Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

COLD PLACES de Tom Baragwanath

In this follow-up to the award-winning Lorraine Henry thrillers Paper Cage and Lucky Thing, Tom Baragwanath delivers his trademark in-depth exploration of isolated communities, wild environments, and resourceful cops—and records clerks—under pressure.

COLD PLACES
by Tom Baragwanath
Text Publishing Australia, August 2027

When it’s time for a little rest and relaxation, police records clerk Lorraine Henry heads north to Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf to visit her colleague, constable Dion Warwick—but the island has something else in store.

After the bodies of two women wash ashore bound in rope, Lorraine and Dion must work with spiky veteran detective Mo Roche to uncover a hidden threat lurking in plain sight, even if doing so means confronting decades-long secrets. And for Lorraine, some of those secrets hit a little too close to home, putting her and her family in real danger.

Without her Masterton connections to draw from, Lorraine needs to find new ways to stay ahead of the danger waiting around every corner, navigating hostile locals, watchful neighbours, and an island commune that isn’t quite what it seems.

‘Wonderful, emotional storytelling with a fine protagonist—an Antipodean Miss Marple, but fiercer—makes this too good to miss.’ – Daily Mail UK on Lucky Thing

‘Lorraine Henry is a refreshingly different crime fiction protagonist.’ – Shelley Burr

‘Just the kind of dark, disturbing, gritty, and unusual treat thriller lovers are looking for.’ – Kirkus (starred review) on Paper Cage

Tom Baragwanath is originally from Masterton, New Zealand, and now lives in Paris with his young family. His first novel, Paper Cage, was the 2021 winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize. His second novel, Lucky Thing, is currently shortlisted for Best International Crime Fiction in the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards as well as being longlisted for the 2026 Ngaio Marsh Awards.

THE RABBIT HOUR de Sofija Stefanovic

A brilliant debut novel—part propulsive thriller, part pitch-perfect comic romp—that explores surprising tensions at the heart of the immigrant experience, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.

THE RABBIT HOUR
by Sofija Stefanovic
HarperVia, June 2027

When the Andric family goes on a weekend away, 19-year-old Maja’s rich boyfriend goes missing. Something foul seems afoot. Is Oggie, her volatile war veteran brother to blame? Will the local cop find out—if he can break away from the hilarious affair he’s having with Oggie’s Aunt Vera? Will Jelena, Oggie’s mother, take the blame—all in the name of protecting her beloved son? Or will the family band together to cover up the crime, because blood is thick, especially when you’re an outsider?

Told in four rotating perspectives over the course of one weekend, Things We Do for Love follows a group of characters inextricably bound by family, conspiracy, desire, and first-generation dreams—who may or may not have stumbled into a murder plot. As absurdly charismatic as it is profoundly resonant, this is a true American novel for our times that introduces Sofija Stefanovic as an intoxicating, extravagant new voice in upmarket and literary thrillers.

Sofija Stefanovic is the creator and host of This Alien Nation, a program that celebrates immigration, and the author of the memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia. She’s a regular storyteller with The Moth, and has traveled with their Mainstage, telling personal stories across the country. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and other outlets. She lives in New York City.

SKUGGINN de Hildur Knútsdóttir

Two teenage girls investigate a haunting and uncover a deadly mystery buried in their new home.

SKUGGINN
(COLD BRIDGE)
by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Forlagid, December 2026
(via KT Literary)

When two 17-year-old girls move into an old house with their recently dating parents, they quickly discover that the house is haunted by a very angry ghost. As they build a relationship of their own (friends? sisters?) and start to investigate who the ghost is and what happened to her, they realize that at least four girls have died in the house since it was built. Will they be next?

Hildur Knútsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in the year 1984. She writes fiction for both adults and teenagers, as well as plays, screenplays and short fiction. Hildur is known for her evocative fantastical fiction and spine-chilling horror, and she has co-authored work with Þórdís Gísladóttir about the humorous crises of modern teenage life. Hildur lives in Reykjavík with her husband and their two daughters.

HOW THE GOODE GIRLS DIED de Alyssa Sheinmel

From New York Times-bestselling author Alyssa Sheinmel comes a haunting, layered novel about loss, mental health, and the danger of keeping secrets for fans of Girl in Pieces and We Were Liars.

HOW THE GOODE GIRLS DIED
by Alyssa Sheinmel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2027
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

Francie, Now:

Francie Buck is the new girl at Arborville Country Day, a prestigious private school ruled by a gossip app only the most popular students can access. At her old school, Francie was a loser—she lost her mother to cancer and her best friend to the popular kids—but enrolling at ACD is her chance to be someone new. When Francie’s the first to learn her classmates Arden and Abigial Goode have died, the app’s shadowy creator forces Francie into the mystery surrounding their deaths.

Abby, Then:

Abby Goode is used to being alone. Her vicious older sister, Arden, who sits at the top of their prep school’s strict hierarchy, keeps it that way. But when Abby finds an unexpected friend in lacrosse player Leo Finch, she realizes that together, they might be able to expose her sister’s cruelty to the world.

As every twist brings Francie closer to the truth about what happened, the stakes for Abby grow higher, and both girls must reconsider who they can trust in this suspenseful, deeply-felt tale about the secrets that ruin lives—and the secrets that end them.

Alyssa Sheinmel is the New York Times-bestselling author of several novels for young adults, including A Danger to Herself and Others, The Castle School for Troubled Girls, and Faceless as well as her adult debut, Such Sheltered Lives. Alyssa grew up in Northern California and New York and currently lives and writes in New York. Follow her on Instagram @AlyssaSheinmel or visit her online at AlyssaSheinmel.com.

THE MOUSE d’Amy Talley

A comedic thriller about an office worker who’s determined to kill her insufferable coworker, only to discover he might be an infamous murderer himself.

THE MOUSE
by Amy Talley
Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s, January 2028

Margaret Ingraham is an introverted, hyper-meticulous thirty-year-old administrative assistant who wants nothing more than to be left in peace. But when the office golden boy, Patrick McMahon, targets her job for AI replacement, then steals her apple slice, something inside Margaret snaps. She makes a calculated decision: Patrick must die.

Margaret’s initial murder attempts—such as leaving a peanut butter muffin on her desk for the allegedly-allergic Patrick to find—are unsuccessful, but as she zeroes in on her target, she begins to notice some suspicious behavior. Soon, she realizes that, beyond being a public nuisance, Patrick might just be the Silver Lake Strangler, a serial killer who has been menacing local women.

Unfortunately, Margaret can’t go to the police. With a past tainted by a mother who cried wolf and Margaret’s own failed homicide attempts, she’s anything but a reliable witness. Instead, she engages Patrick in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, using anonymity and her underestimated persona to out-maneuver a killer. Margaret must risk her safety, her sanity, and the emotional stability she’s fought so hard for to stop the murderer and maybe, for the first time in her life, become the hero of her own story.

“Deftly plotted and deliciously unpredictable, THE MOUSE is everything you want in a thriller. This one is a wild ride from start to finish!”—Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins

Amy Talley is a USA Today bestselling author of over thirty novels (under the name Liz Talley). She has been nominated for both RWA’s Golden Heart and Rita awards. She has had three novels in the Amazon First Reads program and two Amazon “Best Books of the Month” in Romance. Amy is a member of The Author’s Guild, Novelists Inc, and Your Book Escape.