Books that inspired me in 2024, by Josh Stallings

 Crime fiction spreads across all genres, here are some of my favorite reads of the last year.

Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake is a brilliant weave of spy novel, anthropology and a character study. Following a freelance spy/investigator as she infiltrates a rural French commune, it delves into a prehistoric cultural divide between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, the deadly danger of mega farming, and the destructive nature of capitalism. 

“The whole internet is like a giant mirror. A swampy refl...