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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
A troika of mysteries—one a gripping debut, Precious Thing by Colette McBeth, the others superb new novels from two very special authors: Peter Robinson returns with Children of the Revolution and Donna Leon is back with By Its Cover.
Read MoreA veteran master of suspense, Gerald Seymour enhances his track record with The Dealer and the Dead. Scott O’Connor’s Half World is a chilling fictional take on a secret CIA mind control program activated in the middle of the last century.
Read MoreTwo fine, first-rate thrillers usher in the New Year. One centers on a major drug bust in a cutting edge contemporary setting, the other tackles one of the most baffling and notorious crime sprees of the Victorian era.
Read MoreShoot the Woman First is the third in Wallace Stroby’s Crissa Stone series, featuring one of crime fiction’s newest and best bad girls
Read MoreThe splendid Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smith’s eighth Arkady Renko novel, while Sins of the Flesh is the fifth thriller to feature Colleen McCullough’s offbeat detective Carmine Delmonico.
Read MoreFrom the surfeit of Scandinavian thrillers comes one that stands out with the best: Bad Blood by Arne Dahl.
Read MoreAn auspicious debut, The Abomination is a riveting conspiracy thriller by JonathanHolt. Plus, Philip Kerr’s cheeky, charismatic Berlin cop Bernie Gunther is back in A Man Without Breath.
Read MoreJohn le Carré, the pre-eminent spy writer of the 20th century and beyond, dazzles us again with A Delicate Truth. Plus a debut addition to the ranks of the genre, Red Sparrow, might just earn the author Jason Matthews a pat on the back from the master.
Read MoreGhostman, by Roger Hobbs, is a dazzling debut that deserves a place as a benchmark of the crime-thriller genre
Read MoreWatching the Dark, the latest in Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series, shows the master crime writer at the top of his form.
Read MoreA city in northern England and a remote Scottish island are appropriately bleak settings to launch two impressive new series.
Read MoreWilliam Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton, authors of two critically acclaimed series, have winning new detective novels. Irma Heldman reviews.
Read MoreTwo scalpel-sharp political thrillers that mark the welcome return of the thoroughly winning, charismatic protagonists: Charlie Muffin and Joe DeMarco.
Read MoreIn Nick Harkaway’s altogether remarkable novel Angelmaker, blistering gangster noir meets Rabelaisian comedy
Read MoreA series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?
Read MoreA promising new series is launched with a thoroughly captivating, quirky mystery set well off the beaten path, in a tiny village in Southern Thailand.
Read MoreIrma Heldman reviews Taylor Stevens' "The Informationist" and concludes that not since "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" has there been a debut novel like it
Read MoreDennis Tafoya’s second crime novel, "The Wolves of Fairmount Park," confirms that he is a brilliant new voice with a finely tuned modern noir sensibility.
Read MoreThe first two novels of Nicola Upson's highly promising, thoroughly engaging series stars the great mystery writer Josephine Tey as a sleuth she herself might have invented
Read MoreIn her latest novel, False Mermaid, Erin Hart once again connects an ancient Celtic crime to a thoroughly modern mystery.
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