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Frozen Moment by Camilla Ceder. This gripping Scandinavian crime novel unfolds in the small Swedish town of Backudden, where a brutal murder shatters the winter calm. A local mechanic is found shot in the head, his body lying in the snow, leading Inspector Christian Tell and his team on a complex investigation.
- Claire Dewitt and The City of The Dead, by Sara Gran
- Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
- The Thief, by Fuminori Nakamura
- Night Prayers, by Santiago Gamboa
- And When She Was Good, by Laura Lippman
- Dare Me, by Megan Abbott
- The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura
- Every Man A Menace, by Patrick Hoffman
- The Long Drop, by Denise Mina
- Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke
Gran’s first in the Claire DeWitt series was a shot of adrenaline straight into the arm of private eye fiction, a gleefully strange, esoteric, sometimes hallucinatory new rendition of a beloved genre. DeWitt is the self-proclaimed world’s greatest detective, learned in the techniques of Jacques Silette, the great master whose obscure theories and w...
More than any other book in the decade, Gillian Flynn’s mega-hitGone Girl captured the essence of female rage, as millions of well-dressed, seemingly content women used Flynn’s fearsome takedown of the patriarchy to unleash their inner discontent. There are so many reasons to praise this book, but to focus on the impact alone, Gone Girl not only us...
This moody noir follows a petty thief as he walks the streets of a cold and unfriendly city; he makes the mistake of opening his heart to a young woman and her son, only to be given a harsh reminder that human connections can be nigh-impossible to maintain in his walk of life. Nakamura’s eerie atmosphere and spare prose are on full display, and it ...
Santiago Gamboa’s reputation has been growing globally in recent years, but in the U.S. he’s still relatively unknown except among those steeped in contemporary Latin American noir and the latest evolutions of la novela negra. In Night Prayers, Gamboa presents the reader with his usual narrator-proxy, Santiago Gamboa, cultural attache. He’s station...
Lippman has made her reputation as one of the giants of crime fiction based in large part on the strength of her long-running, audacious private eye series featuring Tess Monaghan, but her standalone novels stand as towering achievements on their own right, and none is more powerful than her 2012 thriller, And When She Was Good. The story looks at ...
Trying to decide on the Megan Abbott book-of-the-decade is like trying to figure out the best crime books of the decade (i.e. a semi-arbitrary exercise in futility), but Dare Me, Abbott’s soon-to-be-on-television noir ode to the dangerous world of cheerleading feels like the most iconic. Abbott came up on the crime world through her lovingly render...
Trostky has a strange relationship with detective fiction. The dramatic tale of his assassination is both epic tragedy and compelling crime story; pursued by Stalin’s goons no matter how far away from the motherland his exile took him, Trotsky watched his family be winnowed away far from his protection until he, too, fell victim to Stalin’s assault...
When Hoffman’s second novel was released in 2016, a good deal of attention was given to the author’s continued work as a private investigator. But if you came to his fiction expecting a formulaic detective story, you’d be drastically mistaken. Every Man a Menaceis a sprawling, kaleidoscopic crime novel of shifting perspectives and shifting fortunes...
If I had to pick a single favorite book from this decade, Denise Mina’s The Long Drop would be an obvious choice—not only does Mina’s book have one of the most mature visions of the meaning of violence that I’ve ever come across, but it’s also gorgeously written, in a style that transports the reader to a mid-century Scotland weighed down by histor...
Bluebird, Bluebird, a modern masterpiece, particularly excels at representing the fraught, frictional relationships between race and justice, and freedom and oppressive social institutions in America. Darren Mathews is a black Texas Ranger living in East Texas, torn up about his allegiance to his state and his career. He’s tried to leave the state,...
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Apr 25, 2024 · Into the Dark. by Fiona Cummins. DS Saul Anguish, a brilliant detective with a difficult past, must face his own demons as he untangles the painful story behind the sudden disappearance of an entire family. The kettle is still warm, all the family’s phones are charging on the worktop, but the house is deserted.
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Dec 6, 2022 · Best Standalones. REAL EASY, by Marie Rutkoski, is a thoughtful, character-driven mystery revolving around a strip club and the women who dance there. It never once dips into stereotype. “It ...
Dec 9, 2021 · 3 Shiver by Allie Reynolds. 4 Lightseekers by Femi Kayode. 5 Reckless by R.J. McBrien. C rime fiction is my go-to genre when I want to relax, and 2021 was no exception. I spent quite a few nights reading late to find out who had committed the crime. I remain slightly perplexed why reading about murder is a form of winding down, but clearly it ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Pablo Amargo. By Marilyn Stasio. Published Dec. 4, 2020 Updated Dec. 6, 2020. No fluffy bunny scenes in THE RABBIT HUNTER (Knopf, 512 pp., $27.95), just a sanguinary psycho-killer suspense story ...
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. [1] It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as ...
