15 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023

Many folks know Sutanto for her cozy-ish thriller novels (Dial A For Aunties) however she’s additionally written nice darkish crime books (The Obsession), and this one falls into the latter.

Jane and Thalia have been finest buddies a decade in the past whereas learning artistic writing at Oxford. But then a “blood-soaked night” occurred and as a substitute of it bonding them, Thalia disappears. Now Jane, depressing in her life, sees that Thalia has revealed a e-book and decides to go after her way back finest buddy at an upcoming e-book conference…

For followers of historic mysteries, particularly set in time intervals hardly ever centered on!

In the primary e-book we noticed Aki Ito and her dad and mom launched from a Manzanar detention heart. They have been resettled in Chicago, and Aki ended up wanting into her sister’s mysterious dying. Now the household is being allowed to return to their dwelling in California, however it’s not a contented homecoming because the Japanese American group has to start out over, from scratch. Now a nurse’s aide, Aki, finds herself wanting right into a potential elder abuse case when the police come asking questions following a homicide.

If you need to begin firstly, decide up Clark and Division.

For followers of thriller and thriller authors with an enormous backlist!

If you don’t like realizing the plot forward of time, I’ll simply quote you the tag from the e-book, which is admittedly catnip for a sure trope: “a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.”

Alix Summers is a podcast host who one evening finds her “birthday twin,” Josie, in a bar whereas each strangers are celebrating their forty fifth birthday. Josie thinks she’d make a terrific topic for Alix’s podcast, and Alix agrees. Except perhaps Alix ought to have listened to that unsettled feeling she had as a result of by the point Josie disappears, Alix is the topic of her personal podcast, and she or he and her household are at risk…

For followers of quozy mysteries!

Ben Rosencrantz has returned to his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, following a divorce in Seattle, and to take care of his unwell father. Things are already not going nice once they take a worse flip, beginning with a vendor providing him the sport that impressed Monopoly at a reduction, which makes Ben suspicious. And he’s proper to be cautious: the vendor is discovered useless behind his retailer, and Ben finally ends up with a backpack of money, main him to be suspect numero uno! He’ll simply should workforce up along with his crush, flower store proprietor Ezra McCaslin, to clear his identify earlier than he goes to jail.

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

For readers of con artist nonfiction!

You get historical past (Ghana’s independence from Britain in 1957), the CIA funding the ousting of a president, and a conman who lied a couple of large belief fund who simply wanted buyers to assist him launch the cash from that belief. But he didn’t work alone, and one in every of his accomplices was “Nixon’s former attorney general.”

The creator of Miracle Creek is again with a brand new thriller!

This is a lacking individuals thriller and household drama that begins with Eugene returning bloody from a stroll along with his father in a close-by park, and his father not with him. But Eugene can’t converse due to a situation, so the one witness to what’s taking place is unable to reply: Where is their father? And what occurred?

For followers of unsolved lacking individual instances, the ’90s, set in Ireland, and fictional serial killers!

This has a sleep-with-the-lights-on intro! Irish girls are going lacking, together with Lucy’s sister, who was imagined to have enjoyable with buddies at a pub however by no means got here dwelling. Wanting to resolve the case is Angela, a civilian and clerk within the lacking individuals’ division, ready to retake a check to be on the Irish police drive. And then there may be the person accountable for the lacking girls, at present telling his story to his newest sufferer, together with his opinions on the true crime TV style which he watches along with his spouse.

For followers of thrillers, fictional serial killers, and island settings!

Coco Weber was the only real survivor of a house invasion 20 years in the past, a house on Catalina Island she is now returning to. With her new job writing obituaries, she finds herself questioning whether or not current deaths are coincidental or pure, which ends up in her life being threatened. Does this all tie into the long-ago dying of her household?

For followers of quozy mysteries!

Luke Tremblay is an out-of-work journalist who has discovered himself residing the place he as soon as summered, Vancouver Island, after inheriting his aunt’s dwelling. The purpose is to promote every little thing she left, together with her Crescent Cove antiques store. But this can be a cozy, so after all, a useless physique leads to his again backyard, a useless physique who Luke fought with whereas alive. Now he has to make use of what he is aware of as a journalist to clear his identify because the cops are him…

For followers of police procedural sequence!

An ex-cop who was working as a PI is discovered murdered with a message leaving Annalisa Vega, a Chicago police detective, to assume one of many cop’s instances should be the connection. And then, hitting too near dwelling, Vega learns that her brother had simply employed the useless PI and her niece could also be at risk.

If you need to begin firstly of the sequence, decide up Gone for Good.

For followers of historic thriller sequence with an beginner sleuth!

In the mid-Thirties in Harlem, Lena Aldridge has lastly arrived from London. Her desires of creating it as a star is probably not instantly coming true, however a brand new potential beau has provided her a spot to remain, and she or he’s looking for household and study extra about her dad. Except a lady resembling Lena is useless, and her new love curiosity appears to be maintaining secrets and techniques…

If you need to begin firstly of the sequence, decide up Miss Aldridge Regrets.

For readers of true crime memoirs!

Shane McCrae’s white maternal grandparents kidnapped him as a toddler. Their purpose was to lift him in Texas with out his Black father and deny Shane his Blackness. Since he was kidnapped, additionally they raised him “to participate in his own disappearance.” This is Shane McCrae’s story of his childhood and looking for his identification.

For followers of aged protagonists fixing a thriller and translated mysteries!

Sunset Hall is a shared home within the English countryside the place a bunch of aged folks reside. It’s not your common group of individuals, although: they’re at present hiding a useless physique and hoping to determine who murdered another person to allow them to fake that assassin additionally was accountable for their physique. Lots on their plate, it appears!

For followers of police procedurals in search of a long-running sequence with a at present airing TV adaptation!

GBI Special Agent Will Trent is investigating a lady’s assault whereas the sufferer is within the ER. Coincidentally the physician within the ER has simply began to really feel her life is hers once more after she was attacked 15 years in the past. Could this be greater than a coincidence?

For followers of twisty, slow-burn home thrillers!

Two crimes, 20 years aside: a child is stolen, and a lady in a nursing house is murdered — and she or he’s not the one one.

Now: Four girls inform us their tales. How do they join? And what ever occurred to the newborn…