Crime

A spoiler-free review of We Already Dug the Grave by Emma C. Wells: two sisters, one shovel, a decade of silence, and a set of tea leaves that have said the same word for ten years.

The most frightening object in this novel costs about four dollars at any office supply store. Yellow. College-ruled. A black pen laid across it,...

A spoiler-free review of The Black Orchid by Loreth Anne White: a luxury liner that sinks in the Santorini caldera, four narrators counting down to it, and a documentary crew picking through the wreck six years later.

The Third Estate: Devil's Tango by Debbie Berlin is a razor-sharp espionage thriller of assassins, ciphers, and lethal secrets

A dying serial killer agrees to be interviewed for a streaming docuseries and says, on camera, that he murdered four women in the summer of 2001. Not five. Four. In a small Washington town, two women who have not spoken in twenty-five years understand immediately what that means.