Crime Reads
    • Features
      • Essays
      • Interviews
      • Reading Lists
      • New Nonfiction
    • Culture
      • TV & Film
      • Podcasts
      • Craft
      • Awards/Festivals
    • True Crime
    • Daily Thrill
    • Genres
      • Mystery
      • Noir/Hardboiled
      • Suspense
      • Espionage/Thriller
      • Legal/Procedural
    • Literary Hub
    • Book Marks
    • Log In
    • Features
      • Essays
      • Interviews
      • Reading Lists
      • New Nonfiction
    • Culture
      • TV & Film
      • Podcasts
      • Craft
      • Awards/Festivals
    • True Crime
    • Daily Thrill
    • Genres
      • Mystery
      • Noir/Hardboiled
      • Suspense
      • Espionage/Thriller
      • Legal/Procedural
    • Literary Hub
    • Book Marks
    • Log In
    What Authors Can Learn from the Greatest Long Takes in Movie History

    What Authors Can Learn from the Greatest Long Takes in Movie History

    An unedited shot can create incredible tension and excitement—it works for novelists, too.

    By Nicci French | January 28, 2020

    Who is Rodney Reed? A Primer on this Texas Death Row Case

    Who is Rodney Reed? A Primer on this Texas Death Row Case

    A brief introduction to the principal figures of a complex case earning comparisons to To Kill A Mockingbird

    By Nile Cappello | January 28, 2020

    Me and the G-Man

    Me and the G-Man

    A crime writer's research sparks an unlikely
    friendship with an FBI agent

    By Nina Sadowsky | January 27, 2020

    6 True Crime Books to Read This January

    6 True Crime Books to Read This January

    A look at the month's best in crime nonfiction.

    By CrimeReads | January 24, 2020

    What We Write About When We Write About the Past

    What We Write About When We Write About the Past

    How to make historical fiction true to its time period, without making it stuffy. (Hint: the devil is in the details.)

    By Raymond Fleishchmann | January 24, 2020

    Crimes Without Punishment: Inside the Narratives That Border True Crime

    Crimes Without Punishment: Inside the Narratives That Border True Crime

    The books pushing at the boundaries of true crime storytelling.

    By Tobias Carroll | January 24, 2020

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • The Disappearers
    • The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
    • Agrippa
    • Under Story
    • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
    • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
    • I Liked Rex
    • Asmodeus
    • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

    Seven True Crime Books for Domestic-Suspense Lovers

    By Lisa Levy | January 23, 2020

    Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village

    By Maureen Johnson | January 23, 2020

    Announcing the 2020 Edgar Award Nominations

    By CrimeReads | January 22, 2020

    No Such Thing As a Nice Guy: Reading Andrea Dworkin and Watching <em>You</em>

    No Such Thing As a Nice Guy: Reading Andrea Dworkin and Watching You

    Joe isn't a serial killer. He's a batterer. And his reform is just part of the cycle of abuse.

    By Torrey Crim | January 22, 2020

    How to Write a Character with Dissociative Disorder When You Have Dissociative Disorder

    How to Write a Character with Dissociative Disorder When You Have Dissociative Disorder

    On Writing Trauma and Healing Through Fiction

    By L.A. Villafane | January 22, 2020

    Searching for a Los Angeles Cop Novel of My Own

    Searching for a Los Angeles Cop Novel of My Own

    L.A. is a city of iconic crime novels. Lee Goldberg went searching for new terrain.

    By Lee Goldberg | January 21, 2020

    What Books Would You Most Want To See Transformed into a Film or Series?

    What Books Would You Most Want To See Transformed into a Film or Series?

    A Political Thriller Writer's On-screen Adaptation Wishlist

    By Chris Hauty | January 17, 2020

    Golden Age Hollywood was Full of Ex-Cons

    Golden Age Hollywood was Full of Ex-Cons

    On Booth and Tasker, the formerly incarcerated screenwriters who brought authenticity to early Hollywood crime cinema.

    By Vince Keenan | January 16, 2020

    Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen On Writing Together

    Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen On Writing Together

    The mother and son writing duo talk collaboration, conference calls, and killing off beloved characters.

    By Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen | January 16, 2020

    Why Crime Writers Have to Travel

    Why Crime Writers Have to Travel

    On the importance of setting and atmosphere—and the surreal Icelandic summer.

    By Nick Petrie | January 15, 2020

    « First‹ Previous208209210211212213214215216Next ›Last »
    Page 212 of 255
  • Support Us!

  • Popular Posts

    • 10 New Books Coming Out This WeekAugust 3, 2026
      0
    • 2.
      26 New and Upcoming Historical Novels To Check Out in the Second Half of 2026July 9, 2026 by Molly Odintz
      0
    • 3.
      Five Deep Cut UK Procedurals to watch as you wait for Dept. Q to returnJuly 1, 2026 by Olivia Rutigliano
      0
    • 4.
      June's Best International FictionJune 26, 2026 by Molly Odintz
      0
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member