The Rashomon-esque thriller, Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke, looks at Katie, a 22-year-old murder suspect, through the eyes of five men—her father, her ex-lover, her friend, her lawyer and a journalist. They all know a different side of her and have differing feelings about her guilt. Told in alternating perspectives, the reader gets several versions of truth as they piece together who Katie is and what really happened.

Fans of comforting, cozy reads will want to pick up Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida, translated from Japanese by Bruno Navasky. The lives of the employees and customers at a local convenience store intertwine and come together under the watchful eye of the store’s manager, Mr. Shiba, who takes the store’s motto, “Caring for people, caring for you,” very seriously.

During the early days of the pandemic, four true-crime-obsessed friends decided to try and solve a local cold case. The Carpool Detectives by Chuck Hogan details their success in finding enough information to get the case officially reopened, only for the women to find themselves in real danger from those who wanted the case to stay cold.

It’s not just middle grade readers who will enjoy looking over Rachel Lancashire’s The Atlas of Languages. Beautifully illustrated, it has everything from the source of the word “banana” to Manx language revival and a chapter on different sign languages around the world.

Every year, Dulce’s school puts on a murder mystery game to test their criminology students, and this year she’s determined to win. But there’s more than her grade on the line when the victim ends up actually murdered and the body count keeps rising. The snappy teen mystery Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz is full of twists and turns for a satisfyingly chilling read.