We also reviewed “Virgin Islands Noir,” which features primarily new writers, making the collection even more exciting for readers.

Here are x number of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Brian Freeman, Photograph (Blackstone) Publication Date: September 8, 2026 “…

Small-town screw-up Jake Flynn is drawn into a world of crime by a childhood classmate he hasn’t seen in 30 years.

With new books from Louise Penny, Olivia Blacke, Jason Rekulak, and Freida McFadden, October 2026 has all our TBRs piling up!

Return to Breakneck Island by Tom Ryan is the follow up to The Treasure Hunters Club , so when I was given the opportunity to return to Maple Bay, I jumped on it. Could you read this one as a standa...

Here are 80+ new and upcoming novels to fill out the rest of this long, long year. You’ll see quite a bit of horror in here, as Halloween season now seems to start in mid-July (summerween, an…

Plus Tim Sullivan’s “The Tailor” and Philippa Perry’s “Shrink Solves Murder.”

Meet Jake Flynn. Jake grew up in Connecticut with a father who seemed to have life figured out. He was an attorney, a fixer, a peacemaker, the kind of man who always knew exactly what to say and how ...

A British travel writer turned hapless double agent is assigned to extricate a fellow two-way spy from the Soviet Union.

In novels from Dervla McTiernan and Mark Billingham, the drive to get even leads nowhere good.

Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.

Award winning author Gin Phillips loved her first trip to Ruby Falls so much, she wrote a book about it! It's a murder mystery and a real page turner. Meet

Sager’s latest page-turner, “The Unknown,” is out now.

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DI George Cross isn't like other detectives but he's very good at what he does. We review The Tailor by Tim Sullivan, eighth in the series set in Bristol

New friends Peter Barnett, Cass Jones, and Dandy Feltzen reunite to seek another fortune in Ryan’s charming sequel to The Treasu...

My Review: There’s both a hush and a halo that settles over the places where books are present in large quantities. Meaning that both libraries and bookstores - and the people who inhabit them - are believed to be a lot quieter, safer and even more trustworthy than many of them deserve. (It’s that atmosphere that gives libraries their “mom and apple pie” feeling as well as the reason that entirely too many people believe that they are safe places to leave their belongings and their young children completely unattended when in fact, they are no more - also no less - safe than any other large and open public space.

This season features bold debuts, intriguing follow-ups to bestsellers, and a few literary darlings trying their hands at genre fiction.

Plus Tiffany Hanssen’s “My Name Was Gerry Sass” and Alessandra Ranelli’s “Murder at the Hotel Orient.”

My Review: The books in the DS Cross series, so far at least, have been titled after the profession of the victim in each case. Also, at least so far, that victim is almost never what one would call a good example of their profession. And that’s particularly true in this sixth book in the series, whose titular victim is a retired teacher. At first, it’s the retired part of that description that grabs the case. The dead man is eighty years old. He lives alone, he doesn’t get along with his neighbors and we’re not surprised because they’re awful.

In this intense sequel to Holy City (2024), struggling deputy sheriff Will Seems investigates a strange disappearance in Virginia’s Snakefoot swamp that cuts across racial, blood, and historical lines...

“Hey, it’s July and you’re talking about January and February books?” Yeah, guilty as charged. March, April, and May, too. Oh, and I missed a bunch of columns–and books, whi…

‘Spies and Other Gods’ author James Wolff, which is not his real name, answers The Book Pages questions.

Book of the Week June 18, 2026 This emotionally resonant standalone by a two-time Gold Dagger winner is Robotham’s most personal book yet. Although this is his 20th novel, the author, as he notes in h...

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The mysterious disappearance of Georgia swamp-dweller Lucas “Rainbo” Boon creates a pressure cooker of conflict in Edgar winner ...

Our annual summer reading guide, just for you.

James Wolff’s ‘Spies and Other Gods’ is a British intelligence mystery that is heartfelt, humorous, and incredibly satisfying.

A misty seashore, a scented pine forest, or a foggy woodland river. Any of these set the tone for mystery and suspense. But why do they trigger our primal urge to venture off into the wild, while s…