#Mystery/Thriller

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!

Best Books Of 2012 So Far (According To Me)

Labor Day weekend is something of a turning point in the long haul of the year. We’ve traversed two-thirds of ...

Beyond Bourne: A Spy Thriller Reading List

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland. Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives ...

There’s Something About Gillian Flynn (or, When There’s More to Genre Than Meets the Eye)

When Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl left me gasping for more earlier this summer, I plowed through her backlist over a ...

5 Books to Watch for in September

A colleague recently lamented in a Facebook post that another well-known literary site’s Big Books of Fall list was basically ...

Riot Round Up: The Best Books We Read in August

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

Riot Recommendation: A Matter of National Security

  This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland. Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, ...

Larsson v. Brown: A Thriller Phenom Throwdown

With a certain erotic trilogy dominating best-seller lists these days, I’ve become nostalgic for the days when Dan Brown and ...

Sleep With All the Lights On: A Round-Up of Freaking Good Thrillers

This edition of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Freak by Jennifer Hillier from Gallery Books. Suspense magazine chose Jennifer Hillier’s “truly frightening” ...

6 Books for Back-to-School

I haven’t seen the inside of a classroom since I graduated from college six years ago, but the end of ...

Basking in the Warm Glow of Being on the Popular Side of Popular Opinion

Some of us are just contrary by nature. We can’t help it. It’s probably an odd combination of super opinionated ...