Genre Mash: RTW x Mystery

My sister, the serial killer

Braithwaite, Oyinkan

Paper Book

"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER...

RTW Africa (Nigeria)

When the ground is hard

Nunn, Malla

Paper Book

Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre. A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century Adele Joubert loves being one of the...

RTW Africa (Swaziland)

The fox wife

Choo, Yangsze

Paper Book

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying...

RTW Asia (China)

The Bangalore Detectives Club

Nagendra, Harini

Paper Book

A "">New York Times Notable Book of the Year The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. Perfect for fans of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies...

RTW Asia (India)

The devotion of suspect X

Higashino, Keigo

Paper Book

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her...

RTW Asia (Japan)

Idol, burning

Usami, Rin

Paper Book

A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2021 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies sold!

RTW Asia (Japan)

The Kamogawa food detectives

Kashiwai, Hisashi

Paper Book

The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time?Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a...

RTW Asia (Japan)

Real world

Kirino, Natsuo

Paper Book

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone...

RTW Asia (Japan)

Queen of the tiles

Hanna Alkaf

Paper Book

They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in this "stunning...unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life...

RTW Asia (Malaysia)

Lemon

Kwo?n, Yo?-so?n

Paper Book

New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice Philadelphia Inquirer: Best Book of the Month World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the Year Ms. Magazine:...

RTW Asia (South Korea)

Please look after mom : a novel

Sin, Kyo?ng-suk

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE * When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal...

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The old woman with the knife

Gu, Byeong-mo

Paper Book

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The silence of bones

Hur, June

Paper Book

June Hur's elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth, but I mustn't speak; Ears, but I mustn't hear; Eyes, but I mustn't see.

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The reckoning

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Paper Book

'Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter Yrsa Sigurdardottir, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel, delivers another tour de force in her second novel in the Freyja and Huldar series. A chilling note predicting the deaths...

RTW Europe (Iceland)

The likeness

French, Tana.

Paper Book

New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post) and "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker). ...

RTW Europe (Ireland)

The lost daughter

Ferrante, Elena

Paper Book

NOW A MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR THREE OSCARS--Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay--Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Jesse Buckley, Paul Mescal, and Dakota Johnson Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times best...

RTW Europe (Italy)

The shape of water

Camilleri, Andrea

Paper Book

The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life. Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked...

RTW Europe (Italy)

The snowman

Nesbø, Jo

Paper Book

When the first snow falls, Harry Hole is confronted by a terrifying murderer who will push him to the edge... Discover the novel behind the major film starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole 'Chilling, spectacular stuff' Mark Billingham Soon the...

RTW Europe (Norway)

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Tokarczuk, Olga

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing...

RTW Europe (Poland)

The shadow of the wind

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos

Paper Book

"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Wondrous...masterful...The ...

RTW Europe (Spain)

An elderly lady is up to no good

Tursten, Helene

Paper Book

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The girl with the dragon tattoo

Larsson, Stieg

Paper Book

A sensation across Europe--millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

Stolen

Laestadius, Ann-Hele?n

Paper Book

* NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family's reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The swimmer

Zander, Joakim

Paper Book

A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying debut thriller--an international sensation billed as "Homeland meets Stieg Larsson" that heralds the arrival of a new master sure to follow in the footsteps of Stieg Larsson, John Le Carré, and...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

A castle in the clouds

Gier, Kerstin

Ebook

RTW Europe (Switzerland)

Gaudy Night

Sayers, Dorothy L

Paper Book

"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." --Times Literary Supplement The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey,...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

The hound of the Baskervilles : another adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Paper Book

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

The silver bone : a novel

Kurkov, Andrei?; Dralyuk, Boris

Paper Book

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024 "Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency "With its...

RTW Europe (Ukraine)

Turtles of the midnight moon

Fitzgerald, María José

Ebook

When poachers threaten the island they love, two girls team up to save the turtles--and each other. An eco-mystery with an unforgettable friendship story at its heart from a fresh new voice in middle grade. Twelve-year-old Barana lives in a coastal village in...

RTW North America (Honduras)

Homecoming

Morton, Kate

Paper Book

The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The survivors

Harper, Jane

Paper Book

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The things she's seen

Kwaymullina, Ambelin

Paper Book

This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year! Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

Better the blood

Bennett, Michael

Paper Book

'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermid A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION. A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY. THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED. WELCOME TO...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)

The luminaries : a novel

Catton, Eleanor

Paper Book

The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."-New York Times Book Review It is 1866, and Walter Moody has...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)

La dimensión desconocida

Fernández, Nona

Paper Book

Finalista de los mejores libros traducidos de los National Book Awards 2021 Las historias de La dimensión desconocida, dice la narradora, «siempre han estado pisándome los talones. Nací con ellas incorporadas en un álbum familiar que no elegí ni organicé».

RTW South America (Chile)

Genre Mash: RTW x MysteryUnpublished