Here are 5 of the best novels to be reissued this spring, as selected by the CrimeReads editors.
Len Deighton, Close-Up
(Atlantic Crime)
“Few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton.”–Chicago Tribune
Seicho Matsumoto, Tokyo Express
(Modern Library)
“Japan’s Agatha Christie’ gets an overdue wide launch . . . [Tokyo Express is] a work of art.”—Book Riot
Georges Simenon, Félicie
(Picador)
“Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose . . . as pure as running water.”–Roger Ebert
Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor
(Soho Crime)
“Forsaking his customary thriller territory, Littell (The Revolutionist) here finds fertile new ground in the farther reaches of mathematics, which prove a wellspring of rich and consistently surprising comedy . . . Littell’s fast-paced satire is by turns bawdy, cerebral and touching.” –Publishers Weekly
Dolores Hitchens, Cats Don’t Need Coffins
(American Mystery Classics)
“Enticing entertainment with a neatly constructed puzzle for this pleasantly competent sleuth.” –Chicago Daily Tribune
Jim Thompson, A Hell of a Woman / After Dark, My Sweet / The Getaway / The Grifters / Pop. 1280
(Library of America)
“The master of the American groin-kick novel.”–Vanity Fair
