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5 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Femi Kayode, Gaslight (Mulholland) “Kayode delivers another ensnaring, vividly realized, suspenseful, and witty tale of a reluctant yet gifted investigator who susses out the truth about people trapped within entrenched criminality and injustice.” –Booklist Nalini Singh, There Should Have Been Eight…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon & Schuster) “[An] ambitious espionage thriller … [with a] startling finale … Pitoniak continues to show strong instincts for the art of cloak-and-dagger.” –Publishers Weekly Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Mariner) “Solid plotting, an intrepid…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Raquel V. Reyes, Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal (Crooked Lane) “Crime and cuisine really do mix.” –Kirkus Reviews Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blood Betrayal (Minotaur) “Richly drawn characters and nuanced depictions of contemporary policing make this a winner. Readers will be eager to…
Native American Novels, Recommended by Indigenous Booksellers
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Vanessa LillieI am a book pusher. Think Tina Fey in Mean Girls at her desk chomping a chocolate doughnut and explaining, “Because I’m a pusher. I push people.” For me, it’s toward books I love, and especially, books I love by authors of underrepresented groups telling their stories their way. As a member of the Cherokee…
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
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CrimeReadsA look at the month’s best reviewed new novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. From Bookmarks. * Elizabeth Hand, A Haunting on the Hill (Mulholland Books) “An exciting and risky venture … Fans of Elizabeth Hand…will want to hear her particular voice, and her uncanny ability to combine the edgy and the ethereal. It’s a…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Adriana Chartrand, An Ordinary Violence (House of Anansi) “Creepy and unsettling, this assured debut addresses the ways violence, grief, and unprocessed trauma reverberate over years, keeping fractured psyches and relationships from mending.” –Booklist Vannessa Lillie, Blood Sisters (Berkley) “Combines Cherokee history…
The Best Debut Novels of October
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors select their favorite debut novels this month. * Raul Palma, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton) Palma’s debut is a sparkling gem of a novel, a world-weary portrait of cynicism and despair upended and upended again. A recent widower in Miami with an indefatigable debt collector on his trail gets a bizarre offer…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill (Knopf) “Potent. . . . McDorman’s knowledge is abundant, as is his cleverness.” —The New York Times Book Review Lisa Unger, Christmas Presents (Mysterious Press) “Fans of Unger will know her thrillers match top-notch writing with…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman (William Morrow) “A heart-wrenching examination of transracial adoption and its influence in the lives of a Chinese American child and the two mothers who love her.” –Elle Magazine Lev A.C. Rosen, The Bell in the Fog…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Paul Vidich, Beirut Station (Pegasus) “This taut, nuanced spy thriller centered on Lebanese American CIA agent Analise Assad further establishes Vidich as a new master of the genre. Vidich ably describes daily life in a war-torn setting and convincingly highlights the…