Crime Fiction: Volume 2

A small town in Florida is full of secrets, especially when it comes to the eery historical plantation, the disappearances of several young people, and its dark relationship to a serial killer. All the claustrophobia of small town life is there, with an added intensity as the search for answers propels a local mother who vowed she would leave the place behind. The Other Woman is the eighteenth in the Gabriel Allon series, and the characters feel as timely and complex as ever.

After losing an arm in a futuristic civil war brought on by contemporary American politics, Dr. Watson heads to D. The two team up to investigate the strange deaths of ex-soldiers previously stationed on a base with plenty of secrets. With the exception of Benedict Cumberbatch.

We love you Benedict!! One has to love to a crime of opportunity, and what better way to take advantage of circumstance to commit a crime than a murder in a hunting party? This chilling psychological thriller is set on the Isle of Wight. As someone with a sister, I always enjoy stories where sisters either help each other or, as in this case, slowly tear each other apart….

Stroby is a master of the high-octane crime novel, a perfect combination of pace and atmospherics. His latest, Some Die Nameless , sees an ex-military man living on a houseboat straight out of John D. MacDonald, when his past sins come back to haunt him. His path intersects with an investigative reporter from up north, and together they stagger across an intricate and sinister government conspiracy.

This is a page-turner in the best possible sense. A psychological thriller that will haunt you long after the last page.

A college professor who witnesses the aftermath of a murder receives the gift of a typewriter…that seems to be typing of its own volition, and seems to be connected to the murder. A Noise Downstairs is a strange and insidious story, packed with psychological insights. Grace is called in and has to wade into a dark underworld of organized crime, sports betting, and much, much worse. In both books, Nora is tasked with uncovering truths and finding people: It All Falls Down finds Nora searching for her own parents. Her quest takes her from her home in Vancouver to fleabag hotels and derelict buildings in Detroit, where her father, who later committed suicide, grew up.

The more Nora learns about the past the more questions she has: Could she still be alive? Why did her parents abandon her and her sister? When a conspiracy theorist more interested in views than in discoveries finally stumbles on an actual conspiracy, all hell breaks loose. This is like Indiana Jones for everyone who knew Jones was a complete a-hole but still wanted to watch the movies. His new novel, Safe Houses , is an elegant work of espionage fiction. Trust Me, her latest mystery, is a psychological and sinister story. A journalist mourning the death of her family years earlier becomes involved with the case of a woman accused of killing her own child, for an intriguing mashup of courtroom thriller and domestic suspense.

Set in Galway, this searing debut brings together procedural and psychological thriller for a fascinating portrait of small-town Ireland and its big city problems. Addiction, suicide, corruption, and desperation all play their part in this intricate, unsettling noir.

The Last Time I Lied takes place at a summer camp, when a game of two truths and a lie turns dangerous, and years after, when a former camper returns to Camp Nightingale, desperate to discover its secrets. As a British actress living without a green card in New York City, Claire Wright is compelled to work for a firm of divorce lawyers. Her job is simple: The arrangement gets complicated when one of her clients is murdered, and the cops are convinced the husband did it.

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To ensnare the husband, though, Claire is going to have to give the performance of her life. Cuba before the fall has long been a subject of interest in our genre, and who could forget the kiss of death Michael gives to Fredo just before they exit the city? Alex de Campi and Victor Santos, with their new graphic novel Bad Girls , both partake of this long tradition and turn it on its head.

The gorgeous colors and clean lines of this graphic novel complement the stylish storytelling, for a noir comic not to be missed. Kellye Garrett won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for her debut, Hollywood Homicide , and we expect her second installment in her Detective by Day series, featuring protagonist Dayna Andrews, to be just as charming.

Her solitude is even further interrupted when one of her unwanted neighbors is murdered, and she investigates the tight-knit group and their many internecine struggles. The latest is a weighty and thrilling look at father-son relationships, the allure and dangers of the natural world, the power of prophecy, jurisdictional battling, backwoods survival, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Most crime drama focus on crime investigation and does not feature the court room. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. One of the earliest stories in which solving a crime is central to the story is Oedipus Rex , in which the search for the murderer of the previous king, leads to the downfall of the current one.

The earliest known modern crime fiction is E.

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There is also Thomas Skinner Sturr's anonymous Richmond, or stories in the life of a Bow Street Officer ; another early full-length short-story in the genre is The Rector of Veilbye by the Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher , published in Better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe. With his Dupin stories, Poe provided the framework for the classic detective story. Watson in later Sherlock Holmes stories. Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in , while The Moonstone is often thought to be his masterpiece. The evolution of locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction.

The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. The evolution of the print mass media in the United Kingdom and the United States in the latter half of the 19th century was crucial in popularising crime fiction and related genres. Literary 'variety' magazines like Strand , McClure's , and Harper's quickly became central to the overall structure and function of popular fiction in society, providing a mass-produced medium that offered cheap, illustrated publications that were essentially disposable.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day—e. The series quickly attracted a wide and passionate following on both sides of the Atlantic, and when Doyle killed off Holmes in The Final Problem , the public outcry was so great, and the publishing offers for more stories so attractive, that he was reluctantly forced to resurrect him.

In Italy, local authors began to produce crime mysteries in the s. Early translations of English and American stories and local works were published in cheap yellow covers and thus the genre was baptized with the term "Giallo Libri" or yellow books. The genre was outlawed by the Fascists during WWII but exploded in popularity after the war, especially influenced by the American hard-boiled school of crime fiction. There emerged a group of mainstream Italian writers who used the detective format to create an anti-detective or postmodern novel in which the detectives are imperfect, the crimes usually unsolved and clues left for the reader to decipher.

Crime fiction in Spain also curtailed in Francoist Spain took on some very special characteristics that reflected the culture of the country.

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The Spanish writers emphasized the corruption and ineptitude of the police and depicted the authorities and the wealthy in very negative terms. In China, modern crime fiction was first developed from translations of foreign works from the s. In the post-Mao era, crime fiction in China focused on corruption and harsh living conditions during the Mao era such as the Cultural Revolution. Crime fiction provides unique psychological impacts and enables readers to become mediated witnesses through identifying with eyewitnesses to a crime. Reader speak of crime fiction as a mode of escapism to cope with other aspects of their life [7].

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