How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century

How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century

A mystery writer's guide to cutting your characters off from the world in believable ways.

By Laura McCluskey | February 13, 2025

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2025

The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2025

Featuring Neena Viel, Ande Pliego, and more.

By CrimeReads | February 13, 2025

The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', with Ashley Winstead

The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', with Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead and Polly Stewart discuss Atwood's sprawling, genre-hopping novel.

By Polly Stewart | February 13, 2025

5 Novels with Flawed Child Prodigies

5 Novels with Flawed Child Prodigies

In these books, adult-level genius just leads to adult-level problems

By Jeff Macfee | February 13, 2025

Let's Talk About Spontaneous Combustion

Let's Talk About Spontaneous Combustion

...in the work of Charles Dickens

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 12, 2025

How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

Kate Alice Marshall on dreams, memories, and what happens when the real world can't be trusted.

By Kate Alice Marshall | February 12, 2025

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10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

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Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

By Nathan Ward | February 11, 2025

Asking What If?: Mystery as Respite for the Anxious Mind

Asking What If?: Mystery as Respite for the Anxious Mind

On seeing "fears played out through narrative...[and] experiencing that fear within the safe embrace of a book."

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | February 11, 2025

Where Is Everybody?<br>A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

Where Is Everybody?
A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

The greatest terror is reserved, not for death, but for a life alone

By Philip Fracassi | February 11, 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 | February 10, 2025

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Ande Pliego on the power of humor in horror and thrillers.

By Ande Pliego | February 10, 2025

Wait, What?: Why is Michael Myers Such a Good Driver?

Wait, What?: Why is Michael Myers Such a Good Driver?

Olivia Rutigliano wonders about a vehicular quandrary in John Carpenter's horror classic

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 7, 2025

The Best International Fiction <br>of February 2025

The Best International Fiction
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Reissued espionage from Ethiopia, historical fiction from Austria, a revenge thriller from Columbia, and more

By Molly Odintz | February 7, 2025

7 Iconic Lone Wolf Protagonists

7 Iconic Lone Wolf Protagonists

These fictional (anti)heroes work alone. They do things their own way. And they never look for trouble, but trouble finds them anyway.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins | February 7, 2025

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