The 2024 Anthony Award for Best Mystery of the Year

This gritty crime read from the author of Blacktop Wasteland is about the first Black sheriff in a small Southern town investigating a complicated serial murder. In his review in The New York Times, Stephen King praised the “unerring depiction of small-town rural life and the uneasy (and sometimes violent) interactions between Charon’s white and Black citizens,” and proclaimed of its grand finale: “White or Black, you gotta love it.”

On NPR’s Fresh Air, book critic Maureen Corrigan gave this "LA noir for the #MeToo era" the ultimate Cali crime novel endorsement: "I'd like to think Chandler himself might get a kick out of Everybody Knows. He'd be baffled, of course, by its ultimately feminist sexual politics; but he'd be tickled to see how the LA hardboiled mystery form he largely created continues to chronicle a world even more fatally obsessed with images and false gods than he could ever have envisioned."

This is the fourth book in the popular BBC presenter’s quirky crime series about a group of eccentric English retirees who crack unsolved cases. In Esquire, crime writer Sarah Weinman was delighted by their climax, “The endings feel both inevitable and earned: the exact combination one wants in a good mystery. Osman's greatest strength is fusing the puzzle-mastery of Christie and her Golden Age peers with emotional earnestness and wry humor."

"A mystery that revolves around a brutal act of racial violence may sound like an unusual choice for someone seeking a boost, but one of the most uplifting things you can experience through fiction is the vicarious rush of seeing justice served." Carole V. Bell, The Atlantic.

"Smart-mouthed, tough, pull-no-punches Emily will do whatever it takes to solve the case, and she and Javier keep investigating until they finally uncover the tragic, shocking truth. The suspenseful, twist-a-minute, fast-moving plot... make[s] this an outstanding must-read." Booklist.