Theater and Other <br>Criminal Acts

Theater and Other
Criminal Acts

What famous crime stories and films borrow from theater

By Ann Aptaker | July 13, 2022

Adventures in Writing Time Travel

Adventures in Writing Time Travel

Kelley Armstrong on all the details you need to get right to believably whisk your characters (and your readers) into the past

By Kelley Armstrong | July 13, 2022

Trying To Do Too Much? Don't.

Trying To Do Too Much? Don't.

Rachel Howzell Hall has some tips for how to relax, avoid burnout, and reset your creative gears.

By Rachel Howzell Hall | July 12, 2022

On Dead Girls and Feminism in Horror

On Dead Girls and Feminism in Horror

"[F]eminist horror allows women to crawl out of their own victimhood and presents a story about the complexities of female terror."

By Katrina Monroe | July 12, 2022

A Beginner's Guide to Using (and Exploding) Horror Tropes

A Beginner's Guide to Using (and Exploding) Horror Tropes

"A trope can be as complex and metaphorical as a labyrinthine haunted house, or as a simple as the image of a bloody knife."

By Eva V. Gibson | July 11, 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 | July 11, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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

All Falked Up

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 8, 2022

7 Movies Depicting a “Perfect” Murder

By David Ellis | July 8, 2022

21 New and Upcoming Historical Fiction Titles To Check Out This Summer

By Molly Odintz | July 7, 2022

Shop Talk: James Kestrel on Writing Novels During Lunch in Quiet Honolulu Bars

Shop Talk: James Kestrel on Writing Novels During Lunch in Quiet Honolulu Bars

Crime writers talking writing routines, revision, and finding the right bar atmosphere for an epic crime novel.

By Eli Cranor | July 7, 2022

The Best New Crime Novels Coming Out in July

The Best New Crime Novels Coming Out in July

Featuring new books from Jennifer Hillier, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more.

By CrimeReads | July 6, 2022

Southern Gothic Crime Fiction: A Palimpsest and Primer

Southern Gothic Crime Fiction: A Palimpsest and Primer

Faye Snowden on the most American genre, which "makes visible problems we have with race, gender, economic inequality, [and] corrupt leadership..."

By Faye Snowden | July 6, 2022

Into the Past: <br>Blood Transfusions in the Seventeenth Century

Into the Past:
Blood Transfusions in the Seventeenth Century

Historical fiction writer Robert Lloyd on a series of bizarre and bloody experiments in Restoration England.

By Robert Lloyd | July 6, 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 | July 5, 2022

A Question of Character: On James Patterson and Diversity in Crime Fiction

A Question of Character: On James Patterson and Diversity in Crime Fiction

What makes crime fiction today so exciting is the diversity and complexity of characters.

By E.A. Aymar | July 5, 2022

Chris Cander Talks Neighborhood Insularity and Suburban Cruelty

Chris Cander Talks Neighborhood Insularity and Suburban Cruelty

Fellow Texas writer Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Cander about her new novel and the 1917 short story that forms its basis.

By Jenny Staff Johnson | July 5, 2022

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