The Best Mystery Books: 2023 Upcoming Titles

The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

This stunning household saga follows an 18-year-old teen successful Puerto Rico who uncovers a unusual and mysterious quality aft the decease of her grandmother. When her grandma passes away, Isla inexplicably finds herself getting visions of the tales she’s heard from her household passim her life. But 1 imaginativeness presents her with the lawsuit of an aged execution mystery, Isla realizes the stories she erstwhile recovered fascinating could really beryllium dangerous. 

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Jackal by Erin E. Adams

Liz Rocher reluctantly returns to her predominately achromatic location municipality of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to be her her champion friend’s wedding. She braces herself for a play of awkward reunions. But connected the time of the wedding, the couple’s daughter, Caroline, disappears, leaving down thing but a portion of achromatic cloth covered successful blood.

The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh 

On New Year’s Day, Rhys Lloyd, a developer of exclusive water abrogation homes for affluent outsiders, is recovered dormant successful a tiny colony connected the borderline betwixt Wales and England. DC Leo Brady of Cheshire Major Crimes takes connected the case, partnering with Ffion Morgan of the North Wales Police. Told done the perspectives of a ample formed of characters, this page-turner moves betwixt past and contiguous to uncover the information astir Rhys and his murder. 

The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett

This atmospheric enigma acceptable successful the satellite of academia follows the lawsuit a fraternity member who is deed by a car astatine the University of Georgia. The twist: each the witnesses accidental the operator looked identical to the unfortunate and was smiling. The detective connected the case, Marlitt Kaplan, is the girl of a prof and knows each the school’s shameful secrets. But arsenic she investigates the hit-and-run, she indispensable excavation adjacent deeper into the university’s Greek system, uncovering immoderate long-buried secrets that person made their mode disconnected campus.

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

Your Inspector Gamache hole has arrived! In the latest installment from Louise Penny, the present big children of a murdered pistillate person returned to Three Pines, alarming the section detective and the remainder of the town. Their interest lone deepens aft the find of a missive written by a agelong dormant chromatic mason, which reveals the determination of an attic country filled with curiosities.

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley 

Set successful 1850s Gold Rush California, this humanities enigma follows Eliza Ripple, who began moving astatine the section brothel arsenic a means of gaining fiscal information aft her hubby died. When the dormant bodies of young women commencement appearing extracurricular of town, Eliza, fueled by her emotion speechmaking and Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, recruits her champion friend, Jean, to effort to drawback the killer.

The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey 

The Reynolds household sanction has go synonymous with execution and enigma ever since mogul Clive Reynolds went missing 20 yeas ago. After receiving a cryptic note, lensman Morgan Mori reluctantly returns location to Black Harbor and into the web of their household secrets. The nighttime she photographs the latest Reynolds vacation get-together, Morgan becomes witnesser to a shocking transgression that could ace unfastened the acold case.

A Death successful Tokyo by Keigo Higashino

This is the 3rd introduction successful Higashino’s Detective Kyoichiro Kaga bid that has been translated into English. After a antheral is recovered stabbed connected a celebrated span successful the halfway of Tokyo, Detective Kaga is assigned to the squad investigating the murder. When a premier fishy is located, the Tokyo Police Department thinks this could beryllium a elemental unfastened and unopen case. But arsenic Kaga looks into the suspect,  his probe takes him down unexpected roads and reveals the acheronian information of what truly happened and why.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong (January 10)

Both a surreal enigma and an intimate exploration of intelligence health, Liar, Dreamer, Thief follows Katrina Kim, who forms an obsession with her co-worker Kurt arsenic 1 of her galore coping methods. While riffling done his things 1 day, Katrina finds grounds that idiosyncratic is alert of what she’s been doing and she runs to her ritual spot astatine the span to soothe herself. But erstwhile she arrives, she finds Kurt, who slams her with a horrifying accusation earlier jumping to his death. Spiraling from his indictment, Katrina revisits everything she knows astir him — lone to observe that Kurt was watching her, too. As she dives further into Kurt’s life, she faces much shocking revelations astir her own. 

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita (January 10)

In this gripping debut, detective Cara Kennedy sets retired to analyse a teen’s execution successful Point Mettier, Alaska, wherever each 205 citizens unrecorded successful a azygous high-rise building. After a blizzard causes the lone passageway into the gathering to adjacent indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the unusual and suspicious residents, each of which seems to person their ain secrets to hide. 

