Criminally Scorching: 15 New Thriller, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023

Many individuals 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 finding out artistic writing at Oxford. However then a “blood-soaked night time” occurred and as a substitute of it bonding them, Thalia disappears. Now Jane, depressing in her life, sees that Thalia has printed a e-book and decides to go after her way back finest good friend at an upcoming e-book conference…

For followers of historic mysteries, particularly set in time intervals not often centered on!

Within the first e-book we noticed Aki Ito and her mother and father 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 cheerful homecoming because the Japanese American group has to begin over, from scratch. Now a nurse’s aide, Aki, finds herself wanting right into a attainable elder abuse case when the police come asking questions following a homicide.

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

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

Should 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 lady who finds herself the topic of her personal standard true crime podcast.”

Alix Summers is a podcast host who one night time finds her “birthday twin,” Josie, in a bar whereas each strangers are celebrating their forty fifth birthday. Josie thinks she’d make an important topic for Alix’s podcast, and Alix agrees. Besides 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 he or she and her household are at risk…

For followers of quozy mysteries!

Ben Rosencrantz has returned to his hometown of Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, following a divorce in Seattle, and to take care of his unwell father. Issues are already not going nice after 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 lifeless behind his retailer, and Ben finally ends up with a backpack of money, main him to be suspect numero uno! He’ll simply should group 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 E 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. However he didn’t work alone, and one among his accomplices was “Nixon’s former lawyer common.”

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

It 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. However Eugene can’t converse due to a situation, so the one witness to what’s occurring is unable to reply: The place is their father? And what occurred?

For followers of unsolved lacking individual circumstances, the ’90s, set in Eire, 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 speculated 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 take a look at to be on the Irish police pressure. After which there’s the person liable for the lacking girls, presently 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. Along with her new job writing obituaries, she finds herself questioning whether or not latest deaths are coincidental or pure, which results 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 all the things she left, together with her Crescent Cove antiques store. However it is a cozy, so after all, a lifeless physique leads to his again backyard, a lifeless 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 for the reason that 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 suppose one of many cop’s circumstances should be the connection. After which, hitting too near dwelling, Vega learns that her brother had simply employed the lifeless PI and her niece could also be at risk.

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

For followers of historic thriller sequence with an novice sleuth!

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

If you wish 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 boost him in Texas with out his Black father and deny Shane his Blackness. Since he was kidnapped, additionally they raised him “to take part in his personal disappearance.” That is Shane McCrae’s story of his childhood and looking for his id.

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

Sundown Corridor is a shared home within the English countryside the place a gaggle of aged folks reside. It’s not your common group of individuals, although: they’re presently hiding a lifeless physique and hoping to determine who murdered another person to allow them to faux that assassin additionally was liable for their physique. Tons on their plate, it appears!

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

GBI Particular 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. Might 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 he or she’s not the one one.

Now: 4 girls inform us their tales. How do they join? And what ever occurred to the newborn…