Crooked Lane Books

10/10/2025

How do you create twists that surprise your reader and yourself? Rebecca Kanner, author of 👀LAST ONE SEEN🚗 reveals how she crafts shocks and surprises in a genre built on expectations. Get a peek into the mind of a mystery writer and don't forget to pick up her latest book now!

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If you’re writing crime fiction, you’re in the business of betrayal. Your readers open the book looking for answers, and you give them lies—at first. That’s the deal. But there’s a particular kind …

10/10/2025

Celebrate the 15th installment of the Key West Food Critic Mysteries 🥭THE MANGO MURDERS🥭 with author Lucy Burdette Author! While this special book signing at sea for NOVEMBER 14 is sold out, you can still join the waitlist or pick up a copy of the book in paperback on 7/7/2026.

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10/10/2025

Check out the trailer for 🔪THE LAST HITMAN🔪 by Robin Yocum - Author. This thrilling mafia tale shows what happens when loyalty isn’t a two-way street, and will be on sale 12/2/2025!

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10/09/2025

🥳Congratulations to Tiffany Killoren, Author! 🧵PRETTY DEAD THINGS🧵 is a 2025 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award winner!

10/08/2025

📆Mark your calendars! On SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH at 2 PM CT, Silas House will be in-conversation Andi Marie Tillman at Barnes & Noble in Brentwood, TN, to discuss his new novel 🤠DEAD MAN BLUES🤠!

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10/08/2025

Learn about the inspiration behind Leigh Dunlap's 👒BLESS YOUR HEART👒 over on The Hard Wood!

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Leigh Dunlap took time off as a working screenwriter for her debut novel Bless You Heart. It puts a homicide Detective Shay Claypool and her partner Dub into the upscale Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead where one of the leading citizens has been found bludgeoned to death on the little league field h...

10/08/2025

🤠DEAD MAN BLUES🤠 by Silas House is a USA TODAY bestseller! 🥳Congratulations to S. D. House!

Don't wait to pick up a copy of this gripping historical crime novel!

10/08/2025

Look at this cover for 🏥A DANGEROUS DIAGNOSIS🏥 by Shantanu Rai!

A jaded doctor for the ultrarich becomes entangled in this fast-paced medical thriller for fans of Robin Cook and HBO's The Pitt.

Coming 2/24/2025, request on Netgalley and preorder now➡️ https://loom.ly/T6cLOko

10/07/2025

🥳Calling all Sherlock fans! Happy to Jack Anderson's ♟️THE RETURN OF MORIARTY♟️!

After Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room mystery Holmes couldn’t solve.

10/06/2025

To celebrate Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month we're reading Raquel V. Reyes, writer's 🦎DOMINOES, DANZÓN, AND DEATH💀. Latina sleuth and culinary master Miriam Quiñones-Smith is cooking up a storm in the fourth installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mystery series.

10/03/2025

📣Celebrate Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month by reading 's 🌲NOT THE KILLING KIND🌲! This gripping, high-stakes debut thriller about the lengths mothers will go to protect their children is perfect for fans of Wanda M. Morris and Jess Lourey.

Pick up your own copy today!

10/03/2025

A summer trip to the Adirondacks is turned upside down when a woman’s body is discovered in the lake in 🏡THE SUMMER HOUSE MURDER🏡 by Ava Roberts. This twisty thriller is perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Paula Hawkins.

Coming 4/7/2026, preorder now➡️ https://loom.ly/F2NQ5Yc