Literary Hub - CrimeReads Brief: October 26, 2021

A look at the week's best new releases in crime fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, and thrillers. | CrimeReads

Lee and Andrew Child on border towns, villains, and their second Jack Reacher collaboration, Better Off Dead. | CrimeReads

Nordic noir, French gothic, and a South Korean thriller: rounding up the month's best new international crime fiction. | CrimeReads

How to have sex in crime fiction: Amita Murray on pleasure, power, and the women having sex in Agatha Christie novels. | CrimeReads

The forgotten story of a Polish spy whose Los Angeles trial was a Cold War flashpoint. From John Pomfret's new book, From Warsaw With Love. | CrimeReads

In the new installment of Crime and the City, Paul French dives into the crime novels of Frankfurt. (And yes, the book fair features in them.) | CrimeReads

Rektok Ross on nine YA survival thrillers to get your heart pounding this fall. | CrimeReads

Spencer Kope on suspected serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and stumbled-upon remains in Whatcom County, Washington. | CrimeReads

Crime books that challenge notions of inherent female goodness. From Christina Dalcher. | CrimeReads