The Best Crime Fiction and Nonfiction Coming in April
Spring is here, and the weather is getting warmer. But if you’re still looking to get the chills, April is your month, because new crime thrillers and mystery suspense books are on the horizon. Add these must-read mystery and crime books to your TBR for the month of April, and you’ll be on the edge of your seat all month long.
Christopher Reich’s Once A Thief is the fourth novel in his Simon Riske series. Riske is a freelance industrial spy who will do whatever it takes to complete his mission. This page-turning thriller sees Simon Riske on assignment on the beautiful and glamorous Mediterranean coast where enemies are on his tail. Whether this is your first Simon Riske thriller or you’ve been a long-time fan of the series, this story is sure to have you on the edge of your seat.
Josephine Baker was a glamourous music hall diva and the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. But when the Nazis seized Paris during World War II, Baker, along with all “negroes and Jews,” were banned from performing. But rather than giving up, Baker became a spy in the war, determined to take the Nazis down. Agent Josephine is Baker’s incredible story, from her rise to fame to how she became a war hero in multiple countries.
Dream Town marks a return to David Baldacci’s unforgettable character: World War II veteran and private investigator Aloysius Archer. Los Angeles, 1953: Archer is celebrating the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when screenwriter Eleanor Lamb interrupts their partying, claiming her life is in danger. Eleanor wants to hire Archer to investigate the matter, but Archer suspects this woman knows more than she’s letting on.
Lauren Van Rensburg’s Nobody But Us is an exciting new locked room mystery thriller novel that readers won’t want to put down. Ellie and her boyfriend Steven are taking their first trip together. But what starts as a romantic getaway for a new couple turns more sinister when a snowstorm strands them in the house. And they both begin to realize that neither of them is quite who they say they are.
In bestselling author James Patterson’s latest collaboration with JD Barker, Death of the Black Widow, we follow the story of Walter O’Brien, who is haunted by a murder scene he investigated on his first night with the Detroit PD. A twenty-year-old bludgeoned her kidnapper and then fled from the police. Now Walter has been promoted to detective, but he can’t forget the missing, gray-eyed woman. And he’s not the only one.
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Emily Martin has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She’s a contributing editor at Book Riot and blogs/podcasts at Book Squad Goals.