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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
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CrimeReadsA look at the best reviewed crime fiction from September. * Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books) “Brilliant, blistering … Writing with pulse-pounding tension and urgency, Knoll expertly conjures an atmosphere of dread and anxiety while paying tribute to all the bright young women whose lives are cut short or forever changed by…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Jeffrey Archer, Traitor’s Gate (Harper) “Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this.” –David Baldacci Ben Fountain, Devil Makes Three (Flatiron) “Fountain brings a Graham Greene-like approach to Haiti’s vagaries and wonders. This…
The Best Debut Novels Out This September
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors select the best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Laura Picklesimer, Kill For Love (Unnamed Press) The bored college fifth-year narrating Kill For Love has always been good at suppressing her appetites—you can see it in her carefully counted calories, svelte figure, and attempts to mask her sociopathy from her sisters….
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Pamela Dorman Books) “Osman’s greatest strength is fusing the puzzle-mastery of Christie and her Golden Age peers with emotional earnestness and wry humor.” –Esquire Mia Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Berkley) “Though the effervescent delights…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Tod Goldberg, Gangsters Dont Die (Counterpoint) “As ever, Goldberg is adept at writing about mob hits, explosions, corpses and other cases of criminal bad news with a smirking, noirish tone. But he writes with sensitivity too, from painterly depictions of the…
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 King, Holly (Scribner) “A tour de force. Creepy as hell but full of heart, too.” –Linwood Barclay Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense (Viking) “[A] standout . . . The whodunit, which presents a dizzying number of red herrings, is one…
The 10 Best Crime Novels Coming Out in September
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their picks for best new fiction in the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Angie Kim, Happiness Falls (Hogarth) Angie Kim once again combines an intense character study with a searching mystery, this time after her narrator’s husband disappears, and police are interested in quickly pinning it on her nonverbal…
The Best Reviewed Books of Summer 2023
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CrimeReadsA look at the best reviewed fiction from June, July, and August. * Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Doubleday) “Crook Manifesto is a dazzling treatise, a glorious and intricate anatomy of the heist, the con and the slow game. There’s an element of crime here, certainly, but as in Whitehead’s previous books, genre isn’t the point….