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Our picks for best crime, mystery and thriller books of in the new year (January 2022) include new exciting releases including historical mystery Murder at the National Gallery by Jim Eldridge, literary crime novel Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy, My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura, and highly anticipated titles such as Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby by Ace Atkins. These mystery and thriller books will surely bring joy to avid crime fiction and mystery readers.
LOOK BEYOND THE CANDY AND COSTUMES — Halloween is a storyteller’s holiday. We fear the witch, the goblin, the ghost, because of the stories we associate with them. Who doesn’t remember a resonant tale or two from childhood? What gave you a bigger fright: the reveal of the monster from behind the cellar door, or the creak of a floorboard beneath an approaching step? We learned (when we tried to retell the scariest ones) that the telling is as significant as the tale itself.
“Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone,” By Stefan Kiesbyec.2012, Penguin, $15By Terri SchlichenmeyerBookwormWhen you were young, you couldn’t wait to escape.Your old hometown was boring. It was tiny, closed-in, stifling and stiff. Everybody knew everybody’s business – and if they didn’t, well, wait five minutes.It was a one-horse town with one stoplight. It was the least interesting place you could ever imagine.
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