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The 15 Best Psychological Thrillers of 2023
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Molly OdintzWow, this was a hard list to compile–I don’t know that I’ve ever seen as many great new psychological thrillers come out in a single year. I had to physically restrain myself from adding at least ten more titles, or getting bogged down in crafting a notable list, because I wanted to put so many…
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 Crime TV of 2023
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Olivia RutiglianoHello everyone. It’s been a hell of a year. I’m exhausted, you’re exhausted. I bet you just want to curl up on your couch and watch TV under a blanket until you gently fall asleep. Well, the good news is, CrimeReads can at least help with that. There were a lot of new crime shows…
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…
The Best Psychological Thrillers of November 2023
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Molly OdintzIt’s about to be the start of the holiday season, and with everyone gearing up to spend as much (or as little) time with family as possible, it’s also the perfect time to pick up a psychological thriller and and wonder if Tolstoy would have enjoyed the era of domestic suspense when he wrote: “Happy…
The CrimeReads 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
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Olivia RutiglianoHello everyone! It’s the Holiday season (the big long holiday season from Halloween to New Year’s that starts around the 4th of July). As always, I am charge of putting together this year’s CrimeReads Holiday Gift Guide, and I am positively chuffed. Shopping for cute mystery-ish items to curate this list is one of the…