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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * James Grippando, Goodbye Girl (Harper) “This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon (1994), and it’s just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate.” –Booklist Amy Pease, Northwoods…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made (Marysue Ricci/S&S) “An intricate puzzle in which [Chan] deftly moves narrative pieces in time and among viewpoints.” –Booklist Kate Brody, Rabbit Hole (Soho) “A gritty, realistically ambivalent look at how insiders and outsiders experience crime,…
The Best Crime and Suspense Anthologies of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their selections for the best crime anthologies released in 2023. * Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (eds), Never Whistle at Night (Vintage) “Spine-tingling and suggestive storytelling. . . . Entertaining and thought-provoking, especially in its highlighting of the lurking terrors—from intergenerational trauma to environmental destruction to toxic allyship—confronting Indigenous…
The Best Noir Fiction of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their picks for the best noir fiction of 2023. (As is our annual tradition, we decline to define ‘noir’ even for the purposes of this exercise, because who knows, it’s just sort of a feeling, don’t you think?) * Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Zando, Gillian Flynn Books) Margot Douaihy’s chain-smoking nun Sister…
The Best Espionage Novels of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their selections for the year’s best espionage fiction. * Javier Marías, Tomás Nevinson Translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Knopf) A half-English, half-Spanish spy gets pulled into his old tricks after a years-long retirement by his mysterious mentor in this last novel from the great Javier Marías. Epic in scale and elegant in…
The Best Crime Novels of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their picks for the year’s best fiction. * Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women (Simon & Schuster) Jessica Knoll’s brilliant, blistering third novel is a tart new addition to the growing oeuvre of novels critiquing our fetishization of serial killers and focusing on their victims as whole people with interrupted lives, not…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Stephen Spotswood, Murder Crossed Her Mind (Doubleday) “Faithful column readers know how much I adore Stephen Spotswood’s Pentecost and Parker series, and sometimes I feel . . . like a broken record recommending these books, set in post-World War II New…
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: November 2023
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CrimeReadsAnna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon and Schuster) “Atmospheric, well-researched and packed with tradecraft, conspiracies, murder and, best of all, two fascinating women … Pitoniak has something unexpected up her sleeve. For Amanda and Kath, the novel’s conclusion also feels — hopefully — more like a beginning than an end. That’s because of how Pitoniak…
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
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CrimeReadsFrom Book Marks, a look at November’s best reviewed new releases. * Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon and Schuster) “Atmospheric, well-researched and packed with tradecraft, conspiracies, murder and, best of all, two fascinating women … Pitoniak has something unexpected up her sleeve. For Amanda and Kath, the novel’s conclusion also feels — hopefully —…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Ballantine) “Solving a crime has never been more delightful. Molly Gray is a gift to the world, and this is a book to hug when you finish it.” –Nina de Gramont Laura Anne Gilman, Uncanny Vows…