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    The Whisper Place

    Mindy Mejia

    "Charlie told me he’d woken up at his house a week ago—a farm south of Riverside—and his girlfriend wasn’t there."

    September 15, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Understudy

    Morgan Richter

    "The first time my understudy tried to kill me was on the day we met."

    August 14, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Man Made of Smoke

    Alex North

    "It was dark, and it was cold."

    May 14, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Carnival of Atrocities

    Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcraft

    "[I]nstead of words, I saw a language composed of animal heads which bled and left red trails in their wake. If I looked up at the sky, the sun was always mid-explosion."

    May 13, 2025  By CrimeReads 
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    The Impossible Thing

    Belinda Bauer

    "The little fake family were only a couple of hundred yards from the trees now."

    April 8, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    On Submission: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

    Michael J. Seidlinger

    "An agent finds reason in every conversation, even if it means not getting the best deal."

    April 1, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Read an Excerpt from Patrick Hoffman's New Novel Friends Helping Friends

    Patrick Hoffman

    "xxxx"

    March 18, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Allegro

    Ariel Dorfman

    "Johann Christian Bach would bear no excuses, accept no remonstrance."

    March 14, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura

    Tierno Monénembo, tr. by Ryan Chamberlain

    "When she came home Friday, she found the house in a grave silence, with no fetching aroma to delight her nose. She found me slumped on the couch, my face in my hands."

    March 4, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Blood Rival: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

    Jake Arnott

    "xxxx"

    February 28, 2025  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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