10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | July 8, 2024

Margalit Fox on the Woman Who Organized Theft in 19th Century New York

Margalit Fox on the Woman Who Organized Theft in 19th Century New York

The woman at the center of Fox's new book, Fredericka Mandelbaum, built her own "crooked ladder."

By Kevin Canfield | July 8, 2024

Nekesa Afia: Picking Paris for My Next Historical Mystery Setting

Nekesa Afia: Picking Paris for My Next Historical Mystery Setting

The author explains why Paris was the perfect choice for a queer historical mystery.

By Nekesa Afia | July 8, 2024

<em>The Black Spectacles</em>: John Dickson Carr's Most Unusual Crime Novel

The Black Spectacles: John Dickson Carr's Most Unusual Crime Novel

Martin Edwards on a curious and striking outlier from the king of locked room mysteries

By Martin Edwards | July 8, 2024

Ram Murali's 10 Favorite Agatha Christie Short Stories

Ram Murali's 10 Favorite Agatha Christie Short Stories

Some well deserved praise for Mr. Satterthwaite, Harley Quin, Mr. Parker Pyne, and the rest, from the author of the new novel, 'Death in the Air'

By Ram Murali | July 5, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: Noir

Choose Your Own Adventure: Noir

Part game, part quiz, part Mad-Libs

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 3, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

On Secret Societies, Dark Academia, and Blending the Real with the Unreal

By Derek Milman | July 3, 2024

Looking for Pirates and Finding Treasure in the Carolina Outer Banks

By Molly MacRae | July 3, 2024

Fictional But Faithful:
Writing Georgia O'Keeffe
as an Amateur Sleuth

By Kathryn Lasky | July 3, 2024

Clandestine Worlds: Books Exploring Secret Ecosystems and Shadow Economies

Clandestine Worlds: Books Exploring Secret Ecosystems and Shadow Economies

These volumes will "peel away the secrecy,...unlock clandestine systems and see what makes them tick"

By Elizabeth Heider | July 2, 2024

I Come From a Long Line of Criminals

I Come From a Long Line of Criminals

April Henry on successfully channeling family history and criminal tendencies into fiction.

By April Henry | July 2, 2024

What Do Creators Owe Their Real-Life Subjects?

What Do Creators Owe Their Real-Life Subjects?

Robyn Harding on the power and the pitfalls of basing thriller characters on real people.

By Robyn Harding | July 2, 2024

A Window Into the World of Those Who Search for the Missing

A Window Into the World of Those Who Search for the Missing

On the quiet heroism of forensic scientists working to identify long-dead remains in former Yugoslavia

By Taina Tervonen | July 2, 2024

Dean Jobb on the Gentleman Thief Who Charmed Jazz Age New York

Dean Jobb on the Gentleman Thief Who Charmed Jazz Age New York

Arthur Barry cut a dashing figure around the city and referred to the people he robbed as "clients."

By Kevin Canfield | July 1, 2024

My First Thriller: Heather Graham

My First Thriller: Heather Graham

From dinner theater in Florida to 70 million books in print, and counting.

By Rick Pullen | July 1, 2024

The Crime Fiction of Montevideo

The Crime Fiction of Montevideo

Crime and the City takes a book tour through the Uruguayan capital.

By Paul French | July 1, 2024

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