Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

Or, How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Embrace the Crossover

By Andrea Tang | January 31, 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Featuring new books by Lea Carpenter, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and more.

By CrimeReads | January 30, 2024

Patrick Winn on the Southeast Asian Narco-State the CIA Helped Build

Patrick Winn on the Southeast Asian Narco-State the CIA Helped Build

In Wa State, in Myanmar, the economy is inextricable from the opium and methamphetamine trade.

By Kevin Canfield | January 30, 2024

Planes, Trains, and Homicides: Murder Mysteries in Transport

Planes, Trains, and Homicides: Murder Mysteries in Transport

Benjamin Stevenson breaks down the charms of a moving mystery.

By Benjamin Stevenson | January 30, 2024

Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion

Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion

"It wasn’t just hard, but almost impossible, to be a woman in fashion at this time."

By Natasha Lester | January 30, 2024

15 Speculative Crime Novels Coming Out in 2024

15 Speculative Crime Novels Coming Out in 2024

Scifi and Fantasy Mysteries and Thrillers to Check Out This Year

By Molly Odintz | January 29, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
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  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | January 29, 2024

Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

By Paul French | January 29, 2024

Inviting Nature Onto The Page

By Eliot Pattison | January 29, 2024

Requiem for

Requiem for "Hightown," a Queer Noir About the Rot Beneath Paradise

The Provincetown-set noir begins its third and final season.

By Zack Budryk | January 26, 2024

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of <em>Helter Skelter</em>?

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of Helter Skelter?

Bugliosi's account of the Manson Family and Tate-LaBianca killings is the best-selling true crime book of all-time. But what do we know now?

By Nathan Smith | January 26, 2024

Adam Plantinga on Law Enforcement, Thrillers, and Writing Communities

Adam Plantinga on Law Enforcement, Thrillers, and Writing Communities

Author Plantinga makes the transition from nonfiction to novels.

By John B. Valeri | January 26, 2024

Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael Mann

Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael Mann

Working on set with Mann was a master class in gritty storytelling

By Gordon Greisman | January 26, 2024

Decolonizing the Gothic

Decolonizing the Gothic

"Gothic literature—with its haunted homes, lonely landscapes, broken characters and longing borne of deep despair—has always been a universal story, not a western one."

By Shubnum Khan | January 25, 2024

The Comfort of Cozies

The Comfort of Cozies

Joyce Tremel asks around the cozy mystery community to find out all the reasons readers return to these gems again and again.

By Joyce Tremel | January 25, 2024

Cozy Sleuths with Moxie: An Appreciation and Reading List

Cozy Sleuths with Moxie: An Appreciation and Reading List

These characters are done being doormats and ready to use their wit and wiles to stand up for themselves and their communities

By Gabby Allan | January 25, 2024

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