Liz French

Sisters on the run from racists, senior assassins dodging bullets, and a photographer plagued by ghosts featured in the best crime fiction of 2022.

The best pop fiction titles of 2022 enable readers to travel to an isolated mountain village where women disappear, Hollywood during its Golden Age, and revolutionary-era Saint-Domingue and France.

A resonant road trip, a sterling caper, and a debut cozy. The best crime fiction of 2021.

Annie Oakley, J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, and a young mother becoming…something else inhabit the best pop fiction of 2021.

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read Better Off Dead by Lee Child & Andrew Child.

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting for Dream Girl by Laura Lippman.

A girl with a louding voice, a bawdy observer, a woman making her own happy ending. The best pop fiction novels published in 2020.

A wheelman-turned-family man, four crafty retirees, a newly made vigilante. The best crime fiction published in 2020.

The "What We're Reading & Watching" staffers are watching Michael Jordan and Gene Kelly dance; reading about the lack of honor among mafiosi; experiencing displacement and alienation in wartime Hungary; mingling with British couples; and discovering the humor in Balzac.