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Reading Lists

  • 10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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    CrimeReads

    Another 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…

  • 7 Great Mystery Novels Set in Academe

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    Stephanie Barron

    Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, at the ridiculously premature age of forty-one, in the ancient royal and ecclesiastic city of Winchester, where she had gone in a desperate attempt to treat and survive what medical historians suspect was either Addison’s Disease or pancreatic cancer. Number 8 College Street, the Winchester house where she…

  • The Best Debut Novels of October

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    CrimeReads

    The 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…

  • 16 Spooky Novellas by Women and Nonbinary Authors

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    Amy Gentry

    What makes a spooky novella so satisfying? You might as well ask why a raven is like a writing desk. (The answer, of course, is that all three things remind me of my own mortality.) All riddles aside, the novella is, at best, a slippery beast. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines it as…

  • Finding Inspiration for Metafictional Murder

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    Dann McDormann

    How do you plan a murder? Do you rely on chance or fate to create a crime of opportunity? Do you meticulously plot the steps, the way a chef might devise a recipe? Or do you study how other killers have done it? In my debut novel, West Heart Kill, I adopted the latter approach….

  • 5 Films About Existential Assassins 

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    Nick Kolakowski

    Even 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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    CrimeReads

    Another 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…

  • Crime and the City: Las Vegas

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    Paul French

    Let’s go to Las Vegas with one of the great kings of the American hard-boiled Charles Willeford in his novel Wicked Wives (1956): ‘Once the sun comes up in the desert it rises fast. It hung on the horizon like a solid neon pumpkin, beaming through our windshield. It grew warmer all the time. The…

  • 5 Christmas Mysteries To Get You Ready for the Holiday Season

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    Katharine Schellman

    It’s a rare crime fiction reader who doesn’t love curling up with a mystery during the winter months, especially if that mystery is one of the many Christmas-themed puzzles that the genre is famous for. The tradition goes back to the Golden Age of detective fiction, that period after World War II when authors like…

  • 8 Cozy Mysteries Featuring BFFs and Women Supporting Women

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    Samara Yew

    So often in books and movies, women are put against one another. There is some sort of competitive spirit or revived childhood rivalry over social status, a job promotion, or even a love interest. The stereotypical “mean girl” of the cast brings out a malicious and spiteful side to the main character when they interact. …

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