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A girl investigates crime fiction from around the world, by the book. 🔎 #readcrimefiction 🕵🏻‍♀️ CBTB blog + shop my book recs👇🏻
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Announcing Crime by the Box, a monthly crime fiction subscription service from me + @murderbooks !!!!!🕵🏻‍♀️🖤🔎📖 I’m literally shaking as I write this I am SO EXCITED to share what I’ve been working on with the team at @murderbooks since I moved back to Houston!!!! Starting this fall, I’m going to be curating a monthly subscription service that will deliver one of my crime book picks right to your door. 🤯 Every month, you’ll get a newly-released hardcover signed by the author, as well as some “extras”—a note from me about why I loved the book, further reading recommendations, and other exclusive content!!! I AM SO EXCITED. My favorite thing about CBTB has been being able to help connect readers with books they’ll love, and now I get to do it in a super concrete way and I could cry I’m so thrilled about this.🥹🖤 Crime by the Box will kick off in October, and we’re sharing our full fall lineup today to give you a taste of what kind of books you can expect to get in this subscription! We’re going to be reading a little bit of everything, from thrillers to mysteries to psychological suspense to Nordic Noir and beyond, but ALL books that I love + highly recommend.🤓 Without further ado: our fall lineup!!!👇🏻 October: MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR by @ashleywinsteadbooks November: BLOOD SISTERS by @vanessalillie December: THE OTHER HALF by @vassellcharlotte PLUS: if you’re in the Houston area, I want to make this a community-building venture, too. ALL of the authors whose books are selected will be coming through Houston, & we’ll be arranging cocktail hours with them so you can meet them in real life/hang out/chat with them about their work!!! Stay tuned for those details 👀 (also: if you’re not in Houston but want to be involved remotely, PLEASE let me know. Eg a Zoom happy hour or something. I really want that feedback - if there’s interest, I’ll figure out how to make it happen!!) THANK YOU to the team at @murderbooks for this incredible opportunity. And THANK YOU to every single one of you for being a part of the CBTB community and supporting my bookish schemes and giving me the opportunity to try something like this.🥹🖤🖤🖤 I am so grateful!!!
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🔎LUCY FOLEY EARLY COPY GIVEAWAY!!!🔎 Raise your hand if Lucy Foley’s new thriller THE MIDNIGHT FEAST is on your 2024 wishlist! I am SO thrilled to be teaming up with Lucy’s US publisher William Morrow to give 5 (!!!) lucky readers an early copy of THE MIDNIGHT FEAST. This book doesn’t release until June—this is YOUR chance to get your hands on it early! Read on for all the details!🖤 We all already know what a huge Lucy Foley fan I am, but please allow me to gush about her work for a second here. 👉🏻 Lucy writes some of the best contemporary locked room mysteries out there. Her writing is atmospheric, page-turning, and oh so fun to devour. From a wedding-gone-wrong mystery to suspicious neighbors in a beautiful Parisian apartment building, Lucy’s books always combine a beautiful-yet-creepy setting with wickedly clever mystery plots—and her 2024 mystery sounds like it’s going to do exactly that, too.🤯 I first heard Lucy give a little teaser description of THE MIDNIGHT FEAST at @icelandnoir a few years ago, and I have truly been waiting to get my hands on this book ever since. She described the book as “Miss Marple meets The Wicker Man”... aka sign. Me. Up. 👀 This honestly sounds like it will be my favorite book of hers yet, and that’s really saying something considering how much I love her books!! THE MIDNIGHT FEAST takes place during the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets in an ancient wood, and follows key players - the founder, the husband, the mystery guest, and the kitchen help - all with an agenda, and all with secrets in their past. But not everyone will survive… I am so thrilled to be able to give 5 lucky readers an early copy of this VERY highly-anticipated new mystery. Enter below, and GOOD LUCK!🔎🖤 Giveaway Rules: Giveaway closes Wednesday, April 3. US entrants only. To Enter: • follow @lucyfoleyauthor + @crimebythebook • tag a few friends in the comments • for one bonus entry: share to your stories + tag me when you do so I can keep track!!🤓 Reminder: this giveaway is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram. GOOD LUCK!!!🖤
