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8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Spring

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Spring

Scoundrels, Grifters, and Sacred Con Artists

By Lizzy Steiner | April 15, 2022

Walking the Line: A Marriage of Thriller & Romance

Walking the Line: A Marriage of Thriller & Romance

"[W]ould anyone like a dark thriller-romance where the main characters aren’t forced or conditioned to love, but accidentally trip and fall into it the old-fashioned way?"

By Nicole Fanning | April 15, 2022

Gillian Flynn's Anti-Heroines And The Dark Side of Feminism

Gillian Flynn's Anti-Heroines And The Dark Side of Feminism

"[I]f women can be anything they want, then they can be terrible people too..."

By Laure Van Rensburg | April 14, 2022

My First Thriller: Robert Dugoni

My First Thriller: Robert Dugoni

The bestselling author explains how he bounced around between jobs, agents and publishers, holding onto a dream, and eventually achieving it.

By Rick Pullen | April 14, 2022

Carter Wilson: What I've Learned Through Hosting a Writing Podcast

Carter Wilson: What I've Learned Through Hosting a Writing Podcast

"Looking back on the past year of interviews, here are seven things I've learned from these amazing writers."

By Carter Wilson | April 14, 2022

Science Fiction For Crime Lovers: a Beginner’s Tour

Science Fiction For Crime Lovers: a Beginner’s Tour

Or, a look at five great scifi novels that also happen to be pitch-black noirs.

By Adam Oyebanji | April 13, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Argonne Forest Park, Then and Now

By Jess Montgomery | April 12, 2022

Seven Great Rural Crime Films

By Jeremy Scott | April 12, 2022

The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

By W. H. Flint | April 12, 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 11, 2022

<em>Tokyo Vice</em> Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2022

How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

By Keith Roysdon | April 8, 2022

On Junk Science and Poverty

On Junk Science and Poverty

How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

By M. Chris Fabricant | April 8, 2022

<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

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