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July's Best New Action Thrillers

July's Best New Action Thrillers

A week-by-week breakdown of an all-time great thriller month

By Ryan Steck | July 12, 2019

Small Town Mysteries, <br>Big Social Issues

Small Town Mysteries,
Big Social Issues

How crime authors use small-town settings to explore the day's most important and complex issues.

By Terry Shames | July 12, 2019

What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

People don't join cults. They join communities that become cults. Literature can help us understand this all-important nuance.

By Kali Wallace | July 12, 2019

The State of the Thriller: A Roundtable Discussion

The State of the Thriller: A Roundtable Discussion

Thriller authors weigh in on the genre's most pressing issues

By CrimeReads | July 11, 2019

Grappling with PTSD <br>in Crime Fiction

Grappling with PTSD
in Crime Fiction

Forget the PTSD-fueled psychotic killer of pop culture lore. Crime novels are capable of a far more complex treatment.

By Hilary Davidson | July 11, 2019

8 Crime Novels You Won’t Find In The Crime Section

8 Crime Novels You Won’t Find In The Crime Section

Busting labels: when "literary" authors embark on "crime" novels

By John Galligan | July 11, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Hannibal Lecter: 20 Years Later

By Patrick J. Sauer | July 10, 2019

Denise Mina Is Living the Zeitgeist

By Molly Odintz | July 10, 2019

7 'Unlikeable' Women (Characters) You Should Get to Know This Summer

By Kristen Lepionka | July 10, 2019

Stuntwoman, Armorer, and...Crime Writer?

Stuntwoman, Armorer, and...Crime Writer?

Five ways my background as a stuntwoman and armorer helped me become a crime writer (and one way it didn't).

By S. L. Huang | July 10, 2019

7 Psychological Thrillers to Read This July

7 Psychological Thrillers to Read This July

Toxic Relationships, Dangerous Neighbors, and So Many Secrets

By Lisa Levy | July 9, 2019

Adrian McKinty Had Given Up on Writing—A Late Night Phone Call Changed Everything

Adrian McKinty Had Given Up on Writing—A Late Night Phone Call Changed Everything

A new thriller explores parents breaking bad and the terrifying spread of a kidnapping ring.

By Mark Rubinstein | July 9, 2019

Silence, Suffering, and Abuse in Affluent Communities

Silence, Suffering, and Abuse in Affluent Communities

Domestic violence is underreported among the wealthy. But that doesn't mean abuse isn't still happening behind closed doors.

By Cate Holahan | July 9, 2019

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #48

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #48

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

By Otto Penzler | July 9, 2019

It's Time for Urban Fiction to Get Some Literary Respect

It's Time for Urban Fiction to Get Some Literary Respect

Other genres have gone mainstream. Why does the publishing world offer up the same old excuses about urban fiction?

By Aya de Leon | July 8, 2019

The Wicked Women of 19th Century Fiction

The Wicked Women of 19th Century Fiction

On the archetypes of female villainy, from “Women on-the-Make” to “Spiteful Shrews and Harridans.”

By Laura L. Sullivan | July 8, 2019

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