Summer's Best Debut Novels

Summer's Best Debut Novels

The season's best crime, mystery, and thrillers from first-time authors.

By CrimeReads | August 17, 2022

A Reading List of Psychopathic Women

A Reading List of Psychopathic Women

"The idea of another woman skating through life without any shame brings both admiration and a touch of jealousy."

By Kathleen Hale | August 17, 2022

Why True Crime Readers Make Ideal Romance Novel Protagonists

Why True Crime Readers Make Ideal Romance Novel Protagonists

Or, how to find love in a time of serial killers.

By Alicia Thompson | August 17, 2022

You Can't Look Away: On Responsibility and Horror

You Can't Look Away: On Responsibility and Horror

What is the responsibility of the author - and the audience - in creating and consuming horror?

By Michael Seidlinger | August 16, 2022

"There's Nothing More Suspenseful Than Real Life"

Joy Fielding on the craft of psychological suspense.

By Joy Fielding | August 16, 2022

What's In a Name?

What's In a Name?

For crime fiction writers, few questions are more important.

By W.A. Winter | August 16, 2022

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  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

Writing a Romance versus Writing a Mystery

By Kitt Crowe | August 16, 2022

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | August 15, 2022

The Best Underrated Mystery Series Streaming Now

By Kris Calvin | August 15, 2022

The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery, aka Edmund Crispin

The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery, aka Edmund Crispin

Music composer by day, crime writer by night, bon vivant in his youth, and reclusive alcoholic in his twilight...

By Curtis Evans | August 12, 2022

I'll Always Be Chasing <br><em>Bullet Train</em>

I'll Always Be Chasing
Bullet Train

The new film from David Leitch about various dangerous strangers on a train is a delightfully breakneck ride

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 12, 2022

The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of 2022 (So Far)

The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of 2022 (So Far)

A queer history of a women's prison, a take-down of junk science, a reckoning with Southern history, and more...

By CrimeReads | August 12, 2022

Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of <em>Moonrise Kingdom</em>

Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson's film about two misunderstood preteens has more in common with Terrence Malick’s Badlands than it might seem.

By Ethan Warren | August 12, 2022

On Alternative Futures and the Fear of Science

On Alternative Futures and the Fear of Science

"Criminalizing science tends to be about control, not ethics."

By Katelyn Monroe Howes | August 12, 2022

Lisa Jewell: How I Accidentally Wrote a Detective Into My Psychological Thriller

Lisa Jewell: How I Accidentally Wrote a Detective Into My Psychological Thriller

An author who had quite deliberately kept detectives and police out of her novels finally lets one in.

By Lisa Jewell | August 11, 2022

These Novels Shuffle Tropes Like Cards

These Novels Shuffle Tropes Like Cards

Great books for those who "love seeing how a skilled author crafts the time-worn trope into a new, fresh story."

By Christina Dodd | August 11, 2022

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