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category is: Texas!!!🤠🔎🖤 authors + specific books you should be reading if you want some Texas thrillers in your life 👇🏻 Ashley Winstead (@ashleywinsteadbooks ): Ashley is a thriller QUEEN and you simply must be reading her work. She lives here in Houston + all her thrillers are A++, but I’m recommend her cult-y thriller THE LAST HOUSEWIFE here bc it begins with a woman in Texas! This book is DARK, feminist, cult-y, and oh so excellent. Amy Tintera (@amytintera ): I am a new Amy fan thanks to her first adult thriller LISTEN FOR THE LIE, which Texas place in a (fictional) small town outside Austin! If you love true crime podcasts + small town murder mysteries, this is the book for you. Nishita Parekh (@nishita_author ): another amazing Houstonian crime writer!!! Nishita’s debut THE NIGHT OF THE STORM is a locked room mystery that takes place in a Houston suburb during hurricane Harvey. May Cobb (@may_cobb ): I freaking LOVE May Cobb’s juicy suspense novels!!! If you want an excellent psychological suspense and a story about a woman revisiting her past, check out A LIKEABLE WOMAN. If you want some spice with your suspense, try THE HUNTING WIVES. Both so freaking good. Isabel Cañas (@isabelcanas_ ): my queen Isabel Cañas is one of those writers whose work I fell in love with IMMEDIATELY and will read forever. Her book VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE is set on the Texas-Mexico border, and it’s a lush, romantic, SPOOKY, thrilling story of war, forbidden love, and yes, vampires. Chandler Baker (@chandlerbakerbooks ): Austin-based author Chandler Baker writes suspense that blend razor sharp social commentary with dark humor. I loved her book CUTTING TEETH, a witty spin on suburban suspense about three women whose children begin to crave blood. Kristen Bird (@kristenbirdwrites ): & last but certainly not least, a Texas author (another Houstonian!!) on my TBR!! I’m so excited to read Kristen Bird’s WATCH IT BURN. This small-town suspense story has cult vibes, which we know I love, and all begins with the discovery of a body in a small Texas town. Have you read any of these authors?! 🤠🖤 #bookrecs #readcrimefiction #suspensebooks #texasbookstagrammer #texasforever
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2 дней назад
🚨CJ Tudor Giveaway + Author Chat Announcement!!!🖤 Happy Monday friends!! I am SO excited to start the week with a very special giveaway AND author chat announcement to celebrate one of my favorite authors: C.J. Tudor.🖤 CJ’s books are an irresistible blend of crime plots with horror influences; they’re sinister, page-turning, spine-tingling tales that always keep me completely hooked. Safe to say, I LOVE her work.💯 If you’re in the market for a couple gripping new thrillers to add to your TBR, these are for you 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 THE DRIFT: my favorite thriller of 2023. A combo of locked room mystery + post-apocalyptic thriller 🤯 following 3 strangers fighting for survival at the end of the world. Need further confirmation that this book is incredible? It’s nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel!! THE GATHERING: C.J.’s new release, publishing on April 9! I’m reading it right now and it’s SO GOOD. A combo of murder mystery + vampire thriller (!!). Think: 30 Days of Night meets the new season of True Detective. A detective travels to a remote Alaskan town to investigate a murder. These books are complete standalones, but they both have in common an A+ blend of crime plot with horror influences. Annnd I love them both. I’m so excited to team up with CJ’s US publisher to give 5 lucky winners copies of *both* THE DRIFT and THE GATHERING!!!🤓🖤 giveaway details below! 🚨Mark your calendar bc I’ll be chatting with CJ Tudor on April 15 at 1 PM Eastern / 12 PM Central about both THE GATHERING and THE DRIFT!!! Spoiler-free, of course!🤓🚨 Giveaway Rules: • 5 winners - each will receive a paperback of THE DRIFT + a hardcover of THE GATHERING • US entrants only • Giveaway closes Sunday, 3/31 To Enter: • Follow @cjtudorauthor , @randomhouse , + @crimebythebook • Tag a few friends in the comments • For one bonus entry, share to your stories (+ tag me so I can keep track!!) Reminder: giveaway not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram. I will tag winners in the comments here + DM them from this account. GOOD LUCK!🖤 #cjtudor #favoriteauthors #2024books #readcrimefiction #spookybooks #vampirebooks #thrillerbooks
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3 дней назад
