• 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

Home Archive by category Excerpts (Page 48)

Excerpts

When Old Midnight Comes Along

Loren Estleman

"If you want to know how the local sports teams are doing, but aren’t curious enough to read a paper or watch TV, swing by the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center."


The Watcher in the Woods

Kelley Armstrong

"One of the endless dilemmas we face as law enforcement in Rockton is also one I faced as a homicide detective down south."


Winter Grave

Helene Tursten

"So we’re supposed to sit here and wait until that asshole and his son feel like turning up? Why the hell didn’t you stand your ground and bring the boy in?"


Every Stolen Breath

Kimberly Gabriel

"During advisory at the end of the day, while Mr. Mater drones on about a student council food drive and tryouts for the upcoming musical, I count three news teams on the school’s front lawn, waiting to ambush me the second I walk out the doors."


How the Dead Speak

Val McDermid

"It was the smell that hammered home his whereabouts as soon as he woke."


Anything For You

Saul Black

"When the intruder triggered the motion-sensitive security lights in his son and daughter-in-law’s backyard just after 2:00 a.m., seventy-four-year-old in-somniac Vincent Lyle was doing what he was always doing at that unforgiving hour; namely, sitting in the conservatory trying and failing to read Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections."


Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar

Kate Saunders

"I wrote to Rachel Somers as soon as I got home, boldly announcing my arrival the following week."


Lost Causes of Bleak Creek

Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal

"“Well, boys,” Steve McClendon began, “I think we all know why you’re here.”"


Tracking Game

Margaret Mizushima

"In the dim light of dusk, she’d lost sight of Robo, and she stepped up her pace."


Nine Elms

Robert Brynzdza

"Detective Constable Kate Marshall was on the train home when her phone rang."



« First‹ Previous444546474849505152Next ›Last »
Page 48 of 93
  • Support Us!

    support crimereads become a member
  • Popular Posts

    • New Crime Series to Stream During This Holiday WeekendAugust 29, 2025
      0
    • Danny DeVito, DirectorAugust 28, 2025 by Vince Keenan
      0
  • Features

    • 10 New Books Coming Out This WeekOctober 6, 2025 by CrimeReads
      0
    • Five New Speculative Thrillers and Mysteries Coming this FallOctober 6, 2025 by Paz Pardo
      0
    • Wake Yourself Up With These Caffeinated Mysteries!October 6, 2025 by Naomi Kaye
      0
    • Cheap, Quick, and Dirty: Five Noirs from Hollywood's Poverty RowOctober 3, 2025 by Alex Rollins Berg
      0
    • Remember The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?October 3, 2025 by Olivia Rutigliano
      0

    • Patricia Smith on How a Poet AgesOctober 6, 2025
    • Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s AmerikaOctober 6, 2025 by Mark Harman
    • Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee CampsOctober 6, 2025 by Ikram Talaat Ahmed
    • My Child Does Not Love to Read, And I’m (Starting to Be) Okay With ThatOctober 6, 2025 by Mira Ptacin
    • What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For InspirationOctober 6, 2025 by Victoria Redel
    • Heart the Lover
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"



  • 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



  • © LitHub
    Back to top