Peter Robinson has written his 25th Inspector Alan Banks novel, “Careless Love.” (William Morrow, 301 pages) Banks and his squad have a pair of suspicious deaths to investigate. The first involves a young woman, well-dressed and found in a car that had been in an accident out on a ...

Sophie Hannah’s “The Next to Die” introduces the most unusual of serial killers — one who kills best friends. The police have come to call him “Billy Dead Mates” and before “Billy” kills, the victims receive small white books with a snippet of literature written inside. ...

Lucy Foley’s “The Hunting Party” is a modern version of the classic manor home mystery in which a group of people are trapped in a remote location with a killer lurking among them. ((William Morrow, 327 pages) In Foley’s mystery, a group of friends plan on celebrating their 10-year ...

I’ve been advised over the years to read Greg Iles. My opportunity came recently with the weather making many of us home-bound. “Cemetery Road” (William Morrow, 591 pages, release date March 5) really caught my attention with newspaperman Marshall McEwan returning to his hometown and ...

While the atomic bomb might be considered the ultimate doomsday machine, man’s insatiable quest for knowledge may generate a weapon as deadly, or even deadlier, than the bomb. In this age of the computer, the search for the ultimate super intelligent computer, or artificial intelligence ...

Sue Fortin's "Schoolgirl Missing" (HarperCollins) is one of those edgy British crime stories with plenty of psychological drama. Neve is married to Kit Masters, a widower with a 14-year-old daughter, Poppy, who suffers from neurological difficulties sustained during a difficult birth which ...