Booklist's Best Crime Debuts: 2019Like this list

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• Blood Orange

  Tyce, Harriet,

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  Alison, a young lawyer, has been given her first murder case to defend. Her new client doesn't deny she stabbed her husband—in fact, she's desperate to plead guilty. Alison has a doting husband, an adorable daughter, and a blossoming career, but she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cherry

  a Novel

  Walker, Nico,

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  A nameless young man meets Emily as a college freshman. He flunks out of school and joins the Army, and they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But he's unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him there. Upon returning home, they both get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death in Paris

  Bernhard, Emilia,

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  When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. After the police rule the death accidental, Rachel knows it's up to her and her best friend Magda to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Detective

  McMahon, John, 1970-

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  Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia, until his wife and young son were killed in an accident. Since that night, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. While…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Night

  a Novel

  Bartz, Andrea,

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  No one could believe it when young New York socialist Edie's was found near a suicide note after a long, drunken night. A decade later, best friend Lindsay discovers an unsettling video from that hazy night, and she starts to wonder if Edie was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Olivia Fell

  McDonald, Christina,

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  In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. Despite the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Plotters

  Kim, Ŏn-su, 1972-

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  In an alternate-reality Seoul, South Korea, where assassination guilds compete for dominance, Reseng uncovers a scheme set into motion by a trio of young women, forcing him to decide if he will remain a pawn of the plotters who control the city's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Restoration Heights

  a Novel

  Medearis, Wil,

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  A young white artist living in an historically black Brooklyn neighborhood besieged by gentrification, Reddick investigates the disappearance of his friend, Hannah, which draws him into a mystery that lays bare the complicated machinations of money…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Save Me From Dangerous Men

  a Novel

  Lelchuk, S. A.,

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  Nikki Griffin is a private investigator who also tracks dangerous men who hurt the women they claim to love—and teaches them a lesson. When a regular PI job tailing Karen, a tech company's disgruntled employee who might be selling secrets, turns…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Ink

  Kemble, Gary,

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  When washed-up journalist Harry Hendrick wakes one morning with a hangover and a strange symbol tattooed on his neck, he shrugs it off as a bad night out. But soon more tattoos appear: grisly, violent images which come accompanied by horrific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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