Tasha Sounart's 3 favorite reads in 2024

'One of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' THE TIMES

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.
Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. His boundless sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct stories so extraordinary and so far-fetched that no one can possibly believe him.

But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.

So begins a frantic… show more.

Washington Post's The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year ● Library Journal's Best Crime Fiction of the Year ●Crime Fiction Lover's Editor's Choice for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year ● Reader's Digest's Twenty-Five Best Fiction Books of the Year ● One of the Sun Sentinel's Best Mystery Fiction Books of the Year ●​​​​​​​ Starred Kirkus Reviews ● Starred Publishers Weekly ●Starred Library Journal

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

When a local teenager discovers… show more.

Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But… show more.