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Reviews of true crime, investigative primers, and crime fiction
A neighborhood unites to protect a child in James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. by Ed Tarkington & Chapter16.org The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store By James McBride. Riverhead. 381 pages. $28. James McBride begins his latest novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, in 1972 Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with the discovery of a
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A literary star’s death reveals dangerous secrets in J.T. Ellison’s latest thriller. by Faye Jones & Chapter16.org A Very Bad Thing By J.T. Ellison. Thomas & Mercer. 495 pages. $28.99. A Very Bad Thing, the latest thriller from Nashvillian J. T. Ellison, takes readers on a wild ride of secrets, lies, and hidden connections. Columbia Jones
Smoking Guns delivers a dozen tales of murder and more. by Billy Kilgore & Chapter16.org Smoking Guns: 12 Original Tales of Crime and Mystery Edited by Kaye George. Wildside Press. 130 pages. $12.99. Smoking Guns, an anthology from the East Tennessee chapter of Sisters in Crime, offers a dozen “original tales of crime and mystery”
Scott Payne delivers a riveting account of going undercover with homegrown extremists. by Hamilton Cain & Chapter16.org Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis By Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard. Atria Books. 256 pages. $28.99. In his 1991 autobiography, A Season for Justice, the celebrated civil rights lawyer Morris Dees
In Tova Mirvis’ We Would Never, a terrible crime tests a tight-knit family. by Sara Beth West & Chapter16.org We Would Never By Tova Mirvis. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. 368 pages. $28.99. “People liked to make all kinds of proclamations about what they would never do. But people did all sorts of
Pursuit‘s managing editor shares her favorite spy- and crime-adjacent books, shows, and movies from this year. This year, I dove back into books after neglecting my reading life for most of 2023 — a year of intense work on a book I wrote with my friend Chantha Nguon. In February we launched Slow Noodles, Chantha’s
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Michael Sims’ latest anthology of short fiction presents antique whodunit gems. by Chris Scott & Chapter16.org The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries Edited by Michael Sims. Penguin Classics. 352 pages. $18. The origin of the detective story is, like that of many art forms, a matter of debate. Some historians credit the honor of first whodunit
Wright Thompson’s The Barn reckons anew with the infamous murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. by Odie Lindsey & Chapter16.org The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi By Wright Thompson. Penguin Press. 448 pages. $35. Wright Thompson’s latest book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, revisits what is often
Chaos ensues when Greaney’s Gray Man tackles a new foe: artificial intelligence. by G. Robert Frazier & Chapter16.org The Chaos Agent By Mark Greaney. Berkley. 560 pages. $30. Whoever controls the use of artificial intelligence for weapons will control the world. That simple premise is all you really need to know when you pick up
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