Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

GHOST BARN de John Verdon

Ex-homicide detective and puzzle-solving master David Gurney comes out of retirement to solve seemingly impossible murder cases. Blending hard-boiled noir fiction with the pleasures of classic “whodunit” puzzle- solving, Verdon has written a “hero for the ages” (David Baldacci).

GHOST BARN
by John Verdon
Counterpoint, September 2026
(via The Friedrich Agency)

The thrilling conclusion to the retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney saga.

Ghosts are returning from the past to trouble Dave Gurney’s peace as a local election sees a powerful real estate mogul with plans for a massive development face off against a librarian and ardent conservationist. When bodies start turning up and the local police turn a blind eye, Gurney suspects he’s the town’s only hope.

But involvement comes at a price. His last case early got his best friend killed, and it shattered his marriage. In the aftermath, he’s focused on breaking his reliance on police work in hopes of rekindling things with his wife, Madeleine. Can he ignore what’s happening and potentially let a murderer run amok, or will he once again dive into the darkness, giving in to his obsessive need to solve the unsolvable—even if it costs him Madeleine for good? One thing is clear: This harrowing, confounding case will be his last.

John Verdon is the author of the Dave Gurney series of thrillers, international bestsellers published in more than two dozen languages: Think of a Number, Shut Your Eyes Tight, Let the Devil Sleep, Peter Pan Must Die, Wolf Lake, White River Burning, On Harrow Hill, and The Viper.

SHE’S MINE de Susan Walter

When a four-year-old girl disappears the night after her birthday party, all the guests are suspects. Except for the one who turned up dead. Mary Kubica meets Lisa Jewell in this dark and twisty mystery of domestic suspense.

SHE’S MINE
by Susan Walter
Blackstone, February 2027
(via Laura Dail Literary)

Summer Brownley’s marriage is ending and her heart is in pieces, but she still threw a damn good party. Afterward, though she really shouldn’t, she curls up with a bottle of wine. It’s her soon-to-be exhusband’s night with the kids, what could go wrong?

Well, everything.

The FBI arrives at dawn. Her four-year-old daughter is missing. But the kidnapping is just the beginning of her nightmare. Because as the search for her daughter begins, one of her party guests turns up dead.

There is no shortage of suspects: the cheating ex-husband, a best friend with regrets, a covetous surrogate. Every new lead uncovers another lie. FBI Agent Willow Thorne is assigned to the case. Thorne has a knack for noticing what people choose not to tell her, but there’s something about this case that has her second-guessing herself. If Summer wants to help Thorne find the kidnapper, she’s going to have to expose her tightly-held secrets.

Before her daughter is gone for good.

Susan Walter is a recovering screenwriter and film director who started writing books to kill people because it was frowned upon in real life. Ha! Her first five books include Good As Dead and Lie by the Pool.

EVERY LIE I TOLD de Hilary Davidson

From bestselling and award-winning author Hilary Davidson, a propulsive, twisty thriller about the devastating consequences of the lies we tell to protect others—and ourselves.

EVERY LIE I TOLD
by Hilary Davidson
Blackstone, June 2026
(via Aaron Priest Literary)

How far would you go to protect a killer?

Jackie Swift does whatever it takes to succeed. At work, she spins lies to protect questionable clients at a shady public-relations firm. At home, she helps her younger sister, Madi, evade consequences for dangerous choices she’s made about friends and drugs. But Jackie’s professional and personal worlds collide one night when she gets a call from Madi telling her she overdosed. Rushing to the rescue, Jackie stumbles on an awful scene at an Upper East Side mansion. Madi is nowhere to be found, but she’s left behind a dead body.

Worse for Jackie, she knows the dead man all too well: it’s her former boss and mentor, and she’s been paid to cover up his crimes in the past.

Jackie is willing to do anything to protect her missing sister, even as the NYPD builds a case against Madi, who may be involved in the deaths of other sexually abusive men. As Jackie searches for her sister–and sets up plausible suspects to take Madi’s place in the eyes of the police–she’s haunted by the terrible things she’s done in service of her career. And she soon discovers there are people who’ve been waiting in the shadows for a chance to take her down.

Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of seven crime novels, including The Damage Done and Her Last Breath. Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards, a Derringer Award, and a host of other accolades. She is also the author of more than fifty short stories, two crime-fiction collections, and a novella. In her prior life as a travel journalist, Hilary authored eighteen nonfiction books. Originally from Toronto, she has called New York City home since 2001. Visit her online at www.hilarydavidson.com.

THE WILL de Maggie Smith

THE WILL is part psychological thriller, and part meditation on motherhood, the rabbit holes of magical thinking, and the terrifying power of desire. This deeply unnerving, yet psychologically relatable story by New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith will appeal to fans of Helen Phillips’ The Need, Ashley Audrain’s The Push, and Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch.

THE WILL
by Maggie Smith
Knopf, 2027
(via the David Black Agency)

When Caroline’s sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car accident, the couple’s will names Caroline as the guardian of their two young children. After years of miscarriages and failed fertility treatments, Caroline had said she’d do anything to be a mother. Anything. Grieving her only sibling and struggling to parent two heartbroken children, Caroline begins to unravel, convinced she willed the accident in some Faustian bargain. But that’s impossible—isn’t it?

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. She is the host of The Slowdown podcast, and she writes about craft in her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

SHE HAD ENOUGH de Stacie Grey

Six friends. One dinner. And a secret that won’t stay buried.

SHE HAD ENOUGH
by Stacie Grey
Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, July 2026

Mallory Taylor was looking forward to a fun night out with old college friends—nostalgia, laughter, nothing more. But Caitlin, always the quiet one of the group, seems even more withdrawn than usual. On edge. Distant. Then, hours after the women all head their separate ways, a massive earthquake reduces San Francisco to rubble—and Caitlin disappears.

It isn’t until six months later, as the city begins to recover, that Mallory learns the truth. Was her disappearance related to the earthquake? Or was something else, something sinister, going on with Caitlin?

No one else seems alarmed. No one is asking questions. But the more Mallory digs, the more she uncovers secrets from that night: fractures in their friendships, hidden motives, and quiet betrayals. The kind of secrets people would kill to protect.

Twisty, atmospheric, and impossible to put down, SHE HAD ENOUGH is a chilling exploration of friendship, silence, and what happens when one woman refuses to stop asking questions.

Stacie Grey is the pseudonym of cozy mystery author Daisy Bateman. She lives with her husband and dog in California.