Larry Gandle is the Associate Editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine

Crime and Thriller Novels

SMALL MERCIES, Dennis Lehane (Harper, $30.00, April)
KILL FOR ME KILL FOR YOU, Steve Cavanagh
(UK only, August, in the U.S. in 2024)
DROWNING, T. J. Newman (Avid Reader Press, $28.00, May)
RED QUEEN, Juan Gomez-Jurado (Minotaur, $27.99, March)
ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books, $27.99, June)
RESURRECTION WALK, Michael Connelly (Little,Brown, $30.00, November)
THE RIVER WE REMEMBER, William Kent Krueger (Atria, $28.99, September)

Literary Novels with Crime Fiction or Thriller Elements

AGE OF VICE, Deepti Kapoor (Riverhead, $30.00, January)
CROOK MANIFESTO, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, $29.00, July)
PROPHET SONG, Paul Lynch (Oneworld, £16.99, September)
THE VASTER WILDS, Laura Groff (Riverhead, $28.00, September)