Books I'm Looking Forward To Reading in 2018 [Part 2]

Pretty much as soon as I published my blog post of books I'm looking forward to reading, new books were teased on social media that immediately took my interest.

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Here's the next batch of books that I'm looking forward to in 2018 in no particular order:

The Raptor and The Wren by Chuck Wendig (January, Simon & Schuster) - the fifth Miriam Black book. These are great, though I'm a little behind (still need to read book 4), I enjoyed the hell out of the first three. 

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (February, Harper Collins) - I first came across this book thanks to a Megan Abbott tweet and have been convinced ever since that I've got to read this book. I was also lucky enough to snag an e-arc from the publisher recently. From the blurb:

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Sunburn by Laura Lippman (February, William Morrow) - Most of the books I've read by Laura Lippman have been great (the standalones in particular) and I'm very excited for this coming in Feb. Check out that blurb:


Psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals—and cold-blooded murder.

Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea (April, Pengiun Random House) - The Girl Who Was Taken was one of my top crime reads for 2017 and this book looks to be another winner. From the blurb: 

The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history—a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to prove her innocence.

Read my review of The Girl Who Was Taken here.

Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn (June, Penguin Random House) - The sequel to 2017's Thrawn (which is awesome). Looking forward to the Darth Vader team up. A must read for fans of Thrawn (I strongly recommend the original Thrawn trilogy) and fan of the new canon books (can we still call it 'new cannon' now?).

Read my review of Star Wars: Thrawn here. 

Quarry's War by Max Allan Collins (June, Titan Comics) - Hard Case Crime and Quarry go together like me and books (which is to say, very well). I've enjoyed the publisher's foray into graphic novels with Titan so fan and this looks certain to be another winner. I was tempted to get these as floppies (monthly comics) but think the story will flow better as a trade (collected). 

The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey (June, Titan) - I really enjoyed the two books in the New Pompei series. The Synapse Sequence looks to be a standalone/start of a new series. From the blurb: 

Anna Glover joins a start-up company that hopes to revolutionise solving crimes by combining the memories of witnesses into a virtual reality simulator that can be explored by an investigator. Her first case is that of a fostered teenage boy put in a coma by a brutal assault, and she begins to explore his memories, the only witness to the crime. But when the boy's sister disappears and Anna's own actions are called into question, it becomes clear that there are other motives in play, and there are those who do not want her to succeed...