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Sponsored by Book Riot’s $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma for $3.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Rubyfruit Jungle
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Sponsored by Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe from Algonquin Books. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Prophecy by Ellen Oh for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Every Living
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The Sinner is a show with a rare and interesting premise. It focuses on cases where the police appear to have a dead-tight case against the culprit. In season one there were dozens of witnesses to the brutal stabbing that kicked off the storyline. With season two, expected soon in BBC Four’s foreign crime slot
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Sponsored by Saga Press. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Blue Labyrinth by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis for $1.99. Get it here, or just click
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Written by Ben Macintyre — A pal of espionage master John Le Carré, Ben Macintyre just about mirrors the novelist’s gift for writing compelling characters and page-turning narrative to the nonfiction realm. This book, subtitled The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, is based on the defection of KGB operative Oleg Gordievsky, and it
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There is a scene early in the English Yu-Gi-Oh! adaptation that has always stuck with me. In it, duelist Mai Valentine desires a private room aboard a ship to a Duel Monsters tournament, so she approaches Rex Raptor, whose finalist status in a previous tournament granted him such an amenity, with a proposition: if she
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi for
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Written by Sergio Olguín and translated by Miranda France — Award-winning Argentine novelist Sergio Olguín’s fast-paced 2012 crime novel is now available in English for the first time. It’s not surprising it was made into an eight-episode television series in 2017, called La Fragilidad de los Cuerpos, because it has all the elements of an
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Dreadful Young Ladies by Kelly Barnhill for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below.
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On the Radar — This week our new books column brings a good selection of books, with an eclectic mix of themes and styles represented. For those who love historical crime fiction, Abir Mukherjee and Alan Furst bring you their latest, set in 1920s India and World War II France respectively. There’s a bit of
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Library Journal/School Library Journal, is proud to announce the second annual Summer Scares Reading Program. Summer Scares is a reading program that provides libraries and schools with an annual list of recommended horror titles for adult, young adult (teen), and middle
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When cross-border collaboration is needed to crack a case, Europol forms a team of detectives from different countries – and that’s exactly what happens after the violent opening sequences of The Team season 2, which will begin airing on UK channel More4 and Walter Presents on Friday 1 November. [embedded content] Shortly after a couple
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Sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer for $3.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke for $4.99. Get it here, or just click
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Written by Helen Cox — This debut mystery book by the author of two romantic novels is a mash up of cosy crime, comedy, romance, action (a thrilling car chase) and police procedural, featuring a librarian in the women’s studies department of a fictional university in the city of York. If it all sounds a
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Written by Dan Malakin — Rachel is a single mum who works as a nurse at St Pancras Hospital in London. She is revelling in a new relationship with builder Konrad and loves her job and her daughter Lily. But Rachel has quite a past, and a simple email is just the beginning of a
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Written by Michael Connelly — Just this summer, we took at look at the Harry Bosch series. Harry first appeared back in 1992 in The Black Echo and here he is, still going strong, in book 22. Actually, ‘strong’ may be a little optimistic. After all the guy is pushing 70 now and as The
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On the Radar — The leaves are turning orange, gold and red, the wind is blowing cold, and the sun is falling from the sky. As autumn takes hold, we’ve got five suitably atmospheric books to get you through the lengthening nights. We’ll start with a novel that actually has a crime fiction author as
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Written by Peter Adamson — In this political thriller by former UNICEF official Peter Adamson, now available in a trade paperback original, the reunion of five college friends launches a project that none of them could have anticipated, that has every potential of imminently and disastrously going off the rails, and that has almost incomparably
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Written by Elizabeth Hand — It is over three years since Elizabeth Hand released a crime novel – 2016’s Hard Light continued her run of the acclaimed Cass Neary series – so the arrival of this standalone historical thriller was greatly welcomed by us and her fans. The setting is the Riverview Amusement Park, Chicago
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Sponsored by Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, Now in Paperback. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Destroyer by Victor LaValle for $4.99. Get it
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Written by Oyinkan Braithwaite — For a book about violent death and two sisters’ efforts to cover it up, this entertaining crime fiction debut from Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite is remarkably full of life. You can’t help but be charmed by the narrator Korede, who early on in her tale provides this advice: “I bet
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Sponsored by There You Are by Mathea Morais, from Amberjack Publishing These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Devotion by Dani Shapiro for $1.99. Get
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