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9 True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening to Now

9 True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening to Now

A shooter in Malibu, a missing woman in Montana, and a lineup of new podcasts that dive into underreported cases..

By Lizzy Steiner | April 13, 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 | April 12, 2021

What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?

What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?

For the actors performing at Ford's Theatre that night, the assassination was an act that would haunt them for decades.

By Mariah Fredericks | April 12, 2021

How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist

How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist

Meet Tiger Girl and Kid Candy, in the days before a heist.

By Glenn Stout | April 12, 2021

Six Novels Featuring Adoptions Gone Awry

Six Novels Featuring Adoptions Gone Awry

An adoption is full of stories. And literature is full of adoptions.

By R.J. Hoffman | April 12, 2021

Alan Parks on Drugs, Noir, and Glasgow in the 1970s

Alan Parks on Drugs, Noir, and Glasgow in the 1970s

The author of the Harry McCoy novels talks about conjuring up a city and an era.

By Peter Handel | April 9, 2021

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5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This Month

By Lisa Levy | April 9, 2021

The Women of the OSS:
On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII

By Jane Healey | April 9, 2021

Why Traveling Through Fiction Is a Form of Ecotourism

By Jeffrey Siger | April 9, 2021

The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

Once you eliminate the least compelling Sherlock Holmes performances, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the best.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2021

In Good Taste: Marilyn Stasio on a Lifetime of Book Reviews

In Good Taste: Marilyn Stasio on a Lifetime of Book Reviews

The legendary critic talks about how she got her start, how crime fiction got taken seriously, and what she's reading now.

By Erica Wright | April 8, 2021

The Hidden History of Women and the IRA

The Hidden History of Women and the IRA

"Perhaps we prefer to believe that the girls and women of the IRA and other radical groups were somehow tricked into joining, that they were naïve, that a man was somewhere in the background pulling the strings."

By Flynn Berry | April 8, 2021

How to Balance Worldbuilding and Action in Your Novel

How to Balance Worldbuilding and Action in Your Novel

"Worldbuilding without action is boring, and action without worldbuilding is confusing."

By Dan Stout | April 7, 2021

On The Voynich Manuscript, the Most Indecipherable Coded Text Ever Discovered

On The Voynich Manuscript, the Most Indecipherable Coded Text Ever Discovered

In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer found a manuscript written in a unique language. To this day, it has yet to be deciphered.

By Edward Brooke-Hitching | April 7, 2021

Characters That Are So Bad, They're Great

Characters That Are So Bad, They're Great

"I love writing the colder, crueller beings."

By Adele Parks | April 7, 2021

Scary Times Call for Scary Reads

Scary Times Call for Scary Reads

When life gets tough, some readers look for books about ghosts, monsters, survival, and the terrifying unknown.

By Jennifer McMahon | April 7, 2021

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