🚨true crime podcast fans, this thriller is for YOU🚨 I recently devoured LISTEN FOR THE LIE by @amytintera annnd believe the hype, this book is SO good.😱 This is one of those thrillers I’ve seen *all* over Instagram & the buzz is so deserved!!! LISTEN FOR THE LIE is a page-turning thriller that takes readers inside the making of a true crime podcast, and inside the life of one woman who is suspected of committing a murder.👀 Lucy’s best friend Savannah was murdered 5 years ago, and to this day, everyone suspects that Lucy did it…and Lucy herself isn’t so sure. She can’t remember anything about the night when Savannah died. When Ben, the host of a popular true crime podcast, dedicates his new season to solving Savannah’s murder, Lucy finds her life thrown into turmoil once again, and travels back to her small Texas hometown to confront her past once and for all. LISTEN FOR THE LIE is an irresistible blend of thrills, dark humor, and page-turning plotting. Written in short chapters (which serve to keep you totally hooked!!!), the book moves between Lucy’s POV and podcast “transcripts” following Ben’s interviews with people in the small Texas town where Savannah was murdered. The book is driven by Lucy’s strong, snarky, irreverent voice; readers will LOVE spending time in Lucy’s head as she confronts her demons and chases down the answers she’s been running from for years. This book’s structure also lends itself to binge-reading in the best way—each podcast episode “transcript” gives readers crucial pieces of information about the story’s central mystery, and it’s SO much fun watching Ben’s investigation run parallel to Lucy’s own discovery of her own past. 🔎 Tl;dr: I loved this book.🖤 🚨AUTHOR CHAT ALERT!🚨 Mark your calendars bc I’m thrilled to be chatting with @amytintera over IG Live this coming Sunday (3/24) at 5 PM Central (Texas time 🤠)/6 PM Eastern!!! This chat will be totally spoiler-free, of course, & I’ll save it to my profile afterwards if you’re not able to join us while we’re live!! What’s your favorite true crime podcast?🖤
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6 дней назад
Me: this book looks so fun! The book: a dark serial killer thriller 💀🖤 2024 is shaping up to be an incredible year for new crime fiction, annnd my TBR pile is officially out of control. Today I wanted to spotlight some books I’ve recently received that I’m particularly excited about - everything from a mystery set in a psychiatric hospital to twisty psychological suspense and more. Huge thank you to the tagged publishers for sending me these review copies—I cannot WAIT to dive into these!!!🖤 Books mentioned: 🔎 THE MAN ON THE TRAIN by @debbiebabittauthor > psychological thriller with Hitchcock vibes available in May from @scarletsuspense 🔎 THE INSTITUTION by @helenfields_author > mystery about a forensic profiler available in April from @avonbooks 🔎 THE HUNTER’S DAUGHTER by @nicolasolvinic > serial killer thriller about the daughter of a killer, available in May from @berkleypub 🔎 YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID by @ktnguyen_author > debut thriller about an artist whose life begins to unravel, available in April from @duttonbooks 🔎 THE FIRST DEATH OF WINTER by @kevin_wignall > Agatha Christie-style whodunnit set in Switzerland, available now 🔎 THE UNWEDDING by @allycondiebooks > psychological thriller about a body found at a wedding, available in June from @grandcentralpub 🔎 THE HOLLYWOOD ASSISTANT by @may_cobb > psychological thriller about the personal assistant to a famous Hollywood director, available in July from @berkleypub Which would you pick up first?! 🕵🏻‍♀️🖤 #tbrlist #bookmail #readcrimefiction #thrillerbooksaddict #tobereadlist #2024books
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If there’s ONE 2023 thriller you read this year, I think it should be this one ☝🏻 THE DRIFT by @cjtudorauthor was published at the very beginning of 2023 and it remained without a doubt my favorite read of the entire year. CJ has a new book coming out this spring (more on that one soon—I just got my hands on an early copy!!!👀) buuut before we talk about her new release, we NEED to have a moment for this book!!! THE DRIFT is a gripping, creepy thriller that combines the isolation of a locked room mystery with post apocalyptic vibes. Yes, you read that right. In THE DRIFT, three ordinary people wake up to find themselves in extreme—and life threatening—circumstances. One woman wakes up in a bus that’s crashed, surrounded by shattered glass and crumpled metal and the bodies of many of her fellow passengers. Another woman wakes up to discover she’s trapped in a cable car hanging high above snowy mountains, stuck with five other strangers. And a man gazes out the window of the isolated ski chalet he calls home, the generator that powers the building failing… THE DRIFT brilliantly combines the claustrophobia and tension of a locked room thriller with the high stakes of a post-apocalyptic story. There are basically 3 mini “locked rooms” within this book, and they all end up intersecting in the most gripping and unpredictable ways. You can see the influence of both Stephen King AND Agatha Christie on this book—it’s an unexpected and brilliant combination that I couldn’t get enough of. If you’re interested in learning more about this one, I had the privilege of interviewing @cjtudorauthor for my podcast @criminaltypes - it was one of my favorite conversations of the season, & I’ll link it in my Stories!!🖤 THE DRIFT is available in a paperback edition now. Pick this one up for allll the chills + thrills you could possibly want!!! All the stars for this one. Are you a CJ Tudor fan? What’s your favorite book of hers?! 🕵🏻‍♀️
