Nine (crime or gothic) novels with romance at the center

Molly Odintz is the Senior Editor for CrimeReads and the editor of Austin Noir, forthcoming from Akashic Books. She grew up in Austin and worked as a bookseller at BookPeople, and

recently returned to Central Texas after five years in NYC. She likes cats, crime novels, and coffee.

At CrimeReads she tagged nine "recent and upcoming novels in which love is at the center," including:

Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

The premise of this one is simple: a woman obsessed with true crime podcasts meets a handsome and charming man. Is he a serial killer? Or has she finally, at long last, met someone she can trust?

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue