• Daily Thrill

    "The Patternmaker"

    Julie Koh

    "I think he’s a detective until the night he gets his dick out."

    December 20, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Verses For The Dead

    Preston & Child

    "Of all the thoughts that could have wandered into Pickett’s temporarily stunned mind, the foremost was: Did he actually walk through the locker room, showers, and pool dressed like that?"

    December 19, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Liar's Paradox

    Taylor Stevens

    "Quiet gentrified neighborhood and a cloud-covered sky at two in the morning, a perfect mix for breaking and entering."

    December 18, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Enemy of My Enemy

    W. E. B. Griffith

    "Burgdorf and von Dietelburg, those despicable Nazi bastards, are now on the loose, goddamn it!"

    December 17, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Suitcase Charlie

    John Guzlowski

    "We’re with the Chicago Police Department. There’s been some trouble on the corner here, and we’re asking questions in the neighborhood."

    December 14, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Revolution Sunday

    Wendy Guerra, Translated by Achy Obejas

    "My father wasn’t executed. You’ve been given erroneous information. My father died in a car accident two summers ago."

    December 13, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Prague Coup

    Written by Jean-Luc Fromental, Illustrated by Miles Hyman, and Translated by Lara Vergnaud

    "When it all happened, I was no longer a young girl, but I still had the romanticism and sense of adventure of the debutante whose bright, pre-ordained future had been hijacked by the war...."

    December 12, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Blood

    E. S. Thomson

    "Those desperate words, that fearful hand, the bloody sawdust clinging to the rough nap of such cheap paper—all troubled me."

    December 11, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    A Christmas Revelation

    Anne Perry

    "Worm slept soundly that night, but he woke early in the morning thinking again of the lady he’d seen yesterday in the street. She had been frightened when she went with the two men."

    December 10, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Broken Ground

    Val McDermid

    "He felt a new respect for gravediggers who had to do this every working day. When all of this was over, you wouldn’t catch him doing that for a living."

    December 7, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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