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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?"

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..."

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.

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."

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.

Argonne Forest Park, Then and Now

How Argonne Forest Park became a succor for veterans and the inspiration for a novel.

Seven Great Rural Crime Films

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

The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

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

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

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.

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