5 new mysteries and thrillers to help get you through winter
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Loading... - Sara Gonzalez
- 10 Mar 2023
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The long days of January and February usually herald some great reads featuring crime, suspense and — everyone's favorite — murder. This year's new releases include works involving several unique communities from indigenous reindeer herders to sexy would-be authors to students at a pretty unusual academy.
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
All hail the queen of dark academia! Leigh Bardugo gained an audience with her Shadow and Bone YA series set in the fantasy "Grishaverse," but her 2019 Ninth House takes place at a very real location, New Haven's Yale University, one of the original seats of the Ivy League and in Bardugo's telling, a seat of secret magic. Many of us already knew about Yale's secret societies, like Skull and Bones, but Bardugo gives us Lethe, a secret society that watches over all the others — and when a new underclassperson named Galaxy "Alex" Stern gains entrance to Lethe, her ability to see ghosts gives it a new leg up on its competition.
Ninth House and Hell Bent may be Bardugo's first books for adults, but you'd never know it, or care, because you're so busy following all of the action. Suspend your disbelief willingly as Alex Stern gets thrown into a dizzying series of faculty murders. Why not? The version of Yale thrown down in this Bardugian gauntlet (yes, there is a passage known as a Gauntlet) doesn't lack for realistic detail (Bardugo is a 1997 graduate and a member of its Wolf Head secret society), to the extent that anyone who has ever attended the university or even just partied there will puzzle over what's real and what's fantastic. If you love the latter and want to head down a lot of rabbit holes (see the book cover for that reference), you'll want to capture your copy quickly. Read More..
