debut novels
The Best Debut Novels of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their selections for the year’s best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. Paz Pardo, The Shamshine Blind (Atria) Paz Pardo’s The Shamshine Blind is a heady mix of high-concept speculative fiction, alternative history, and hardboiled detective fiction. In an alternate 2009, a new chemical compound that can elicit targeted human emotions has…
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…