Margot Douaihy
The Best Noir Fiction of 2023
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CrimeReadsThe CrimeReads editors make their picks for the best noir fiction of 2023. (As is our annual tradition, we decline to define ‘noir’ even for the purposes of this exercise, because who knows, it’s just sort of a feeling, don’t you think?) * Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Zando, Gillian Flynn Books) Margot Douaihy’s chain-smoking nun Sister…
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…