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Smithsonian Magazine reports that Lance Zaal, the owner of Ghost Adventures, which operates ghost tour experiences across the United States, has purchased the house where the Borden murders occurred. The Fall River, Massachusetts house where, in 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet, putting daughter/step-daughter Lizzie Borden in the public eye as

Translated by Alison McCullough — There are thousands of psychological thrillers out there. These tend to play as much on the psychology of the reader as that of the characters involved. Authors build suspense by playing with your assumptions about what is going to happen, then shake you up with a reality check. However, sometimes

Starting today, the New York Public Library will be giving away free summer book kits tailored to kids and teens. The kits will include books (for keeping, rather than borrowing), activity guides, bookmarks, and more. You can visit your local NYPL branch in order to claim a summer book kit. Availability is limited to one

Translated by Victoria Cribb — 2020 was a year of lasts for Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson. The Mist, the third in the Hidden Iceland trilogy, as well as Winterkill, the final Ari Thór novel, were released the midst of the pandemic. Instead of diving straight back with a new series, with The Girl Who

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In Liz Moore’s police thriller, the main characters are a Philadelphia police officer, Mickey Fitzpatrick, and her recidivist drug addict sister, Kacey. A lot of rough water has swirled under the bridge of their relationship – pain and hope and love and betrayal in alternating cycles. Now Kacey has disappeared. When young women who work

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Joseph Knox presents a perfectly-pitched melange of fact and fiction in his first standalone novel. The story of the disappearance of Manchester university student Zoe Nolan is told in a series of interviews and emails conducted and exchanged seven years later. The plot is set in motion when she makes a late decision to join

Kumail Nanjiani will star in and executive produce a limited series adaptation of Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, Deadline reported. Akhtar, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play Disgraced, will write the adaptation with Oren Moverman, who will direct the eight-episode series. FX is developing the series adapted

What a thriller! You may be rethinking those dreams of flying off on holiday again after reading Clare Mackintosh’s latest tense standalone. Mina is mother to Sophia and wife to police officer Adam, but their marital issues prompt her to volunteer as cabin crew on a history-making non-stop flight from London to Sydney. All is

Xander Shute was a high-flying, wealthy banker – white, Oxbridge educated and privileged. But when I Know What I Saw opens, he’s been living rough on the streets of London for decades.  As Xander tells us his story we learn much about him in the first five pages. He’s articulate and literary, most people don’t treat

Maybe some of you have read a short story on Twitter, seen a video poem on YouTube, or just followed the path of a hypertext story. It may surprise you, but all those things I just mentioned, and more, are considered literature. Digital literature, to be precise. Digital literature, or electronic literature, has been an

Translated by Frank Wynne — Pierre Lemaitre came to our attention in 2013 with his kidnap thriller, Alex, an original and gripping police procedural. It was actually the second in the series featuring diminutive Parisian detective, Camille Verhœven. The success of Alex, which has a clever double twist, led to the first and third novels,

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Maple Street, in New York State’s Garden City, is a solid middle-class neighbourhood. It benefits from facing Sterling Park which, as estate agents will tell you, is a safe area for the neighbourhood kids to play. The parents are professionals and have aspirations for their children who, even if they refer to themselves as the

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to your TBR. This is a very small percentage of the new releases this week, though, so stick around until the end for some more Book Riot resources for keeping

DI Kate Young is back, wheeling behind her a hefty pile of baggage. We’re at book two in Carol Wyer’s series of books featuring the Staffordshire-based police officer and Kate is even more disturbed than she was in An Eye for an Eye. Put aside her all-encompassing job (something that Kate herself just cannot do)

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July is here, so as the hot weather sweeps across the Northern Hemisphere, why don’t we all cool off with the latest Icelandic crime fiction? Arnaldur Indridason starts things off with a frozen body for us. Our second featured book also features a frozen body, but this time in New York courtesy of Kevin G

Mixed-Genre Mystery Recommendations was written by Jamie Canaves and originally published in our mystery newsletter, Unusual Suspects. Sign up for it here to get mystery news, reviews, deals, and more! I pretty much read every genre, and since mystery has always been my favorite, I love when they mingle. I’ve found it’s also a great

Accra, Ghana is the setting for the latest short story anthology in Cassava Republic’s collection of noir tales from Africa, following Nairobi Noir and Lagos Noir. It aims to feature the best writing by people who know the dark side of the city, be they ex-pats or life-long inhabitants. We have new voices and established

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Writing in Ice isn’t a crime novel. Let’s get that out of the way. This is a non fiction book – a memoir focusing on the origins of Magnus Jonson, the Icelandic-American cop created by English author Michael Ridpath. It’s also a love letter to Iceland and its people, whom Ridpath has come to admire

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In Cathy Ace’s new cosy mystery, 10th in the ‘corpse’ series, Cait Morgan once again makes good use of her insight as a criminal psychologist and the investigative skills of her ex policeman husband, Bud. Their next-door neighbour, Gordy Krantz, in the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease, has died unexpectedly. Was it suicide or was

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Translated by Mark Fried — Sometimes called the godfather of narco-lit, Mexican author Élmer Mendoza sets his latest book in Sinaloa state and Kiss the Detective is the fourth in the Lefty Mendieta series. Mendoza has a distinctive writing style, but for those with the patience to get the hang of it, there are definite