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

Horror Fiction In The Age of Covid: A Roundtable Discussion

Horror Fiction In The Age of Covid: A Roundtable Discussion

"Horror is not a genre but a feeling, it’s often said." –Alma Katsu

By Molly Odintz | October 27, 2021

October's Best Debut Novels

October's Best Debut Novels

The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | October 27, 2021

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

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

The brothers discuss the second novel in their collaboration.

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

By Rektok Ross | October 26, 2021

10 New Books Coming This Week

By CrimeReads | October 25, 2021

The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

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

John Banville: How Bram Stoker's <em>Dracula</em> Became a Surprising, Deathless Classic

John Banville: How Bram Stoker's Dracula Became a Surprising, Deathless Classic

More than a century later, the novel still invites revisits and reinterpretations. It's also much stranger than you might remember.

By John Banville | October 22, 2021

The Detection Club and the Mid-Century Fight over “Fair Play” in Crime Fiction

The Detection Club and the Mid-Century Fight over “Fair Play” in Crime Fiction

While the club clung to pure detection as a prerequisite for admission, members' own tastes were far more divided.

By Curtis Evans | October 22, 2021

8 Thrillers and Mysteries with Underlying Supernatural Elements

8 Thrillers and Mysteries with Underlying Supernatural Elements

Combining the supernatural with the "real world" can be a challenge, but the results are infinitely rewarding.

By C.J. Cooke | October 22, 2021

How Being a Firefighter Prepares You to Write Crime Fiction

How Being a Firefighter Prepares You to Write Crime Fiction

For starters, you better know how to pick a lock.

By Tony Knighton | October 22, 2021

Exclusive Cover Reveal: <br>Two Nights in Lisbon

Exclusive Cover Reveal:
Two Nights in Lisbon

Chris Pavone

By CrimeReads Excerpts | October 22, 2021

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