Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

A BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE MURDER de Claire Andrews

Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford’s elite students in the All Souls class.

A BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE MURDER
by Claire Andrews
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, August 2025
(via Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She’s at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford’s brightest minds. But her peers and professors don’t know she’s a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland.

Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who’s responsible for the deaths, Irene—as Isaac—teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene’s own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school.

Readers will love following these classic and beloved characters through the twists and turns in the dark halls of Oxford, and discovering what secret lies behind the glitz and glamor of the elite.

Claire M. Andrews was raised in both Alaska and Scotland, but currently lives in Vermont. When not writing, she can usually be found outside swimming, skiing, or hiking across the state’s famous green mountains. She is the author of the Daughter of Sparta series and can be found on Instagram and Twitter at @cmandrewslit.

THE TRESPASSERS de Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

A house party turns deadly in this tightly wound thriller set against an icy Alaskan winter.

THE TRESPASSERS
by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
Delacorte, October 2025
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Finley, Mya, River, and Eli were inseparable as kids, running wild on Alaska’s vast wide-open spaces. Then tragedy struck, and Finley moved to the lower 48. But now it’s Senior year, and Finley’s back in Anchorage. When Mya throws a house party on a snowy Valentine’s Day night, it’s supposed to be a chance for the friends to heal old wounds. But an encounter with a mysterious stranger quickly turns the evening into a nightmare.

As the group scrambles to cover up what they’ve done, the fault lines they’ve grown so good at ignoring begin to crack as the police investigate and the media hounds them. Are they the most vicious teens in America, or deeply misunderstood? Everyone wants to know—even the teens themselves.

Fast-paced and thrillingly tense, THE TRESPASSERS explores guilt, loyalty, and the complex nature of friendship.

Jennifer Lynn Alvarez earned her BA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and went into finance, of all things before she accomplished her childhood dream of becoming an author. Jennifer grew up in Alaska and now divides her time between Northern California and Middle Tennessee with her husband, kids, and more than her fair share of pets. THE TRESPASSERS is her 11th novel.

MISCHIEF GIRLS d’Aashna Avachat

For readers of Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious, Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter, and Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

MISCHIEF GIRLS
by Aashna Avachat
Delacorte BYR, September 2026
(via KT Literary)

College freshman Raina keeps her personal demons quiet by volunteering for Night Walk, Ellison College’s service to get students home safely. So when a classmate Raina escorted home disappears, she quickly jumps into action to find Anika.

Teaming up with Anika’s stepbrother to trace Anika‘s last steps, the pair discovers Anika had been researching Ellison College’s infamous murders, when three students went into the woods surrounding campus and only one returned. From professor’s offices to the state penitentiary, they soon realize they need to look unsettlingly closer to home.

Then, when another freshman is found dead on campus on the anniversary of the Mischief Night murders, rumors swirl about the killer’s return. The one thing Raina knows for certain is the countdown to find Anika, alive, is on.

Aashna Avachat is the author of Love Craves Cardamom (Penguin Random House/Joy Revolution, Spring 2025) and the editor of the anthology Study Break (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2023). She is currently a student at Harvard Law and lives in Boston.

SEVEN ALL ALONE de Kirsty McKay

Ten years ago, seven kids were kidnapped by their bus driver…held captive until he took his own life. Now the seven are thrust back together on a trip in the mountains, cut off from civilization and hunted one by one by an unknown assailant who wants them dead. From the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister comes another chilling thriller.

SEVEN ALL ALONE
by Kirsty McKay
Sourcebooks, December 2025

Maggie Atkins will never forget what happened in that cave ten years ago when she and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped by their bus driver and kept captive. She will never forget that her friends left her alone to escape, or the image of her kidnapper falling to his death, but she has done her best to put the ordeal behind her and move on.

Her past catches up with her when she’s forced to go on a school trip to the mountains with the very same people who abandoned her, and only a stone’s throw away from the scene of her kidnapping. She’s determined to suck it up and get through it though since it’s only one night of her life. But then a brutal storm changes everything and separates her group from their chaperone. With no phones and a limited food supply, the group strategizes how they can survive the elements and make it back to safety.

Then they realize there is someone else on the mountain. Someone who knows what really happened all those years ago. Someone who wants them dead and is willing to take them out one by one. Maggie thought she’d already survived the worst thing she would ever go through―she was wrong.

Kirsty McKay is a former actor who was born in the U.K. but spent many wicked awesome years in Boston, MA. She now lives in the hills of Northumberland, England with her family, beloved muckhound, and a lot of bad weather. She is the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister? Follow @kirkybean.bsky.social

SHERLOCK & YOU d’Andrew Lane

An interactive mystery series for middle grade in the world of Sherlock Holmes, for fans of Murdle.

SHERLOCK & YOU:
The Mystery of the Missing House
by Andrew Lane
Ravensburger Germany, November 2024
(via Randle Editorial & Literary Consultancy)

London, 2024. Something strange, odd, bizarre has happened, and nobody will believe you. Who do you turn to for help? Sherlock Holmes and Verity Watson, that’s who!

Sherlock Holmes is the 12-year-old descendent of the Great Detective, for whom he is named, and has inherited his forebear’s investigative skills. Verity Watson is the 13-year-olddescendent of the Great Detective’s best friend and confidant, Dr. John H. Watson, and has inherited her forebear’s willpower, conscience and ability to put up with Sherlock’s many quirks. Together they make a formidable team, living and working out of an abandoned tube train in a dusty and long forgotten London Underground station near Baker Street. Their clients find them based on recommendations from previous clients and from rumours circulating on social media about the last resort for kids faced with impossible situations.

Sherlock and Verity are helped out by the Baker Street Irregulars – a team of local Academy pupils in blazers and smart trousers who have set up their own internet data-mining and scientific analysis company operating out of their school IT and science suites without their teachers’ knowledge.

With each chapter finished with a fiendish puzzle, the reader can solve the crime through these puzzles along with Sherlock and his friends and become a great detective just like him! This is a new way into the marvellous, mystery-solving world of Sherlock for younger readers, in the vein of Murdle for kids.

Andrew Lane is the best-selling author of over forty books, including eight in the Young Sherlock Holmes middle-grade series (Macmillan Children’s Books) and four in the Agent Without Licence middle-grade series (Piccadilly Books). He has also written and ghostwritten adult novels as well as nonfiction books and audio scripts, and has worked extensively in the expanded licenced universe of BBC TV’s wildly popular series Doctor Who.