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Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

Leon analyzes Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels and finds new lessons for writers in their well-worn pages

By Donna Leon | August 28, 2025

Adultery, Embezzlement, Murder: A Short List of the Royal Family's Crimes and Scandals

Adultery, Embezzlement, Murder: A Short List of the Royal Family's Crimes and Scandals

Darcie Wilde Offers Up Monarchical Shenanigans from George III to (the Not-So-Prudish) Queen Victoria

By Darcie Wilde | August 28, 2025

Cloisters and Ciphers: What Medieval Monks and the CIA Have in Common

Cloisters and Ciphers: What Medieval Monks and the CIA Have in Common

"This is not just a coincidence of history. It is a profession that has worn many uniforms."

By Hayley Gelfuso | August 27, 2025

The Environmental Anxiety of <em>The Sisters Brothers</em>

The Environmental Anxiety of The Sisters Brothers

Jacques Audiard's adaptation of Patrick deWitt's novel is a forward-thinking, ecologically-moral fable

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 27, 2025

Good Bad Guys: Tim Lebbon On Crafting Villains

Good Bad Guys: Tim Lebbon On Crafting Villains

What makes a terrible person a great character? Showing their humanity.

By Tim Lebbon | August 27, 2025

How Do You Write a Novel <br>with 14 Different Authors? Carefully.

How Do You Write a Novel
with 14 Different Authors? Carefully.

Rick Pullen On "The Twisted Women's Book Club" a new anthology with plenty to say

By Rick Pullen | August 27, 2025

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Survival, Survivalism, Slaughter: Why Nature and Wilderness Work Well in Crime Fiction

By Sam Wiebe | August 26, 2025

Possessed by Possession: Five Novels on the Dark Allure of Our Inner (and Outer) Demons

By Peter Rosch | August 26, 2025

Deadstreaming in Three, Two, One: Sarah Driscoll on Twitch and Social Media's Dark Sides

By Sara Driscoll | August 26, 2025

Salad Days and Sleuthing: Five Cozy Stories Shaped by Youth, Innocence, and Vulnerability

Salad Days and Sleuthing: Five Cozy Stories Shaped by Youth, Innocence, and Vulnerability

Ginger Bolton Recommends Mysteries by Amanda Flower, Lynn Cahoon, Uzma Jalaluddin, and Others

By Ginger Bolton | August 26, 2025

10 New Books Out This Week

10 New Books Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | August 25, 2025

Eli Cranor Talks Contact Sports, Crime Fiction, and Community

Eli Cranor Talks Contact Sports, Crime Fiction, and Community

Cranor returns to the beloved, brutal world of football in his latest novel, "Mississippi 42"

By Kevin Canfield | August 25, 2025

Karin Slaughter Is

Karin Slaughter Is "Writing for Entertainment, But...Firmly Planted in Reality"

25 novels in, the powerhouse author talks with John B. Valeri about her latest thriller and long career

By John B. Valeri | August 25, 2025

<em>The Old Man and the Gun</em> is a Happy Memory

The Old Man and the Gun is a Happy Memory

Olivia Rutigliano looks at Robert Redford's bank-robbing pseudo-swan-song

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 22, 2025

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

The Golem of Circuitry: On the Power of Language and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

"Since I’m currently fixated on... narratives that explore the potentiality of artificial existence, I started connecting dots between the invention of imitative life, the actual spark of divinity, and the puissance of language itself."

By Lyndsay Faye | August 22, 2025

Small Town America: Five Books that Serve Up a Perfect Setting for Murder

Small Town America: Five Books that Serve Up a Perfect Setting for Murder

"[A] closed community is a perfect microcosm of everything that’s good and bad about human beings."

By Vaseem Khan | August 22, 2025

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