Robert Doughten Savile, nicknamed Doughty, is a delusional young man from Connecticut who drifts into early-’90s New York convinced that wealth and status are his birthright. He spins grandiose lies and cons his way into people’s lives while failing professionally and sliding into substance use and risky behavior. The novel is a darkly comic portrait of entitlement, manipulation, and the damage one person can inflict on others.

Set during the 1939–40 Winter War, the novel follows a small Finnish infantry company—farmers, workers and soldiers—who band together to defend their homeland after the Soviet invasion. Centered on the human costs of combat and the legendary sniper Simo Häyhä, it depicts freezing conditions, scarce equipment, and the quiet determination (sisu) that sustains the men and women on the front.

As the Thursday Murder Club helps with a wedding, their quiet year is interrupted when a guest turns up in danger. The friends face kidnapping, a murder, and a plot to steal an uncrackable code, and must race to piece together clues and stop the villain before it’s too late.

This riveting historical account delves into the tumultuous and vibrant history of San Francisco's infamous Barbary Coast, a district notorious for its lawlessness and debauchery during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The narrative vividly portrays a world teeming with gamblers, prostitutes, and criminals, painting a picture of a society where vice and corruption thrived amidst the backdrop of the Gold Rush and the city's rapid growth. Through colorful anecdotes and detailed descriptions, the book captures the essence of a time when the pursuit of wealth and pleasure often overshadowed morality and order.

In the 1970s, volunteer counselor Martha “Marty” Goddard pushed hospitals and police to collect evidence and treat sexual-assault survivors with dignity, helping to develop the standardized “rape kit.” Journalist Pagan Kennedy follows Goddard’s story, examines how this forensic innovation changed investigations, and reflects on the wider history of forensic practice and her own responses to sexual assault.

Inspector Henry Cutter has grown withdrawn, and Sergeant Gideon Bliss worries as a series of meticulously staged murders unfolds. The cases offer baffling clues and draw Bliss into investigations Cutter keeps oddly distant. With help from journalist Octavia Hillingdon, Bliss must step out of the inspector’s shadow to uncover hidden motives and confront difficult questions about truth, duty, and justice.

Calvin Duncan was convicted of murder at nineteen and spent decades at Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola). With little formal education he taught himself the law, became a jailhouse lawyer who assisted fellow inmates and taught legal classes, and the book—co-written with Sophie Cull—traces his legal coming-of-age and examines the flaws of the criminal justice system.

A candid memoir about an Indian American woman whose long struggle with depression leads her to a persuasive alternative therapist who runs a Mormon-influenced self-help community. Drawn into the leader’s control, she experiences major life changes and ultimately reclaims her autonomy by studying psychology and learning to trust her intuition.

On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank and four men, including Captain Thomas Dudley, were left adrift in a lifeboat. After two weeks without food they chose to sacrifice the youngest, 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker, an action that led to their rescue and a murder trial. The book reconstructs both the ordeal at sea and the trial, examining how survival imperatives clashed with moral and legal norms.

Investigative reporter Seth Harp examines a string of unexplained deaths and overdoses at Fort Bragg, centering on two 2020 murders that point to drug trafficking and corruption involving special operations personnel. Based on interviews, trial records, and police files, the book traces networks of drug smuggling, institutional failures, and attempts to hide wrongdoing at the military base. It is a reported account of crime, narcotics, and the consequences of secrecy within an elite military community.

Chicky Diaz is the longtime doorman at the Bohemia, a ritzy Manhattan apartment building. On a single volatile night—set against protests after a police shooting—Chicky is drawn into a tense, criminal situation that entangles residents such as Emily Longworth and Julian Sonnenberg. The novel follows how class, privilege, and personal secrets collide as the city teeters toward violence, forcing characters to make dangerous choices.

Thirty years after John Lo, the only Asian American partner at a prominent New York law firm, was tried and acquitted for the murder of a colleague, his adult children Brennan and Hunter reunite to reinvestigate the case as their family unravels. Told in alternating timelines between John’s downfall and his children’s present-day probe, Hollow Spaces explores race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the long consequences of a sensational trial.

Five childhood friends in a small coastal town are torn apart when Tommy is killed and, years later, Bernard commits suicide. When mutilated bodies are found, the three remaining friends try to solve Bernard's death and begin to suspect he was a ritual killer who bled young women. Their search forces them to confront a darkness so terrifying it could trap them in the shadows of the damned and shatter their concept of existence.

