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Alexia Casale’s “The Best Way to Bury Your Husband” is the latest in a genre that toes the line between laughter and moral ambiguity.
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Here’s a mystery. At the end of the war, as exiles, soldiers, and refugees return to their liberated country, one man leaves, flees to America for safety. His reasons for leaving are unclear; his s…
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The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel; Keeper by Jessica Moor; The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood; Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross; Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet; and The Clutter Corpse by Simon Brett...
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Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. * "An exciting rat-race with the principal rat in the title role is Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Tom Ripley's talent is for crime, and crime with variations is the melody played by the author. A more
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This tense, deftly written novel about a perfect nanny’s transition into a monster will take your breath away
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Wondering where to start reading Grisham books? Check out this list for some recommendations of Grisham at his best.
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Our noir and hardboiled expert RoughJustice revisits Daniel Woodrell's finest work, Tomato Red
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I was, as usual, in my little writing studio at Reimersholme, one of the beautiful small islands that make up Stockholm's inner city, when my private phone rang
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Today, Tess Gerritsen is one of America’s leading crime fiction authors, but she took an unusual route to get there. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her MD. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in 1987 her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. But it’s the Rizzoli and Isles series that her crime fiction fanbase adores, and number 12 in the series comes out 10 August, entitled I Know a Secret.
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Critic at Large and novelist Alexander Chee has read Patricia Highsmith's novels as a respite from the news
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If you love thrillers, you'll love the classics of the genre. Here are five, which, if you haven't read, will give you many hours of pleasure.
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“Rule of Capture” presents a biting commentary on the uneasy truce between Latino L.A. and the city’s entrenched political, cultural, and economic elites.
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From the very first sentence…we are into the realm of nightmare. Miracles gather and explode. A dead man returns—or does not return. A flying ghost, apparently, swoops down and attacks. No angels, …
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When Death Comes Stealing, the first of my nine Tamara Hayle mysteries, came out in 1994, Nelson Mandela had just been sworn in as president of South Africa. Whitney Houston, sweet and innocent,
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Every now and then I encounter people who can’t suspend disbelief.They ask how I can write about ‘such terrible things’...
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William Marling contemplates “Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard” by Charles J. Rzepka.
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Tales of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher; Henning Mankell’s final novel; and Rita Mae Brown’s latest fox-hunting romp.
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Classics in September -- Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald -- When Crime Fiction Lover announced the Classics in September series, it was a certainty that a Ross Macdonald novel would feature. A
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A definitive list of the best Canadian crime fiction including authors Giles Blunt, Linwood Barclay, Louise Penny an
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ON the 19 August, author Graeme Macrae Burnet will be coming to the Edinburgh Book Festival for a ‘theatrical exploration’ of his Man Booker-shortlisted novel His Bloody Project. Graeme chatted to the Sunday Post ahead of the festival and the release of his new book The Accident on the A35. New blood Graeme’s upcoming … Continued
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Written by Pascal Garnier, translated by Melanie Florence — The translations of French noir writer Pascal Garnier’s short novels have taken the English-speaking world by storm. We have reviewed a few of them on our site including How’s the Pain and The Front Seat Passenger, and he regularly features in our lists of favourites from France.
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This week on More To Come, Calvin interviews Charles Ardai, founder of Hard Case Crime, a book imprint specializing in classic reprints and original works of hardboiled crime fiction, about the imprint’s comics line, including 'Triggerman,' the story of a 1930s mob hit man, and 'Peepland,' set in the sex peepshow booths of 1980s Times Square. He also talks to the Peepland creative team, novelists Christa Faust and Gary Phillips, about Faust's time as a sex worker in the very peepshows she writes about.
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Charles Waring on Cigarettes And Alchohol: The Extraordinary Life of Jim Thompson for Crime Time Magazine
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