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8 дней назад
MARCH MOST-ANTICIPATED 🖤 (**better late than never!!!**) Listen it’s technically still the month of March so… I’m still gonna share my most-anticipated list, even if it’s a little bit late.🫡🤓 Here are my top picks for most-anticipated March crime, mystery, & suspense releases!!!🕵🏻‍♀️ 🔎 HOW TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER by @kristenperrinwrites (available 3/26): this one looks SO cute and fun!!! (Check my Stories for the adorable package this came in🥹) a murder mystery for fans of Knives Out + Thursday Murder Club, about a murder in a sprawling country estate. Saving this for when I’m in a cozier mystery mood!🖤 🔎 BLACK WOLF by @juangomezjurado (available now!): this is the sequel to RED QUEEN, a book I was absolutely obsessed with last year. If you love THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO + Lisbeth Salander in particular, you will love this series!!! The series is in Spain, filled with amazing characters, + action-packed. 💯 Cannot WAIT to read this one. 🔎 A FRIEND IN THE DARK by @sbaileybooks (available now!): I always devour Samantha Bailey’s psychological thrillers, & this was no exception! When our protagonist’s husband asks for a divorce out of nowhere, she begins an online relationship with a man from her past, and things take dangerous turns. 🔎 MURDER ROAD by @simonestjames (available now!): ok I’m betting you’re sick of me talking about this one so I’ll just say… 5/5 ⭐️, probably my favorite Simone book. Plot: a newlywed couple pick up a hitchhiker, and find themselves drawn into the crosshairs of a possible serial killer. 🔎 LISTEN FOR THE LIE by @amytintera (available now!): my current read & I. Am. Obsessed. This Texas-set thriller (🤠❤️) is snarky, gripping, & sooo freaking fun. It follows a woman whose life is put under the microscope when a true crime podcaster takes on the unsolved murder of her best friend—and she’s the prime suspect, AND she can’t actually remember if she did it or not.🤯 🔎 THE NEW COUPLE IN 5B by @launger (available now!): I always love Lisa’s thrillers + can’t wait to read this one!!! In this book, a couple inherits a luxury NYC apartment with a spine-tingling past.👀 Which book would YOU pick up first?!🕵🏻‍♀️🖤
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9 дней назад
5 ⭐️ thriller recommendation 👇🏻 NIGHTWATCHING by @tsierraauthor , available now!!🖤 Somehow I haven’t yet told you about what’s sure to be one of my favorite thrillers of the year, so please allow me to rectify that…right now. I devoured NIGHTWATCHING back in January, and I’m quite sure this is going to be one of my favorite reads of 2024. NIGHTWATCHING begins with a woman waking up to the terrible realization that there is an intruder in her home.👀 Readers are along for the journey as she scrambles to save her two young children from a monster who has infiltrated their safest place. This dark, get-under-your-skin thriller tells a story of a home invasion—but it’s so much more than that, too. It’s a story that plays with the reliability of its characters. It’s a story about a mother desperate to do whatever it takes to protect her children. It’s a story about survival, about grief, about loss, about our greatest fears come true… AND a story about a mother’s love for her children in the face of the unthinkable. This sinister, claustrophobic, DARK thriller will keep you absolutely hooked from its first page to its very last. 🤯 NIGHTWATCHING was an easy 5/5 ⭐️ read for me. I loved this one & can’t recommend it highly enough!!!🖤 Are you a fan of dark thrillers? #bookrec #booktoread #thrillerbooks #readcrimefiction #booksilove #5starbook #5starread #crimebooks #bookreview #minibookreview
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10 дней назад
2024 so far 👇🏻 (Don’t mind me I’m having a very lazy Sunday and getting all kinds of nostalgic here looking through my camera roll soo I wanted to share a few of my fave bookish memories from the year so far!!!) • Celebrated AMAZING new books from @stacyvwillingham + @ladyhawkins at @murderbooks • Also celebrated the brilliant @nishita_author and her Houston-set debut thriller THE NIGHT OF THE STORM • All the coffees at @bl4cksmith • I was finally able to share the whole @hamptonswhodunit fiction lineup, which I’ve been working SO hard to put together the past… 7ish months and I’m so proud of it 🥹 • More book launches!!! Absolutely obsessed with @jennyhollander ’s debut thriller and loved chatting with her (also at @murderbooks 🖤) • Went to @emeraldcitycomiccon