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The Most Haunting Settings in Crime Fiction

The Most Haunting Settings in Crime Fiction

"I’m a fan of a more traditional setting...stormy weather, isolated places and the darkness that hides the evil from sight."

By Max Seeck | October 26, 2020

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 | October 26, 2020

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Fonseca captured the life of Rio de Janeiro like nobody else. Revisiting his work now, after his death, is an uncanny experience.

By Ela Bittencourt | October 23, 2020

Six Debut Novels You Should Read This October

Six Debut Novels You Should Read This October

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

By CrimeReads | October 23, 2020

Edward Gorey designed the sets for the 1970s Broadway run of <em>Dracula</em>

Edward Gorey designed the sets for the 1970s Broadway run of Dracula

As expected, they're very beautiful, very creepy, and very fun.

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 22, 2020

Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

"Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."

By Stuart Turton | October 22, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Bringing the Traditional Murder Mystery to India

By RV Raman | October 22, 2020

'Rebecca' at Eighty: The Women Behind the Hitchcock Classic

By Christina Lane | October 21, 2020

The 52 Best, Worst, and Strangest Draculas of All-Time, Ranked

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 21, 2020

Sapphic Chiller Double Feature

Sapphic Chiller Double Feature

Gothic horror has long been a home for lesbian and queer women. These pairings of books and movies push the conversation forward.

By emily m. danforth | October 20, 2020

The Infamous Deeds and Postmortem Travels of William Corder

The Infamous Deeds and Postmortem Travels of William Corder

After his execution for murder, William Corder's body was given to the dissectors, and his skin used to bind a book about his trial: just the start of the corpse's long afterlife.

By Megan Rosenbloom | October 20, 2020

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 | October 19, 2020

10 Political True Crime Podcasts to Listen to this Election Season

10 Political True Crime Podcasts to Listen to this Election Season

If there's one arena never in shortage of addictive crime stories, it's politics.

By Lizzy Steiner | October 19, 2020

Six True Crime Books to Read This October

Six True Crime Books to Read This October

Coal country murders, books bound in skin, and code languages.

By CrimeReads | October 16, 2020

<em>Killing Them Softly</em> Is the Desperate, Pitch-Black Noir That Perfectly Captures What America Has Become

Killing Them Softly Is the Desperate, Pitch-Black Noir That Perfectly Captures What America Has Become

The 2012 film adapted the George V. Higgins classic and predicted the country's bleak road ahead.

By Zach Vasquez | October 16, 2020

Crime Writers Who Hate Writing About Crime: <br>A Conversation with Layne Fargo and Wendy Heard

Crime Writers Who Hate Writing About Crime:
A Conversation with Layne Fargo and Wendy Heard

The creators of the Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast on the the tricky business of fictional murder.

By Layne Fargo | October 16, 2020

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