Volume 272
Issue 45
11/24/2025
Break Room
Lee first found success with a pair of cozy fantasies, 2024’s The Dallergut Dream Department Store and 2025’s The Dallergut Dream-Making District. Her new book has the same translator as the first two, but the similarity ends there. In this psychological thriller combining office politics with a reality TV game show, contestants learn they were chosen to compete because their coworkers see them as office villains.
The Final Problem
Former war correspondent Perez-Reverte is best known in the U.S. for bibliophilic mystery-adventure The Club Dumas and the drug-smuggling thriller The Queen of the South. His forthcoming release, a locked-room murder mystery set in 1960 among a group of tourists stranded at the only hotel on an isolated Greek island, pays homage to Golden Age detective fiction.
Guilt
After introducing readers to a crime-solving physicist in the ongoing Detective Galileo series and concluding the four-book arc of Tokyo Police detective Kyoichiro Kaga with the PW-starred fair-play whodunit The Final Curtain, Higashino has found a new, series-launching protagonist in homicide detective Godai, who in his first outing contends with what he believes is a false confession.
Wolf Hour
Nordic noir master Nesbø’s first book set entirely in the U.S. follows two plotlines: in one, a disgraced police detective tracks a killer in 2016; in the other, a Norwegian crime novelist in 2022 is researching a book about a Midwestern policeman of Norwegian descent. The narratives converge in what PW’s starred review called an “exquisitely plotted, darkly funny thriller that tackles gun control, police corruption, and psychological trauma in contemporary Minneapolis.”
