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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. * Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon & Schuster) “[An] ambitious espionage thriller … [with a]…
Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime
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Lindsay HunterI have been an avid consumer of true crime for decades now. Before podcasts, I watched the Paradise Lost documentaries, Dateline NBC (a favorite, because of Keith Morrison’s purple…
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.”…
The Real Life Marital Imbroglio of Ernie Sherry, Son of Crime Writer Edna Sherry
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Curtis EvansFor decades American novelist and playwright Edna Sherry, author between 1948 and 1965 of nine crime novels, has essentially been viewed as a one-work writer, based on the terrific…
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…
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…
50 Years Later, Terrence Malick’s Badlands Remains a Pure Encapsulation of American Violence
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Gus Mitchell“I got some stuff to say,” Kit says to Holly, in the first few minutes of Terrence Malick’s Badlands. “Guess I’m kinda lucky that way.” Released 50 years ago,…
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…
5 Films About Existential Assassins
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Nick KolakowskiEven the worst of us have feelings. That assassin with the high-powered rifle atop the building, squinting through their scope at their unsuspecting target, might yearn in their heart…
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…