The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: October 2021

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: October 2021

New books from Val McDermid, John le Carré, and more.

By CrimeReads | October 29, 2021

Shop Talk: Michael Koryta Writes 1500 Words and Gets to Ring the Bell

Shop Talk: Michael Koryta Writes 1500 Words and Gets to Ring the Bell

Crime writers talk craft, routine, and finding satisfaction in the work.

By Eli Cranor | October 28, 2021

17 Horror Comedies That Will Make You Shriek With Laughter

17 Horror Comedies That Will Make You Shriek With Laughter

Forget rom coms. It's time for zom coms.

By Molly Odintz | October 28, 2021

Fever Dream Novels: 7 Great Books That You'll Read in a Mad, Disorienting Dash

Fever Dream Novels: 7 Great Books That You'll Read in a Mad, Disorienting Dash

Unconventional narratives that leave you wondering what's true and what's imagined.

By Erin Mayer | October 28, 2021

Literary Crime: The Search for an Elusive Genre

Literary Crime: The Search for an Elusive Genre

Dancing at the Edge of Crime

By Tess Little | October 28, 2021

The Best New Books Out in Paperback This Month

The Best New Books Out in Paperback This Month

Featuring new paperback releases from Marie Benedict, Aimee Molloy, Harlan Coben, Val McDermid, Stuart Neville, and many more.

By CrimeReads | October 28, 2021

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

Horror Fiction In The Age of Covid: A Roundtable Discussion

By Molly Odintz | October 27, 2021

October's Best Debut Novels

By CrimeReads | October 27, 2021

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Border Towns, Villains, and the New Jack Reacher Novel

By Dwyer Murphy | October 26, 2021

October's Best International Crime Fiction

October's Best International Crime Fiction

Nordic noir, French gothic, and a South Korean thriller

By CrimeReads | October 26, 2021

How to Have Sex in Crime Fiction

How to Have Sex in Crime Fiction

Amita Murray on pleasure, power, and the women having sex in Agatha Christie novels.

By Amita Murray | October 26, 2021

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

These novels ask the scariest question of all:
what wouldn't you do to survive?

By Rektok Ross | October 26, 2021

10 New Books Coming This Week

10 New Books Coming This Week

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

By CrimeReads | October 25, 2021

The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

Germany's fifth largest city has a bad rap for being boring. Behind all those book fairs and convention centers, there's a mystery.

By Paul French | October 25, 2021

The Monsters of Maple Falls

The Monsters of Maple Falls

On suspected serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and stumbled-upon remains in Whatcom County, Washington.

By Spencer Kope | October 25, 2021

Crime Books That Challenge Notions of Inherent Female Goodness

Crime Books That Challenge Notions of Inherent Female Goodness

"Why shouldn’t evil be an equal-opportunity trait?"

By Christina Dalcher | October 25, 2021

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