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Seven Great Rural Crime Films

Seven Great Rural Crime Films

These crime stories take advantage of the “wide-open intimacy” of a small, tight-knit community.

By Jeremy Scott | April 12, 2022

The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

On William d'Alton Mann, prolific gossip columnist and profligate blackmailer.

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Slow Horses is
Worth the Slow Burn

By Alexis Gunderson | April 8, 2022

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

By Stacie Murphy | April 8, 2022

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

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

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired <em>Twin Peaks</em>

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

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

On Time Travel and Metafiction

On Time Travel and Metafiction

Every time traveler has something they want to fix – and something they can't help but risk destroying.

By Rachel Barenbaum | April 6, 2022

Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is a writer's greatest craft tool.

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

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