This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

The rebirth of prestige imprint Hard Case Crime seems to have inspired its founder, Charles Ardai, to offer bolder original novels than ever before, some for the first time in hardcover. Ariel S. Winter's debut is one such. The narrative comes in three parts, each paying homage to a different classic crime novelist.

Fans of Jo Nesbø's last two Harry Hole mysteries rejoice: the retired Oslo police investigator is back. When the son of an old flame is wrongfully accused of murder, Harry must return from Hong Kong and descend, once more, into Norway's underworld.

A beautiful young widow trapped in a lousy job snares a rich new husband. But when he dies, the police suspect she's iced more than his drinks. The last novel of noir master James M. Cain, author of Mildred Pierce and The Postman Always Rings Twice, finally sees the light of day.

Ginger Strand traces the parallel histories of America's interstate highways and the specter that began to stalk them almost as soon as the concrete had dried -- the highway killer. What were intended as roads to utopia quickly became equated with violence, and Strand maps the unique place the blood-soaked freeway still occupies in our shared cultural consciousness.

Celebrated documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris couldn't stay away from the baffling and contentious case of Jeffrey MacDonald, a military doctor convicted in 1979 of murdering his family.  Two decades of intense research have resulted in his electrifying re-examination of the crime.

Former getaway driver Charles "Shake" Bouchon is living the good life in Belize. But when he runs afoul of local drug lord Baby Jesus, Lou Berney's comic novel takes a turn for the absurd. Now Shake is fleeing for his life, and the only person who can save him is an ex-girlfriend who bears him even more ill will than the assasins on his tail.

Cases don't come much colder than this --the year was 1937, and as Japanese forces closed in on what is now Beijing, the teenage daughter of an expatriate Englishman was found,  horribly murdered, in a neighborhood abutting the city's opium dens.  War brushed the investigation aside, and Pamela Werner's killer was never found.  Now Paul French picks up the trail in an atmospheric work of history and detection.

Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep returns to solve another head-spinning, stomach-turning case in John Burdett's fifth Bangkok-based novel. In this instance, a particularly gruesome triple murder launches the idiosyncratic, personal-problem-plagued cop on a chase for an international organ-trafficking ring led by a set of diabolical, drop-dead gorgeous Chinese twins known as the Vultures. Fresh, funny, and completely wild.

How's this for a chilling premise: A nurse who agrees to pick up a package at a train station locker for an estranged pal finds that the "package" is a suitcase containing a drugged, but alive, 3-year-old boy. But who is he? When the estranged friend turns up murdered, the nurse knows she and the boy are also in danger, but who's after them, and why? Stieg Larsson fans won't want to miss this award-winning Danish crime novel.

Expanding his 2009 Vanity Fair piece about Christian Gerhartsreiter--a real-life Tom Ripley who managed to parlay his silver tongue and feverish imagination into an high-class imposture--Mark Seal explores an incredible hoax that reeled in countless victims. The human wreckage that "Clark Rockefeller" left in his wake is astonishing, yet you can't help but marvel at the nerve of this brazen anti-hero.

A fictional re-imagining of Machine Gun Kelly and the wild heyday of Depression-era gangsters, written by Ace Atkins, a novelist Michael Connelly calls "one of the best crime writers at work today." Read more...

A new Boston-set crime novel from the co-author (with Guillermo del Toro) of The Strain. Read more...

How forensic science came of age in Jazz Age New York. Praising Blum's "extraordinary narrative alchemy", our columnist Sarah Weinman calls it "an unexpected yet appropriate open-sesame into a world that was planting seeds for the world -- with lethal toxins and cutting-edge tools -- that would later, darkly bloom." Read more...

The fascinating true tale of an Italian gang’s heist of millions of dollars worth of gems from a supposedly thief-proof vault in the heart of Antwerp’s fabled diamond district. Read more...