Need a Mystery?

Try reading some of Tim Sullivan’s books. Sullivan is also a screenwriter and director. He is perhaps best known, however, for his series of books about a detective named George Cross. Sullivan says he wanted to create a character who was good at his job mainly because of his neurodivergence. Even though George Cross is sometimes awkward, he is able to tackle a case from a point of view that is different from that of the neurotypical person. The Dentist was first published in 2020 as the first of the series. The Bookseller is book seven in the series and centers around the murder of a rare-book dealer in Bristol. Yet another book is due out in the summer of this year.

Another British writer of mysteries is Mark Edwards. Edwards is best known for his Magpies series, Follow You Home and Here To Stay. His latest book The Wasp Trap is set at a dinner party in which six friends reunite to honor a deceased professor. Somehow they get locked into the dining room and forced to reveal dark secrets from their past or else be killed. Maybe too scary for me, but might be right up your alley!

The final featured mystery author, also a Brit, is Harriet Lane. Lane has worked as an editorial and staff writer for Observer. She has also written for the Guardian and the New York Times. The first book Her is a popular phycological thriller about two women who are drown to one another in a dangerous game that is sure to end badly for one of the characters. Lane’s current book Other People’s Fun is also about two women, Ruth and Sookie, who were former classmates coming again into each others’ lives as adults. What people were like as teenagers is not always who they grow up to be, and Ruth finds out the hard way that Sookie’s life, as portrayed in her social media accounts, is not at all like her real life. The New York Times Book Review says this book is, “Sharp…..A tale of toxic friendship, with a midlife mean-girl twist.”