Mystery

Fans of courtroom dramas will enjoy this well-performed series that’s based on real-life cases.

While listeners may be glad they don’t live in Blue Deer, they will surely enjoy this twisty, precisely engineered tale.

Miller’s historical thriller provides a good sense of World War II; however, this is undermined by the ease with which Jake and his group plot and carry out escapes, which seem to minimize the danger they would have faced in real life. Includes a synopsis of The Hunt for the Peggy C, chapter notes, a bibliography, and the stories behind the real people who populate the novel.

Hoffman’s (Clean Hands) comic crime novel would please the master of such things, Donald Westlake.

Readers who love puzzles, locked-room mysteries, and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None will enjoy this inaugural effort by Pliego, with its chilling conclusion.

Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors) pens another superb domestic psychological thriller with plenty of twists, as her readers have come to expect. Demand will be high.

A violent, complicated story with links to the past. Although Cutter’s lectures can get a little wordy, readers of Victorian-set mysteries, such as Bridget Walsh’s The Tumbling Girl, will appreciate the creepy atmosphere and intricate conclusion.

The sequel to The Holy Terrors isn’t quite as frightening, but fans of Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries will appreciate the supernatural elements.

At moments, Márquez’s (This Fierce Blood) prose enchants, but it doesn’t quite work as a package.