A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.

By Sharon Dempsey | May 7, 2021

The 2021 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

The 2021 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

A round of applause for the nominees!

By CrimeReads | May 5, 2021

Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

By Michelle Dunne | May 5, 2021

10 Novels You Should Read This May

10 Novels You Should Read This May

The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | May 5, 2021

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 | May 3, 2021

A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight

A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight

"Everyone is potentially masquerading as something or someone else..."

By Clare Whitfield | May 3, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

A Cozy Mystery Writer’s Guide to The Pleasures of Domesticity

By Elizabeth Penney | May 3, 2021

Five Series With A Great Sense of Place to Tide You Over Until We Can All Travel Again

By Rhys Bowen | May 3, 2021

The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: April 2021

By CrimeReads | April 30, 2021

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Edgar Awards

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Edgar Awards

The Mystery Writers of America celebrate the year's best mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television writing.

By CrimeReads | April 29, 2021

The 10 Greatest Movies Adapted from Crime Novels—According to a Producer and Novelist

The 10 Greatest Movies Adapted from Crime Novels—According to a Producer and Novelist

Michael Brandman, producer and crime writer, on 10 movies that perfectly honored their source material.

By Michael Brandman | April 29, 2021

The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

"By the time we are five, we have an inkling that the world is not fair; I am not sure we ever resign ourselves fully to that awful truth."

By Joshilyn Jackson | April 29, 2021

Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

Transcripts, letters, news clippings...These novels ratchet up the suspense and character development with unexpected elements.

By Amy Suiter Clarke | April 28, 2021

Driving in the Dark: Getaway Drivers in Fiction and the Dark Side of the American Dream

Driving in the Dark: Getaway Drivers in Fiction and the Dark Side of the American Dream

The greatest getaway drivers in contemporary crime fiction.

By Nick Kolakowski | April 27, 2021

Nine Things Your Thriller Needs to Be Lean, Mean, and Exhilarating

Nine Things Your Thriller Needs to Be Lean, Mean, and Exhilarating

Meg Gardiner breaks down the essential elements of great thrillers.

By Meg Gardiner | April 27, 2021

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 26, 2021

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