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How to Start a Love Affair with Audiobooks

How to Start a Love Affair with Audiobooks

Podcasts taught me how to listen, and other tips for going from audiobook failure to audiobook addict.

By Victoria Helen Stone | March 25, 2020

Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

Come for the thatched roofs and bicycles...stay for the murder.

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 24, 2020

A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

Five short stories that conjure up an immediate and inescapable feeling that something bad is about to happen.

By Rachel Harrison | March 24, 2020

Why Journalists Have Such a Hard Time Writing About Themselves

Why Journalists Have Such a Hard Time Writing About Themselves

And why turning to fiction is the solution for many.

By Christi Daugherty | March 23, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 24

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 24

The Killers (1946)

By Otto Penzler | March 23, 2020

Red Herrings in Contemporary Crime Literature

Red Herrings in Contemporary Crime Literature

Celebrating the 21st century masters of misdirection.

By Karen Dietrich | March 20, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Graphic Content: At the Intersection of Comics and Crime With Howard Chaykin

By Alex Segura | March 19, 2020

Harlan Coben Believes Planet of the Apes Is the Best Twist Ending in History

By CrimeReads | March 19, 2020

How to Write Perfect Twist Endings (That Will Shock and Delight Even Jaded Suspense Readers)

By Stephanie Wrobel | March 18, 2020

Why Robert Stone Went to Saigon—And Came Back With <em>Dog Soldiers</em>

Why Robert Stone Went to Saigon—And Came Back With Dog Soldiers

The dark journey of a classic novel of moral outrage.

By Madison Smartt Bell | March 17, 2020

In the Emergency Room, Doctors Need Detective Skills—And Empathy

In the Emergency Room, Doctors Need Detective Skills—And Empathy

Why Chris Bohjalian went looking for inspiration in the ER

By Chris Bohjalian | March 17, 2020

Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford: Hollywood's Greatest Feud

Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford: Hollywood's Greatest Feud

On the set of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962.

By Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan | March 16, 2020

On the Murder of Wesley Everest and the Bloody History of the Logging Industry

On the Murder of Wesley Everest and the Bloody History of the Logging Industry

In writing a crime novel, I took inspiration from my activist forbears and their epic confrontations with the robber barons of timber.

By melissaannpeterson2 | March 16, 2020

The Best Historical Fiction of 2020 (So Far)

The Best Historical Fiction of 2020 (So Far)

From murder at Plymouth Rock to intrigue in mid-century Florida, 10 standout historical crime novels to devour this spring

By Molly Odintz | March 12, 2020

<em>Spenser: Confidential</em> Isn’t Your Father’s Spenser. Hell, It Isn’t Even Robert B. Parker’s Spenser.

Spenser: Confidential Isn’t Your Father’s Spenser. Hell, It Isn’t Even Robert B. Parker’s Spenser.

A new look and a new era for Boston's legendary private eye.

By Keith Roysdon | March 12, 2020

The Essential Crime Novels of Los Angeles

The Essential Crime Novels of Los Angeles

34 novels every lover of LA Noir should read as soon as humanly possible.

By Katie Orphan | March 11, 2020

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