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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] 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…
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 prose and swooning affect, not to mention the hardboiled charm of Josh Mankiewicz), 20/20, and Cold Case Files and Wicked Attraction, et cetera ad infinitum. As…
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…
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 success of her nail-biting 1948 crime novel Sudden Fear, or more truly its hair-raising 1952 film adaptation, which starred Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame…
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…
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, Badlands is the violent, compulsive opening of Malick’s singular moviemaking life; he has spent that life directing films that demand seeing and re-seeing. For his part,…
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…
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 for something more. At least, that’s the message we’re supposed to take away from certain crime films that suggest their mass-murdering anti-heroes are nursing serious cases…
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…