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Rain City Rediscovered: Why Crime Novelists Are Drawn to Seattle

Rain City Rediscovered: Why Crime Novelists Are Drawn to Seattle

Glen Erik Hamilton returns to his hometown of Seattle to find nothing is where he left it.

By Glen Erik Hamilton | July 28, 2021

Where Are the Stay-At-Home Dads of Fiction?

Where Are the Stay-At-Home Dads of Fiction?

There are 1.5 million stay-at-home dads in the US. So why are there only a handful to be found in crime novels?

By Brad Parks | July 28, 2021

How Building My Dream House Became an American Nightmare

How Building My Dream House Became an American Nightmare

"I dwelled not in an American dream-home, but an already haunted house of my own design."

By Nickolas Butler | July 28, 2021

How One Author with Aphantasia Builds Fictional Worlds

How One Author with Aphantasia Builds Fictional Worlds

Into the darkness—writing when your mind is a void

By Dea Poirier | July 28, 2021

Rules for Writing Romantic Suspense

Rules for Writing Romantic Suspense

Your love story needs to be as genuine as your thriller plot is compelling—and for heaven's sake, don't let your readers down!

By Meg Tilly | July 28, 2021

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

"Hilarity ensues. And ensues. And ensues some more."

By Darynda Jones | July 27, 2021

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July's Best Debut Novels

By CrimeReads | July 27, 2021

Five Thrillers That Will Make You Delete Your Social Media Accounts Forever

By Lindsay Cameron | July 27, 2021

A Recipe For Hardboiled Fiction

By Terry Roberts | July 27, 2021

How a Crime Author Found the Inspiration to Write a Vampire Revenge Thriller Set in the 1970s Southwest

How a Crime Author Found the Inspiration to Write a Vampire Revenge Thriller Set in the 1970s Southwest

Wait...you're writing what?

By Richard Lange | July 27, 2021

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 | July 26, 2021

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime and the City goes island-hopping in search of mystery.

By Paul French | July 26, 2021

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

Wealthy drawing rooms, middle class parlors, working-class tea houses: on the many ways that the British take their tea.

By Vicki Delany | July 26, 2021

Toxic Masculinity in Psychological Thrillers

Toxic Masculinity in Psychological Thrillers

"Toxic masculinity negatively impacts all of us. This might be why psychological suspense so often includes dramatic instances of it."

By Caitlin Wahrer | July 26, 2021

The Imperial Russians Who Defied the Czar For Love

The Imperial Russians Who Defied the Czar For Love

Even the members of the Romanov family chafed under the heavy-handed rulers of Russia.

By Dianne Freeman | July 26, 2021

Elizabeth Gilpin: The Brutal Survival Summer Camp That Nearly Killed Me

Elizabeth Gilpin: The Brutal Survival Summer Camp That Nearly Killed Me

"Programs like mine that operated from the most remote and unchecked places in the country. Where no one was watching and tragic things happened all the time."

By Elizabeth Gilpin | July 23, 2021

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