Sister, Sinner traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic 1920s evangelist whose mysterious disappearance and dramatic reappearance sparked a national media frenzy. The book follows her rise through spectacle, radio, and a sprawling Los Angeles church, and examines the scandals, legal battles, and cultural forces that shaped early American popular religion and Hollywood.

Leo Schofield has spent decades behind bars for the 1987 murder of his wife, a crime he insists he did not commit. Years later, fingerprints from the scene were linked to another local man who has confessed to multiple killings, leaving both men claiming the truth while authorities remain unconvinced. The book examines the competing accounts, physical evidence, and the workings of the criminal-justice system in Polk County, Florida, without revealing the case’s final outcome.

They Poisoned the World investigates how “forever chemicals” (PFAS) came to contaminate drinking water across the United States. Starting with a 2014 discovery of toxic levels in Hoosick Falls, New York, Mariah Blake traces the chemicals’ history—from wartime research to decades of industry knowledge and internal testing linking PFAS to health problems—and examines how regulatory failures allowed widespread exposure. The book combines document-based investigative reporting with the story of local residents who fought to reveal the contamination and seek accountability.

Jed Rosenthal, a stalled writer and co-parent, becomes obsessed with the unsolved 1963 death of young Hollywood actress Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet after discovering a sudden break in his family’s friendship with her parents. His investigation through archives, photos, and family stories—spanning seven decades—unravels family secrets and examines the ties and tensions that shape identity and loyalty, told with wry humor and human insight.

A meticulous, neurodivergent detective in Bristol investigates the suspicious death of a local dentist, following threads through the victim’s fraught family life, tense professional partnerships, and patients with lingering grievances. Refusing to ignore anomalies, he methodically untangles a web of secrets and resentments, uncovering a motive rooted in betrayal and exposing a culprit hiding in plain sight.

Mackenzie Clyde, an unofficial problem-solver for a powerful Silicon Valley investor, must untangle the murder of a breakout startup CEO that leaves billions frozen in a will. A lawyer by trade, she leans on insider knowledge, bold tactics, and being underestimated to navigate a tangled web of suspects, corporate secrets, and competing interests. The book is a fast-paced, twisty mystery that probes the darker side of tech wealth and power.

In 2010, ten Russian deep-cover agents were arrested in the United States — including married couples who had lived as ordinary Americans for decades and a man posing as a Uruguayan photographer. The book traces the history and methods of Russia’s clandestine "illegals" program, Directorate S, from its early 20th-century origins through the post‑Soviet era, showing how agents built and sustained long-term false identities without revealing plot details.

After a decade on the LAPD, Sonny Rush relocates with her mother to the seaside town of Haven to work in her godfather’s private‑investigation office. A routine missing‑dog case quickly entangles her with old relationships, local tensions and the discovery of a teenager’s body, forcing Sonny to peel back the town’s idyllic façade and confront secrets that threaten her safety.

Muriel “Mrs. Blossom,” a middle‑aged widow who once assisted a private investigator, takes a French river cruise after an unexpected change in her circumstances. When a man she met on the trip turns up dead in Paris, she finds herself drawn into a compact mystery aboard the MS Solitaire involving a possible stolen artwork and a persistent, enigmatic companion. As she questions who to trust, Mrs. Blossom uses her quiet instincts and curiosity to peel back layers of deception without leaving the cruise.

After decades of obscurity, mystery novelist Duncan Torrens draws sudden interest when a blogger and publishing figures start probing who controls the rights to his backlist. Told through five unreliable narrators—the Librarian, the Reader, the Publisher, the Editor and the Writer—the race to claim those rights uncovers secrets, rivalries and increasingly dangerous consequences. A darkly comic, twisty crime novel that plays with perspective without revealing the outcome.

Curtis Wilson is a classical music prodigy who has risen from inner‑city Washington, D.C., to international acclaim. When his father gets entangled with a ruthless cartel, Curtis, his father Zippy, and Larissa enter witness protection and abandon his career. With law enforcement unable to stop the threat, the family must take matters into their own hands, forcing Curtis to choose between his music and protecting the people he loves.

Shadow Cell is a firsthand memoir by married CIA officers Andrew and Jihi Bustamante about being deployed after a mole compromised the agency’s source network in a rival country codenamed 'Falcon.' Considered expendable because they lacked local experience, the couple build a covert cell, recruit sources, and use unconventional tradecraft to uncover the insider threat. The book recounts their covert operations, the techniques they used in the field, and the personal risks of life in intelligence, without revealing key outcomes.