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Despite Some Pitfalls, Killers of the Flower Moon Swells with Humanity and Heart
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Olivia RutiglianoThe night I saw Killers of the Flower Moon I dreamed wildly, fitfully. Until I went to bed, I spent my waking hours thinking about the film, and then I suppose I continued to think about it as I slept. I have many questions about it. There are so many details I’d like to discuss….
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Sara Davis-Goff, Silent City (Flatiron) “The novel’s worldbuilding is crisply efficient…Fast-paced and suspenseful, and the banshees satisfyingly heroic. . . A headlong thriller.” –Kirkus Anbara Salam, Hazardous Spirits (Tin House) “Atmospheric. . . . a believable portrait of the 1920s spiritualism…
Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless
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Michael KrausIn 1978, a young man escaped from the psychiatric institution where he had been held for fifteen years, ever since he murdered his older sister as a six year old boy. After his escape, he began a brutal killing spree that left at least four people (and one dog) dead. Anyone looking for a rational…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman (William Morrow) “A heart-wrenching examination of transracial adoption and its influence in the lives of a Chinese American child and the two mothers who love her.” –Elle Magazine Lev A.C. Rosen, The Bell in the Fog…
The LAPD Films of Ron Shelton, Twenty Years Later
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Vince KeenanAmong the few guarantees in life is that on any survey of great sports films, Ron Shelton’s name will appear more than once. The résumé of the minor-league ballplayer turned screenwriter and director boasts what is arguably the definitive baseball movie with Bull Durham (1988), along with loquacious, cockeyed looks at basketball (White Men Can’t…
Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in Torquay
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Kavitha RaoI am sitting on the sweeping terrace of the Imperial hotel in Torquay, England, looking out over the breathtakingly blue water of the bay, soaking up crime fiction history. This is Christie country, the place where Agatha Christie was born, and the venue for the International Agatha Christie festival every September. The Imperial is where…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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CrimeReadsAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Paul Vidich, Beirut Station (Pegasus) “This taut, nuanced spy thriller centered on Lebanese American CIA agent Analise Assad further establishes Vidich as a new master of the genre. Vidich ably describes daily life in a war-torn setting and convincingly highlights the…
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…
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…