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    The Most Anticipated Crime Books Of 2021: Summer Reading Edition

    The Most Anticipated Crime Books Of 2021: Summer Reading Edition

    80 crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, and nonfiction books to keep you reading all summer long.

    By CrimeReads | May 13, 2021

    I Owe You My Childishness: An Author's Defense of Escapism, Fun, and Generally Licentious Behavior in Thrillers

    I Owe You My Childishness: An Author's Defense of Escapism, Fun, and Generally Licentious Behavior in Thrillers

    For Aidan Truhen, now is the time for morally disimproving books.

    By Aidan Truhen | May 13, 2021

    9 Great Thrillers Featuring Alter Egos

    9 Great Thrillers Featuring Alter Egos

    Regular Joe by day, murderer by night...

    By S.A. Lelchuk | May 12, 2021

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    The "Three-Dimensional Game-Board" of Agatha Christie's Country Houses

    From family estates to Christie's wartime residences, a look at the homes that inspired her settings.

    By Phyllis Richardson | May 11, 2021

    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    The spy who escaped prison and captured popular imagination.

    By Simon Kuper | May 11, 2021

    New Books Coming Out This Week

    New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | May 10, 2021

    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

    In Psychological Thrillers, It's All About the 'Wife'

    By Kaira Rouda | May 10, 2021

    Shop Talk: Stephen Mack Jones Writes with Godzilla at His Side

    By Eli Cranor | May 7, 2021

    Why Are So Many Crime Novels Set In The Pacific Northwest?

    By Jason M. Hough | May 7, 2021

    A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

    A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

    Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.

    By Sharon Dempsey | May 7, 2021

    My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

    My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

    How Harlan Coben went from guiding tour buses in Spain to writing blockbuster novels that the French (and just about everyone else) can't get enough of.

    By Rick Pullen | May 6, 2021

    To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings

    To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings

    "It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."

    By Gin Phillips | May 6, 2021

    The 2021 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

    The 2021 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

    A round of applause for the nominees!

    By CrimeReads | May 5, 2021

    Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

    Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

    Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

    By Michelle Dunne | May 5, 2021

    The Art of Worldbuilding <br>In Medias Res

    The Art of Worldbuilding
    In Medias Res

    "Your readers are very, very smart. Trust them. They will pick up those breadcrumbs of context and piece them together like nobody’s business..."

    By Nicole Kornher-Stace | May 5, 2021

    10 Novels You Should Read This May

    10 Novels You Should Read This May

    The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | May 5, 2021

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