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Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

The history of music is full of outlaws and criminals, killers and their victims, shady dealers and backstage dreamers...

By S.W. Lauden | June 29, 2020

10 New Books Coming Out <br>This Week

10 New Books Coming Out
This Week

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

By CrimeReads | June 29, 2020

There Are So, So Many Crime Novels With 'Girl' in the Title

There Are So, So Many Crime Novels With 'Girl' in the Title

Part Five in our quest to disambiguate contemporary 'girl' novels.

By Lisa Levy | June 29, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 12

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 12

The Sting (1973)

By Otto Penzler | June 29, 2020

Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

Why reading Highsmith's novels resonates so deeply—and disturbingly—in unsettled times.

By Sarah Hilary | June 26, 2020

<em>The Great Muppet Caper</em> Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

The Great Muppet Caper Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

Four decades ago, a ragtag group of vaguely self-aware puppets solved the greatest jewel heist in the world, and it was wonderful.

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 26, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

By Julie Clark | June 26, 2020

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

By Dwyer Murphy | June 26, 2020

6 International Crime Novels You Should Read This June

By CrimeReads | June 25, 2020

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Because history is full of the small, the inexplicable, and the downright confounding....

By W.M. Akers | June 25, 2020

The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

We weren't meant to fly, but we do. Stories of crash survivors speak to something primitive—and mysterious—in us.

By Richard Farrell | June 25, 2020

Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

We're all thinking a little differently about the horrors of solitude these days.

By Nina Laurin | June 25, 2020

The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

A look at the year's best crime novels, mysteries and thrillers, with the full understanding that it's only June, barely past the solstice.

By CrimeReads | June 24, 2020

Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

The author of some of the darkest, most disturbing novels in years wants people to know: she's not April Ludgate.

By Michael Seidlinger | June 24, 2020

<em>American Gods</em> has a new annotated version with a Sherlockian twist

American Gods has a new annotated version with a Sherlockian twist

American Gods">Catching up with Leslie Klinger to discuss his "Sherlockian" approach to annotating Neil Gaiman's American Gods

By Aaron Robertson | June 24, 2020

Fictional Characters Who Are Bent, But Not Broken

Fictional Characters Who Are Bent, But Not Broken

For these characters, what doesn't kill them only makes them stronger.

By Kate McLaughlin | June 24, 2020

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