April New Release: Mystery / Thriller / True Crime

If you ever think “I need a mystery set in a competitive scrabble contest with a teenager who solves my friend’s death” then you are about to flip your tiles over this title. Trina Lo is dead, leaving the Scrabble Queen title open. But now he should be inactive. The Instagram account is posting a mysterious message questioning Lo’s death. Now we need to find out what really happened to Lo’s best friend, Najwa Bakri, and who is behind the post …
Bonus: for learning new words, and playing all the words in the play book.

If you are a fan of history and history books then this is for you. Will Chen, head of art history at Harvard in his senior year who decided he was going to steal the spoils of war, won through colonialism, which museums proudly display. Why? Because a Chinese corporation tapped him to bring back five priceless Chinese sculptures that had previously been looted from Beijing. And so he put together a crew with $ 50 million hanging carrots and accurate history. But will they succeed?

For fans of legal thrillers. Court stenographer Victoria Justice has found herself investigating a bombing. After evacuating the courthouse, a government official was killed in a car bomb blast due to a suspicious package. It quickly tied up with a firefighter but Justice doesn’t believe this theory. He thinks he’s always been the real target …
If you want to start at the beginning of the series, choose Poetic Justice.

If you’re looking for a historical mystery that wasn’t set in the 1800s, you go here. Set in 1963 Los Angeles, we follow Harry Ingram, a freelance photographer and sometimes process server, who is a Korean War veteran. In a fatal accident police scanner call he can recognize his friend’s car and take photos. It was supposed to be an accident but Ingram’s photos point in a different direction, sending him on his way to becoming a detective to find out what really happened.

If you ever want to see Jane Austen’s characters solve mysteries, you should read these books 100%. We follow when 18-year-old Eleanor Dashwood finds her father dead in her office. Due to an old wish, Eleanor’s sister Marianne, who worked as her father’s partner and guardian, will not get the business, but their honest brother. Finding evidence of foul play, Eleanor and Marian team up to find their father’s killer …

This is for missing persons and small-town mystery fans. Set in Garnett, Texas, we follow Annie McIntyre, who comes home from college and is waiting. Annie teamed up with her grandfather Leroy, a retired sheriff’s personal investigator, to find out what happened when a fellow waitress went missing in the cafe. While this is a small-town mystery, you know that Annie has to deal with her past and the city’s privacy.

If you like cozy, small town mysteries and witchcraft then this latest series is for you. Also, Family Dynamic has all the practical magic vibes. Brian Warren is working on his aunt’s bed and breakfast and is using his powers again when he needs help to uncover the ghost of a chocolate maker who killed him. Except he was not convicted of murder, so Warren has a lot of work to do on his hands – as well as working with his intervening aunts. If you want to get started, get in the company of witches.

Need some dark academy? Don’t look ahead.

Boarding School – Check!
Mother’s mysterious death – check!
Secret society – check!
Dangerous game of revenge – check!

All the things you want dark academy!

More dark academia, you say? Your will is my command. This time we have one valedictorian spot and two competitors. But is one a charming sociopath? Guess someone else just has to take him …

For fans of true crime books who follow the Innocence Project, or any other organization that works to release people who have been wrongfully convicted. This book investigates how forensic scientists have been mythically adapted to popular culture and follows three cases, focusing on what they refer to as junk science rather than credible forensics.

The identical twins Sam and Eli were child stars and grew up inseparable. Now, as adults, they haven’t spoken in a year. Eli has a seemingly “perfect” life while Sam is still struggling. But Sam receives a call from their father showing that Eli’s life is not perfect and that after a mysterious spa test, no one listens to him.

If you’re waiting for Paperback to be released, or it’s not on your radar, grab this great character-driven mystery series. It was set in the 1970s on the Red River in Minnesota and another in North Dakota. We follow Renee Blackbear, a 19-year-old Chippewa woman known as Cash. After a car accident when he was a small child, he formed a bond with Sheriff Whitton who tried to find him and who now needs his help in solving the case. Also don’t forget to take Secular Girl Gone Missing. And I can’t wait for the third book, Sinister Graves, to be published this fall!

If you are aspiring for a political thriller, here is a song by Stacey Abrams that will take you to the Supreme Court. Justice Howard Win is in a coma, and to everyone’s surprise he has left his law clerk, Avery Kin Power of Attorney. Finding out why and what the case might be related to the situation depends on it.
Not only are we getting more books in the series but we’re also getting a TV adaptation!