Warsaw: Eastern Europe’s Capital of Crime Fiction

Warsaw: Eastern Europe’s Capital of Crime Fiction

A city of spies, disenchanted lawyers, and novelists.

By Paul French | January 25, 2021

Six Perfectly Alluring Academic Mysteries

Six Perfectly Alluring Academic Mysteries

From libraries to dining halls, from manslaughter to murder

By Edwin Hill | January 22, 2021

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

In 1965, a pair of radical bohemian journalists invented Scandinavian Noir and reimagined what crime fiction could do.

By Neil Nyren | January 22, 2021

The Best Nonfiction Crime Books Coming Out in January

The Best Nonfiction Crime Books Coming Out in January

A modern-day Robin Hood, corrupt doctors, and a cover-up in Chicago

By CrimeReads | January 22, 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 | January 19, 2021

Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

You're on the mountaintop, a storm blows in, the phone lines go dead...

By Allie Reynolds | January 19, 2021

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Nine Great Science Fiction Thrillers

Nine Great Science Fiction Thrillers

Deep characters and big ideas drive these science fiction classics built on the chassis of crime fiction.

By Nick Petrie | January 14, 2021

10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

"Study the smiling, privileged guests around you: can you guess which one knows where the bodies are buried?"

By Emma Rous | January 13, 2021

The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

"Children witness parental and social failure and compensate for them, survive, raise each other, raise themselves [and] try to understand..."

By Una Mannion | January 13, 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 | January 11, 2021

All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

What's more suspenseful than waiting on a letter from someone with a story to tell?

By Amy Stewart | January 11, 2021

A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

In the late Sixties everyone wanted to create a TV detective. But how to make your fictional sleuth stand apart?

By Keith Roysdon | January 8, 2021

5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This January

5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This January

Domestic entanglements, coastal mansions, and mysterious deaths.

By Lisa Levy | January 8, 2021

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