The Best Recent Mysteries for Your Book Club

This is the ultimate guide in a well-liked Japanese detective collection, the character of which implies you don’t really want to have learn the opposite books. Here, a Tokyo detective reaches out to detective Kyoichiro Kaga about two circumstances — one involving a girl mysteriously removed from residence utilizing a pretend identify and the opposite a houseless man. Turns out there’s a connection to the loss of life of Kaga’s mom, who ran away from her household and died over a decade in the past.

In this gothic locked room thriller, a bunch of buddies who first met once they had been teenagers meet up once more as adults beneath a cloud of grief. Their buddy Bea died 9 years in the past, and now that the group has gathered at Bea’s household’s property to recollect the nice occasions, the story surrounding her loss of life is questioned. And the reality will come out after they get snowed in, it doesn’t matter what.

Here’s a homicide thriller set in a spot I don’t often see with homicide mysteries: Nigeria. Philip Taiwo begins engaged on a case primarily based round a megachurch in Ogun State, the place a bishop’s spouse was murdered, and a younger girl went lacking. As Taiwo will quickly study, there are secrets and techniques that, if uncovered, will threaten the complete church.

The Queen of Irish detective fiction is again with one other Cal Hooper entry, however as with numerous different detective fiction, I don’t assume you essentially should have learn the primary within the collection to get pleasure from this one. Here, Cal retires from the Chicago PD early and strikes to the Irish countryside to seek out quiet. He will get the peace he’s trying for and extra — he, native girl Lena, and Lena’s troubled teen daughter Trey begin to type what seems like a supportive household. But then Trey’s trifling organic father, Johnny, reveals up with a scheme to get wealthy, and every little thing goes south. The delicate, newly shaped connections of Cal’s household are threatened by a search for gold that turns right into a search for a killer.