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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!

Top 12 Fall Movies Based on Books

Even with the sad (or happy, depending on your Tobey Maguire-ness) news that The Great Gatsby movie’s been delayed until ...

Riot Recommendation: 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” ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: August 14, 2012

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

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: August 7, 2012

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

Cold Reads for a Hot Summer

“It’s so HOT,” said everyone, every day, for the last three weeks. So hot that reading scenes from Victorian novels ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Book Trailers, July 14-20, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!

Flowchart Friday: Stieg Larsson Edition

BREAKING NEWS: There’s this little-known trilogy out called the Millennium Trilogy.  The first book, not many people have heard of ...

The Problem of Reading for Pleasure

Whenever I meet someone who says they love books, I am quick to ask them to list some of their ...