Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers / Jesse Q. Sutanto: Vera Wong is a widowed sixty-year-old woman living alone and running a teahouse in San Francisco. Her teahouse doesn't see many customers, until one day, she walks in to discover a dead body

The Thursday murder club / Richard Osman: In a retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph, they find themselves in the middle of their first case.

The Bangalore detectives club / Harini Nagendra: A mystery novel about Kaveri Murthy, a young wife living a conservative household who applies her prodigious intelligence to solve a murder that threatens to tear apart genteel 1920s colonial Bangalore.

The river we remember / William Kent Krueger: On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating dead in the river.

The mountains wild / Sarah Stewart Taylor: Long Island detective and single mother Maggie D'arcy tracks her missing cousin in a cold case that reaches across Dublin and the Irish countryside.

No strangers here / Carlene O'Connor: Set in Ireland's striking, rugged countryside, a dark, atmospheric new crime fiction series follows an Irish veterinarian grappling with life, death, family dynamics, and the secrets at the heart of her community.

Thin ice / Paige Shelton: As rumors of murder spread, suspicion falls upon the felons staying at a local halfway house—and Beth herself. Intrigued by both the mystery and the wary folks who call Benedict home, Beth starts asking questions.

The golden gate / Amy Chua: A sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.

Smile Beach murder / Alicia Bessette: Callie Padget a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks, is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past.

Thief of souls / Brian Klingborg: the brutal murder of a woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing―but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim.

The survivors / Jane Harper: Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that stillhaunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Arsenic and adobo / Mia P. Manansala: When Lila Macapagal moves back home, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. But then she becomes the main suspect of the murder of a nasty food critic.