Criminally Hot: 15 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023

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Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects enigma newsletter writer–in lawsuit you’re wondering what you bash with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s ne'er met a formation she didn’t like, ever says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, each forms of entertainment, and tin clasp a speech utilizing lone gifs. You tin decidedly speech books with her connected Litsy and Goodreads. Depending connected societal media’s stableness possibly besides Twitter and Bluesky.

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We’ve already been breaking each kinds of weather records successful a atrocious mode successful 2023, and arsenic of this writing, it isn’t adjacent precocious August yet — traditionally the hottest portion of summertime — truthful let’s each find well-air-conditioned places and curl up with a publication and a gallon of water. At slightest that’s my goal!

If mysteries, thrillers, and existent transgression are genres you work — which is, of course, wherefore you’re present — I’ve got a large enactment of August 2023 caller releases with thing for a wide scope of speechmaking tastes. From airy to dark, standalones and series, immoderate you’re successful the temper for is hopefully below.

There are 2 humanities mysteries acceptable successful antithetic clip periods successful the U.S., a thriller for those who similar pursuing an obsession, and a thriller wherever a pistillate becomes her ain existent transgression podcast’s subject!

For nonfiction readers, we person 2 existent crimes — 1 a memoir and 1 a biography. There are 2 quozy mysteries, and connected the other broadside of the enigma genre is simply a fictional serial slayer thriller. We person a missing-person household drama, constabulary procedurals, an land setting, a slow-burn that connects crimes decades apart, and a translated enigma with aged protagonists. Get comfy and get sleuthing!

I’m Not Done with You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Many radical cognize Sutanto for her cozy-ish enigma novels (Dial A For Aunties) but she’s besides written large acheronian transgression books (The Obsession), and this 1 falls into the latter.

Jane and Thalia were champion friends a decennary agone portion studying originative penning astatine Oxford. But past a “blood-soaked night” happened and alternatively of it bonding them, Thalia disappears. Now Jane, miserable successful her life, sees that Thalia has published a publication and decides to spell aft her agelong agone champion person astatine an upcoming publication convention…

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Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2) by Naomi Hirahara

For fans of humanities mysteries, particularly acceptable successful clip periods seldom focused on!

In the archetypal publication we saw Aki Ito and her parents released from a Manzanar detention center. They were resettled successful Chicago, and Aki ended up looking into her sister’s mysterious death. Now the household is being allowed to instrumentality to their location successful California, but it’s not a blessed homecoming arsenic the Japanese American assemblage has to commencement over, from scratch. Now a nurse’s aide, Aki, finds herself looking into a imaginable elder maltreatment lawsuit erstwhile the constabulary travel asking questions pursuing a murder.

If you privation to commencement astatine the beginning, prime up Clark and Division.

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

For fans of enigma and thriller authors with a large backlist!

If you don’t similar knowing the crippled up of time, I’ll conscionable punctuation you the tag from the book, which is truly catnip for a definite trope: “a pistillate who finds herself the taxable of her ain fashionable existent transgression podcast.”

Alix Summers is simply a podcast big who 1 nighttime finds her “birthday twin,” Josie, successful a barroom portion some strangers are celebrating their 45th birthday. Josie thinks she’d marque a large taxable for Alix’s podcast, and Alix agrees. Except possibly Alix should person listened to that unsettled feeling she had due to the fact that by the clip Josie disappears, Alix is the taxable of her ain podcast, and she and her household are successful danger…

Board to Death by CJ Connor

For fans of quozy mysteries!

Ben Rosencrantz has returned to his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, pursuing a divorcement successful Seattle, and to look aft his sick father. Things are already not going large erstwhile they instrumentality a worse turn, starting with a seller offering him the crippled that inspired Monopoly astatine a discount, which makes Ben suspicious. And helium is close to beryllium wary: the seller is recovered dormant down his store, and Ben ends up with a backpack of cash, starring him to beryllium fishy numero uno! He’ll conscionable person to squad up with his crush, angiosperm store proprietor Ezra McCaslin, to wide his sanction earlier helium goes to prison.

Bonus: this 1 is by Book Riot contributor CJ Connor!

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

For readers of con creator nonfiction!

You get past (Ghana’s independency from Britain successful 1957), the CIA backing the ousting of a president, and a conman who lied astir a monolithic spot money who conscionable needed investors to assistance him merchandise the wealth from that trust. But helium didn’t enactment alone, and 1 of his accomplices was “Nixon’s erstwhile lawyer general.”

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

The writer of Miracle Creek is backmost with a caller mystery!

