Top new crime books in April 2024
Last updated:
April 30, 2024
April 2024 featuring new releases by Holly Jackson, Mary Kubica, David Baldacci, Robert Dugoni, John Sandford, Megan Miranda, Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke, C.J. Tudor, J.R. Ellis, Anthony Horowitz and many more.
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
From the author of the multimillion bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her missing mother while filming a documentary on the unsolved case.Lights. Camera. Lies.18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance... -
![She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica]()
She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple.Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse...fiction · suspense · contemporary · psychological · medical · thriller · audiobook · season-spring · crime · book -
![A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci]()
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci...mystery · fiction · historical-fiction · suspense · legal · social-commentary · 20th-century · historical · audiobook · law-enforcement -
![A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni]()
A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni
A gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it.Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice...mystery · historical-fiction · historical · thriller · murder · legal · crime · fiction · book · adult -
![Toxic Prey by John Sandford]()
Toxic Prey by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Gaia is dying.That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes... -
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![Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda]()
Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda
The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier... -
![It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke]()
It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
In the latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons... -
![The Gathering by C.J. Tudor]()
The Gathering by C.J. Tudor
A small Alaskan town.A missing boy.A brutal murder.A detective brought in from out of state to assist the former sheriff, who investigated a similar murder twenty-five years ago...horror · mystery · fiction · paranormal · vampires · season-winter · audiobook · contemporary · murder · thriller -
![The Canal Murders by J.R. Ellis]()
The Canal Murders by J.R. Ellis
Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it. The last thing DS Stephanie Johnson and DS Andy Carter expected during their much-needed canal holiday was a murder. When retired folk musician Annie Shipton is found stabbed through the neck at the helm of her barge, the couple can’t help investigating the seemingly impossible crime...mystery · crime · cozy · fiction · audiobook · small-town · law-enforcement · police-procedural · suspense · lgbtq -
![Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz]()
Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.Richmond, London . Six attractive houses are tucked away in an exclusive and very upmarket gated Riverside Close. Surrounded by flowers and shrubbery, they're sealed off from the busy main road and the realities of urban life...mystery · fiction · audiobook · crime · law-enforcement · murder · contemporary · cozy · whodunit · killer -
![Extinction by Douglas Preston]()
Extinction by Douglas Preston
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation...fiction · sci-fi · mystery · action-adventure · horror · suspense · audiobook · animals · contemporary · killer -
![The Murder Inn by James Patterson, Candice Fox]()
The Murder Inn by James Patterson, Candice Fox
Returning to the rocky shores of Massachusetts, Bill Robinson has to solve a string of murders if he wants to save his inn. Murder House, The Beach House, Honeymoon --James Patterson is the master of thrills on the water.The Inn at Gloucester is the lone structure on a rocky Massachusetts shoreline...mystery · fiction · action-adventure · audiobook · law-enforcement · police-procedural · murder · thriller · suspense · crime -
![Girl, Missing by Dreda Say Mitchell, Ryan Carter]()
Girl, Missing by Dreda Say Mitchell, Ryan Carter
What really happened to Sara-Jane?It’s been fifteen years since Gem’s eight-year-old daughter Sara-Jane went missing, snatched with her best friend Abby right outside their school. A frantic search united the community at first, but after Abby was found and brought home, single mother Gem’s dogged persistence only led to accusations that she was stirring up class tensions...mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · psychological · audiobook · contemporary · murder · family · female-mc -
![Avenging Angel by Kristen Ashley]()
Avenging Angel by Kristen Ashley
Rachel Armstrong has a burning need to right the world’s wrongs. Thus, she becomes the Avenging Angel. And maybe she’s a bit too cocky about it. While riding a hunch about the identity of a kidnapper, she runs into Julien “Cap” Jackson, who was trained by the team at Nightingale Investigations in Denver. Now he’s a full-fledged member at their newly opened Phoenix branch...romance · contemporary · humor · audiobook · crime · suspense · steamy · alpha-mc · found-family · insta-love -
![Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan]()
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising―and declining―fortunes.Campbell Flynn, art historian and biographer of Vermeer, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public―yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much...fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · crime · politics · humor · urban · satire · book -
![Where the Pieces Lie: A DCI Jack Logan Novel by JD Kirk]()
Where the Pieces Lie: A DCI Jack Logan Novel by JD Kirk
