The Best True Crime of the Month: October 2026

The Best True Crime of the Month: October 2026

Deep South crimes, 19th-century detectives, crime-solving writers, backrooms poker players, and realpolitik killings

By CrimeReads | October 9, 2026

Amy Bloom on the Imperfect Protagonist and the Wabi-Sabi of Us All

Amy Bloom on the Imperfect Protagonist and the Wabi-Sabi of Us All

How Poirot, Wimsey, and all the rest reveal a powerful side of our humanity.

By Amy Bloom | October 9, 2026

5 Revenge and Eat-the-Rich Thrillers About the 1 Percent

5 Revenge and Eat-the-Rich Thrillers About the 1 Percent

L.M. Chilton recommends Jeneva Rose, Trisha Sakhlecha, and more

By L. M. Chilton | October 9, 2026

The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new-in-paperback releases from Steve Berry, May Cobb, John Fram, Gilly Macmillan, Tom Ryan, Nic Stone, and more

By CrimeReads | October 7, 2026

Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares

Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares

A tour of the ten novels, films, and comics that inspired Return To The Motherfreaking Fun Factory

By Neil Kleid | October 7, 2026

10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking

10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking

Eva Jurczyk recommends mysteries told in letters, emails, archives, and more

By Eva Jurczyk | October 6, 2026

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

Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries

By Katherine Reay | October 6, 2026

Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World

By Faith Gladwin | October 6, 2026

Crime and the City: Nairobi

By Paul French | October 5, 2026

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 | October 5, 2026

9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings

9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings

Hallie Shepherd recommends Paula Hawkins, Stuart Turton, Riley Sager, and more

By Hallie Shepherd | October 2, 2026

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new titles from Michael Connelly, Lyndsay Faye, Elizabeth Hand, T. Geronimo Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Kostova, and more

By Molly Odintz | October 2, 2026

Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries

Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries

Knowing, winking, playful mysteries to beguile and delight you!

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 2, 2026

Sherry Thomas' Favorite Mysteries Set on the South West England Coast

Sherry Thomas' Favorite Mysteries Set on the South West England Coast

A literary tour of the South West Coast Path from the author of The Vanished Sister

By Sherry Thomas | October 1, 2026

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: September 2026

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: September 2026

Endangered trad wives, haunted houses, cannibalistic oligarchs, friendly monsters, and desert hijinks

By Molly Odintz | September 30, 2026

5 Horror Novels Set in Grand Country Homes

5 Horror Novels Set in Grand Country Homes

Jennifer Thorne recommends Stuart Turton, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more

By Jennifer Thorne | September 30, 2026

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