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<em>Slow Horses</em> is <br>Worth the Slow Burn

Slow Horses is
Worth the Slow Burn

Come for the spy drama’s creative pedigree, stay for the deeply bleak comedy of spycraft gone 'goblin mode'

By Alexis Gunderson | April 8, 2022

For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

For historical mystery novelists like Stacie Murphy, research is an endless source of inspiration.

By Stacie Murphy | April 8, 2022

Turns out, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of <em>Veronica Mars</em>

Turns out, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of Veronica Mars

He collaborated with Rob Thomas on 2019's season 4 reboot, and it's actually a pretty charming story.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 7, 2022

Historical Novels Featuring Real People of the Past as Main Characters

Historical Novels Featuring Real People of the Past as Main Characters

9 books "that will take you back in time to another place."

By Jody Hadlock | April 7, 2022

Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

Crime writers talking craft, routine, and finding the perfect twist.

By Eli Cranor | April 7, 2022

Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

Superheroes are celebrated for their heroism. Supermums are celebrated for their drudgery. These books flip the script.

By Anna Downes | April 7, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman | April 6, 2022

On Time Travel and Metafiction

By Rachel Barenbaum | April 6, 2022

Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

By Amanda Eyre Ward | April 6, 2022

On The Law of Unintended Consequences

On The Law of Unintended Consequences

From the Streisand Effect to the Cobra Effect, the most interesting are the perverse.

By Jeffrey Siger | April 6, 2022

Forget <em>Frankenstein</em>. It's Time To Read <em>The Mummy!</em>

Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

By Lisa Tuttle | April 5, 2022

Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

On the long tradition and curious effects of introducing real-life literature into a mystery novel.

By Guilllermo Martínez | April 5, 2022

Grace D. Li On Car Chases, Art Heists, and Chinese-American Identity

Grace D. Li On Car Chases, Art Heists, and Chinese-American Identity

"Even though this is a heist book, it’s really a book about relationships—to yourself, your friends, your family."

By Molly Odintz | April 5, 2022

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

"New York is an onion with endless, overlapping layers. I could study it for the rest of my life and only scratch the surface of what there is to know."

By Carol Lawrence | April 4, 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 | April 4, 2022

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

'I don’t think we’ll ever stop being fascinated by the country Winston Churchill famously called "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"'

By Ellen Crosby | April 4, 2022

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