This dark literary thriller -- written under Ruth Rendell's pen name -- masterfully folds adultery, kidnapping and lies into a tale of psychological suspense.
Friday, Mar 6, 2009 11:44 AM UTCOur picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year.
Monday, Dec 8, 2008 11:29 AM UTC 29Kidnapping, romance, comedy -- Kate Atkinson's delightfully inventive "When Will There Be Good News?" is much more than just another crime novel.
Tuesday, Sep 23, 2008 10:38 AM UTCHarlan Coben's beach-read bestseller "Tell No One" becomes a crackerjack thriller -- made in France.
Monday, Jun 30, 2008 7:52 PM UTCKiller thrillers: From an art-world conspiracy to a campus murder to the gripping tale of a missing child, these recommendations will add suspense to your beach book list.
Monday, May 26, 2008 11:31 AM UTC 26Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.
Friday, Apr 18, 2008 10:26 AM UTC"Lush Life," Price's latest tour of down-low urban America, is an acute portrait of the Darwinian adaptations required to survive in our city jungles.
Monday, Mar 10, 2008 12:23 PM UTCA hero with superhuman hearing sets out to rescue a silent child in Peter Hoeg's compelling new mystery.
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 12:02 PM UTCThe narrator of Sebastian Faulks' enthralling new novel is a witty, unreliable oddball -- but is he a murderer?
Friday, Sep 7, 2007 11:13 AM UTCErik Von Markovik, aka the pickup master "Mystery," chats about the "Venusian Arts," sexual psychology and why he can help 40-year-old virgins everywhere get laid.
Monday, Aug 6, 2007 10:50 AM UTC 216Stephen L. Carter helped put African-American mysteries on the map with his 2002 debut novel. But his latest thriller, "New England White," seems lost.
Thursday, Jul 19, 2007 10:08 AM UTCThrills and chills: These mysteries and science fiction novels will transport you to a higher plane.
Monday, Jun 25, 2007 11:06 AM UTC 22In an interview with Marisha Pessl and an excerpt from her book, we meet Blue van Meer, this year's most appealing teen.
Tuesday, Dec 12, 2006 11:45 AM UTCA lifesaving good deed by a meek crime novelist sets off a series of unpredictable events in Kate Atkinson's shrewd and witty new novel.
Wednesday, Oct 4, 2006 11:45 AM UTCDriven by an eerie personal connection, Sebastian Junger plunged into the Boston Strangler case -- only to discover that it was a perfect storm of ambiguity.
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 13Drawing on a true story about Sherlock Holmes' creator and disemboweled farm animals, Julian Barnes delivers his most substantial novel.
Wednesday, Feb 1, 2006 11:27 AM UTCThe latest from Ruth Rendell -- perhaps the best mystery writer alive today -- offers up an irresistible, unglamorous view of crime.
Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005 11:00 AM UTCAcross 40 years and 61 novels, the icy-blooded Ruth Rendell has proven to be more than a great mystery writer -- she's one of Britain's finest living novelists.
Thursday, Dec 2, 2004 9:00 PM UTCOut of the past come the noir-ish entries for our latest mystery roundup: A "fallen woman" solves crime in Regency England, a French Resistance fighter hides out in Manhattan, and a respectable bourgeois ditches it all.
Friday, Aug 20, 2004 8:00 PM UTCLife is a firework, a burst of light in the sky. When you die, it's like the rocket is falling. But for a ghost, like the girl Hanlon killed, death is a bad photograph, transfixing you.
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