Scalpel and Shadow: Eight Historical Thrillers with Macabre Medical Themes

Scalpel and Shadow: Eight Historical Thrillers with Macabre Medical Themes

Tonya Mitchell Recommends Books with Dreadful Diagnoses by A. Rae Dunlap, Noel O’Reilly, and Others

By Tonya Mitchell | August 19, 2025

Crime and the City: Austin, Texas

Crime and the City: Austin, Texas

Setting Foot in the State's Capital of Cool Crime

By Paul French | August 19, 2025

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By CrimeReads | August 18, 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

Beachy thrillers, gothic families, road trip shenanigans, and speculative mind-bogglers

By Molly Odintz | August 18, 2025

We Need More Queer Women Characters in Rural Noir

We Need More Queer Women Characters in Rural Noir

Tess Sharpe on "writing about women or girls surviving by any means necessary."

By Tess Sharpe | August 18, 2025

Quiz: Which Actors ALMOST Played the Leads in these Famous Crime Movies?

Quiz: Which Actors ALMOST Played the Leads in these Famous Crime Movies?

Olivia Rutigliano prepares a humorous slate of movie trivia for your weekend

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 15, 2025

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Mike Phillips On Colonial Theft, Reparations, and the Genesis of a Classic

By Mike Phillips | August 15, 2025

Gregg Olsen On a Haunting Crime and The Snowballing Consequences of Trauma

By Gregg Olsen | August 15, 2025

Where Cozies Meet Horror: Auralee Wallace on the Joy of Unexpected Genre Mash-ups

By Auralee Wallace | August 15, 2025

<em>Elementary</em> is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation

Elementary is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation

Marisa Mercurio makes the case for the primacy of the CBS mystery series

By Marisa Mercurio | August 14, 2025

Scott Wolven on Rural Noir, Violent Lives, and Everything That Beats at the Heart of Noir

Scott Wolven on Rural Noir, Violent Lives, and Everything That Beats at the Heart of Noir

A conversation with the author of 'Hundred Proof', a new collection of short stories

By Nicolás Ferraro | August 14, 2025

Killings Most Quaint: Lucy Burdette on Why Small Towns Make Irresistible Mystery Settings

Killings Most Quaint: Lucy Burdette on Why Small Towns Make Irresistible Mystery Settings

A Look at the Fictional Locales in Work by Julia Spencer-Fleming, Jenn McKinlay, and Others

By Lucy Burdette | August 14, 2025

<em>Only Murders in the Building</em> Is Back with Season Five

Only Murders in the Building Is Back with Season Five

There really is nothing but murder in that building! The trailer is here!

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 13, 2025

Napster, Blair Witch, Cubicle Chaos: The Early Internet Relics in Jimmy Juliano's New Novel

Napster, Blair Witch, Cubicle Chaos: The Early Internet Relics in Jimmy Juliano's New Novel

The Author of "13 Months Haunted" Remembers the Tech, Vids, and Tricks of the 2000s

By Jimmy Juliano | August 13, 2025

Which Came First, Doctor or Author?: Surprising Affinities Between Writing and Medicine

Which Came First, Doctor or Author?: Surprising Affinities Between Writing and Medicine

Tanya Scott on Correlation, Causation, and Finding the Qualities of Art in Patients' Stories

By Tanya Scott | August 13, 2025

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Tim Chawaga Imagines Cross-Literary Bonds in Work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and More

By Tim Chawaga | August 13, 2025

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