This is simply a missing persons enigma and household play that starts with Eugene returning bloody from a locomotion with his begetter successful a adjacent park, and his begetter nary longer with him. But Eugene can’t talk due to the fact that of a condition, truthful the lone witnesser to what is happening is incapable to answer: Where is their father? And what happened?

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

For fans of unsolved missing idiosyncratic cases, the ’90s, acceptable successful Ireland, and fictional serial killers!

This has a sleep-with-the-lights-on intro! Irish women are going missing, including Lucy’s sister, who was expected to person amusive with friends astatine a pub but ne'er came home. Wanting to lick the lawsuit is Angela, a civilian and clerk successful the missing persons’ division, waiting to retake a trial to beryllium connected the Irish constabulary force. And past determination is the antheral liable for the missing women, presently telling his communicative to his latest victim, including his opinions connected the existent transgression TV genre which helium watches with his wife.

What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

For fans of thrillers, fictional serial killers, and land settings!

Coco Weber was the sole subsister of a location penetration 20 years ago, a location connected Catalina Island she is present returning to. With her caller occupation penning obituaries, she finds herself questioning whether caller deaths are coincidental oregon natural, which leads to her beingness being threatened. Does this each necktie into the long-ago decease of her family?

The Body successful the Back Garden by Mark Waddell

For fans of quozy mysteries!

Luke Tremblay is an out-of-work writer who has recovered himself surviving wherever helium erstwhile summered, Vancouver Island, aft inheriting his aunt’s home. The extremity is to merchantability everything she left, including her Crescent Cove antiques shop. But this is simply a cozy, truthful of course, a dormant assemblage ends up successful his backmost garden, a dormant assemblage who Luke fought with portion alive. Now helium has to usage what helium knows arsenic a writer to wide his sanction since the cops are looking astatine him…

Dead and Gone (Detective Annalisa Vega #3) by Joanna Schaffhausen

For fans of constabulary procedural series!

An ex-cop who was moving arsenic a PI is recovered murdered with a connection leaving Annalisa Vega, a Chicago constabulary detective, to deliberation 1 of the cop’s cases indispensable beryllium the connection. And then, hitting excessively adjacent to home, Vega learns that her member had conscionable hired the dormant PI and her niece whitethorn beryllium successful danger.

If you privation to commencement astatine the opening of the series, prime up Gone for Good.

Harlem After Midnight (Canary Club Mystery #2) by Louise Hare

For fans of humanities enigma bid with an amateur sleuth!

In the mid-1930s successful Harlem, Lena Aldridge has yet arrived from London. Her dreams of making it arsenic a prima whitethorn not beryllium instantly coming true, but a caller imaginable beau has offered her a spot to stay, and she’s trying to find household and larn much astir her dad. Except a pistillate resembling Lena is dead, and her caller emotion involvement seems to beryllium keeping secrets…

If you privation to commencement astatine the opening of the series, prime up Miss Aldridge Regrets.

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

For readers of existent transgression memoirs!

Shane McCrae’s achromatic maternal grandparents kidnapped him arsenic a toddler. Their extremity was to rise him successful Texas without his Black begetter and contradict Shane his Blackness. Since helium was kidnapped, they besides raised him “to enactment successful his ain disappearance.” This is Shane McCrae’s communicative of his puerility and trying to find his identity.

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann, Amy Bojang (Translator)

For fans of aged protagonists solving a enigma and translated mysteries!

Sunset Hall is simply a shared location successful the English countryside wherever a radical of aged radical live. It’s not your mean radical of people, though: they are presently hiding a dormant assemblage and hoping to fig retired who murdered idiosyncratic other truthful they tin unreal that murderer besides was liable for their body. Lots connected their plate, it seems!

After That Night (Will Trent #11) by Karin Slaughter

For fans of constabulary procedurals looking for a long-running bid with a presently airing TV adaptation!

GBI Special Agent Will Trent is investigating a woman’s onslaught portion the unfortunate is successful the ER. Coincidentally the doc successful the ER has conscionable started to consciousness her beingness is hers again aft she was attacked 15 years ago. Could this beryllium much than a coincidence?

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

For fans of twisty, slow-burn home thrillers!

Two crimes, 20 years apart: a babe is stolen, and a pistillate successful a nursing location is murdered — and she’s not the lone one.

Now: Four women archer america their stories. How bash they connect? And what ever happened to the baby…

Hope you recovered your adjacent large read! If you can’t get capable of the genre, beryllium definite to autumn down the rabbit spread of each our mystery and thriller posts. You tin besides find a afloat database of caller releases successful the magical New Release Index, cautiously curated by your favourite Book Riot editors, organized by genre and merchandise date.

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