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How TV Procedurals Make What’s Bad Feel So Good

How TV Procedurals Make What’s Bad Feel So Good

On "the procedural as its own separate space in mystery storytelling."

By Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare | March 13, 2025

On Season One of <em>Search Party</em>

On Season One of Search Party

Olivia Rutigliano does a deep dive into one of the great, under-sung mystery pastiches

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 12, 2025

On Listening to Your Stories: Writing Across Genres in a Shelf-Specific World

On Listening to Your Stories: Writing Across Genres in a Shelf-Specific World

Kate Maruyama on horror and...not fiction.

By Kate Maruyama | March 12, 2025

Why We Find Bad Friendships So Compelling, In Fiction and IRL

Why We Find Bad Friendships So Compelling, In Fiction and IRL

"The intensity of the connection becomes the intensity of the repulsion."

By Hayley Scrivenor | March 12, 2025

How a Career as a Diplomat Informed a Life as a Writer

How a Career as a Diplomat Informed a Life as a Writer

"[D]iplomatic life can look charming and elegant in movies. In reality, it can prove dangerous and stressful. What does this have to do with writing? Everything."

By Stephen Holgate | March 12, 2025

The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

Read a passage from Elon Green's new book, 'The Man Nobody Killed'

By Elon Green | March 11, 2025

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Nick Kolakowski on Mining the Past for a Hollywood Fixer Mystery

By Nick Kolakowski | March 11, 2025

The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco

By Gary Krist | March 11, 2025

Crime and the City: Albuquerque and New Mexico

By Paul French | March 10, 2025

18th-Century Satire, Communist Anthem, 1950s Pop Song: The Many Lives of Mack the Knife

18th-Century Satire, Communist Anthem, 1950s Pop Song: The Many Lives of Mack the Knife

"How did such a cruel, ruthless criminal become the subject of a Grammy award-winning hit single?"

By Phil Lecomber | March 10, 2025

Six Novels of Intrigue Set in Golden Age Hollywood

Six Novels of Intrigue Set in Golden Age Hollywood

Spectacular dreams, spectacularly shattered...

By Susan Meissner | March 10, 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 | March 8, 2025

Turns Out, There's a Sequel to <em>The Westing Game</em>

Turns Out, There's a Sequel to The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin's estate contains not one but two previously unpublished mystery treasures

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 7, 2025

The Strange, Forgotten History of Antigonish and

The Strange, Forgotten History of Antigonish and "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"

At a farmhouse in Nova Scotia, a seemingly supernatural phenomenon sparked reports and debates around the world.

By Alice Henderson | March 7, 2025

5 Supernatural Serial Killers

5 Supernatural Serial Killers

"How can someone, or something, be stopped by authorities if their existence breaks the laws of physics?"

By Cynthia Pelayo | March 7, 2025

From Out-of-Print to Global Hit: The Surprising Resurgence of Michael McDowell's Blackwater Novels

From Out-of-Print to Global Hit: The Surprising Resurgence of Michael McDowell's Blackwater Novels

25 years after the author’s death, the path-breaking story is more popular than ever—and this time, overseas

By Julia Steiner | March 7, 2025

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