Thrillers and mysteries to stream now
There are so many good series now streaming, and so little time to catch up on them. To help you with your choices, here are three in the mystery/thriller category...
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Dan Chaon’s ‘Ill Will’: A creepy headtrip
"What do you call it when someone can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not real?" This question is posed in Dan Chaon's offbeat, powerfully unsettling murder mystery,...
Emma Flint’s shattering debut, ‘Little Deaths,’ leads crime fiction roundup
"Little Deaths" by Emma Flint, Hachette, 336 pages, $26 It has been a long time since a novel captured a time and place as powerfully as Emma Flint's shattering debut,...
Review: ‘Man With the Poison Gun’ offers a deadly dose of reality
"The Man With the Poison Gun," a nonfiction book that tells the unusual story of a KGB assassin during the Cold War, once might have fallen safely into the category...
Crime fiction roundup with books by Val McDermid, James Church and Helene Tursten
"Out of Bounds" by Val McDermid, Atlantic Monthly, 464 pages, $25 No one writes sturdier mysteries than Val McDermid. But what's notable about her fourth book featuring DCI Karen Pirie,...
Country genius Hank Williams’ misadventures chronicled in new bio
Among debauched artists who lived hard, died young and willed a frustratingly modest sampling of their genius to the world, Hank Williams ranks at or near the top. The man...
Roundup of recent crime fiction releases
"The Wrong Side of Goodbye" by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, 400 pages, $29 In his latest effort, perennial best-seller Michael Connelly gives us two Harry Bosch mysteries in one. Newly...
Tana French’s ‘The Trespasser’ a crafty, inventive police story
When you join the Dublin Murder Squad, detective Antoinette Conway tells us in "The Trespasser," the latest procedural by the superb Tana French, you do so knowing you're going to...
Onetime Chicagoan eyes violence through shooting deaths of 10 young people
On Nov. 23, 2013, 10 kids between the ages of 9 and 19, in places ranging from Houston to Charlotte, N.C., to our despairing, ever-in-mourning Chiraq, died of gunshot wounds....
Disappearances, heartless corpses and more in new crime fiction
"The Darkest Secret" by Alex Marwood, Penguin, 400 pages, $16 Twelve summers ago, one of real estate mogul Sean Jackson's 3-year-old twin daughters, Coco, disappeared during his raucous 50th birthday...