Marilyn Stasio's latest crime fiction column travels to Italy for two novels, reviewing Magdalen Nabb's posthumous Vita Nuova set in Florence and Grace Brophy's A Deadly Paradise set in Assisi. Other titles reviewed include Thomas Perry’s new thriller, Fidelity and Boris Akunin's historical Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk.

The New York Times also has a profile of Lee Child who says “The idea of writing against a huge landscape, a vast continent where anything could happen, greatly appealed to me, and I also discovered that the emptier I made Reacher, the more of a mirror he became. The reader has a chance to partly create the character himself.”

The San Francisco Chronicle has reviews of new works: Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina, The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes and Hard Case Crime's reissue of Shepard Rifkin's The Murderer Vine.

Otto Penzler reviews (unfavorably) Alix Lambert's anthology of interviews titled Crime.

The Seattle Times takes a look at new crime fiction titles This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas translted by translation by Sian Reynolds, Mike Lawson's thriller House Rules, Lawrence Block's latest John Keller installment Hit and Run, Ruth Rendell's latest Inspector Wexford book Not in the Flesh, Alan Furst's The Spies of Warsaw, Steve Martini's Shadow of Power, and Philip Margolin's Executive Privilege.

The Economist features an article on new crime fiction inspired by and set in China.

Marketwire waxes rhapsodically about author Jon Land who they point out was recently hailed as "the greatest thriller writer alive today" by Bookviews.