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It’s a Mystery is a feature of Open Letters Monthly, where Irma Heldman reviews mystery and crime fiction.
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 MoreThis 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 MoreComputer wizardry in Minneapolis and sexual abuse in North Yorkshire: the latest gripping books from two veteran mystery authors.
Read MorePart II of our Summer Reading feature brings more books about exploration and travel.
Read MoreA 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 MoreStoicism and betrayal vie at the heart of two new mystery thrillers from veterans of the genre.
Read MoreCrime columnist Irma Heldman attends the 2016 Edgar Awards, and reports on the winners and highlights
Read MoreA 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 MoreThe 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 MoreTwo 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 MoreThe 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 MoreSophie 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 MoreOur 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 MoreThe 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 MoreMartha 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 MoreTwo 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 MoreIn 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 MoreDan Fesperman's The Double Game is a complex literary novel of intrigue that makes spy fiction a central character, “doubling” the reading pleasure.
Read MoreThe seventeenth Lee Child is vintage Jack Reacher and the eighth Louise Penny is, as always, compelling and charismatic
Read MoreA rare film is the centerpiece of Syndrome E, a cutting-edge, mesmerizing thriller.
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