Readers have always been drawn to true crime because it provides a glimpse into the most sinister aspects of human nature.In this genre, Paul A. Mones' "When A Child Kills…
How Was Financial Planning Used In Born A Crime Book? Trevor Noah's personal, Born a Crime, details his upbringing in South Africa during the apartheid era. People say the book…
Hi, June! In the event that this month begins summer for yourself and you're searching for some extraordinary secret and thrill ride books to take with you an extended get-away,…
Shady politicians, greedy public servants and rapacious property developers are no match for V. I. Warshawski, a proper hero for these times. In DEAD LAND (Morrow/HarperCollins, 405 pp., $28.99), Sara…
The voices of the dead tell the unhappy story of PLEASE SEE US (Gallery, 341 pp., $26.99), Caitlin Mullen’s spellbinding debut novel about a series of murders in Atlantic City.…
Editor’s note: We’re thrilled that our longtime columnist, Marilyn Stasio — who’s been recovering from a traffic accident — is finally back in our pages with her crisp, sharp, tartly…
Coming-of-age novels aren’t my particular passion — unless there’s a murder in the story. There’s a doozy of a murder in Kate Weinberg’s hypnotic debut mystery, THE TRUANTS (Putnam, 311…
Just asking: If I can’t get chosen for jury duty in a no-drama lawsuit, how come a serial killer manages to be seated in a double murder case? According to…
Here’s a gentle warning: Don’t think about the circular saw. Seriously, don’t think about it. Because it gets quite a workout in THE CHESTNUT MAN (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99), Soren Sveistrup’s cunningly…
A little boy nicks his grandfather’s skiff and ventures out alone on Caddo Lake, a “wetland maze” of “bayous, tributaries and inlets like a tangle of snakes,” possibly haunted by…
Just listen to this: “The days march by and extraordinary things happen all around us. Small miracles, haphazard events, bursts of joy, revelations. … We hunker down in our daily…
Don’t you just love a funeral? In detective fiction, I mean. Because at a good funeral, somebody is always passing a mission of honor along to somebody else. Harry Bosch…
