Novel Suspects

Our Summer Mystery & Thriller Reading Guide
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A New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late. “Timely and completely gripping.” (Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author)

Author Features

Metafiction and the Whodunit Mystery Novel
Metafiction is fiction which openly acknowledges that thing the reader already knows—that what they are reading isn’t real. They know it isn’t real because they selected their novel from the fiction section of the bookshop.

Fictional Femme Fatales Who Kill with Style
In my novel, Julie Tudor Is Not A Psychopath, Julie was doing pretty well at killing and getting away with it, until the tide turned, and gave her cause to reflect on what went well, what could’ve have gone better and which other killer characters she could’ve taken advice from.

Celebrating Diversity in Crime Fiction