Mystery/Thriller Reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-358-41893-1 In Clarke’s solid debut, former social worker Elle Castillo investigates unsolved crimes against children and shares her findings on the true crime podcast she produces from her home in the Twin Cities. Grand Central Publishing, 15.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3634-0 In this tempestuous thriller from Holahan (One Little Secret), 52-year-old Greg Hamlin is waiting at his house for his pregnant fiancée, 32-year-old Caribbean American culture and style blogger Jade Thompson, to dress for a party being thrown by his New York City architecture firm when two masked men force their way inside and fracture Greg’s skull with a crowbar. Thomas & Mercer, 15.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0837-2 Thriller Award finalist Dugoni’s gripping eighth mystery featuring Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite (after 2020’s A Cold Trail) opens with Tracy returning from medical leave to the SPD’s Violent Crimes Section only to be abruptly transferred to the Cold Case Unit by her superior, Capt. Johnny Nolasco, who has a grudge against her dating back to when he was a police academy instructor and she was a trainee. Melville House Publishing, 26.99 (268p) ISBN 978-1-61219-903-0 Former Irish Republican Army bank robber O’Rawe (Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer That Changed Irish History) makes his fiction debut with a riveting crime thriller loosely based on the unsolved bank robbery that nearly undermined the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.