What To Expect: November New Releases
The weather is getting colder and the nights are getting longer—it’s the perfect time to grab some great new mystery or crime books and hunker down. Here’s a round-up of the best November thriller and suspense books by Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and more. Add them to your TBR, and if you can’t get to them all, make sure you put them on your holiday wishlists!
In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university's clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by the widower of one of the victims—his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit suicide—Jim approaches the Framjis and is hired by the Parsee family to investigate what happened that terrible afternoon. But in a land of divided loyalties, asking questions is dangerous. Jim's investigation disturbs the shadows that seem to follow the Framji family and triggers an ominous chain of events.
In The Law of Innocence, a new Lincoln Lawyer novel, Mickey Haller is feeling great after winning a case—until he's pulled over by the police and they pop his trunk and discover the body of a former client. It doesn't matter that it's a set-up. Mickey is thrown into jail and given an impossibly high bail amount, forcing him to phone in his half brother Harry Bosch to help him figure out who exactly wanted him framed for murder.
Kay Willingham was the ex-wife of the Vice President and an influential person in Washington D.C., so everyone is shocked when she's murdered right outside of a private school, along with the school's headmaster. Alex Cross and Ned Mahoney are on the case in the 28th Alex Cross novel, an investigation that sends Cross to Alabama, where Kay lived before she arrived in DC, and where she left a lot of secrets behind.
Related: All The Alex Cross Books in Order
In 1969, Harvard was in the process of merging with Radcliffe, it's all-female sister school when a graduate student named Jane Britton was bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Her murder captured the imaginations of undergrads for decades, until Becky Cooper arrived at Harvard and began looking into the case, sorting fact from rumor in order to tell a tale of misogyny and dark academia.
FBI Atlee Pine has long been haunted by what really happened to her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted when they were children. Now, she finally has a breakthrough in her case: the identity of her sister's kidnapper. Yet when she pursues this lead, she walks right into military investigator John Puller's drug ring investigation. As Puller struggles to salvage his case, a connection between the mysteries is made, and Atlee must reckon with the shocking truth about her sister's disappearance.
Susan Ryeland has retired from publishing and is running an inn on a Greek island, but secretly longs for the literary world and the bustle of London. Then, a most intriguing family comes to stay at her inn. The Trehearnes have a story about a murder that took place in a hotel their daughter was married in—and that murder has connections to Alan Conway, Susan's author. And when the Trehearnes's daughter goes missing, Susan knows that something is afoot.
Sheriff’s Detective Clayton Istee is surprised when he catches a murder case that could lead to much bigger fish. A couple are murdered in their hotel room, but some digging reveals that they're involved in a drug case and high-stakes gambling, all part of a larger DEA case. Suddenly Clayton is in over his head, tracking down a dangerous hitman.
