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The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: March 2022

The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: March 2022

Boarding school mysteries, estranged sisters, and small-town football clashes.

By Lisa Levy | March 23, 2022

The Most Successful Madam in America

The Most Successful Madam in America

How Nellie Jackson went from sex worker to madam to highly connected civil rights advocate.

By Sara A Mueller | March 23, 2022

Preston and Child: The Most Productive Writing Team in Fiction

Preston and Child: The Most Productive Writing Team in Fiction

Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston on their decades of collaboration.

By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | March 23, 2022

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at <em>True Grit</em> Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at True Grit Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

It was a long journey from coaching football to his breakout debut novel, but there's no doubting it: Eli Cranor has arrived.

By Dwyer Murphy | March 22, 2022

Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West

Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West

"There’s scares in them thar hills. You just have to know how to find them."

By Matthew Lyons | March 22, 2022

<em>The Conversation</em>: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the

The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

By Brian Hochman | March 22, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Why Do We Love Heists?
The Short Answer:
Competency Porn

By Marion Deeds | March 22, 2022

Books that Smash the Patriarchy

By Jayne Cowie | March 22, 2022

Morbid Podcast Host and Autopsy Technician Alaina Urquhart Talks True Crime and Turning to Fiction

By Molly Odintz | March 22, 2022

The Private Eye As Family Man

The Private Eye As Family Man

How The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Last Boy Scout Brought the PI Film into the ‘90s

By Sam Wiebe | March 21, 2022

How Being A Civil Rights Attorney Influenced My Crime Fiction

How Being A Civil Rights Attorney Influenced My Crime Fiction

Author and community activist Veronica Gutierrez reflects on the hard lessons learned from her time working as a civil rights lawyer.

By Veronica Gutierrez | March 21, 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 | March 21, 2022

How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

Michael Landweber wanted to write a book where violence was absent in all the places we most expected it.

By Michael Landweber | March 21, 2022

March's Best International Crime Books

March's Best International Crime Books

Argentine forgers, Korean assassins, and French witches

By Molly Odintz | March 18, 2022

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

By Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz | March 18, 2022

People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

Erika Krouse on having the kind of face that spurs others to reveal their fears, anxieties, and darkest revelations.

By Erika Krouse | March 18, 2022

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