A contemporary mystery shaped by a group of older neighbors who meet regularly and become involved in solving a local murder. The setup follows their informal investigations and interpersonal exchanges as they piece together clues and test suspects, with the crime driving social interaction and group dynamics.

An ordinary-seeming encounter between strangers escalates into a plotted decision about murder and consequence. The setup focuses on characters who trade confidences and proposals that test ethics and self-interest, then follow the fallout as allegiances and truth become unreliable.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

A mother receives a call telling her child has been kidnapped and that she must both pay and kidnap another child to free her — and the release depends on a continuing chain where each victimizer becomes a victim.

A crime reporter becomes personally entangled when a close relative's death points to a pattern of murders; he pursues leads that connect newsroom sleuthing to federal investigations.

A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

Set in an alternate-history Cairo where magic and modern technology coexist, a police-style investigation into a ritualistic murder exposes hidden conspiracies tied to alchemy and secret societies.

A methodical police investigation into a series of linked killings anchors the book: detectives follow cryptic clues that connect victims and a recurring symbolic motif as they race to identify a serial perpetrator.

A murder is discovered on the grounds of Belle Vie, a working antebellum plantation in Louisiana that now operates as an event venue. The estate’s manager becomes entangled in the official investigation and the local upheaval that follows, with labor relations and the plantation’s history intensifying the stakes.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

An investigative journalist and an exceptional young hacker appear again as a new murder case and linked criminal activity draw both into a maze of secrets. The novel sets a procedural inquiry—murders, trafficking, and corruption—against a cold urban backdrop and follows attempts to unravel who is responsible and why.

Set in an imagined America where the state offers convicted people a brutal alternative—participation in televised death matches run by the CAPE program—the novel follows top combatants whose lives and identities are shaped by that system.