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
Essays
My First Thriller: Lee Child
How the creator of Jack Reacher got fired, started writing, found a pen name, found an agent, and launched a new career.
By
Rick Pullen
| April 2, 2020
Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.
What a different movie
that
would have been.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| April 2, 2020
The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America
A society under strain turned to wholesale abduction and ransom.
By
David Stout
| April 1, 2020
Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective
The ex-convict turned police detective who inspired generations of authors and helped launch a new genre of literature.
By
Nick Kolakowski
| April 1, 2020
The Man Who Can’t Be Beat:
Peaky Blinders
and the Rise of Fascism
The Shelby crime family finds a new politics in 1920's Birmingham.
By
Torrey Crim
| March 31, 2020
Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23
Vertigo (1958)
By
Otto Penzler
| March 31, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
After a Husband's Betrayal, Turning to Mystery Novels
By
Laura Hilgers
| March 30, 2020
The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990
By
Zach Vasquez
| March 27, 2020
Seattle: Primed and Ready for Crime Fiction Fame
By
J. Kingston Pierce
| March 27, 2020
The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye
Cheryl A. Head on the authors and books ushering PI fiction into the 21st century.
By
Cheryl A. Head
| March 26, 2020
The Girl in the Title of the Crime Novel: The Great Crime Fiction Disambiguation Project
How did we end up with so many books with "girl" in the title? (Slowly, then all at once.)
By
Lisa Levy
| March 26, 2020
The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI
The life, work, and strange times of Arnold Mesches
By
Alix Lambert
| March 25, 2020
Memories, Hauntings, and The Meaning of a Home
A shocking murder happened in my community when I was child. I could never stop thinking about it. Then I became haunted by it.
By
T. Marie Vandelly
| March 25, 2020
Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers
Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.
By
Andrea Bartz
| March 24, 2020
The Crime Novels of Bogotá
Colombia's capital city has seen decades of trauma. It has also produced some of fiction's most powerful stories.
By
Paul French
| March 23, 2020
Our Obsession with Beautiful Dead Girls Is Keeping Us from Addressing Domestic Violence
Why do we crave stories of violence, yet turn our faces from the reality of that violence?
By
Jessica Moor
| March 23, 2020
« First
‹ Previous
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
Next ›
Last »
Page 164 of 208
Support Us!
Popular Posts
The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Fall 2026
September 11, 2026
0
2.
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
August 3, 2026 by
CrimeReads
0
3.
26 New and Upcoming Historical Novels To Check Out in the Second Half of 2026
July 9, 2026 by
Molly Odintz
0
4.
Five Deep Cut UK Procedurals to watch as you wait for Dept. Q to return
July 1, 2026 by
Olivia Rutigliano
0
5.
June's Best International Fiction
June 26, 2026 by
Molly Odintz
0