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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026
Here are 10 of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Tom Ryan, We Had a Hunch (Atlantic Crime) “Ryan’s novel is as immersive as it is satisfying....
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Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares
Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 at the tender young age of seven or eight. Due to the fog of time, the reason...
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10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking
The delight of an epistolary novel is the feeling of reading something you shouldn’t. Letters, yes. But take a broad definition and include emails, court filings, news clippings, archives, and it gets...
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Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries
The title is a bit misleading as the “British” have been with us for quite some time. I doubt anyone would have anticipated the tsunami of Jane Austen’s popularity when her first film adaptations hit...
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Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World
By nature, any artistic pursuit has passion poured into it, whether it’s performing on a stage under spotlights or writing locked behind a door under the cover of night. And that much passion has a...
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Hank Phillippi Ryan on Endings, Generational Scars, and Secrets in Mysteries
Secrets are her trade and truth is her destiny. Whether writing fictional crime stories or solving real ones, bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan—who has thirty-seven Emmys and fourteen Edward R....
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Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries
I love when a mystery knows it’s a mystery. I mean, I love when any story knows it’s a story, but I especially love it when that story is a mystery. For me, the more meta, the more playful with genre...
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9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings
As a reader and a writer, I crave stories with a very strong sense of place. I love when a setting is so vivid and distinctive that it shapes the story as much as the characters do. One of the early...
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Dan Warner on A.I., Life as Data, and Depicting Emerging Technologies in Fiction
My newborn twins are finally asleep. White noise chirring, dawn beginning to hum through the bedroom’s linen curtains, and I’m studying their identical bald heads—the twins are not identical, but their...
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Sherry Thomas’ Favorite Mysteries Set on the South West England Coast
I first came across the South West Coast of England on Google Earth. At the time, having young children prevented me from traveling to the places I wrote about and I turned to Google Earth, especially...
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5 Horror Novels Set in Grand Country Homes
Ah…the quintessential English country house. A rural idyll with all the refinements expected in an enormous manor. Formal dinners after a day spent tromping the extensive pastoral grounds, perhaps...
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5 Horror Novels Set in Georgia and Written by Georgia Authors (Plus One...
There’s something about digging for horror in your own backyard. You know the land, you know the creepy things that crawl in its loam, and in Georgia, you often end up with red clay under your...
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Melissa Anderson Sweazy on Gifts, Magical Inheritances, and Defying Expectations
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” –William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night * I was thirteen the first time I visited New Orleans. It would be two years...
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6 Eclectic Historical Mysteries Set in the Early Modern Era
History, by its very nature, lends itself to mystery. The loss of archival records and living witnesses means we can never have a complete picture of events that occurred centuries ago. Historical...
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Kelly McWilliams on Racial Passing, Tulsa, and Reimagining the Spy Walter F....
I first heard about Walter F. White, the spy, when I was in elementary school. I grew up in a mixed and Black family, the lightest child in every bunch. Possibly the lightest child in history, I...
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Trent Dalton on Australian Noir, Journalism, and Writing Against a Country’s...
Trent Dalton is one of the biggest contemporary writers in Australia, best known for his debut novel Boy Swallows Universe, a semi-autobiographical coming of age story which was made into an...
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If You Loved Watching This Show, Read This Thriller!
If you’re anything like me, you’ve awaited the film or TV adaptation of your favorite thriller with a mix of excitement and trepidation—will they do it justice? What if they miscast it or mess with the...
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Ethics of Amateur Sleuthing
I, like virtually every other younger small-town American millennial I know, grew up reading a series called Encyclopedia Brown. You must know the one: A tweenage resident of an unspecified state...
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5 Powerful Horror Novels for Animal Lovers
When I was ten years old, I picked up Watership Down, assuming it would be a lighthearted adventure story like The Incredible Journey. Instead, I got an allegorical mindfuck about politics and...
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Why Tour Guides Make the Best Detectives
When a crime-fiction conference recently came to San Francisco, a friend of mine issued me a challenge: since Capri Sanzio, the protagonist of my current mystery series, is a true-crime walking tour...
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