Top 10

The Amateur

Chris Bohjalian. Doubleday, Aug. 4 ($33, ISBN 978-0-385-55129-8)

In 1970s New York, a teenage golf pro kills a caddy in an apparent accident. Then her affair with a married man comes to light, and police and community members start to doubt her innocence.

Before You Were Anne

Emiko Jean. Simon & Schuster, Sept. 1 ($29, ISBN 978-1-6680-2396-9)

Seattle detective Chelsey Calhoun investigates the death of a Japanese immigrant and the disappearance of her 16-year-old daughter. Soon, Calhoun learns the dead woman was living under a false identity, and her past may have overlapped with Calhoun’s own.

Die Famous

Michael Koryta. Little, Brown, Sept. 22

($30, ISBN 978-0-316-53599-1)

During the Great Depression, a woman sets out across America to find and kill the wanted father of her son so she can claim a significant bounty. Flashbacks shed light on the circumstances that put him on the run.

Eternal Glow

Heather Gay. Podium, Oct. 6 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-3470-3429-1)

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Gay, author of two bestselling memoirs, pivots to fiction with this thriller about a Mormon mommy blogger whose cosmetic surgery has far worse side effects than she anticipated.

Fruit Fly

Josh Silver. Crooked Lane, Aug. 4 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89242-637-4)

Struggling writer Mallory Maddox thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she meets a homeless gay sex worker and starts mining his life for her new novel. Then secrets from her past threaten to come to light, complicating her position.

A Past Without Pictures

Jonathan Ames. Mysterious Press, Sept. 1 ($23.95, ISBN 978-1-61316-805-9)

A disgraced LAPD detective heads to her ex-con father’s funeral in Alabama, where she discovers his death might have been less straightforward than it seemed. Her subsequent investigation puts her at odds with the local police.

The Rhyl Poster

Tom McCarthy. New York Review Books, Oct. 6 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89623-091-5)

An influential jurist for the European Union becomes a Swiss spy and starts having strange visions in this espionage thriller from Booker finalist McCarthy.

Shelter Is Necessary for Existence

Brenda Iijima. Two Dollar Radio, Oct. 6 ($18.95 trade paper , ISBN 978-1-953387-59-2)

After purchasing a Brooklyn brownstone and preparing to renovate it, an upwardly mobile family suffers strange symptoms that might be linked to the deaths of the previous inhabitants.

Time to Burn

Ellery Lloyd. Harper, Aug. 4 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-332305-6)

In this sci-fi thriller, a documentarian time travels to 1941 London during the Blitz, where she stumbles into a world-altering plot helmed by someone from her past.

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

Liz Nugent. Scout, Sept. 1 ($29, ISBN 978-1-6682-0465-8)

Bestseller Nugent follows up Strange Sally Diamond with the story of two sisters and the mysterious incident that upended their lives in 1999 Boston.

Longlist

Akashic

Virgin Islands Noir, edited by Tiphanie Yanique and Richard Georges (Aug. 4, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63614-297-5). The latest in Akashic’s regional noir series features stories of crime and redemption set on the British and United States Virgin Islands.

Atlantic Crime

Promised Land by Henry Wise (Sept. 1, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6450-6). Virginia sheriff Will Seems investigates a strange disappearance in a swampland marked for real estate development, dredging up dark secrets in the process.

Atria

The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett (Aug. 25, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-8371-0). Told in Hallett’s signature style—with text messages, emails, and other documents forming the narrative—this sequel to The Appeal follows a British theater troupe’s treacherous attempts to stage an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Hollow.

Bantam

Chain Reaction: A Reacher Novel by Lee and Andrew Child (Oct. 20, $34, ISBN 979-8-217-37515-8). The latest collaboration between Lee Child and his younger brother, Andrew, finds a desperate general in Washington, D.C., trying to track down Jack Reacher for a high-stakes mission.

Berkley

Girl Number 8 by Janice Okoh (Jan. 19, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-19121-5). Nigerian detective Sola Adeyemi looks into the disappearance of a servant woman’s daughter, then unravels a grave political conspiracy connected to the country’s upcoming elections.

