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Travel to Italy With These 5 Dangerously Good Thrillers

Italy, Italia, “The Boot,” to some; it’s one of the top vacation destinations in the world, legendary for its history, culture and cuisine. But what about a book destination, for thriller readers in particular? For better or for worse, stories of Italy and crime have gone hand in hand in…

Cameron KimballApril 8, 2024

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Gritty Nordic Noir Unravels Past and Present Crimes

Johanna Mo’s The Shadow Lily (Penguin) is as intricate as it is alluring. This second book of The Island Murder Series stands alone, filling in crucial details about the previous novel while setting the scene for a third. Part thriller, part police procedural, The Shadow Lily weaves a missing persons…

Megan BeauregardAugust 11, 2022

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Old Crime Noir Tropes Get New Life in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “Velvet Was the Night”

"A stylish, hard-boiled novel painted in shades of gray with a whole lot of heart." — Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay —∞— It’s 1970s Mexico City, and civil unrest creates a dangerous backdrop for our unsuspecting, fantasy-minded protagonist, Maite. Working days as a bored secretary and nights deeply…

Emma LongAugust 17, 2021

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A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

Who doesn’t love an irreverent badass who admits he’s a screw-up? Duck Darley is the most damaged anti-hero you’d never want to meet in a dark corner of New York City. In Casey Barrett’s The Tower of Songs: A Duck Darley Novel (Kensington) East meets West when a Chinese power…

K.L. RomoAugust 20, 2019

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“The War Widow” Is a Feminist Twist on Noir in 1940s Sydney

“Completely gripping and entertaining from beginning to end." — Hugh Jackman —∞— The War Widow is poised to be Tara Moss’s breakout novel in the U.S., especially given the book’s saucy leading lady, Billie Walker, a war reporter turned Private Investigator in post-WWII Australia who — much like Moss herself…

BookTribDecember 29, 2020

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A Private Detective in a Real-Life Noir

In movies and even in books lawyers are always warning people not to confess to them, but in real life it doesn’t work that way. In real life you want to hear everything you can and later on you’ll make whatever compromises you have to, or you won’t. That’s the…

Neil NyrenJune 24, 2022

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A Stylish Noir and a Woman You Do Not Want to Cross in “The Lady Upstairs”

“Maybe she wasn’t even a she at all. Except too many of the marks, the names funneled to Lou and me in white envelopes, were bad men — cheaters, assholes, men who never heard a no. They weren’t exclusively the men we targeted, but it was more than a passing…

Neil NyrenOctober 30, 2020

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BookTribJanuary 21, 2021