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Neil Nyren

Neil Nyren

Neil Nyren is the former evp, associate publisher, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and the winner of the 2017 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Among the writers of crime and suspense he has edited are Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, John Sandford, C. J. Box, Robert Crais, Carl Hiaasen, Daniel Silva, Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsyth, Ken Follett, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain and Ace Atkins. He now writes about crime fiction and publishing for CrimeReads, BookTrib, The Big Thrill, and The Third Degree, among others, and is a contributing writer to the Anthony/Agatha/Macavity-winning How to Write a Mystery.

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In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

“Accidents, murders, suicides, illnesses. Dying of old age was rare in Cape Dorset.” Cape Dorset is a remote Arctic community, inhabited mainly by the Inuit and a few people who aren’t. Sergeant Elderick Cole is one of the latter. In Malcolm Kempt’s A Gift Before Dying, he’s part of the…
Neil Nyren
December 26, 2025
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The Woods Hold Secrets — As Do the People Who Live There

“Middle children always knew how to remain unseen. They knew how to slip below the notice of others … Middle children were tricksters.” In Julie Doar’s The Gallagher Place, Marlowe Fisher, 36, is the middle child between two brothers, Nate and Henry, the three of them raised in a big…
Neil Nyren
November 28, 2025
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How Far Would You Go to Get the Perfect House?

“‘We have to stop putting all this pressure on ourselves. It’ll work out eventually.’ “I am so goddamn sick of everyone telling me that.” So — As Marisa Kashino’s Best Offer Wins begins, here’s where we are: Thirty-seven-year-old Margo Miyake and her husband, Ian, have been house-hunting in the Washington,…
Neil Nyren
October 31, 2025
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A Native American Southern Gothic That Lingers

“The intruders enter as quiet as light. They come through the windows, the doors. Slipping in easily, as if their girl left this house open for them. They have been here before …” In Carson Faust’s If the Dead Belong Here, it is 1996, in the town of Jordan, Wisconsin,…
Neil Nyren
September 26, 2025
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A Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology

There have been some excellent novels published in the last several years looking at historical crime fiction through a queer lens — books set in 1950s Los Angeles, 1950s Washington, D.C., 1828 Edinburgh, 1866 Paris, an English manor house in 1899, the dockyards of Tacoma, Washington, in 1888. What we…
Neil Nyren
August 27, 2025
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Uncover Dark Secrets in Chilling Crime Novel

“When everything was drenched in sleep, Ava knew it was time. She eased out of bed, and when her feet touched the floor she became still … The trick at night was to banish all thoughts and let instincts govern. She must be stealthy and quick: the Small Hours were…
Neil Nyren
October 25, 2024