#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!

Movie Tie-In Covers Are Great (And So Can You!)

Over on Twitter, BookRiot Head Honcho, Raconteur, and Gadfly Jeff O’Neal said, and I quote, “Nothing brings out the lit ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 23, 2013

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. The ...

Staycation Reading: Because You Can’t Always Get Away

I live in a state with a beach, but I can never seem to get away. It was cloudy at ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 9, 2013

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. The ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 2, 2013

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [cycloneslider ...

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

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

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: March 26, 2013

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [cycloneslider ...

Book Riot Readers’ Favorite Living Writers

A couple weeks ago, Jeff asked you to name your favorite living writer. And because he’s nice and knows how hard it is ...

Genre Kryptonite: The Modern Gothic

This is a guest post from Jeanette Solomon. Jeanette lives in a world made of words. She has an MA in ...

The Importance of Endings

A little while ago on Twitter, Joe Hill mentioned that after years of work, he had written the very last ...