet to discover the kidnapper nor find the child, comes into play again as the statue of limitation’s clock is running out.

640 pages (according to publisher’s page)

For fans of small towns with new and old residents clashing!

The residents in an isolated Long Island town are fighting: locals vs new, moneyed New Yorkers. Heightening tensions is a research facility shrouded with rumors and a dead caretaker, which leads to finger-pointing at a new resident who took in a gay teenager hired to help around the house. We start with simmering tensions, but with all the secrets and fighting between the new rich and old rich, the small town becomes an unsafe place to live in.