Blackstone

The Trusted by Marisa De Los Santos (Nov. 17, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-228-31537-2). While grieving their recent failure to catch a killer, Pennsylvania detectives Lina Cardova and Aaron Cash are assigned another murder case whose suspects include their closest friends.

Cardinal

The Heights by Ian Rankin (Nov. 3, $29, ISBN 978-1-5387-7610-0). The wealthy residents of a London high-rise fall under suspicion when the building’s night manager is found dead in the lobby.

Celadon

Nobody Deserves This by Andy Callahan (Jan. 19, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-43805-8). When two college girls go missing in the Philadelphia suburbs, eyes turn toward innocent 21-year-old Sean Mulcahy. Then another girl vanishes, and Sean finds evidence that the cases are linked.

Crooked Lane

The Chain House by J.H. Markert (Oct. 6, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89242-676-3). A serial killer on death row agrees to be interviewed by a budding filmmaker on live TV. During their talk, the killer claims he’s the pseudonymous author of a bestselling series whose final novel will reveal the locations of his victims’ bodies.

Crown

Mr. Disappear by Virginia Trench (Nov. 10, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-79855-3). A con man gets his comeuppance when some of his victims connect on Reddit and join forces to bring him down.

Doubleday

The French Illusion by John Grisham (Sept. 29, $35, ISBN 978-0-385-55054-3). After an American couple is kidnapped during their honeymoon in France, the CIA convinces a young lawyer to serve as bait in a scheme to retrieve them.

Dutton

No Song for the Dead: A Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Stine Bolther, and Line Holm (Sept. 8, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-17851-3). Det. Carl Mørck comes out of retirement to help the Department Q squad reinvestigate a murder-suicide from several years earlier. Meanwhile, a French investigator with a checkered past joins the force.

Flatiron

Clear Water by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes (Nov. 3, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-38977-0). A woman returns to her Wisconsin hometown to relitigate her sister’s disappearance after she and others see
strange apparitions of mute girls in white.

Grand Central

Tear the City Down by Andre Hardy (Sept. 1, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-7748-0). Former NFL player Hardy debuts with a San Diego crime saga about a fixer who wants to abandon the hustle and focus on his daughter’s tennis career. Then the disappearance of an L.A. running back ropes him back into the criminal underworld.

Hanover Square

Dark Harvest by Hans Rosenfeldt (Jan. 12, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-335-00219-8). This sprawling Scandinavian noir follows an ensemble cast, including a mourning mother, a hit woman, and a young politician, as they orbit a human trafficking plot organized by Stockholm power brokers.

Hyperion Avenue

Truth to Power by S.A. Cosby (Oct. 13, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-368-09537-2). The bestselling crime writer steps into the Marvel universe with this neo-noir about Luke Cage leaving his girlfriend, Jessica Jones, to investigate a string of mysterious deaths in Virginia.

Kensington

Everyone’s a Liar by Alexandra Ivy (Oct. 27, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4967-5549-0). While attending a family reunion
at her late grandfather’s Louisiana estate, Liva Benoit starts to receive apparently supernatural signs that something is about to go wrong.

Knopf

A Killer Plot: A Jane Hepburn Mystery by E.C. Nevin (Aug. 11, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-80302-8). Mystery author Jane Hepburn discovers a dead body during a glamorous London book party, prompting her to dust off her sleuthing skills.

Little, Brown

The Hollow: A Harry Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly (Oct. 27, $32, ISBN 978-0-316-56385-7) sees Connelly’s now retired LAPD detective investigating the unsolved death of a boy he knew from his time in a California orphanage.

Minotaur

Cherry by Rose Wilding (Nov. 3, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-88696-5). Tragedy ensues when a washed-up pop star takes a job nannying for a suburban family and clashes with the children’s mother.

Bad Company by Sara Paretsky (Nov. 10, $30, ISBN 978-1-250-41219-5). Former CIA agent Lily Sedako, now in her 70s, reenters the spy game when someone sends her photos from her long-ago mission in the U.S.S.R.

Morrow

My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon (Aug. 18, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-347802-2). Two sisters put their thorny relationship to the test when their rafting trip turns deadly.

