Top 5 Saturday: Top Detective Book List
This Saturday Top Five series was created by Amanda at Devouring Books, she has kept it going since last October, every Saturday and holy hell has it grown!!! I don’t typically tag anyone but anyone and everyone is welcome to join. This week is my list of the Best Adult Fiction Detective Books.
Rules:
- Share your top 5 books of the current topic– these can be books that you want to read, have read and loved, have read and hated, you can do it any way you want.
- Tag the original post (This one!)
- Tag 5 people
This is the last topic for this month- September to come
Top Adult Fiction Detective Book List- Disclaimers
You will notice these are all adult fiction books. I have, as I noted in my review of All Your Twisted Secrets, I have divorced myself from the Detective/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense and Psychological Thriller genre in the Young Adult Category. It just became a toxic relationship beyond One of Us Is Next. Like Space Operas, it just wasn’t going to work out between us. However, as everyone knows? I’m complete trash for them in the Adult category. Yes, more on the Psychological Thriller front, but some detective novels have found there way through. Four of the five I have read. One comes out in November. So let’s take a stroll, shall we?
P.S. Despite my Batman Love- I haz questions.
DC Comics= Detective Comics= Batman/Bruce Wayne… Is he really, though? Maybe they need to think this through?
Top 5 Saturday: Best Detective Books
1) Murder in Old Bombay By Nev March By Nev March– Goodreads Link
First up, the future release. Blame this on my love for #2 on the list.
Summary: In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers. The case that catches Captain Jim’s attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by Adi, the widower of one of the victims — his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit suicide — Captain Jim approaches the Parsee family and is hired to investigate what happened that terrible afternoon.
But in a land of divided loyalties, asking questions is dangerous. Captain Jim’s investigation disturbs the shadows that seem to follow the Framji family and triggers an ominous chain of events. And when lively Lady Diana Framji joins the hunt for her sisters’ attackers, Captain Jim’s heart isn’t safe, either.
Based on a true story, and set against the vibrant backdrop of colonial India, Nev March brings this tumultuous historical age to life.
Category/Genre: Adult Fiction/ Mystery and Detective/ International Mystery and Crime/Historical
Release Date: November 10th, 2020
Publisher: Minotaur
2) Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne By Elsa Hart– Review
And in case you’ve forgotten…
Summary: London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting its wonders. Sir Barnaby Mayne, the most formidable of these collectors, has devoted his life to filling his cabinets. While the curious-minded vie for invitations to study the rare stones, bones, books, and artifacts he has amassed, some visitors come with a darker purpose.
For Cecily Kay, it is a passion for plants that brings her to the Mayne house. The only puzzle she expects to encounter is how to locate the specimens she needs within Sir Barnaby’s crowded cabinets. But when her host is stabbed to death, Cecily finds the confession of the supposed killer unconvincing. She pays attention to details—years of practice have taught her that the smallest particulars can distinguish a harmless herb from a deadly one—and in the case of Sir Barnaby’s murder, there are too many inconsistencies for her to ignore.
To discover the truth, Cecily must enter the world of the collectors, a realm where intellect is distorted by obsession and greed. As her pursuit of answers brings her closer to a killer, she risks being given a final resting place amid the bones that wait, silent and still, in the cabinets of Barnaby Mayne.
Released: August 4th, 2020
Category/Genre: Adult Historical Detective/Murder Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books
3) The Split by S.J. Bolton – Review
In which case, I became:
Summary: No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you…
The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd.
Felicity lives in fear – fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he’s out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her.
But a doctor delving into the background of Felicity and Freddie’s relationship, back in Cambridge, learns that Felicity has been on the edge for a long time. Heading to South Georgia himself to try and get to her first is the only way he can think of to help her.
Category/Genre: Adult Fiction / Thriller / Mystery/ Crime/ Woman Sleuth/International Mystery/Detective
Released: April 28th, 2020
4) Angel Of The Crows By Katherine Addison– Review
Yes, it is. Don’t at me. If it is wingfic Sherlock Holmes, then yes it is.
Summary: This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.
In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings under a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.
Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows
Genre: Adult Fiction/Alt-History/Mystery/Paranormal/Fantasy/Detective
Release Date: July 23rd, 2019
Publisher: Tor Books
5) Cut To The Bone By Ellison Cooper– Review
Summary:
A bus full of high school students has disappeared from Washington D.C. and FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair must hunt down the culprit who has a link to her own past.
After grieving the death of her fiancé and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer’s newfound happiness is threatened when she is called in to investigate a girl’s body left inside a circle of animal figurines below a cryptic message written in blood. When they discover that the dead girl is one of twenty-four missing high school students, Sayer quickly realizes that nothing, in this case, is what it seems.
As the investigation draws her into a tangled web of fake identities and false leads, the trail soon begins to point directly to her own life. Now, Sayer must confront her painful past to uncover her connection to the deranged killer if she hopes to save the missing teens and protect everything that she loves.
After grieving the death of her fiancé and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer’s newfound happiness is threatened when she is called in to investigate a girl’s body left inside a circle of animal figurines below a cryptic message written in blood. When they discover that the dead girl is one of twenty-four missing high school students, Sayer quickly realizes that nothing, in this case, is what it seems.
As the investigation draws her in to a tangled web of fake identities and false leads, the trail soon begins to point directly to her own life. Now, Sayer must confront her painful past to uncover her connection to the deranged killer if she hopes to save the missing teens and protect everything that she loves.
Category/Genre: Adult Fiction/Thrillers/Crime/Mystery and Detective/Women Sleuths
Release Date: July 14th, 2020
Publisher: Minotaur
What books make your list? Have you read any on mine? Let’s talk!!!
OMG I haven’t read any of these books and I love a good detective story!! Must check them out!
If I can enable at least one person a day here or throwing books at B and N, then I have fulfilled my purpose on this planet!
I’m totally eyeing The Split and The Angel of the Crows. Unlike you I love YA mysteries and thrillers. I’m trash for them!! There are a few exceptions of course, but those are the books I pick up when I need thrilling entertainment. My “fluff” reads lol.