Fiction: Mysteries & Thrillers
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AKASHIC
The Anger Meridian by Kaylie Jones
(July 7, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-61775-
351-0). When Merryn Huntley learns that
her wealthy husband has been killed in a car
accident, along with a local waitress, Mer-
ryn’s instinct is to flee in order to protect
her nine-year-old daughter. The safest place
to go is her mother’s isolated home in San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
AMAZON/THOMAS & MERCER
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Falling in Love by Donna Leon (Apr. 7,
hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-0-8021-2353-
4). In Commissario Guido Brunetti’s 24th
mystery, the Italian policeman reunites
with opera diva Flavia Petrelli, whom he
exonerated of murder in his first outing,
Death at La Fenice.
ATRIA
The Well by Catherine Chanter (May
19, hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-1-4767-
9951-3). In British author Chanter’s first
novel, Ruth Ardingly, who’s been released
from prison to serve out her sentence for
arson and suspected murder in house arrest,
drives with her husband to a farm called the
Well. On their arrival, it starts to rain, but
only on the Well, nowhere else in the
drought-stricken region.
BALLANTINE
Someone Is Watching by Joy Fielding
(Apr. 8, hardcover, $27, ISBN 978-0-553-
39063-6). Deeply shaken after a brutal
attack, Miami PI Bailey Carpenter strug-
gles to regain control over what had once
seemed a neatly ordered life. Bailey replays
the assault in her mind, searching for a
detail that will help the police catch the
unidentified culprit.
BANTAM
Dreaming Spies: A Novel of Suspense
Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock
Holmes by Laurie R. King (Feb. 17, hard-
cover, $26, ISBN 978-0-345-53179-7).
Detectives Holmes and Russell find them-
selves navigating the beautiful but danger-
ous imperial corridors of a politically unsta-
ble Japan—and facing an old acquaintance
in Oxford whose peculiar skills might
prove more than a match for their own.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Bittersweet by Susan Wittig Albert
(Apr. 7, hardcover, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-
425-25562-9). The 23rd China Bayles
mystery finds the herbalist and former law-
yer teaming with an old friend to solve a
complex case of theft and murder in a South
Texas ranching community.
BITTER LEMON
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Tin Sky by Ben Pastor (June 2, paper,
$15.95, ISBN 978-1-908524-51-5). Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Maj. Martin Bora is still serving on
the Russian front as a German counterintelligence officer. When two Russian generals in his custody die within 24 hours of
each other, everything appears to exclude
the likelihood of foul play.
BLOOMSBURY
Sidney Chambers and the Forgive-
ness of Sins by James Runcie (May 19,
paper, $18, ISBN 978-1-63286-103-0). In
the six stories in the fourth Grantchester
Mysteries collection, full-time priest and
part-time detective Canon Sidney Cham-
bers continues his sleuthing adventures in
1960s Cambridge, England. A six-part
series for PBS, Grantchester, is releasing this
winter.
; The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell. Simon & Schuster, Mar. 3
; The Fixer
Joseph Finder. Dutton, June 9
; Freedom’s Child
Jax Miller. Crown, June 2
; Innocence: Or, Murder on Steep Street
Heda Margolius Kovály. Soho Crime, June 2
; Jack of Spades
Joyce Carol Oates. Mysterious, May 5
; Normal
Graeme Cameron. Mira, Mar. 31
; Palace of Treason
Jason Matthews. Scribner, May 5
; The Patriot Threat
Steve Berry. Minotaur, Mar. 31
; White Crocodile
K. T. Medina. Little, Brown/Mulholland, June 30
; The Whites
Richard Price, writing as Harry Brandt. Holt, Feb. 17
PW’S TOP 10:
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS
