This week on Crime Wave: In A Botanist’s Guide to Tradition and Treachery, Kate Khavari sends brilliant, stubborn botanist Saffron Everleigh on a research expedition to newly formed Turkey—only for the journey to devolve into sabotage, scandal, and murder. Newly engaged to fellow scientist Alexander Ashton, Saffron finds herself battling Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Al Pessin draws on a wealth of insider experience for BODY MAN—a chilling, all-too-plausible portrait of a country on the brink. Spencer, a loyal presidential aide, and Carl, a disgraced Marine sniper, find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that spirals into nationwide unrest: Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Don’t *miss* this week’s book! MISSING by E. A. Jackson follows Detective Inspector Martha Allen as she becomes obsessed with a haunting case that spans decades. In 1990, baby Bella Carpenter is abducted from a London hotel room, only to be mysteriously “returned” by a Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Mercury Carter—the mailman who never misses a delivery—returns!!!!!!! Can you tell how excited I am to score this chance to chat with Andrew Welsh-Huggins about THE DELIVERY? Mercury’s latest delivery is interrupted when he comes across a woman badly injured in a car wreck. A Read more
This week on Crime Wave: In Kat Rosenfield’s deliciously dark page-turner, HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE WOODS, Emma Sharp wants to break free from her charismatic – but controlling – husband, Logan. When Emma forms an unexpected bond with Logan’s former girlfriend, the two women hatch a plot to help Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Bruce Conord’s COME AND GET HER is a heart-pounding thriller that thrusts former Special Forces operative Jesse Arroyo back into a world of violence when his teenage daughter vanishes in Mexico, pulling him into the deadly shadows of cartel territory. With time running out and Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Michael Cooper’s The Rabbi’s Knight is a richly detailed historical novel set in 1290, as war-weary Knight Templar Jonathan St. Clair joins forces with Rabbi Samuel of Baghdad to decipher a cryptic ancient scroll linked to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Shifting alliances, pursuit by enemies, and Read more
This week on Crime Wave: THE CHINA GAMBIT by Jeffrey James Higgins hurtles readers into a razor-sharp geopolitical thriller where loyalty is perilous and truth is a weapon. When FBI Agent Nathan Burke uncovers evidence of a covert Chinese operation poised to upend global power, he’s thrust into a deadly Read more
This week on Crime Wave: THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS by Gareth Brown plunges us into a globe-trotting fantasy thriller where seemingly mundane items hide extraordinary power. When a clandestine group dedicated to guarding “unknowable objects” dispatches its newest member, Magda Sparks, to Hong Kong, she stumbles into a world Read more
This week on Crime Wave: Joel Dicker’s WILD ANIMAL begins with a dramatic heist in Geneva and gradually peels back layer after layer of deception to reveal a web of obsession, betrayal, and long buried secrets. Joel is a master of exploring the tension between reality and perception, and his Read more