Decent People by De’Shawn Charles Winslow (January 17)

Winslow follows up his almighty debut, In West Mills, with different humanities enigma acceptable successful segregated West Mills, North Carolina. In the compelling follow-up, erstwhile nonmigratory who has precocious moved backmost to municipality is determined to assistance lick the triple homicide of 3 siblings. Though the transgression is the archetypal reported execution successful the country successful decades, the achromatic authorities don’t look to person immoderate involvement successful solving the case. When Jo Wright realizes her puerility sweetheart, the half-sibling of the execution victims, could beryllium named a premier suspect, she sets retired to beryllium his innocence.

Exiles by Jane Harper (January 31)

Federal Investigator Aaron Falk travels to his tiny location municipality successful Southern Australia with program to bask his abrogation and be the christening of a friend’s baby. What helium doesn’t recognize is that the timing coincides with the one-year day of the disappearance of Kim Gillespie, who went missing during a municipality festival with nary leads. After Kim’s girl makes a plea for information, Aaron finds himself drawn to the lawsuit and dilatory begins to infiltrate his mode into Kim’s ellipse of friends and family.

Last Seen successful Lapaz by Kwei Quartey (February 7)

Last Seen successful Lapaz marks the 3rd installment successful the Emma Djan Investigation series. After a whirlwind romance leads to the disappearance of a young Nigerian pistillate and the brutal execution of her boyfriend, Emma Djan embarks connected a unsafe undercover ngo to uncover what truly happened and way down the missing woman.

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (February 21)

Now a palmy podcaster and movie professor, Bodie Kane has worked hard to permission her hard past behind, including a household calamity and the execution of a classmate astatine the New Hampshire schoolhouse she attended. When the boarding schoolhouse offers Bodie the accidental to thatch a two-week course, her memories of that twelvemonth statesman to resurface, and she can’t assistance but commencement investigating the details of the murder, realizing she whitethorn beryllium much connected to the lawsuit than she though.

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (February 21)

The archetypal caller from Gillian Flynn’s caller imprint, Scorched Grace tells the communicative of Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavy tattooed, queer nun, who joins a convent successful New Orleans. After Sister’s convent becomes the people of an arson spree, she puts her sleuthing skills to enactment and launches her ain probe to pinpoint the culprit earlier it’s excessively late.

The Angel Maker by Alex North (February 28)

Growing up, Katie Shaw seemed to unrecorded a charmed beingness — until the time a convulsive alien changed the destiny of her household forever. Years later, Katie inactive struggles to unrecorded with  the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris. Her beingness is upended erstwhile again erstwhile she gets a telephone telephone that Chris has gone missing. At the aforesaid time, Detective Laurence Page uncovers a transportation betwixt the caller execution of a prof and the gruesome onslaught Chris suffered arsenic a teenager.

The Maid’s Diary by Loreth Anne White (March 1)

Kit Darling is simply a maid with a wont of snooping. It’s ever been a harmless hobby — until Kit sees thing acheronian successful the location of her brand-new clients: a concealed that could destruct the privileged mates expecting their archetypal child. When homicide bull Mallory Van Alst is called to the country of a bloody onslaught astatine a luxury waterfront home, she knows determination is small accidental the unfortunate is alive, adjacent though determination is nary body. With the homeowners gone and their maid missing, Mal sets retired to uncover the concealed that altered everyone’s lives.

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (March 7)

In this subject fabrication execution mystery, a antheral goes missing connected a distant outpost of a quality colony connected Jupiter. When Investigator Mossa follows his trail, it leads her to Valdegeld, the determination of the colony’s erudite university, wherever her erstwhile girlfriend, Pleiti, works. Pleiti is an adept connected Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. When Mossa shows and requests her assistance successful her latest investigation, the 2 of them squad up to uncover the mystery.

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto (March 14)

Vera Wong is simply a lonely aged woman who lives supra her mostly forgotten beverage store successful the mediate of San Francisco’s Chinatown. One morning, she comes downstairs to find a funny happening — a dormant antheral successful the mediate of her beverage shop, holding a flash thrust successful his hand. After calling the cops, Vera decides to support the flash thrust to fig retired which of the customers of her store is the murderer. What she doesn’t expect is to statesman signifier friendships with her customers.

What Remains by Wendy Walker (June 13)

Cold lawsuit detective Elise Sutton prefers to support a cautious consciousness of bid successful some her enactment beingness and nonrecreational one. But that each changes 1 time successful a section store erstwhile Elise is forced to marque a determination successful which to prevention 1 life, she has to instrumentality another. Though Elise is hailed arsenic a leader by many, she feels steeped with guilt — until she connects with Wade Austin, the antheral whose beingness she saved. But Elise soon realizes Wade is acold from who helium appears to be.