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Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes:

Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes: "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

Olivia Rutigliano close-reads the classic tale of family, blackmail, and Australia

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 22, 2022

The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Fall 2022 (and Beyond!)

The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Fall 2022 (and Beyond!)

108 new and upcoming titles to keep you reading through the end of the year.

By Molly Odintz | September 22, 2022

10 Cozy Detective Series You Need In Your Life

10 Cozy Detective Series You Need In Your Life

It's Time to Make Room for Some New Amateur Sleuths!

By Sofie Kelly | September 22, 2022

September's Best Debut Novels

September's Best Debut Novels

The best new novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers, from first-time authors.

By CrimeReads | September 21, 2022

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Fall

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Fall

The best new crime stories and conversations coming to a podcast feed near you.

By Lizzy Steiner | September 21, 2022

Lamar Giles on Social Horror in Fact and Fiction

Lamar Giles on Social Horror in Fact and Fiction

"It’s fun as fiction if it remains fiction. That’s sort of up to society though, isn’t it?"

By Lamar Giles | September 20, 2022

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Why Lawyers Make Such Good (and Bad) Mystery Novelists

By Allen Eskens | September 20, 2022

The childless female villain: trope or technique?

By Kia Abdullah | September 20, 2022

Our Death Rooms: The Act of Mourning In Horror

By Clay McLeod Chapman | September 19, 2022

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | September 19, 2022

<em>See How They Run</em> is about the Theatricality of Whodunnits

See How They Run is about the Theatricality of Whodunnits

The game new mystery film turns out to be a riff on Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap, among other delightful surprises

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 16, 2022

Five Ways to Break Up, According to Michael Mann’s Films

Five Ways to Break Up, According to Michael Mann’s Films

Breakups are hard. Too many mistakes, regrets, recriminations. Too many SWAT team members assembling outside...

By Nick Kolakowski | September 16, 2022

Pre-Revolution Chinese Detective Fiction

Pre-Revolution Chinese Detective Fiction

On China's Golden Age of crime writing.

By Jess Nevins | September 16, 2022

Five Mystery Novels That Prioritize Character, Style, and Insight

Five Mystery Novels That Prioritize Character, Style, and Insight

"Genre fiction can be every bit as inventive and arty and revelatory as something dubbed literature."

By Mark Stevens | September 15, 2022

Where to Start with Dark Academia Fiction

Where to Start with Dark Academia Fiction

"[I]t is a truth universally acknowledged that throwing privileged, hypereducated intellectuals together into small, isolated, pressure-cooker environments can sometimes lead to murder."

By Joanna Margaret | September 15, 2022

Considering the Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Motherhood

Considering the Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Motherhood

Barbara Graham on writing a past life murder mystery.

By Barbara Graham | September 15, 2022

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