7 Must-Reads: Crime, Mystery & Thrillers

Read it and squirm. Every single phone call, email and computer key stroke on the Internet is captured, filed and saved in this timely Orwellian political thriller where the government knows nearly everything about everyone through its secret data collection service called “God’s Eye View.”

In the 25th installment of the popular Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series, the Venetian inspector looks into a case of a woman trapped in perpetual childhood. Fifteen years ago, as a young girl, she fell into a canal late at night and nearly drowned, causing her to suffer irreparable brain damage. But was this no accident?

Is the line separating good from evil even thinner than we imagined? In this science fiction thriller, award-winning Canadian writer Robert Sawyer takes on the nature of human consciousness in a world where undetected psychopaths are behind the rising tide of hate and violence spreading across the globe, and a team of scientists must try to change human nature before its too late.

In Britain during the turbulent 1960s, detectives investigating an unsolved murder case take on the most powerful and affluent members of London society. The book is the third of the Breen and Tozer British mystery series.

Murder and mayhem erupt in the City of Light when someone systematically targets France’s most powerful cultural elite. Jack Morgan, former Marine and owner of Private, the world’s most technologically advanced investigation firm, is called on to find the murderer before the city’s simmering religious and ethnic tensions erupt.

In the new psychological thriller from internationally bestselling Swedish crime writer Camilla Lackberg, a murder case from the past sheds light on a current crime around the disappearance of a young girl.