Get To Sleuthing With April’s New Mystery and Thriller Books

For fans of academic settings and mysteries with vigilante killers!

Yrsa is a PHD student at Cambridge University, researching Afropessimism. After causing a death related to a bee allergy, Yrsa realizes it isn’t that difficult to get away with murder. So she sets her sights on problematic men…

For fans of missing-person mysteries that explore the toll on families and communities.

Five years ago, Ro Crowley’s son, Sam, disappeared in a small Australian town on his 21st birthday. In Carralon Ridge, a town facing the effects of an exploitative mining company, the mystery unfolds with a focus on how this still unsolved case has affected Sam’s now estranged parents, sister, friends, and community.

For fans of Japanese procedural mysteries!

The Detective Galileo author is back with a new series! As the title suggests, this crime novel delves into the long effects of guilt, which stem from a lawyer’s murder. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detective Godai gets a quick confession from Tatsuro Kuraki, who also confesses to a decades-old murder where the accused died before the trial. It should be a quickly closed case, but something doesn’t sit well with Godai…

For fans of theft and murder mysteries, multiple POV, and a Hollywood industry setting!

Being at the Cannes Film Festival sounds like a dream for many in the industry, but it’s a do-or-die feeling for three women who haven’t quite made it, but swear they can. Marnie, Lou, and Constance will do anything to be noticed—that is, until there’s a dead body and a missing multi-million-dollar necklace on their hands.

For fans of humorous foodie mysteries and amateur sleuth teams!

This mystery is set in Taiwan in Taipei’s Shilin Night Market, where Jing-nan owns a popular food stand. Jing-nan and his Unknown Pleasures team—which consists of his best friend, girlfriend, and a septuagenarian—have a new case to solve when Jing-nan finds a Philippine national dead. The corpse is just part of the problem, because this death may be part of a cover-up.

For fans of family drama, multiple POV, unreliable narrators, fictional serial killers, and missing person mysteries!

From the start of this story, we know that Farhan is missing and that there is a serial killer targeting South Asian women. Then we learn that Ali Azeem let his mother talk him into an arranged marriage with Maryam, the daughter of a wealthy family. It just so happens that Maryam is not only Farhan’s sister, but that Ali was having an affair with Farhan. Now Ali is trying to figure out who he can trust in this family as Farhan once told him never to trust her father.

For fans of funny unsolved mysteries with a camp setting!

Michael Hartford IV may be almost 30 years old, but that doesn’t mean his grandfather can’t be upset with his spending habits—so upset that he threatens to take away Mikey’s trust fund unless he spends the summer as a camp counselor at a camp in New York’s Lake George. What’s worse? All the preteen campers are obsessed with an unsolved missing person case from 13 years ago involving camp counselor Rose Churchill, and they may be onto something.

This is a horror thriller with mystery elements, so it’s great for fans of horror and also mystery/thriller fans who want to try a horror novel. Plus, it has a gorgeous cover.

You get dual timelines, 2026 and 1877. The latter involves a young samurai in exile, and the 2026 timeline opens like a great mystery/thriller/crime novel: a college student killed his roommate but has no memory of doing it, so he can’t explain why or where the body is. Naturally, he flees and ends up in his father’s remote house in Japan to wait…