Paula L. Woods

In What Fire Brings, Rachel Howzell Hall creates a Topanga Canyon where little is what it seems.

Denise Mina’s The Second Murderer reimagines Philip Marlowe, again.

Samantha Allen’s Patricia Wants to Cuddle is a novel that draws outside the lines.

In Gary Phillips’s One-Shot Harry, a photographer reframes 1963 Los Angeles.

Michael Connelly’s The Dark Hours is a new kind of police procedural.

In Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara brings the past to life.

Maggie Richter returns in Maria Hummel’s Lesson in Red.

Walter Mosley transcends genre with The Awkward Black Man.