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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
October 30, 2023
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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…
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7 Great Mystery Novels Set in Academe
October 27, 2023
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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…
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The Best Debut Novels of October
October 26, 2023
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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…
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16 Spooky Novellas by Women and Nonbinary Authors
October 26, 2023
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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…
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Finding Inspiration for Metafictional Murder
October 24, 2023
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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…
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5 Films About Existential Assassins
October 24, 2023
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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…
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
October 23, 2023
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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…
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Crime and the City: Las Vegas
October 23, 2023
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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…
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5 Christmas Mysteries To Get You Ready for the Holiday Season
October 23, 2023
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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…
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8 Cozy Mysteries Featuring BFFs and Women Supporting Women
October 20, 2023
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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,…