Only If You're Lucky centers around a group of South Carolina college students who don't truly know each other--and the unpleasant...

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. And...

Listen for the Lie offers a fascinating story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to...

A former CIA operative retires to small-town Maine--along with other former agents--to live out a quiet existence, until figures from the...

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself, "Is she going to just keep...

The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

Solid Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites of the year a...

This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me even more fully into Veronica and...

Wendy Walker's thriller focuses on a detective, her stalker, and the lengths both will go to to try to get what they want. This is a...

Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep...

White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women attempting to piece...

The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency; explores...

I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads "Is she going to just keep rehashing all the big hits of her past year of reading?" YES....

Six Four-Star Bossy Mystery Reads Doesn't the cold winter feel like the perfect time to cozy up with a mystery that hooks you with its...

I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret...

The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the Cormoran-Robin romantic tension...

The twist in The Other Side of Night is fascinating, but I wanted to feel more for the characters, who experience extensive trauma, feel...