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Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

When intimate and private love letters are the only surviving evidence from an old trial, should a researcher include them in their book?
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new titles from Michael Connelly, Lyndsay Faye, Elizabeth Hand, T. Geronimo Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Kostova, and more
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Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries

Knowing, winking, playful mysteries to beguile and delight you!

10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking

By Eva Jurczyk

Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries

By Katherine Reay

Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World

By Faith Gladwin

Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

By Jack El-Hai

New York City Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt's War Against Banana Peels

By Olivia Rutigliano

Crime and the City: Nairobi

By Paul French

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Hank Phillippi Ryan on Endings, Generational Scars, and Secrets in Mysteries

By John B. Valeri

9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings

By Hallie Shepherd

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Remembering Kevin, the KGB Officer Who Watched Us During a Secret Mission to the USSR

By Dr. Merryl Goldberg

Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries

By Olivia Rutigliano

Welcome to The Wiregrass, Where Corruption Is Rampant, Contradictions Abound, and Cynicism Reigns Supreme

By Matt Kessler

Two Generations, One Shared Experience: On Incarceration, Redemption, and Family Love

By Dr. Tonesa Welch and H. Corey Mills

Dan Warner on A.I., Life as Data, and Depicting Emerging Technologies in Fiction

By Dan Warner

Sherry Thomas' Favorite Mysteries Set on the South West England Coast

By Sherry Thomas

Literary Hub

October 6, 2026

Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

By Jane Ciabattari

Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

By Ankur Thakkar

Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era

By Ryan Chapman

Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him

By Eric Olson

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