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William Boyd is best known for his literary works like Any Human Heart, The New Confessions and The Romantic, in a career that has spanned over 40 years and earned wide acclaim. Amidst the higher brow novels he has frequently dipped his toes into the waters of espionage, starting with 2006’s World War II thriller,


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September is here and now’s the time when publishers start lining up their big titles for the Christmas market. However, I think we’re experiencing the calm before the storm as this week there are no serious big hitters in our report. Having said that, we do have a wonderful lineup for you, starting with the
Finnish author Antti Tuomainen was a poet before he became a crime author, and his early crime novels took on a literary quality – that of dark tragedies. However, he soon went in a new direction, infusing books like Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor with a combination of dry wit, quirky absurdity and a
Andrea L. Rogers, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and author of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book Cooch Helped, illuminates the injustices perpetrated upon her Native people through the goings-on of 12-year-old Cynthia, the daughter of an interracial couple, in her historical middle grade novel. In the summer of 1968, Cynthia and her family move
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“I believe there are monsters born in this world to human parents,” begins the trailer for Zoe Kazan’s adaptation of East of Eden, which looks freaking incredible. The monster of Steinbeck’s epic multigenerational saga is Cathy Ames, played by Florence Pugh in the 7-episode limited series coming to Netflix October 1. Pugh leads an all-star
We tend to think of Barcelona as a flamboyant, opulent and romantic European city, but you can trust that in crime fiction you will discover what lies beyond the façade. Teresa Solana’s new novel, The Butterfly House, seems the perfect place to start. Translated by Peter Bush, the book is released on 12 September 2026,
R. F. Kuang is the bestselling author of Yellowface, The Poppy War, and Babel, to name a few, and today is the publication day for her newest novel: Taipei Story, out from William Morrow. Check out an excerpt below. Was I an Ugly Human Being? I had just read Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place in
Not many people know this, but I have Lincolnshire roots. However, until now I’ve not come across a crime series set in the north-east part of the county where my ancestors fished, made bricks and wove baskets going back into time immemorial. All that has changed now that I’ve discovered DS Butler’s Karen Hart series,


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In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of a fresh start and finds far more than she expected. It’s an extreme choice. The icebound landmass where McMurdo Station is situated sees “less rain than the Sahara” and is so remote that airplane travel is restricted
Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that popular model quite neatly. This is his 16th book in the DI Nick Dixon Crime series, and you feel like you’re in excellent hands from the opening


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Sorry. Are we keeping you up? We hope so, because here at Crime Fiction Lover we like to bring you books that will keep you turning the pages late into the night. So when midnight guests arrive, you’ll awake to receive them. And that’s the title of the first book in this week’s news roundup,
There are few writers more closely associated with the impossible crime than John Dickson Carr. Writing as Carter Dickson, he introduced Sir Henry Merrivale, one of the Golden Age’s most unconventional detectives, a man capable of turning even the most bewildering murder into an opportunity for theatricality. The Magic-Lantern Murders was originally published in 1936
You asked (for a return of our super-soft OG hoodies), and we are answering. In celebration of Book Riot’s 15th anniversary coming up October 1, we’re bringing our original hoodies out of the vault. Available in black and charcoal, they’re bonkers comfortable and so durable that many of us on staff are still wearing the
Let the glorious Ninth Symphony ring out (choral version, please) because the BBC’s superb cosy crime show, Ludwig, has returned for a second season. Back in 2024, the first season had us hooked and although it’s been a long wait, it looks like the BBC has used that time to ensure the new episodes are
Any book could potentially be a book club book, especially when it comes to book clubs that are focused on specific topics or genres. But then there is that category of books that fits what everyone thinks when they think of book club books. These books tend to have lots of character development, explore themes
A blend of memoir, history and biography, Wilbert L. Cooper’s The Black Shield: An American Memoir of Family and Power is an exploration of paradox. Cooper’s parents were Black police officers who used their guns and power “as symbols of our freedom in a country that will not stop killing or incarcerating Black folks.” As
Readers looking for a whimsical love story will be delighted by Sylvie Cathrall’s The Art of Charming a Changeling, which is full of both bashful yearning and nerdy fairy art history. It’s a gauzy, moss-covered romantic fantasy for anyone who ever had a Kinuko Y. Craft poster on their wall as a kid. IYKYK. Perhaps
Young scholar Edmund is done with his life in service to the Many-Armed God. While he loves his studies and the time he’s allowed to research and write, he can no longer ignore his temple’s darker side, especially its discrimination against women. Tasked with transporting an ancient sword and some books to the city of
K.S. Shay’s Portrait of a Witch Undone is an unforgettable fantasy set in the marshes of the North Shore of Massachusetts, following the adventures of coven outcast Maeve Ryan. Ever since a spell went wildly wrong for Maeve and her best friend and ritual partner, Ash, their coven has been plagued by visits from the
If you spend any time in the online book community, then you may have noticed the rise of Summerween – a cultural (and retail) phenomenon where people extend the spooky season forwards into the summer. Jonathan Sims’s third novel is perfectly placed to ride that wave. The author is increasingly a presence on the horror
[S] Don’t Upstage the Body The fourth novel from Naomi Stephens, Don’t Upstage the Body is a witty Christian mystery that follows the Halfpennys, a family of actors who make their living as professional mourners. Their gig at reclusive Lord Basil Montfort’s service takes an especially dramatic turn when Hippolyta Halfpenny discovers another body than


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