Looking for a good book to read this weekend? We can’t recommend Child 44 strongly enough. It’s the first in a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith that kicks off in the Soviet Union just before the death of Stalin and is utterly compelling — just force yourselves through the first 30 or so pages. Meanwhile, ITW magazine has just reminded us to check for new releases from Gregg Hurwitz and Blake Crouch. If you haven’t read them before, head straight for Hurwitz’s The Crime Writer and The Survivor or Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy.