The 71st Annual Edgar Awards
/Open Letters' mystery maven Irma Heldman recaps the action-packed events from the Mystery Writers of America's 71st annual Edgar Award
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
/January sees an electrifying duo: A stunning debut novel from Australia and an atmospheric noir thriller that matches the legacies of Chandler and Hammett.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Betrayal takes courage”
/This month's pairing: Carol O'Connell's beloved star detective returns, and spy-novel master John Le Carre writes raconteur's memoir about travel and writing.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Rule to live by: no body, no death”
/Computer wizardry in Minneapolis and sexual abuse in North Yorkshire: the latest gripping books from two veteran mystery authors.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2016 Continues
/Part II of our Summer Reading feature brings more books about exploration and travel.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Dead is always a good alibi”
/A mystery debut featuring a "human bloodhound" and a veteran author's latest featuring a dogged Frenchman split the billing in Irma Heldman's latest column.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “A man’s ego will kill him faster than any bullet”
/Stoicism and betrayal vie at the heart of two new mystery thrillers from veterans of the genre.
Read MoreThe 70th Annual Edgar Awards
/Crime columnist Irma Heldman attends the 2016 Edgar Awards, and reports on the winners and highlights
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Love doesn’t visit often, even when it comes, it can always change its mind and walk away”
/A promising debut joins to veteran onging series in a trio of new crime dramas spanning the globe from Santa Fe to Venice to Echo Park.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Delat’ iz mukhi slona, don’t make an elephant out of a fly”
/The dark, crime-ridden world of Putin's Kremlin and Victorian Scotland Yard aren't as different as you might think - as two gripping new mysteries demonstrate.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Sit on the fence and people get killed behind it”
/Two grand novels of crime and passion from a pair of stars in the field: The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr and Dennis Lehane’s World Gone By.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Danger is the spur of all great minds”
/The Friendship of Criminals by Robert Glinski is a fresh, original and totally entertaining perspective on mob relationships; A Murder of Magpies is Judith Flanders deliciously wry take on murder and publishing.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Morality is like an industry, you use what you have”
/Sophie Hannah revives Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot with panache in The Monogram Murders, and Joe Gannon’s debut thriller Night of the Jaguar is a tightly wound, gut-wrenching read.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Destiny is invincible; it always triumphs in the end”
/Our mystery columnist looks at a highly anticipated debut, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker, as well as the second novel in Jonathan Holt’s brilliant Carnivia trilogy, The Abduction.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Memory: that place where personal recollections collide with history”
/The Cairo Affair is an elegant new espionage thriller from the highly accomplished Olen Steinhauer. And in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall, Vaughn Entwistle teams Arthur Conan Doyle with Oscar Wilde – what could be better?
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Always take the favor over money”
/Martha Grimes’ The Way of All Fish is a delectable satire set in the cutthroat world of New York publishing. Max Kinnings’ Baptism is a taut thriller of unbridled terror in the London subway.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Only dead men and idiots believe in coincidence”
/Two special thrillers, The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton and Alex by Pierre Lemaitre: They “star” a duo of sexual predators—each a particularly nasty piece of work that makes for heart stopping suspense.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Never share intelligence you don’t need to share”
/In a duo of new thrillers - one a debut, the other by a practiced hand - two tough, enterprising female FBI agents add new twists to the template first popularized by Agent Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs"
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Life is what happens to ‘trust no one’”
/Dan Fesperman's The Double Game is a complex literary novel of intrigue that makes spy fiction a central character, “doubling” the reading pleasure.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Nobody escaped the desire for vengeance. Nobody.”
/The seventeenth Lee Child is vintage Jack Reacher and the eighth Louise Penny is, as always, compelling and charismatic
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