10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | August 18, 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

Beachy thrillers, gothic families, road trip shenanigans, and speculative mind-bogglers

By Molly Odintz | August 18, 2025

We Need More Queer Women Characters in Rural Noir

We Need More Queer Women Characters in Rural Noir

Tess Sharpe on "writing about women or girls surviving by any means necessary."

By Tess Sharpe | August 18, 2025

Quiz: Which Actors ALMOST Played the Leads in these Famous Crime Movies?

Quiz: Which Actors ALMOST Played the Leads in these Famous Crime Movies?

Olivia Rutigliano prepares a humorous slate of movie trivia for your weekend

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 15, 2025

Mike Phillips On Colonial Theft, Reparations, and the Genesis of a Classic

Mike Phillips On Colonial Theft, Reparations, and the Genesis of a Classic

30 years ago, Phillips published a novel about the long shadows of colonialism. Upon its reissue, he reflects on the continuing relevance of his themes.

By Mike Phillips | August 15, 2025

Where Cozies Meet Horror: Auralee Wallace on the Joy of Unexpected Genre Mash-ups

Where Cozies Meet Horror: Auralee Wallace on the Joy of Unexpected Genre Mash-ups

The Author of "The Late-Night Witches" Offers Readers Screams with Hugs

By Auralee Wallace | August 15, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • 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

Elementary is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation

By Marisa Mercurio | August 14, 2025

Scott Wolven on Rural Noir, Violent Lives, and Everything That Beats at the Heart of Noir

By Nicolás Ferraro | August 14, 2025

Killings Most Quaint: Lucy Burdette on Why Small Towns Make Irresistible Mystery Settings

By Lucy Burdette | August 14, 2025

<em>Only Murders in the Building</em> Is Back with Season Five

Only Murders in the Building Is Back with Season Five

There really is nothing but murder in that building! The trailer is here!

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 13, 2025

Napster, Blair Witch, Cubicle Chaos: The Early Internet Relics in Jimmy Juliano's New Novel

Napster, Blair Witch, Cubicle Chaos: The Early Internet Relics in Jimmy Juliano's New Novel

The Author of "13 Months Haunted" Remembers the Tech, Vids, and Tricks of the 2000s

By Jimmy Juliano | August 13, 2025

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Tim Chawaga Imagines Cross-Literary Bonds in Work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and More

By Tim Chawaga | August 13, 2025

Books for fans of <br>

Books for fans of
"Goodbye Earl"

Do you like tales of women banding together and taking revenge?

By Katie Collom | August 12, 2025

Sand, Martinis, Remote Isles, Murder: Eight Thrillers with Beach and Jungle Settings

Sand, Martinis, Remote Isles, Murder: Eight Thrillers with Beach and Jungle Settings

Jo Morey Recommends Unpredictable Novels from Erica Ferencik, Lucy Foley, Paul Theroux, and More

By Jo Morey | August 12, 2025

Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

Samantha Downing on Using Ageism and Gendered Assumptions to Hide in Plain Sight

By Samantha Downing | August 12, 2025

"I’m looking for a good place to kill someone": Katarina Bivald on Setting Her Book's Murder

The Author of "Just Another Dead Author" Wanders the Silk Weaver Quarters and Fishbone Tunnels of Lyon

By Katarina Bivald | August 12, 2025

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