The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter (Aug. 11, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-345878-9). Georgia sheriff Emmy Clifton teams up with her sister, a former federal agent, to investigate a brutal act of violence within a seemingly normal family.

Norton

London Station by David McCloskey (Sept. 29, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12321-7). The “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. gets put to the test when intelligence officials from both countries turn out to be spying on one other after a controversial stateside election.

Oceanview

Mother, May I by Harry Hunsicker (Oct. 13, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-60809-662-6). A woman who works as a freelance black ops agent for the U.S. government learns during a treacherous mission in L.A. that her long-missing daughter might be alive.

Park Row

A Beautiful Couple by Leslie Wolfe (Dec. 15, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7783-3223-7) traces the strain on a picture-perfect marriage after a woman witnesses her husband, a local news anchor, kill a man.

Pine & Cedar

They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough (Aug. 25, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-43668-9). College dropout Anna Maybourne investigates two unsolved murders in her small Nebraska town alongside a fellow outsider and the local deputy. As the sixth anniversary of the original killing approaches, she starts to lose her mind.

Poisoned Pen

The Witch by Freida McFadden (Oct. 6, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-4642-4964-8). The prolific bestseller flirts with the supernatural in this story of a woman who moves to her family’s gothic Massachusetts estate, only to learn that it might be haunted by a 17th-century witch.

Putnam

The First Cut Is the Deepest by Mindy McGinnis (Jan. 12, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-17733-2). Budding musician Gretchen McMurphy’s dreams come true when she’s selected to open for pop star Fae Deeds. Then she learns that Fae is more unhinged than anyone knows.

Random House

Brut by Sam Tallent (Sept. 22, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-97889-4). After leaving the Marines and attempting to settle down, Robert Beaujolais becomes a contract killer. When he botches a stateside job, his handlers threaten to kill him unless he can pull off a major hit in Paris.

Scribner

Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Oct. 6, $35, ISBN 978-1-6682-3309-2). In the conclusion to the Talisman Trilogy, an elderly Jack Sawyer tries to save the world from a pack of diseased teenagers.

Sideways

The Throwaways by Greta Kelly (Oct. 20, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-68281-738-4). A woman unwittingly walks into a deadly game of international espionage when she lists an innocuous family keepsake on eBay.

Simon & Schuster

The Shadows Tomorrow by Noelle Michel and Frank Wynne (Aug. 4, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-5126-9). The producers of a reality show starring resurrected Neanderthals get more than they bargained for when they hire a human actor to strike up a romance with a young “Neand.”

Soho Crime

Backwater by James Sallis (Sept. 1, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-859-9). The final novel from the late author of Drive follows a jazz guitarist who returns to his hometown to help an old friend investigate a murder. Then the friend disappears, and more bodies pile up.

Sourcebooks Landmark

Monster in the Mirror by Janasha Prabhu (Oct. 20, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4642-9033-6). The niece of a serial killer is framed for murder by a copycat of her uncle’s.

Thomas & Mercer

The Shadow Friends by Tess Gerritsen (Aug. 25, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6625-3340-2). In the third installment of Gerritsen’s Martini Club series, a group of retired spies in Maine investigate a murder at a nearby hotel that’s hosting a global affairs conference.

Union Square

Bad Like Me by Louise Griffin (Oct. 13, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4549-6972-3). Four women narrate this suburban suspense tale about the stabbing of a handsome, well-liked father at a local playground.

Viking

The Taper Man: A John le Carré Novel by Nick Harkaway (Nov. 17, $32, ISBN 979-8-217-06187-7). The second George Smiley novel by le Carré’s son sees the legendary spy sent to L.A. in the midst of the Cold War to ferret out a Russian spy.

Viking/Dorman

We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery by Richard Osman (Sept. 15, $31, ISBN 979-8-217-06039-9) tracks bodyguard Amy, novelist Rosie, and Rosie’s father-in-law, Steve, as they pursue an Italian killer around the globe.

Zando

The Butcher Legacy: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel by Alaina Urquhart (Aug. 11, $29, ISBN 978-1-63893-340-3). New Orleans medical examiner Wren Muller puts her sleuthing cap back on when young women start to disappear in locations once frequented by a serial killer she thought she caught.

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