1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (254+ words) 5 new works of true crime history and reportage out this month, as selected by the Crime Reads editors. Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska (Counterpoint) "Written with curiosity, empathy, and humility, this is…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1487+ words) Talk about writing what you know! That's exactly what Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman did when they sourced third-generation Nevadan Karen Mack's upbringing in a casino-owning family in Las Vegas during the time when gambling was a strictly family business....

19+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1444+ words) Denouements are as fundamental to classic mysteries as detectives and the clues they detect. A synonym for "resolution," or "outcome," the term can be applied to stories outside the mystery genre, or even to the wrapping up of real-life scenarios....

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (134+ words) All blurbs by me unless otherwise stated. Catherine Cho, The Devoted (Washington Square Press) Rene Denfield, The Talking Bone (Harper) A con artist who preys on wealthy older women in 1940s Mexico teams up with a disenfranchised bastard to bilk her…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (282+ words) I'm not the only one who has'Dept. Q'fever! These are'deep'cuts, not merely your'Broadchurches and your'Happy Valleys. I hadn't even heard of these six. Ciaran told me, "these are shows that I have seen and know to be good. I'm not…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (280+ words) I grew up in a pink stucco house with palm trees in the yard. We had desert tortoises as pets and my father, to save a buck, would haul sand from the desert and dump it in our sandbox. My…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (704+ words) I write romantic suspense with a psychic twist. "In my latest, Enter the Nightmare, I set the story on another planet, one that was colonized by humans and then cut off from the home world. But at its heart it's…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (390+ words) Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman, The Kings of Vegas (William Morrow) "Mack and Kaufman (Freud's Mistress) dive into the world of the King family, owners of the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (513+ words) This is a list of books that still scare me to this day. I've finished them, I know what happens, and still I'm afraid. Most of them, I don't even remember the details, but if I spot the book on…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (150+ words) June brings a host of excellent new novels in translation, including two reissues from Japan, a scintillating Brazilian thriller, a satirical Venezuelan noir, and a quietly elegant character study from France. Thanks, as always, for reading the column! All blurbs…...