

Why You’ll Love It A murder mystery set in space-on a sentient space station no less- Station Eternity is perhaps the least traditional entry on this list. Case after case is piling up on Wren’s examination table, and soon she is sucked into an all-consuming cat-and-mouse chase with a brutal murderer getting more brazen by the day.

Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical crimes, and years of experience working in the Medical Examiner’s office, she’s never encountered a case she couldn’t solve. Publisher’s Description: Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up.īut forensic pathologist Dr.

If you somehow haven’t already heard about what the big twists of the story are already, do your best not to find out until you get the chance to experience Alaina Urquhart’s debut for yourself.
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Why You’ll Love It: A creepy dual perspective tale that switches between a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads, The Butcher and the Wren is already one of the buzziest titles of the Fall. The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart Here are our picks for the can’t miss thrillers of Fall 2022. Thankfully, the arrival of Fall also means that the publishing industry can see the lucrative Christmas shopping season from where we’re standing, which means that a positive deluge of great titles are basically hitting shelves every week from Labor Day onward, with stories for every kind of reader. And maybe it’s another trick of the weather, but there’s something particularly…well, dark about this time of year that seems to relentlessly draw readers toward thrillers and mysteries (and things that go bump in the night, but that’s another list altogether). Fall is here, which brings with it pumpkin spice-flavored beverages, cozy sweaters, and the sort of increasingly crisp weather that encourages us all to spend a prodigious amount of curled up under a blanket with a good book.
