http://dir.salon.com/topics/mysteries/?source=rss&aim=mysteries en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT By Laura Miller Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/summer_reading/2009/06/02/thrillers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/summer_reading/2009/06/02/thrillers/index.html?source=rss Salon recommends four addictive novels to add intrigue and treachery to your beach book list. By Laura Miller and Louis Bayard Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/05/26/summer_reads1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/05/26/summer_reads1/index.html?source=rss Killer thrillers: From an art-world conspiracy to a campus murder to the gripping tale of a missing child, these recommendations will add suspense to your beach book list. By Heather Havrilesky Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/28/hoeg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/28/hoeg/index.html?source=rss A hero with superhuman hearing sets out to rescue a silent child in Peter Hoeg's compelling new mystery. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/12/02/rendell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/12/02/rendell/index.html?source=rss Across 40 years and 61 novels, the icy-blooded Ruth Rendell has proven to be more than a great mystery writer -- she's one of Britain's finest living novelists. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/08/20/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/08/20/mysteries/index.html?source=rss Out of the past come the noir-ish entries for our latest mystery roundup: A "fallen woman" solves crime in Regency England, a French Resistance fighter hides out in Manhattan, and a respectable bourgeois ditches it all. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/02/26/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/02/26/mysteries/index.html?source=rss In our roundup of the best new mysteries, a hip-hopper sells his soul to the devil, an abortion goes wrong in late-'60s Chicago, and a Minnesota sheriff's detective can't find her shifty cop husband. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2004/01/08/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2004/01/08/mysteries/index.html?source=rss Yes, detective novels are lousy -- if you're too lazy to search out the good ones! Mystery readers (and quite a few mystery writers) strike back at Ben Yagoda. By Ben Yagoda Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/06/mystery_hype/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/06/mystery_hype/index.html?source=rss Robert Parker, Dennis Lehane, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly -- I've read them all. Amid the logrolling and endless hype, one thing gets obscured: Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald did it first, and did it a lot better. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/12/10/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/12/10/mysteries/index.html?source=rss In our roundup of the season's best mysteries, a cracking new Dalziel-Pascoe yarn, echoes of a forgotten murder, S.J. Rozan's appealing private-eye duo, and the bleak brilliance of Ruth Rendell. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/08/cutting/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/08/cutting/index.html?source=rss A Glasgow antiques dealer finds horrible pictures in a dead man's house, in this captivating thriller from a new Scottish writer. By Barbara O'Dair Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/04/02/knode/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/04/02/knode/index.html?source=rss Film critic-turned-crime writer Helen Knode on her first novel, the soul-crushing deadness of Hollywood, the greatness of "Titanic" and her relationship with husband James Ellroy. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/17/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/17/mysteries/index.html?source=rss In our roundup of the best new mysteries, black America's answer to Ross Macdonald, a Danish boy fights the Nazis, and the great Ross Thomas, back in print at last. By Laura Miller Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/13/fforde/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/13/fforde/index.html?source=rss Literary detective Thursday Next teams up with Dickens' Miss Havisham to fight world destruction and an outbreak of deadly coincidences. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/11/26/mcdermid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/11/26/mcdermid/index.html?source=rss Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. By Charles Taylor Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/11/14/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/11/14/mysteries/index.html?source=rss It takes the skills of a great detective to find the best mysteries among the new releases. Our critic offers his list of some recent gems. By John W. Dean Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/31/hoopes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/31/hoopes/index.html?source=rss H.L. Mencken and James M. Cain play detective in an uproarious mystery set in a scandal-plagued capital. By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/05/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/05/mysteries/index.html?source=rss A new best-of omnibus has some terrific stories. But are they mysteries? By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/24/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/24/mysteries/index.html?source=rss Are the ends supposed to justify the means? Or is it the other way around? By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/02/25/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/02/25/mysteries/index.html?source=rss Our mystery columnist puts three legal thrillers on trial. By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/23/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/23/mysteries/index.html?source=rss Desperate for more Agatha Christie? Now there are two "new" mysteries by the late queen of clues. By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/03/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/03/mysteries/index.html?source=rss New mysteries are lifting their plots out of the newspapers. And that's not a bad thing. By Jacqueline Carey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/29/mysteries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/29/mysteries/index.html?source=rss How three hard-boiled writers have retooled the mystery novel for women. By David Bowman Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/06/28/bowman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/06/28/bowman/index.html?source=rss Five great noir novels from the post-Chandler generations. By Suzette Lalime Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/12/24/featureb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/12/24/featureb/index.html?source=rss Humor and history dominate our eclectic selection of 1998's best crime fiction.