Short story collections reveal the fragile beauty of human experience in Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour, Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Everyone Still Here, Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez, and Tony Birch’s Pictures of You. Then we shift gears and crank up the suspense with a look at some new crime fiction, including the icy new instalment in the phenomenally successful The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Millennium series, the brainchild of late author Stieg Larsson, and now written by Karin Smirnoff; plus, a sharp round-up of some recent Australian releases. BOOKS  Short story collections:  Salman Rushdie, The Eleventh Hour, Jonathan Cape  Liadan Ní Chuinn, Everyone Still Here, Granta  Tony Birch, Pictures of You, UQP  Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez, Scribe   Crime:  Karin Smirnoff, The Girl with Ice in her Veins (translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death), Maclehose Press  Michael Brissenden, Dust, Affirm Press  Garry Disher, Mischance Creek, Text  Chris Hammer, Legacy, Allen & Unwin  Kerry Greenwood, Murder in the Cathedral, Allen & Unwin  Jane Harper, Last One Out, Macmillan   Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground, Allen & Unwin  Abir Mukherjee, The Burning Grounds, Harvill Secker  GUESTS Johan Gabrielsson, Host of the Noir Hear This podcast. Documentary maker. His film Climate Changers is available on the streaming platfrom DocPlay, and has an upcoming screening in Sydney   Professor Sue Turnbull, Crime fiction reviewer, academic, and co-author of Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, works Henning Mankell, works John Ajvide Lindquist, The Writing in the Water; The Room in the Ground  Christian Kracht, Kracht x 3; The Dead   Ulf Kvensler, Sarek Sam Guthrie, The Peak CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Hamish Camilleri and Harvey O'Sullivan Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown