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High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

"Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

By Matt Plass | April 7, 2025

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | April 7, 2025

A Quest for a Loyal <em>Dracula</em> Adaptation

A Quest for a Loyal Dracula Adaptation

A fan's cry for textual accuracy

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 4, 2025

‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

Tales from the world of resurgent interest in those midcentury magazines with outlandish headlines and legions of readers.

By Keith Roysdon | April 4, 2025

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

By Grady Hendrix | April 4, 2025

New International Fiction to Check Out This Spring

Cultural clashes in India, pop stars in France, queer heroes in Turkey, and more

By Molly Odintz | April 4, 2025

Best Reviewed
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Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

By Queer Crime Writers | April 3, 2025

The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

By Polly Stewart | April 3, 2025

And we have a clip from Season 2 of Poker Face!

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2025

Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

Finding a story's emotional truth.

By Bryan Gruley | April 2, 2025

Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

"[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

By Shalini Abeysekara | April 2, 2025

Deanna Raybourn on Returning to her “Genteel Psychopaths” in <em>Kills Well with Others<em>

Deanna Raybourn on Returning to her “Genteel Psychopaths” in Kills Well with Others

The author chats with Elizabeth Held about liking her characters, picking a narrator, and analyzing our culture's changing relationship with aging

By Elizabeth Held | April 1, 2025

7 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | March 31, 2025

Wait, What?: How Exactly Does the Joker's Getaway School Bus Blend in When It's Visibly Damaged?

On a strange plot detail in "The Dark Knight"

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 28, 2025

There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

Why the Jim Thompson adage still holds true and is the key to good storytelling.

By C.B. Everett | March 28, 2025

Ashley Winstead On True Crime Obsession, Amateur Sleuths, and the Weight of Grieving

"I wanted to make an argument in this book about why more and more people are drawn to true crime."

By Jenny Bartoy | March 27, 2025

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