A great murder mystery.

The Suspect by Michael Robotham.

And even better psychological insight into Dr. JOSEPH O’LOUGHLIN diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

A beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. …

When an unknown young woman is found dead with multiple stab wounds – all of them self-inflicted – the police ask Joe to help them understand the crime. Are they dealing with a murder or a suicide?

Reluctantly, he agrees to help and the brutalised body he views at the mortuary turns out to be someone he knows: Catherine Mary McBride, a nurse and former colleague.

At the same time, Joe is grappling with a troubled young patient, Bobby Moran, whose violent dreams are becoming more real.

As Bobby’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic, Joe begins to ponder what he’s done in the past and what he might do next. Is there a link between his terrible dreams and Catherine McBride?

It’s been adapted and streams on BritBox.

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Marble Hall Murders (2025) is 3rd in the excellent Susan Ryeland series. All three are being adapted for the screen by BBC.

It’s great. But almost a little too complicated for this reader.

Another of his book within a book murder mysteries. Very much like Agatha Christie — but twice as confusing. 😀

Anthony Horowitz is one of my favourite authors.

She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.

The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.

Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.

As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.

It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.

For a James Patterson book, this is quite good.

Sure, it’s cheesy. It’s Patterson.

But I enjoyed the character of Rob Trilling, a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit.

He’s there to help New York City detective Michael Bennett find a killer sniper who’s been taking out seemingly random people.

Crosshairs (2024) is Michael Bennett series.

Of course, Bennett’s wife and 10 children are always entertaining.

Apostle’s Cove is a 2025 murder mystery novel by one of my favourite authors, William Kent Krueger.

The 21st book in his Cork O’Connor Mystery series. 

This one has an interesting format.

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates.

Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.

Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done.

Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help.

The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.