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Police procedurals, cozy mysteries, psychological thrillers, true crime: whatever your mystery flavor, we’ve got recommendations on the best mystery books out there, from diverse authors writing in every mystery sub-genre. Get your whodunit (orwhatdunit, if you like a supernatural mystery) fix with posts from our mystery/thriller-reading contributors. Now go crack those cases!

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in March

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan examined three different types of food–industrial, pastoral, and ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in February

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

A Wishlist for the Veronica Mars Novel

You guys, I was already REALLY REALLY REALLY excited about the Veronica Mars movie coming out. Big fan of the ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in January

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Chilling Reads That Will Keep You Up All Night

In this giveaway sponsored by Thomas Nelson Suspense & Mystery, five lucky readers were chosen to win a pack of 8 thrilling, ...

Super-Awesome Sherlock Swag

The third series of the wildly popular BBC  Sherlock will grace American TV screens on Sunday, January 19, following Downton ...

Why THE CUCKOO’S CALLING Wasn’t a Success Until We Knew J.K. Rowling Wrote It

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

Fresh Ink: December 10, 2013

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Housemaid’s Daughter by Barbara Mutch (St. Martin’s Press)  When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books of 2013

We challenged our contributors to pick their top two books of the year. The result is a BIG list that’s just as ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in November

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...