Ilaria Tuti’s debut thriller explores a remote community in Northern Italy—a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. Ilaria Tuti’s Flowers Over the Inferno is an action-packed thriller with a unique serial killer and a multilayered, deep, and incredibly entertaining main character battling at its core. Set in a quiet village surrounded by ancient…
Girl Most Likely from New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime master Max Allan Collins follows Krista Larson, 28-year-old police chief of a small midwest town. Krista braces for more excitement than usual when the town hosts the high school reunion, which is followed up by a triple murder investigation. Max Allan Collins’ new novel, Girl Most Likely,…
Charles A. Gardner’s Dannemora is a gripping account of the notorious escape of two vicious convicted murderers from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York’s North Country, which lead to one of the country’s most extensive manhunts and culminated in a dramatic, bloody standoff. Great nonfiction shares some key features with outstanding fiction: they both…
Eric Ambler’s The Light of Day was originally published in 1962 and then turned into the film Topkapi in 1964 by American film director Jules Dassin. The novel was received with rave reviews and helped cement Ambler as one of the creators of the modern suspense novel. With an international flare (which was also present…
J.D. Allen’s Skin Game is the second book in the Sin City Investigation series, featuring Private investigator Jim Bean. The arrival of his ex-fiancee reminds Bean of his tragic past, but it’s also key to the discovery of a human trafficking ring and one of Vegas’s most influential mobsters. J.D. Allen’s Skin Game inhabits a few…
Stalker by Lars Kepler is the fifth book in the chilling Joona Linna series set among the Swedish National Crime Unit. Lars Kepler’s Stalker is hard to classify. The novel is a crime narrative, but it contains elements of mystery, police procedural, adventure, psychological thriller, and even a bit of classic noir. Furthermore, its length…
So Many Doors by Oakley Hall is the legendary lost crime novel from the Pulitzer Prize-finalist and instructor of Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon. Pulp has always had a heart, but when a talented author makes it a point to bridge the gap between the violence and sexiness of pulp and…
In Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley, on the day before a much-awaited and equally chaotic lakeside festival, Danny Peters, the youngest member of the town’s founding family, disappears. Bryan Gruley’s Bleak Harbor is an elaborate, intricately plotted novel that pulls the best elements of crime fiction, thrillers, and mysteries into a dreary, tense narrative that explores…
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem is a new-age Noir rooted deep in today’s tumultuous landscape. Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective is one of the best deconstructions of detective noir narratives published in the last decade. Smart, weird, unique, and told from the perspective of the woman who asks for help with a case, this novel…
A compelling, eerie new novel from John Ajvide Lindqvist, the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In. Lindqvist’s I Am Behind You is easily one of the weirdest books of 2018. It occupies a rare interstitial space between mystery, literary fiction, philosophy, horror, and surrealism. The plot is deceptively simple, but the way the…
