Crime Reads
    • Features
      • Essays
      • Interviews
      • Reading Lists
      • New Nonfiction
    • Culture
      • TV & Film
      • Podcasts
      • Craft
      • Awards/Festivals
    • True Crime
    • Daily Thrill
    • Genres
      • Mystery
      • Noir/Hardboiled
      • Suspense
      • Espionage/Thriller
      • Legal/Procedural
    • Literary Hub
    • Book Marks
    • Log In
    • Features
      • Essays
      • Interviews
      • Reading Lists
      • New Nonfiction
    • Culture
      • TV & Film
      • Podcasts
      • Craft
      • Awards/Festivals
    • True Crime
    • Daily Thrill
    • Genres
      • Mystery
      • Noir/Hardboiled
      • Suspense
      • Espionage/Thriller
      • Legal/Procedural
    • Literary Hub
    • Book Marks
    • Log In
    Writing into Gaps: Joshilyn Jackson on Creating a Fictional Sister

    Writing into Gaps: Joshilyn Jackson on Creating a Fictional Sister

    The author of Missing Sister heals real-life loss with imagined characters

    By Joshilyn Jackson | March 13, 2026

    Five Great Suspense Novels Set in the Entertainment World

    Five Great Suspense Novels Set in the Entertainment World

    Big egos, big money, and clashing obsessions.

    By Joshilyn Jackson | April 26, 2023

    The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

    The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

    "By the time we are five, we have an inkling that the world is not fair; I am not sure we ever resign ourselves fully to that awful truth."

    By Joshilyn Jackson | April 29, 2021

    On Loving Unreliable Narrators and Their Relatable Justifications

    On Loving Unreliable Narrators and Their Relatable Justifications

    They're telling their own stories, and we can't help but empathize.

    By Joshilyn Jackson | August 2, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
    • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
    • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
    • Queen of Lombard Street
    • Paradise Burns
    • Doppelgänger
    • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
    • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
    • The Turning of Sally-Mae
  • Support Us!

  • Popular Posts

    • Picture This: True Tales of Illustrated ThrillersOctober 14, 2026
      0
    • 2.
      Adrian Van Young on Growing Up in the Metal Scene and Finding His Way to Crime FictionOctober 13, 2026 by Adrian Van Young
      0
    • 3.
      The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Fall 2026September 11, 2026 by Molly Odintz
      0
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member