Vibhuti Jain

The 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…