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Our Favorite Excerpts of 2018

CrimeReads Editors Pick Their Favorite Fiction Excerpts of 2018


Pandemic

Robin Cook

"Coming across an index case for a possible influenza pandemic was heady stuff. Best of all, it might keep him busy and occupied for a week."


The Boy

Tami Hoag

"The night waited, ever-patient, oblivious to her pain, not caring if she lived or died. Things died in the swamp all the time. Death was just a part of life here."


Watching You

Lisa Jewell

"That’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing."


Starry, Starry Night

René Appel & Josh Pachter

"Mila has shown him he can live a better life. He has to behave himself, if he doesn’t want to go back to being a total loser."


“The Patternmaker”

Julie Koh

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


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?"


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."


The Enemy of My Enemy

W. E. B. Griffith

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


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."



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