Our November 2023 list of best crime, mystery and thriller books includes highly-anticipated titles such as the new Greg Herren novel Mississippi River Mischief, One of our favorite titles Spy Hunter by H.B. Lyle, as well as The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell.
Note: Mystery Tribune’s Reading Lists include the best crime and thriller books of each month as well as our picks for different sub-genres: Check them out here.
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| Image | Title | Author | Buy |
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 Top | Shock Therapy | Blair, Angus | Buy Now |
 Top | Vanished (Circle of the Red Lily Book 2) | Stewart, Anna J | Buy Now |
 Top | The Other Half (Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp) | Vassell, Charlotte | Buy Now |
 Top | The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries | Sims, Michael | Buy Now |
 Top | Double Blind: Of Medicine and Malice | Bartlett, John A. | Buy Now |
 Top | The Pantomime Murders (The Miss Clara Vale Mysteries Book 2) | Smith, Fiona Veitch | Buy Now |
 Top | Spy Hunter (The Irregular) | Lyle, H.B. | Buy Now |
 Top | Calico | Goldberg, Lee | Buy Now |
 Top | Midnight at Maidenstone Hall | Clare, Alison | Buy Now |
 Top | I Know It Was You | Kearney, G. N. | Buy Now |
 Top | Alex Cross Must Die: A Thriller | Patterson, James | Buy Now |
 Top | Odyssey's End (The Rick Cahill Series Book 10) | Coyle, Matt | Buy Now |
 Top | Mississippi River Mischief | Herren, Greg | Buy Now |
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Spy Hunter by H.B. Lyle (November 23)
1914. Sherlock Holmes has been murdered. Nobody knows who did it, but Wiggins, former Baker Street Irregular and Holmes’ protégée, suspects a German spy.
However, Europe is descending into the chaos of the First World War. Captain Kell of Military Intelligence has limited resources, and more pressing matters on his mind.
Wiggins is on his own. Almost. He pursues Holmes’ killer across the continent, but as grief and rage close in it’s not just the killer that eludes his grasp.
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell (November 21)
Who killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely?
All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who.
Or is it ‘whom’? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn’t sure. He’s sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie’s body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it’s even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar, The Other Half is a truly stunning debut.
