Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil’s family fortune. With so much excellent—and thankfully, if slowly, more diverse—crime fiction to choose from, we were curious to know which works have kept our readers turning those pages. We asked you to share the best recent crime fiction you’d read lately, and now we have quite the reading list! Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Broken by Don Winslow The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke The Infinite Blacktop by Sara Gran IQ by Joe Ide The Missing American by Kwei Quartey My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Once You Go This Far by Kristin Lepionka The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz Sunburn by Laura Lippman They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson Vera Kelly is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka The Witch Elm by Tana French Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
