Did you guess the actor from the Three Pines adaptation who played Gamache? If so, winner, winner chicken dinner! Alfred Molina will narrate five upcoming novels. The first, Miss Wolcott’s Ghost, releases this October from Macmillan and marks the series’ 21st release.
Slow Horses season 6 is so close!
We can finally watch the new season of Slow Horses starting September 16th on Apple TV+. Though if you’re not down for weekly drops, you can watch the entire season starting on October 21st.
Colson Whitehead’s life and career
“His trilogy is, likewise, a straphangers’ gallery of metropolitan oddballs, from Zippo, a pyromaniac turned blaxploitation filmmaker, to Uncle Rich, a master criminal who stages a daring raid on the Waldorf-Astoria from a disused train tunnel with the help of a homeless army.”
The New Yorker has a hell of a profile on Colson Whitehead’s life and career, perfectly timed with the release of the third book in the Harlem trilogy, Cool Machine. (Tip: the audiobooks are narrated by Dion Graham; you are in for a treat if you’ve never had the pleasure of his voice in your ears.)
2026’s Most Popular Mysteries and Horror Novels (So Far)
If you’re looking for more books to toss on your summer reading list, GoodReads has curated a list of the best mystery, thriller, and horror novels of 2026 so far.
Fall 2026 Preview: Mysteries & Thrillers
And speaking of book lists to add to your TBR: Publishers Weekly has rounded up a bunch of mysteries and thrillers releasing this fall.
And the winners are…
The 2026 Lammy Awards, which include the category LGBTQ+ Mystery, presented their winners in mid-June. Congrats to Robert Holtom for the historical mystery A Queer Case, and all the winners and finalists. Prior to the announcement, I had already read and loved Gaysians and A Gentleman’s Gentleman, and now I have a bunch more books on my TBR!
Browse the books recommended in Unusual Suspects’ previous newsletters on this shelf and see 2026 releases! Until next time, come talk books with me on Bluesky, Goodreads, Litsy, and Multitudes Contained.
If a mystery fan forwarded this newsletter to you or you read it on bookriot.com and you’d like to get it right in your inbox, you can sign up here.
English (US) · 