Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018

by Stefan Ahnhem ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles

Hats off to Ahnhem for creating a villain more powerful than the franchise team charged with bringing him in. Full review >

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by Dan Fesperman

Prolific spy novelist Fesperman delivers another winner, this one as fiendishly clever as it is richly entertaining. Full review >

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by Peter Gadol

Beautiful, thoughtful meditation on the invisible ties that bind us—even to strangers. Full review >

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by Sophie Hannah

As in her two earlier Agatha Christie pastiches (Closed Casket, 2016, etc.), Hannah is content to supply boundless ingenuity... Full review >

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by Keigo Higashino ; translated by Giles Murray

Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino’s hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with. Here’s hoping his... Full review >

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by Michael Koryta

Crime fiction doesn't get any more enjoyable. Full review >

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by Laura Lippman

Plotty, page-turning pleasure plus instructions on how to make a perfect grilled cheese sandwich and how to stab a man in... Full review >

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by Aimee Molloy

Molloy, a master of clever misdirection, deftly explores the expectations, insecurities, and endless judgement that... Full review >

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by Brad Parks

Parks (Say Nothing, 2017, etc.) dishes out another irresistible descent into hell for a heroine who regards her harrowing... Full review >

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by Louise Penny

This starts as a small-town mystery and becomes something grander and more frightening; Penny has upped her thrills-to–pain... Full review >

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by Sebastian Rotella

Rotella's latest is a tense, gritty thriller—perfectly seedy when it needs to be and near-perfect in its overall execution. Full review >

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by Daniel Silva

Gripping as always and grimly realistic. Full review >

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by Olga Wojtas

Wojtas’ debut is every bit as lighthearted, levelheaded, inventive, hilarious, and altogether enchanting as its heroine, who... Full review >

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