Experience the pulse-pounding new thriller from multi-million selling Scottish crime fiction author, JD Kirk.Community service clean-up was supposed to be a tedious affair. But, when a young offender stumbles upon a bin bag filled with human remains, a quiet Highland village is thrown into chaos...mystery · crime · law-enforcement · police-procedural · thriller · audiobook · suspense · male-author · fiction · kidnapping -
![Slay King by Abbi Glines]()
Slay King by Abbi Glines
“This world I live in isn’t one that builds strong relationships. It rips them apart.” Perhaps that was true, but nonetheless, I had fallen in love with him anyway. The man who had lied to me, the man I couldn’t trust, the man who would never love me back, yet even knowing all that, I loved him still. His smile could make me forget all the reasons why I shouldn’t...romance · contemporary · abuse · organized-crime · age-gap · western · forbidden-love · anti-hero · alpha-mc · insta-love -
![The Alliance by Matt Brolly]()
The Alliance by Matt Brolly
Four cities, four killers, four murders. The Alliance is just getting started. When four unconnected serial killers simultaneously commit identical murders across four different US cities, FBI Special Agent Shannon Wallace faces an unprecedented threat—a cooperative of killers working in unison...mystery · fiction · audiobook · suspense · crime · serial-killers · law-enforcement · thriller · murder · political-intrigue -
![Nothing but the Bones by Brian Panowich]()
Nothing but the Bones by Brian Panowich
With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian Panowich, author of Bull Mountain, Like Lions, and Hard Cash Valley, delivers a gripping new chapter in his tales of McFalls County in Nothing But the Bones. In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain...mystery · fiction · crime · gothic · southern-gothic · audiobook · noir · suspense · rural · hard-boiled -
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![The Client List by Robin James]()
The Client List by Robin James
When Cass inherits the practice of an old legal mentor, his client list is more than she bargained for...legal · small-town · mystery · family · fiction · action-adventure · female-mc · murder · pulp · thriller -
![Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas]()
Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas
For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption in a powerful novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Out of the Ashes.Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national attention—only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake...fiction · audiobook · thriller · law-enforcement · police-procedural · murder · suspense · family · crime · amateur-sleuth -
![The Vacancy in Room 10 by Brittany Pressley, Stacey Glemboski, Seraphina Nova Glass]()
The Vacancy in Room 10 by Brittany Pressley, Stacey Glemboski, Seraphina Nova Glass
9 hours, 43 minutes The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Nerd DailyMost Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2024 by Novel Suspects, Novel SuspectsWhen Anna Hartley’s husband, Henry, calls her with a terrible, guilty confession, she can’t believe what she hears. It has to be a bad joke—the mild, predictable artist she married would never hurt a fly, let alone commit murder...romance · mystery · fiction · audiobook · suspense · psychological · contemporary · crime · killer · book -
![It Ruins Me by Penelope Sky]()
It Ruins Me by Penelope Sky
I married you because I was in love with you.Those words have echoed in my mind ever since he said them, and despite the way my heart races for him every time he steps into the same room, I can't say it back. Not after he hurt me. Not after he betrayed me.Every time I feel us come close together, my heart pulls away...romance · contemporary · dark · organized-crime · angst · steamy · sad · drama · action-adventure · crime -
![The Runaway Mate by Kira Nightingale]()
The Runaway Mate by Kira Nightingale
After what he did, I never wanted to see my fated mate again… Mai Four years ago, Ryan Shaw broke my heart, tore it into little pieces and then stomped on it. Ryan is my fated mate, but when I saw him with another woman at the regional meet of all the Packs, I’d had enough. I finally told him what he meant to me, and being the jerk that he is, he rejected me in front of everyone...romance · fantasy · paranormal · shapeshifters · omegaverse · abuse · supernatural · suspense · fated-mates · betrayal -
![My Favorite Terrible Thing by Madeleine Henry]()
My Favorite Terrible Thing by Madeleine Henry
The world’s most famous author has vanished. A thrilling hunt of mind games and twisting suspense begins when a detective sees evidence written into her novel. Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She can be anyone. She can be no one. Nina wants to be someone . Her new case will finally get her noticed...mystery · fiction · suspense · drama · action-adventure · crime · contemporary · thriller · killer · audiobook -
![Bad River by Marc Cameron]()
Bad River by Marc Cameron
From a remote village perched on Arctic permafrost to the Badlands of South Dakota, searching for answers about his brother sets Arliss Cutter on an icy trail of murder and madness into the darkest heart of the Alaskan wilderness. New York Times bestselling author and former U.S... -
![An Unfinished Murder by Jude Deveraux]()
An Unfinished Murder by Jude Deveraux
Sara Medlar may be retired as a bestselling author, but her career as an amateur detective is facing one final mystery—and it’s a killer. Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her “honorary grandson” Jack...mystery · fiction · cozy · amateur-sleuth · romance · crime · female-mc · suspense · law-enforcement · contemporary -
![Matterhorn by Christopher Reich]()
Matterhorn by Christopher Reich
