Cover art has always been an integral part of the crime fiction experience. No area of literature has dedicated more time and ingenuity to creating a graphic experience for dedicated readers and casual bookstore browsers alike. Provocative, inspired, and insightful, the best crime covers bring out new layers in the texts they enclose. Despite the occasional fallow period of stock photography and jumbo fonts, the art isn’t dead. It’s alive and well. To celebrate the tradition, each month CrimeReads editors highlight the very best covers from the newest books in crime, mystery, and thrillers.
Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept (Knopf)
Cover Design: Kelly Blair
Emma Donoghue, Akin (Little, Brown)
Cover Design: Margaret Lonergan
(illustration after La Promenade des Anglais by Martin Hürlimann, 1937)
David Koepp, Cold Storage (Ecco)
Cover Design: Will Staehle
Stephen King, The Institute (Scribner)
Cover Design: Will Staehle/Unusual Corporation
Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters (Pantheon)
Cover Design: Kelly Blair
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (Titan Books)
Cover Design: Julia Lloyd
