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The Best New Crime Books Out in Paperback This Month

The Best New Crime Books Out in Paperback This Month

Featuring new releases from Sophie Hannah, Preston & Child, John Banville, Craig Johnson, and more.

By CrimeReads | September 28, 2021

Love in the Bookshop: A Mystery Writer's Ode to Bookstore Romances

Love in the Bookshop: A Mystery Writer's Ode to Bookstore Romances

Six novels in which romance blooms in the stacks.

By Mimi Granger | September 27, 2021

YA Mysteries: <br>The Prep School Edition

YA Mysteries:
The Prep School Edition

"In these books, authors paint a picture of a private and closed world to which only the select few are permitted access."

By Gabriella Lepore | September 24, 2021

Motive Is the Core of Mystery

Motive Is the Core of Mystery

7 mysteries in which motivation is the driving force of the narrative.

By Emilia Bernhard | September 24, 2021

Ten Criminal Characters Motivated by Good Intentions

Ten Criminal Characters Motivated by Good Intentions

These literary characters do the wrong things for the right (or at least understandable) reasons.

By Kerry Anne King | September 22, 2021

Craig Johnson on Spirituality, the West, and the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Craig Johnson on Spirituality, the West, and the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

A missing person poster at a library on the Crow Reservation was the inspiration for the newest Longmire novel.

By CrimeReads | September 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Discreet Charm of the Berkeley Crime Novel

By Jesse Kellerman | September 21, 2021

The Queer Old Case of the Spinster Sleuth

By Barbara Wilson | September 20, 2021

A Place and Time for Murder: The Lure of 14th Century Kent for One Crime Writer

By S.D. Sykes | September 20, 2021

Andrea Camilleri: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Andrea Camilleri: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

A tour through Inspector Salvo Montalbano's Sicily and the life and works of an Italian mystery icon.

By Neil Nyren | September 17, 2021

6 Cozy Mysteries Told From a Cat’s Purr-spective

6 Cozy Mysteries Told From a Cat’s Purr-spective

In these series, cats are the real sleuths, and humans are just there to do their bidding.

By Codi Schneider | September 17, 2021

Looking Back on the Magical Mystery Series <em>Pushing Daisies</em>

Looking Back on the Magical Mystery Series Pushing Daisies

It had everything: homemade pies, murder mysteries, touchless romances, and waking the dead.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 16, 2021

Mystery in the Mountains: 10 Novels Set in the High Country of the American West

Mystery in the Mountains: 10 Novels Set in the High Country of the American West

In these mysteries, the rugged terrain and unforgiving elements become characters central to the story.

By Margaret Mizushima | September 16, 2021

How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

Inside the Wild and Wacky History of Underground Rock Recordings and the Early Days of Piracy

By Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick | September 13, 2021

Newport, RI Is the Perfect Place for a Murder Mystery

Newport, RI Is the Perfect Place for a Murder Mystery

New England's dreamiest coastal town deserves some fictional danger of its own

By Alyssa Maxwell | September 10, 2021

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Nick Rennison on the early days of American detective fiction and the sleuths who competed with Sherlock Holmes for mystery readers.

By Nick Rennison | September 8, 2021

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