October is spooky season! But that doesn’t mean crime fans won’t have plenty to savor in the month ahead. In particular, October is positively stacked with heavy-hitters in the noir and…

In which I am anything but free

The best books out in September follow queer men in 1980s Jamaica, grapple with identity and coming of age in Taipei, and more.

The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @CaffeinatedReviewer. It’s a chance to share news — a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.

In which I learn to listen

Hey, Geoff!

... or fight me.

I’ve been on the hunt for books by women for as long as I can remember. My favorite stories are usually not romances, but stories of women trying to make sense of how they can be the main characters in

See how they die...

A three-hour tour ...

Things I’d rather do than have sex

In which I am read to filth at an airport

... with the electric toothbrush

What's in Your Purse?

Here are 14 of the best books to be reissued this summer, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Yukito Ayatsuji, The Clock House Murders Translated by Ho-Ling Wong (Pushkin Vertigo) “An el…

Found Audio

The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary writer’s literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals:

Self-Defenseless

Crime Rx

This is a list of books that still scare me to this day. I’ve finished them, I know what happens, and still I’m afraid. Most of them, I don’t even remember the details, but if I spot the book on th…

USA Today, Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, and Indie Booksellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

The latest in the Secret Vigilante series.