Four novels featuring cultural institutions & crime

Molly Odintz is the managing editor for CrimeReads and the editor of Austin Noir. She grew up in Austin and worked as a bookseller before becoming a Very Professional Internet Person. She lives in central Texas with her cat, Fritz Lang.

At CrimeReads Odintz tagged "four excellent recent and upcoming novels featuring cultural institutions and plenty of crimes." One title on the list:

Maha Khan Phillips, The Museum Detective

This book is so cool! As The Museum Detective begins, an archaeologist gets a call from the police to identify a body—specifically, a mummy preserved in a highly unusual sarcophagus that just about everyone would like to get their hands on, for profit or for politics.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue