High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

"Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

By Matt Plass | April 7, 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 | April 7, 2025

Point of Origin: David Handler on Flashing Back to the Beginnings of Hoagy, Lulu & Friends

Point of Origin: David Handler on Flashing Back to the Beginnings of Hoagy, Lulu & Friends

The author discusses his latest mystery.

By John B. Valeri | April 5, 2025

A Quest for a Loyal <em>Dracula</em> Adaptation

A Quest for a Loyal Dracula Adaptation

A fan's cry for textual accuracy

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 4, 2025

Murder and “Mitteleuropa” in Agatha Christie

Murder and “Mitteleuropa” in Agatha Christie

A survey of Christie's characters hailing from Central Europe.

By Naomi Kaye | April 4, 2025

‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

Tales from the world of resurgent interest in those midcentury magazines with outlandish headlines and legions of readers.

By Keith Roysdon | April 4, 2025

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  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
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How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

By Grady Hendrix | April 4, 2025

New International Fiction to Check Out This Spring

By Molly Odintz | April 4, 2025

Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

By Queer Crime Writers | April 3, 2025

Five Thrillers Where Mothers Fight For Their Children

Five Thrillers Where Mothers Fight For Their Children

Sara Foster on the fruitful fictional possibilities of a mother's love put to the test

By Sara Foster | April 3, 2025

The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.

By Polly Stewart | April 3, 2025

And we have a clip from Season 2 of <em>Poker Face</em>!

And we have a clip from Season 2 of Poker Face!

A peek into Season Two of Rian Johnson's long-awaited PI show is here!

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2025

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

How a prison meeting with Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice in the Candy Man murders, deepened the mystery Sharon Derrick set out to solve.

By Lise Olsen | April 2, 2025

Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

Finding a story's emotional truth.

By Bryan Gruley | April 2, 2025

Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

"[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

By Shalini Abeysekara | April 2, 2025

Deanna Raybourn on Returning to her “Genteel Psychopaths” in <em>Kills Well with Others<em>

Deanna Raybourn on Returning to her “Genteel Psychopaths” in Kills Well with Others

The author chats with Elizabeth Held about liking her characters, picking a narrator, and analyzing our culture's changing relationship with aging

By Elizabeth Held | April 1, 2025

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