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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 26, 2021
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Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?
An intercontinental, cross-generational obsession explained by one of its practitioners.
July 23, 2021
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Villains and Victims: The Role of Animals in Crime Fiction
Why it's time to do away with literary taboos and confront violence against animals.
July 22, 2021
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8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Summer
Fall down a long, winding rabbithole with these binge-worthy podcasts full of thoughtful, complex storytelling.
July 21, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 19, 2021
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Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?
Rounding up the month's best in suspense.
July 16, 2021
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The 30 Best Diner Scenes in Crime Movies, Ranked
What's on the menu? Only some of the best sequences in cinema. And pancakes.
July 15, 2021
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When Gothic Goes to the Suburbs
Today's psychological thriller authors bring a legacy of gothic fiction into the suburban idyll.
July 14, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 12, 2021
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The Strange Story of Orson Welles' Lost Film, Mr. Arkadin
The 1955 film was supposed to be Welles' masterpiece. Or maybe it was just a lark. Or a KGB-funded money laundering enterprise.
July 9, 2021
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Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir
"On a steamy summer day, the residential streets are absent of people and can possess an unsettling quiet. Where is everyone?"
July 8, 2021
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On Loving, and Leaving, Barcelona
"If I saw the beauty in Barcelona, I also saw the shadows."
July 7, 2021
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7 Coming-of-Age Mysteries That Capture "The Oddness of the Moment in Question"
Will these protagonists succumb to the rigid spaces of adulthood, or rebel and find a path all their own?
July 6, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 5, 2021
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Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend? July 4th Edition
Families on the run, gangsters in Berlin, and spies in Warsaw.
July 2, 2021
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10 Novels You Should Read This Month
July's best crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers.
July 1, 2021
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The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: June 2021
Featuring new books by Laura Lippman, Leonardo Padura, P.J. Vernon, and more.
June 30, 2021
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The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction
Obsessives and eccentrics populate the fishing world. You better know your stuff if you're going to set your crime fiction there.
June 29, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
June 28, 2021
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June's Best International Crime Fiction
Treasure hunts in Cuba, intrigue in Mexico City, and strange seductions in Japan
June 25, 2021
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Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month
A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.
June 24, 2021
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The Best New Books Out In Paperback This Month
Featuring New Paperback Releases from Louise Penny, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, S.A. Cosby, and James Lee Burke.
June 23, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
June 21, 2021
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Summertime Crime Movies: Summer in the City
We've got some ideas about what you should be watching this summer. Here's our third batch of recommendations.
June 17, 2021
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The Best Books of the Year (So Far): Crime Fiction in 2021
CrimeReads editors select their favorite thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels of the year.
June 17, 2021
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Bad Gays in Good Books
"Shelves are only getting deeper. Books are only getting queerer. Characters are only getting realer."—P.J. Vernon
June 16, 2021
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The Gothic Elegance of Venice in Winter
Christine Mangan on the power of setting and the strange allure of off-season Venice.
June 15, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
June 14, 2021
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5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This June
Workplace thrillers, relationship strains, and plots for revenge.
June 11, 2021
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Summertime Crime Movies: Crime at the Beach
We've got some ideas about what you should be watching, this summer. Here's our second batch of recommendations.
June 10, 2021
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The Shark-Infested Waters of Hawaiian Detective Fiction
The history of detective novels set in Hawai`i is long and exceedingly complex. Where is it all headed?
June 9, 2021
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Behind the Pine Curtain: East Texas’s Growing Influence on Crime Fiction
How East Texas has established itself as a major force within American Noir.
June 8, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
June 7, 2021
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Summertime Crime Movies: Road Trips
We've got some ideas about what you should be watching, this summer. Here's our first batch of recommendations.
June 4, 2021
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The Literature of the Con: Great Books About Grifters and Swindlers
Rahul Raina celebrates the classics of hustler noir.
June 3, 2021
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10 New Novels You Should Read This Month
June's Best New Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers
June 2, 2021
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The New Wave of Destination Thrillers
Swanky spas and private islands are the new manor houses when it comes to locked room mysteries.
June 1, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
May 31, 2021
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Which International Thriller Should You Binge Over Memorial Day Weekend?
Money laundering, love triangles, and mysterious French towns...
May 28, 2021
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Five Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Month
Spies in exile, treasure hunts, and the search for a missing person.
May 27, 2021
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The Best New Paperback Releases Coming Out This Month
Featuring new-in-paperback releases from Ruth Ware, Carl Hiaasen, Jennifer Hillier, and many more.
May 26, 2021
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May's Best International Crime Fiction
Illusionists in Paris, Snipers in Taiwan, and Safecrackers in Cairo
May 25, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
May 24, 2021
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Vancouver: Books and Murder in Terminal City
Crime and the City visits the rain-soaked mean streets of Vancouver for a look at the latest in Canadian crime writing.
May 21, 2021
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22 New Books By Asian-American And Pacific Islander Authors Perfect for Mystery Readers
Celebrate AAPI month all through the year with these new books from Asian-American authors transforming the genre.
May 20, 2021
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The Late 70s and Early 1980s Heyday of Spain’s Costa del Crime
Spain's Costa del Sol was once the go-to destination for Brits on holiday—and a safe haven for the UK's most notorious criminals.
May 19, 2021
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Inside the Wild Hunt for Forrest Fenn's Hidden Treasure
Somewhere in the New Mexico mountains there's a treasure. The map is an elaborate poem, written by an eccentric millionaire.
May 18, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
May 17, 2021
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5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This May
Poisoned marriages, social clubs, and kidnapped scions.
May 14, 2021
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The Most Anticipated Crime Books Of 2021: Summer Reading Edition
80 crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, and nonfiction books to keep you reading all summer long.
May 13, 2021
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