CrimeReads Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Don't Know Tough
Eli Cranor
And the Edgar Award for Best First Novel goes to Eli Cranor for “Don’t Know Tough”
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City Under One Roof
Iris Yamashita
"The action in 'City Under One Roof,' Iris Yamashita’s taut debut novel, plays out against a backdrop of natural splendor and eerie desolation." https://t.co/WkCLsMCMMe
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)
Lee Child
After years of waiting, Reacher fans have a new hero—and a story that goes back to the beginning. Lee Child's biographer, Heather Martin (@drheathermartin), looks at the brand new series. https://t.co/TkEP63LBwW
Paperback, Mass Market, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
Nightcrawling will make you desperate, it will make you awed, it will make you read anything that Mottley should ever choose to write.
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maigret
Georges Simenon
Maigret was Georges Simenon's most famous creation. But his intense, psychological noirs left a legacy all their own. From Andrew Nette (@Pulpcurry). https://t.co/i7B0dqZaui
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Little Essays
Logan Pearsall Smith
We're pleased to announce a new series: Olivia Rutigliano's Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes! Every week, @oldrutigliano will publish a small essay on one of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Today we begin with her reading of "The Engineer's Thumb." https://crimereads.com/little-essays-on-sherlock-holmes-the-engineers-thumb/
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
"Diana Gabaldon’s historical time-traveling blockbuster, 'Outlander,' almost didn’t make history, in either the twentieth or eighteenth centuries." https://t.co/pvCVyO2cLP
Paperback, 2001
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In a Lonely Place
Dorothy B. Hughes
On Dorothy B. Hughes’ "In a Lonely Place" and the cultural perception of a link between returned veterans and criminal behavior. https://t.co/WWa3a4SD5M
Paperback, 2017
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Housewife
Ashley Winstead
Samantha Ladwig dives deep into "Complicit," by Winnie M. Li, and "The Last Housewife," by Ashley Winstead. https://t.co/7byEcMntw9
Paperback, 2023
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crocodile Tears
Mercedes Rosende
Read our thrilling, exclusive excerpt from "Crocodile Tears," by Mercedes Rosende and translated by Tim Gutteridge. https://t.co/ha80znTPpg
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book