• Features

    Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim

    This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men

    April 1, 2021  By Victoria Wiet
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    My First Thriller: Michael Koryta

    How did Michael Koryta break through with his first thriller at 19? (Yes, you read that right—he was 19 years old.)

    April 1, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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    How to Read Mysteries While Recovering from the Patriarchy

    Melissa Febos was struggling to write a book about surviving American girlhood. Mystery fiction presented a solution.

    April 1, 2021  By Melissa Febos
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    What's The Difference Between a Thriller and a Mystery? Pacing.

    A thriller author's tips for keeping the pages turning

    March 31, 2021  By Allison Brennan
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    Why Are Writers Drawn to Texas as a Setting?

    Some thriller authors are born to write about Texas, while others find themselves drawn in from far away.

    March 31, 2021  By Laura Griffin
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    Stranger Than Fiction: Bigamy, Jealousy, and Foul Play from the Annals of True Crime

    The real-life bigamists whose wild stories inspired a new thriller.

    March 31, 2021  By Shelly Ellis
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    The Best Reviewed Crime Novels of the Month: March 2021

    Gothic fictions, bibliophile mysteries, and modern noirs.

    March 30, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Travel Around the World in the Roaring Twenties with These Historical Mysteries

    From Bombay to Harlem to Melbourne and more, let these historical novels transport you to the 1920s.

    March 30, 2021  By Erica Ruth Neubauer
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    Welcome to Extinction City: Inside The Lawless Zones That Provide Safe Harbor for International Animal Traffickers

    "How animals are trafficked is only one of the best-kept secrets of the international criminal underworld."

    March 30, 2021  By Will Staples
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    Six Books That Explore How an Act of Violence Can Change Families, Communities, and Generations

    These memoirs and novels follow the trauma as it radiates outward and across time.

    March 30, 2021  By Victoria Helen Stone
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