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The Best True Crime of the Month: October 2026

Deep South crimes, 19th-century detectives, crime-solving writers, backrooms poker players, and realpolitik killings
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Still Not Safe: The 50th Anniversary of Marathon Man

Fifty years later, the classic thriller still lives in a world of almost unbearable tension.
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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new-in-paperback releases from Steve Berry, May Cobb, John Fram, Gilly Macmillan, Tom Ryan, Nic Stone, and more
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Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

When intimate and private love letters are the only surviving evidence from an old trial, should a researcher include them in their book?

Tom Ryan on Nostalgia, Audiences, and Writing Coming-of-Age Crime Capers

By John B. Valeri

The Best True Crime of the Month: October 2026

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Amy Bloom on the Imperfect Protagonist and the Wabi-Sabi of Us All

By Amy Bloom

5 Revenge and Eat-the-Rich Thrillers About the 1 Percent

By L. M. Chilton

Rosie Sycamore on Horror, Female Rage, and Feminist Critiques of Animal Exploitation

By Rosie Sycamore

A Guide to the Dexter Spinoffs

By Olivia Rutigliano

Mariah Fredericks on the Great Sea Monster Hoax of Nantucket

By Mariah Fredericks

Ryan Burruss on Monstrously Mashing Up Genres in His New Novel

By Ryan Burruss

Jonathan Edward Durham on Infusing Yourself Into Your Villains

By Jonathan Edward Durham

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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

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Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares

By Neil Kleid

10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking

By Eva Jurczyk

Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries

By Katherine Reay

Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World

By Faith Gladwin

Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

By Jack El-Hai

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October 9, 2026

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship

By Roger Berkowitz

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

By Leigh Bardugo

Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

By Jane Ciabattari

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