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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | September 13, 2021

A Karachi Crime Reporter's Journey Through Gangland

A Karachi Crime Reporter's Journey Through Gangland

Zille never intended to become a crime reporter. Then he caught his first big break.

By Samira Shackle | September 13, 2021

Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

Shit’s hard. Life (and writing) can be a relentless grind. But somehow, Poe kept on going—and so can you.

By Catherine Baab-Muguira | September 13, 2021

How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

Inside the Wild and Wacky History of Underground Rock Recordings and the Early Days of Piracy

By Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick | September 13, 2021

Newport, RI Is the Perfect Place for a Murder Mystery

Newport, RI Is the Perfect Place for a Murder Mystery

New England's dreamiest coastal town deserves some fictional danger of its own

By Alyssa Maxwell | September 10, 2021

Finding Gothic Beauty and Danger on the California Coast

Finding Gothic Beauty and Danger on the California Coast

"Your mind plays tricks with you in the fog": why Big Sur is a natural setting for dark romance and supernatural happenings.

By Lindsay Marcott | September 10, 2021

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Six Great Novels with Mysterious Protagonists

By Christopher Swann | September 10, 2021

The Most Anticipated Books of 2021: Fall and Winter Edition

By CrimeReads | September 10, 2021

Stuart Neville: Why I Will No Longer Hide My Accent

By Stuart Neville | September 9, 2021

My First Thriller: James Grady

My First Thriller: James Grady

In 1971, a young Capitol Hill staffer walked by an old townhouse and wondered if it could be a CIA front. The idea would become Six Days of the Condor.

By Rick Pullen | September 9, 2021

Transformation and Transcendence in <br>1980s Body Horror

Transformation and Transcendence in
1980s Body Horror

On David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and the embrace of the grotesque as a representation of lived experience.

By Darryl Jones | September 9, 2021

No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

On The Challenges of Writing Historical Crime Fiction

By James R. Benn | September 9, 2021

Five Books that Examine the American Penal System

Five Books that Examine the American Penal System

Stories, mostly true, about the gritty, fraught, and devastating world of prisons

By Jen J. Danna | September 9, 2021

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Nick Rennison on the early days of American detective fiction and the sleuths who competed with Sherlock Holmes for mystery readers.

By Nick Rennison | September 8, 2021

The 19th Century Women Who Wrote

The 19th Century Women Who Wrote "Weird" Stories and Refused to Pigeonholed by Genre

A new anthology collects horror and supernatural stories from some of the era's best storytellers.

By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton | September 8, 2021

The Strange Story of a Dog, a Diamond Discovery, and the Fierce Rivalries of the Canadian Arctic

The Strange Story of a Dog, a Diamond Discovery, and the Fierce Rivalries of the Canadian Arctic

Thor was a husky lost in the Canadian Arctic. Or was he a spy from a rival diamond expedition?

By Matthew Hart | September 8, 2021

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