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#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!

Riot Recommendation: Crime-Solving Kids

This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Nightmare City by Andrew Klavan. What should have been an ordinary morning ...

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

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

Mythology and Empathy: Four Observations by Scott Turow (in his own words)

Author and lawyer Scott Turow is in Vancouver this week for the Vancouver Writer’s Fest, and I got to chat ...

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

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

Review GPA: DOCTOR SLEEP by Stephen King

Publication Date: September 24, 2013 Genre: Horror Publisher: Scribner Publisher’s Synopsis: “Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of ...

Fresh Ink: September 10, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin) Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a ...

Fresh Ink: September 4, 2013

Yesterday, we celebrated a Riot Reading Day in honor of the release of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, the final book in ...

Boy vs. Girl: THE LAST POLICEMAN and COUNTDOWN CITY by Ben H. Winters

Welcome to another installment of Boy vs. Girl, in which we (Casey Peterson and Marisa Atkinson) read and debate new ...

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, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Fresh Ink: August 20, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES The Girl You Left Behind by JoJo Moyes (Pamela Dorman Books) France, 1916:  Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, ...