Crime Fiction Books Coming to Stores This December
Once upon a December, especially in the dark days between the holidays, we curl up next to a stack of mystery books and devour them in the long hours after sunset. Here are a few new releases to add to your list.
You read that right: film star Michael Caine is the author of this English thriller. When a box of radioactive material turns up in a dump in East London, and then it’s stolen before the police can seize it, they call DCI Harry Taylor. He narrows down two suspects who are diametrically opposed in criminal profile. London art dealer Julian Smythe and oligarch Vladimir Voldrev in faraway Barbados… but can he nail the culprit before the missing uranium gets put into action?
This one’s for the reader who loves twisty plotlines. Signe Gates is an investigative journalist, and she was missing for 48 hours. When she comes to, she only vaguely remembers what happened, that she was kidnapped and drugged, and that her captors warned her never to talk about it, or her confessors would die. Two years later, an informant tells her that two bodies are connected to her missing hours, and in an attempt to put things right, she tries to solve the crime with a seasoned hiker as her guide.
DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things. You can’t presume anything when it comes to crimes of the heart. Until a body is found, this scandalous and sad case remains wide open.
Stacie Jones lives a quiet life in a small village, nursed by her father as she recovers from illness, and shielded from any news of the outside world. But their reclusive life is about to be shattered.
How are these families linked, and can any of them ever rebuild their lives in the wake of tragedy?
Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife.
Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview, a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears and she learns―from his devastated fiancée―that she was the last person to have seen him alive. When the police refuse to investigate, Vivian does what she promised herself she would never do again: she plays a part. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she turns her critical gaze toward an unsanitary private eye, a sketchy internet startup, a threatening financier, fake blood, and one very real corpse. As she nears the final act, she finds that the boundaries between theater and the real world are more tenuous and more dangerous than even she could have believed. . .
Non-Fiction for Crime Lovers
The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
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Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. You can find her short works at Oxford American, Narratively, Mental Floss, and FANGORIA, among other publications. She co-hosts Everything Trying to Kill You, the comedy podcast that analyzes your favorite horror movies from the perspectives of women of color. Follow Mary Kay McBrayer on Instagram and Twitter, or check out her author site here.