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    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This May

    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This May

    Poisoned marriages, social clubs, and kidnapped scions.

    By Lisa Levy | May 14, 2021

    Highway of Darkness: A Mystery Reader’s Road Trip Up California’s Highway 99

    Highway of Darkness: A Mystery Reader’s Road Trip Up California’s Highway 99

    The Postman Always Rings Twice, the desolate, farm regions of California have made compelling settings for mystery writers."">"Ever since Frank Chambers got thrown off the hay wagon at noon in The Postman Always Rings Twice, the desolate, farm regions of California have made compelling settings for mystery writers."

    By Jane Rosenthal | May 14, 2021

    Six Medical Nonfiction Books That Read Like Thrillers

    Six Medical Nonfiction Books That Read Like Thrillers

    These books prove once again that "history is as hair raising as the wildest fiction"

    By Audrey Blake | May 14, 2021

    How 'Mare of Easttown' Is Breaking New Ground for HBO and the Prestige Crime Series

    How 'Mare of Easttown' Is Breaking New Ground for HBO and the Prestige Crime Series

    In the new series, Kate Winslet portrays a detective with a new set of complexities surrounding her investigation.

    By Zack Budryk | May 14, 2021

    Finding Inspiration for Fiction In the Kindness of Untruths

    Finding Inspiration for Fiction In the Kindness of Untruths

    "My own situation helped me create a character who might tell that kind of lie. Inspiration sprang from real life."

    By Anne Hillerman | May 13, 2021

    The Most Anticipated Crime Books Of 2021: Summer Reading Edition

    The Most Anticipated Crime Books Of 2021: Summer Reading Edition

    80 crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, and nonfiction books to keep you reading all summer long.

    By CrimeReads | May 13, 2021

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    Books of the Week

    • Stations
    • West of Loveland
    • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
    • Sweet Pea
    • The Pen: A Human History
    • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
    • Gloria Don't Speak
    • The Heights
    • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
    • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

    I Owe You My Childishness: An Author's Defense of Escapism, Fun, and Generally Licentious Behavior in Thrillers

    By Aidan Truhen | May 13, 2021

    The Persistent Mystery of Arthur Conan Doyle's Name

    By Olivia Rutigliano | May 13, 2021

    Lee Child’s Little Gold Book

    By Heather Martin | May 12, 2021

    Karyn Kay: A Life and Death in New York City

    Karyn Kay: A Life and Death in New York City

    For her students at LaGuardia High School, Karyn Kay was a memorable figure who brought love and passion into the classroom. Outside, life with her son was getting much darker.

    By Julien Levy | May 12, 2021

    The Enduring Mystery of Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's Answer to Agatha Christie

    The Enduring Mystery of Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's Answer to Agatha Christie

    She was the bestselling author of the Golden Age of mystery fiction in the US. Is a new generation poised to discover her work?

    By Otto Penzler | May 12, 2021

    9 Great Thrillers Featuring Alter Egos

    9 Great Thrillers Featuring Alter Egos

    Regular Joe by day, murderer by night...

    By S.A. Lelchuk | May 12, 2021

    The

    The "Three-Dimensional Game-Board" of Agatha Christie's Country Houses

    From family estates to Christie's wartime residences, a look at the homes that inspired her settings.

    By Phyllis Richardson | May 11, 2021

    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    The spy who escaped prison and captured popular imagination.

    By Simon Kuper | May 11, 2021

    Female Public Defenders Are Unsung Heroines. It Is Long Past Time to Change That.

    Female Public Defenders Are Unsung Heroines. It Is Long Past Time to Change That.

    "The few times that court-appointed advocates for the indigent and despised are portrayed as heroes, they are almost always men."

    By Lara Bazelon | May 11, 2021

    A Family of Spies

    A Family of Spies

    I always knew that my grandfather was a spy. But it wasn't until just before my mother died that I learned she was one too.

    By Iona Whishaw | May 11, 2021

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