Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

Samantha Downing on Using Ageism and Gendered Assumptions to Hide in Plain Sight

By Samantha Downing | August 12, 2025

"I’m looking for a good place to kill someone": Katarina Bivald on Setting Her Book's Murder

The Author of "Just Another Dead Author" Wanders the Silk Weaver Quarters and Fishbone Tunnels of Lyon

By Katarina Bivald | August 12, 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 11, 2025

LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Summer 2025 Reads For Every Reader

LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Summer 2025 Reads For Every Reader

Check out these new and upcoming novels from queer writers!

By Queer Crime Writers | August 11, 2025

Puzzle Me a Mystery: Solve the Puzzle to Find the Killer

Puzzle Me a Mystery: Solve the Puzzle to Find the Killer

"In these five mysteries, puzzles figure prominently in the thread of the plot."

By Roz Noonan | August 11, 2025

Spike Lee's New Joint stars Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky and is a crime thriller extravaganza

Spike Lee's New Joint stars Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky and is a crime thriller extravaganza

And we have a trailer!

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 8, 2025

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Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

By Victor Suthammanont | August 8, 2025

Teaching Daughters to Bite Back—Female Violence as Power in Horror

By Rachel Eve Moulton | August 8, 2025

Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

By Virginia Trench | August 8, 2025

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

The Author of "Ink Ribbon Red" Evokes the Dreamlike Unreality of Life in the 1990s

By Alex Pavesi | August 7, 2025

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Matthew Turbeville Chats with the Prolific Author about Her New Book "Fox" and More

By Matthew Coleman Turbeville | August 7, 2025

Austen, Demons, Gorgons, Shakespeare: Seven Novels That Reimagine Classic Stories

Austen, Demons, Gorgons, Shakespeare: Seven Novels That Reimagine Classic Stories

Claire M. Andrews Recommends Katherine Arden, Renée Adieh, Chloe Gong, and More

By Claire M. Andrews | August 7, 2025

The Backlist: John Copenhaver and Polly Stewart Revisit Ross Macdonald's

The Backlist: John Copenhaver and Polly Stewart Revisit Ross Macdonald's "The Zebra-Striped Hearse"

Reflecting on a mid-career Lew Archer classic

By Polly Stewart | August 7, 2025

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

Joshua Sharpe on the Initial Horror and Immediate Aftermath of the 1985 Georgia Church Murders

By Joshua Sharpe | August 6, 2025

"Any good story is a mystery": Rhys Bowen on Creating Tension in Historical Fiction

Letting Readers Search for the Narrative Body That May or May Not Be There

By Rhys Bowen | August 6, 2025

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Joy Fielding recommends the novels that have most informed her craft

By Joy Fielding | August 6, 2025

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