The CrimeReads editors select the month’s best new novels in crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers. * Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business (Knopf) In this Poe-influenced tale (the first of two on this list), Eliza Ripple, a young widow and sex worker, becomes concerned when vulnerable women start vanishing from the brothels of Monterey and no one … Continue reading 8 New Novels You Should Read in December