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Armstrong, Kelley. A Rip Through Time. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. May 2022. 352p. ISBN 9781250820006. $27.99. CD. MYSTERY/TIME TRAVEL

Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage. Viking. May 2022. 256p. ISBN 9780593295779. $26. CD. MYSTERY/COZY

Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. Bantam. May 2022. 272p. ISBN 9780399177620. $26. Downloadable. MYSTERY

Haines, Carolyn. Lady of Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. May 2022. 368p. ISBN 9781250833723. $26.99. MYSTERY/COZY

Jonasson, Ragnar. Outside. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. May 2022. 320p. ISBN 9781250833457. $27.99. MYSTERY/INTERNATIONAL

Klingborg, Brian. Wild Prey: An Inspector Lu Fei Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. May 2022. 304p. ISBN 9781250779076. $27.99. MYSTERY/INTERNATIONAL

Lupica, Mike. Robert B. Parker’s Revenge Tour. Putnam. May 2022. 352p. ISBN 9780593419762. $28. CD/downloadable. MYSTERY

Paretsky, Sara. Overboard. Morrow. May 2022. 304p. ISBN 9780063010888. $28.99. lrg. prnt. MYSTERY

Patterson, James & Maxine Paetro. 22 Seconds. Little, Brown. (Women’s Murder Club). May 2022. 400p. ISBN 9780316499378. $29. lrg. prnt. CD. MYSTERY

Weaver, Ashley. The Key to Deceit. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. May 2022. 288p. ISBN 9781250780508. $27.99. MYSTERY

In a series starter from the ever-popular Armstrong, homicide detective Mallory is in 2019 Edinburgh when she experiences A Rip Through Time and winds up in one of the city’s alleyways in 1869, inhabiting the body of strangled-if-not-quite-dead housemaid Catriona Thomson and soon hunting for a killer (50,000-copy first printing). In Atherton's Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, the redoubtable sleuth and her English-village neighbors fail in their attempt to befriend standoffish newcomer Crispin Windle until they discover the ruins of a Victorian woolen mill—and the graves of children who worked there, whom they seek to identify (30,000-copy first printing; originally scheduled for July 2021). In Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride, crusty but beloved widow Nonna Maria—who lives on the isle of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples and was inspired by the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Carcaterra’s grandmother—intervenes when a young bride-to-be declares that she’s afraid of her fiancé. In Haines’s Lady of Bones, Mississippi-based Sarah Booth Delaney of the Delaney Detective Agency is attending a party alit with jack-o-lanterns when she’s approached by a woman seeking her vanished daughter, who has been investigating the disappearance of young women in New Orleans every Halloween for the last five years (40,000-copy first printing). The internationally best-selling author of the “Dark Iceland” and “Hulda” series, Jonasson sets his new standalone during an Icelandic blizzard, with four frantic friends sheltering in an abandoned hunting lodge and facing a reignited tragedy that likely makes them wish they were all Outside (50,000-copy first printing). In Klingborg’s Wild Prey, Inspector Lu Fei of the Chinese Police travels to a remote region of Myanmar to find a missing 15-year-old girl in a case involving the illegal trafficking of exotic animals (50,000-copy first printing). In Robert B. Parker’s Revenge Tour, Lupica assigns PI Sunny Randall the thankless task of investigating actress friend Melanie Joan Hall when Melanie’s manager turns up dead, her bank account looks to be wiped out, and details of her past suddenly seem more imagined than real. In Paretsky’s Overboard, a seriously injured teenage girl discovered by V.I. Warshawski on Lake Michigan’s rocky shore subsequently vanishes from the hospital, and the iconic detective must chase down a monstrous conspiracy with pandemic-ridden Chicago as backdrop (100,000-copy first printing). Pursuing a massive drugs-and-weapons shipment being shepherded across the U.S.-Mexican border by former cops with the warning “You talk, you die” written on their bodies, Patterson/Paetro stalwart Sgt. Lindsay Boxer suddenly has 22 Seconds to decide what her fate will be. Second in the new series from librarian Weaver, who launched her writing career with the delightful Amory Ames mysteries, The Key to Deceit has breaker-and-enterer Ellie McDonnell again approached by stuffed-shirt good-guy Major Ramsey in World War II London: he wants her to discover which side the female spy found bobbing in the Thames was on (40,000-copy first printing).

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