City on Fire by Don Winslow
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Don Winslow’s new novel features gang warfare in an endless Rhode Island winter.
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Broken by Don Winslow
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The latest from the great novelist Don Winslow is a collection of short stories in a wonderfully different register.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The person who talks less is the one with the upper hand.”
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A superior mystery on every level, affirming McMahon’s place as up there with the best in the genre.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Never met a sacred cow he didn’t want to slay”
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A top notch mystery that is intricately layered to keep you in suspense.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
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A new American classic; powerful, indelibly real and deeply moving.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.”
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Actions fueled by love are not always attractive or even right but they are always meaningful.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Honor among thieves, perhaps, honor among spies, never”
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A brilliantly multilayered examination of the disillusionment of aging spies.
Read MoreThe Big Book of Reel Murders, Edited by Otto Penzler
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This huge book is a bonanza of finds, from the well-known to the gloriously idiosyncratic.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The surest way to work up a crusade for some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone”
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A richly atmospheric novel that explores love and pain in many guises.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: It was when things were most obvious that they were often most true
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Flynn shows himself to be a master of courtroom sleight of hand.
Read MoreSavage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
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Monroe ruminates about what might motivate today's women to consume a diet of violent crime stories.
Read MoreThe Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
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Tells its multiple stories with a clean workmanship that feels both old-fashioned and a bit revolutionary.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “If you want your enemy to fail, give him something important to do”
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The usual suspects and some worthy newcomers keep the suspense at breakneck speed.
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It’s a Mystery: “Those that know the most must mourn the deepest”
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An exquisitely crafted, stunning novel, set in a strange, ancient, beautiful place.
Read MoreCari Mora by Thomas Harris
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The first book to follow a phenomenon, and a conscious attempt to shed that phenomenon.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: We run away from what scares or hurts us--or from what holds us captive
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A skillfully crafted, beautifully written thriller with an unforgettable heroine.
Read MoreCrown Jewel by Christopher Reich
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Crown Jewel takes its readers on many hairpin turn at breakneck speed.
Read MoreThe Border by Don Winslow
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The Border feels like it might be too quick on the trigger in its portrait of the present day, however riveting that portrait may be.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “We all have public lives, and private lives, and secret lives”
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A giddy, heart-stopping read with distinctive, vibrant characters coming at you full throttle.
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