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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Fonseca captured the life of Rio de Janeiro like nobody else. Revisiting his work now, after his death, is an uncanny experience.

The Unlikely Detectives: Unlicensed, Unqualified, and Fully Invested

These amateur sleuths never asked to get mixed up in a murder investigation—but they won't stop looking until they find the truth.

Six Debut Novels You Should Read This October

The month's best debuts in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

I Never Loved Rebecca

On the unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's classic.

Edward Gorey designed the sets for the 1970s Broadway run of Dracula

As expected, they're very beautiful, very creepy, and very fun.

Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

"Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."

Bringing the Traditional Murder Mystery to India

RV Raman has loved Agatha Christie style murder mysteries his whole life. But where were the stories from India?

Seven Great Thrillers That Take Readers to Far-Flung Places

Now is the time to travel to the Indian Ocean and the mountains of New Zealand from the comfort of books.

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

Fonseca captured the life of Rio de Janeiro like nobody else. Revisiting his work now, after his death, is an uncanny experience.

These amateur sleuths never asked to get mixed up in a murder investigation—but they won't stop looking until they find the truth.

The month's best debuts in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

On the unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's classic.

As expected, they're very beautiful, very creepy, and very fun.

"Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."

RV Raman has loved Agatha Christie style murder mysteries his whole life. But where were the stories from India?

Now is the time to travel to the Indian Ocean and the mountains of New Zealand from the comfort of books.

In 1938, Joan Harrison read a galley of Daphne Du Maurier's masterpiece. She wouldn't rest until she had the rights to adapt it.

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