for work and got to help sell books at the Penguin Random House booth! Also discovered Michael Myers is a reader (I knew I loved him) • Moderated an event with one of my absolute favorite authors @simonestjames for her incredible new release MURDER ROAD (5/5 ⭐️🤯) Favorite reads of the year so far (ALL the books mentioned above are amazing + I would highly recommend them as well - but these are currently stuck in my mind as faves!!!): 💙 MURDER ROAD by Simone St. James 🖤 NIGHTWATCHING by Tracy Sierra 💚 FIRST LIE WINS by Ashley Elston 🖤 THE MOUNTAIN KING by Anders de la Motte Not pictured here: even more book events, hangouts with brilliant author friends, LOTS of hard work on crime festival things, gearing up for season 2 of my podcast (!!!), spending time with friends and family, finding new hobbies, dating (!!), all the things. It’s been a heck of a year so far.🤓🖤 What are your favorite reads of 2024 so far?!📚
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Crime by the Box picks for April, May, & June 2024 are here, and (yes I am biased but) it’s going to be an AMAZING spring for new crime fiction!!! 🖤 If you’re new around here: Crime by the Box is a book subscription service that I curate for @murderbooks , an incredible crime fiction-focused bookstore right here in Houston.🔎 Each month I pick a thriller I’m particularly excited about and subscribers get a signed hardcover copy, as well as a little note from yours truly about why I love the book. PLUS for Houston locals, the selected authors always come through town for an author event!!!🖤 Head to the link in my Stories for more info on the subscription service + to sign up. Monthly, 3-month, and annual subscriptions are available!🤓 About our spring picks 👇🏻 APRIL: Megan Miranda’s DAUGHTER OF MINE, a twisty small-town mystery about a woman who returns to her childhood home…and to all its secrets.👀 🗓️ Event date: 4/19 (with Clare Mackintosh and Kristen Bird!!) MAY: Emiko Jean’s THE RETURN OF ELLIE BLACK, a gripping thriller about a missing girl who reappears—and seems to be keeping secrets about what happened to her during her time gone. Stephen King is also a big fan of this one!!!👀 🗓️ Event date: 5/10 JUNE: Jaime Lynn Hendricks’ A LOVELY LIE, a juicy and page-turning psychological suspense novel about a group of friends bound together by a horrible accident years ago, and lingering secrets from that fateful night. 🗓️ Event date: 6/12 Head to my Stories for more info on all these books + Crime by the Box!!!🖤 PS. I’m sorry subtitles aren’t working on this reel 😫😫 all the info I say in the video is included in this caption!
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14 дней назад
🔎 Simone St. James Giveaway!!! [now closed - thank you to everyone who entered!!!]🔎 To celebrate the release of @simonestjames ’ newest thriller MURDER ROAD, I am SO excited to be able to give 2 lucky winners a Simone starter pack - aka 3 of my favorite books of hers!!! 🤓🖤 If you like your books dark, spine-tingling, character-driven, and TOTALLY addictive, Simone’s books will be RIGHT up your alley. She is one of my auto-buy authors, and the 3 books featured in this giveaway are my top 3 favorites of hers!!!! Books included in this 👇🏻 🔎 THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE: Simone’s debut, a historical supernatural suspense novel about a woman who accepts a job as the assistant to a ghost hunter 😱 🔎 MURDER ROAD: Simone’s latest release, a gripping thriller about a pair of newlyweds whose honeymoon take a dangerous turn when they pick up a hitchhiker on an abandoned road 👀 🔎 THE BOOK OF COLD CASES: a gripping dual-timeline mystery about a true crime blogger who gets the opportunity to interview a woman suspected of being a serial killer 🤯 I freaking LOVE Simone’s work and cannot recommend these books highly enough. I’m so excited to give 2 winners this little Simone bundle—giveaway rules/instructions below!!!🖤👇🏻 🚨Reminder: I will NEVER ask you to click any links/provide any sensitive information to claim your prize. I will contact winners only from this account, and will tag winners in the comments here too! (I feel like scam accounts always pop up when I run giveaway so….just putting this out there!!!) GIVEAWAY DETAILS: • Giveaway closes Friday, 3/15. Winners will be notified the weekend of 3/16. I will comment on this post with the winners handles and DM winners from this account, too. • US entrants only TO ENTER: • follow me (@crimebythebook ) and @berkleypub • tag a couple friends in the comments • for one bonus entry, share this post in your stories + tag me when you do so I can keep track!!🤓 This giveaway is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram. GOOD LUCK!!!🖤🔎 #readcrimefiction #simonestjames #newbooks #favoriteauthor #booksilove #thrillerbooks
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