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    There's no Valentine's Day Movie Like <em>Some Like It Hot</em>

    There's no Valentine's Day Movie Like Some Like It Hot

    Love... murder... what more can you ask for (in a bubbly, buddy screwball comedy)?

    By Olivia Rutigliano | February 14, 2025

    Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

    Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

    Decades before Mangione, there was Metesky, the "Mad Bomber."

    By Michael Cannell | February 14, 2025

    Speculative Murder Mysteries and Alternative History Thrillers Out in 2025

    Speculative Murder Mysteries and Alternative History Thrillers Out in 2025

    Space heists, dark fairy tales, weird magic, sinister star academies, and so, so much misuse of technology

    By Molly Odintz | February 14, 2025

    Why Posh London Is Just as Good A Setting For Mysteries as Any Gritty Side Street

    Why Posh London Is Just as Good A Setting For Mysteries as Any Gritty Side Street

    Scratch beneath the stucco of Belgravia, London’s most upmarket residential district, and dark secrets lurk.

    By Orlando Murrin | February 14, 2025

    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

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

    By Polly Stewart | February 13, 2025

    5 Novels with Flawed Child Prodigies

    By Jeff Macfee | February 13, 2025

    Let's Talk About Spontaneous Combustion

    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

    8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

    8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

    Let your imagination run wild with these bizarre, compelling, definitely-not-true celebrity rumors

    By Margarita Montimore | February 12, 2025

    10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

    10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

    Vanessa Montalban considers the "generational patterns and themes that tie these ancient stories to our modern world."

    By Vanessa Montalban | February 12, 2025

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

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

    The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.

    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?
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    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

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    By CrimeReads | February 10, 2025

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