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Parade
by Rachel Cusk

​Shifting from first person to second and third in narrations of poetic nuance and forthright assertions, Cusk’s haunted characters grapple with arresting and provocative conundrums pertaining to creativity, self, recognition, gender, motherhood, love, and death.

Essentials: Recent California Noir
by Donna Seaman

California is the birthplace of hard-boiled detective novels, with James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett seeding the genre. Now, longtime heavy-hitters continue to add new titles to vibrant series, while California noir blossoms all across the Golden State in tales clever, wrenching, and comedic as ranks of noir writers expand to include women and writers of color, deeply enriching the tradition.

Essentials: Puzzling Middle-Grade Mysteries
by Kit Ballenger

​Channel your inner Mr. Lemoncello by adding an extra twist to a middle-grade mystery collection with these selections that feature puzzle components in their plots.

Top 10 True-Crime Books: 2024
by Annie Bostrom

​The best true-crime books from the last year focus on victims and survivors, expose the social inequities underlying our criminal justice system, and read like more harsh and tragic crime novels.

Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers on Audio
by Heather Booth

This year’s top 10 audiobooks for crime and thriller listeners include a number of debuts, along with some favorite author/narrator pairings. All received starred Booklist reviews between May 15, 2023, and May 1, 2024.

10 Questions for Nicola Solvinic
​By John Charles

Nicola Solvinic has a master’s degree in criminology and has worked in and around criminal justice for more than a decade. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and cats, where she is surrounded by a secret garden full of beehives.

10 Questions for Elly Griffiths
By John Charles

Elly Griffiths is the USA Today best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Postscript Murders; and Bleeding Heart Yard, winner of the Fingerprint Awards’ Crime Book of the Year.

Episode #34: Summer Scares 2024
By Susan Maguire

This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares! The reading program, a collaboration between Booklist, the Horror Writers Association, United for Libraries, Book Riot, and NoveList, announced their title picks in February. Host Susan Maguire sat down with the folks behind Summer Scares to talk about the books they want you to read this summer, different levels of scariness, and the importance of snacks for patron engagement.