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    12 Novels You Should Read This October

    12 Novels You Should Read This October

    New fiction from John le Carré, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, James Han Mattson, and more.

    By CrimeReads | October 1, 2021

    Of Baptists and Bootleggers: Remembering My Moonshine-Making Ancestors

    Of Baptists and Bootleggers: Remembering My Moonshine-Making Ancestors

    Making moonshine is a great American tradition. So is cracking down on its manufacture.

    By Daryl Gregory | October 1, 2021

    The Books, Tragedies, and Unsolved Mysteries That Inspired a New Novel Connecting Italy and New York

    The Books, Tragedies, and Unsolved Mysteries That Inspired a New Novel Connecting Italy and New York

    Vito Racanelli on Itavia Flight 870, Leonardo Sciascia, and more.

    By Vito Racanelli | October 1, 2021

    How to Add a Layer of Fear to Your Fiction

    How to Add a Layer of Fear to Your Fiction

    When it comes to getting the physiognomical effects of fear right, who cares why your characters are afraid. What matters is how they experience fear.

    By DiAnn Mills | October 1, 2021

    Every James Bond Movie, Ranked

    Every James Bond Movie, Ranked

    From Connery to Craig, here are the best takes on 007

    By Olivia Rutigliano | September 30, 2021

    The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: September 2021

    The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: September 2021

    New books from Colson Whitehead, Jon McGregor, Rachel Howzell Hall and more.

    By CrimeReads | September 30, 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

    I Write About Monsters Because I Fear Becoming One

    By Catriona Ward | September 30, 2021

    The Lure of the Old Manor: Books in Which A House is Both Setting and Character

    By Kate Moretti | September 30, 2021

    From Pen Stroke to Key Stroke: On Slander in Suspense

    By Laura Griffin | September 30, 2021

    How a Book by an Ex-KGB Officer Upended Joseph Weisberg's World

    How a Book by an Ex-KGB Officer Upended Joseph Weisberg's World

    In 2004, the future creator of 'The Americans' was working for the CIA when he read a book by Victor Cherkashin and recognized himself in descriptions of the KGB workplace.

    By Joseph Weisberg | September 29, 2021

    The Rise of Gothic Domestic

    The Rise of Gothic Domestic

    A look at eight novels that twist our idea of home into something truly terrifying.

    By Darcy Coates | September 29, 2021

    Do Bookless Libraries Signal The End of the Printed Word?

    Do Bookless Libraries Signal The End of the Printed Word?

    A writer contemplates the new era of computers in libraries (instead of, well, books).

    By Dorothy St. James | September 29, 2021

    Fancy Anders Goes To War: Exclusive Excerpt and Illustrations Preview!

    Fancy Anders Goes To War: Exclusive Excerpt and Illustrations Preview!

    Check out Fay Dalton's gorgeous illustrations for the novella by Max Allan Collins.

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | September 28, 2021

    We Know You Remember

    We Know You Remember

    Tove Alsterdal, translated by Alice Menzies

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | September 28, 2021

    They've Seen the Future And They Don't Like It: The Year's Best Scifi Noir (So Far)

    They've Seen the Future And They Don't Like It: The Year's Best Scifi Noir (So Far)

    8 New SciFi Noirs And Near-Future Dystopias That Portray a Bleak Future Modeled on a Harsh Present

    By Molly Odintz | September 28, 2021

    How the CIA Actually Recruits an Agent to Spy on His Own Country

    How the CIA Actually Recruits an Agent to Spy on His Own Country

    Douglas London spent his career with the CIA. Here, he remembers the first agent he ever recruited overseas.

    By Douglas London | September 28, 2021

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