A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this alpine thriller .Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn’t dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA...fiction · contemporary · espionage · thriller · action-adventure · terrorism · military · conspiracies · suspense · murder -
![Exposed by Brynne Asher]()
Exposed by Brynne Asher
One day, I was chugging along at life as a wedding planner. The next, I’m a confidential informant and fake engaged to the grumpiest DEA agent on earth. Hit the brakes. Let’s back up. You know those sappy made-for-TV movies where the leading lady gets the unsuspecting knock on the door and is the beneficiary of a massive inheritance? That’s me. I’m that heroine...romance · contemporary · suspense · military · crime · grumpy-sunshine · cheerful-mc · grumpy-mc · fake-relationship · forced-proximity -
![Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles]()
Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles
The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby died. Was killed. Murdered. 1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. For Jeremy Kite, the crime not only stole his best friend, it destroyed his whole life...romance · mystery · historical · historical-fiction · lgbtq · mlm · crime · fiction · audiobook · dark-academia -
![Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson]()
Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson
Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than the disease when they investigate the death of a promising young woman in this atmospheric, riveting mystery from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Murder on Bedford Street...mystery · historical-fiction · historical · cozy · crime · law-enforcement · urban · amateur-sleuth · female-mc · fiction -
![Blackbird by Kay Bratt]()
Blackbird by Kay Bratt
In the small town of Hart's Ridge, a recent tragedy leaves the tight-knit community still reeling. In the highly anticipated ninth installment of the Hart's Ridge small-town mystery series, "Blackbird," Deputy Taylor Gray finds herself supporting a colleague through a painful journey of letting go... -
![Keres by Sadie Kincaid]()
Keres by Sadie Kincaid
Are you ready for the next explosive instalment of the Chicago Ruthless series. The Moretti's might think they have it all, but there's one more Moretti out there who wants to take it from them...She was born in captivity and raised in hell. While her siblings lived in a golden palace and slept on feather pillows, Keres Sideris fought to survive horror and fear and pain...romance · dark · contemporary · reverse-harem · polyamory · mlm · suspense · organized-crime · enemies-to-lovers · forced-proximity -
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![Grim by L. Wilder]()
Grim by L. Wilder
I lived with one foot on the ground and one in the grave. It’s expected when you’re the enforcer of a club like Satan’s Fury. Death was always at your heels. Waiting. Watching. Tormenting. Death could come for me. I didn’t care. My life was nothing without my brothers. So, I did whatever it took to protect them. I waited. I watched. I tormented, tortured, and executed...romance · age-gap · biker · children · contemporary · revenge · family · alpha-mc · action-adventure · fiction -
![Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett]()
Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.The truth is never skin deep.It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City...fiction · contemporary · suspense · audiobook · thriller · poc-mc · poc-author · murder · black-mc · urban -
![The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald]()
The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald
A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial tests her faith and her marriage in this moving novel from the author of Time After Time and The Irresistible Henry House.“Lisa Grunwald is a national treasure. . . . An essential American story from a master craftsman... -
![My Perfect Marriage by A.J. Campbell]()
My Perfect Marriage by A.J. Campbell
* Previously titled How Can I Trust You?My husband is accused of killing my best friend. Can I trust anything he says?It feels like all the air has been knocked out of me. My best friend is dead, killed at her own daughter’s birthday party. All I want to do is run into my husband’s loving arms. But he’s in handcuffs, covered in her blood...europe · british-isles · united-kingdom · england · mystery · psychological · audiobook · suspense · spooky · family -
![Never Come Back by Joe Hart]()
Never Come Back by Joe Hart
Needing to help the most vulnerable is in Nora McTavish’s DNA. Living within the echoes of her own traumatic past, she spends her days as a family advocate providing comfort and justice for those without anyone else to turn to. So when a long lost childhood friend calls asking for help and promising clues to the location of Nora’s missing mother, she has no choice but to say yes...mystery · fiction · suspense · crime · psychological · audiobook · thriller · legal · drama · action-adventure -
![The Four by Ellie Keel]()
The Four by Ellie Keel
“An intensely gripping, thrilling and darkly beautiful debut. I was hooked...mystery · fiction · contemporary · crime · lgbtq · audiobook · young-adult · dark-academia · thriller · mental-illness -
![Midnight Poison by Penny Dee]()
Midnight Poison by Penny Dee
He took me as collateral to ensure my ex -fiancé kept the deal they made. But since then Lev Zarkov has become so much more than the devil I thought he was. And now his baby is growing in my belly. I don’t want to leave him but after one devastating night blows up our life, I know I have my baby to think about.I tell myself that leaving is the right thing to do...romance · contemporary · suspense · dark · crime · organized-crime · enemies-to-lovers · billionaire · steamy · fake-relationship
