• Detective Fiction

    The House on Vesper Sands

    Paraic O’Donnell

    "In Half Moon Street, just as she came near to the house, Esther Tull felt the first gentleness of the snow."

    July 15, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How I Stopped Worrying About the Rules and Learned to Write a Mystery Novel

    Workshops, an MFA, and a pair of literary novels couldn't prepare him for the intricate workings of noir, so he turned to the masters.

    July 14, 2020  By Sung J. Woo
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    Rethinking the Meaning of "Border Noir"

    "Borders, like crime novels, let people be in many places at once: the familiar, the unfamiliar and the space between the two."

    July 14, 2020  By Alex Gilly
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    Murder in Chianti

    Camilla Trenchieri

    "The sun wouldn’t show up for at least another hour, but Nico got out of bed, shrugged on a T-shirt, pulled on a pair of shorts and socks, and laced up his sneakers."

    July 8, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Breathing Through the Wound

    Víctor del Árbol

    "Strolling the deserted streets of Madrid at that hour of indecision—when everything is on the verge of happening but nothing yet has—redeemed the city, concealing its misery, creating a false sense of benevo­lence."

    July 7, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

    June 16, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    My First Thriller:
    Tess Gerritsen

    How the creator of Rizzoli & Isles went from working late-night hospital shifts in Honolulu to writing bestselling thrillers.

    June 4, 2020  By Rick Pullen
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    Kill the King

    Sandrone Dazieri

    "Colomba followed Lupo, entering the center of Montenigro for the first time since she’d been a child."

    May 19, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Westside Saints

    W.M. Akers

    "On a night of hard frost, in the ruins of a burnt church, I found a body in the snow."

    May 18, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    A Tide of Murder: Detective Novels Set on New England's Cape and Islands

    Brooding, cozy, salt-streaked mysteries for the Cape Cod daydreamers.

    May 15, 2020  By Francine Mathews
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