• Reading Lists

    Seven of the Best Noir Novels of the 1960s and 1970s

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia on the international noir that inspired her vision of Mexico City in 1971.

    August 17, 2021  By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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    Crime Books For People Who Aren't Sure If They Want to Go On A Date or Just Stay Home

    These thrillers may start with meet-cutes, but they're more likely to end with a murder than a marriage...

    August 17, 2021  By Catherine Ryan Howard
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    8 Thrillers Featuring Dysfunctional Families

    "Novels keep us from actually having to creep across people’s lawns and press our faces to the glass."

    August 17, 2021  By Megan Collins
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    August 16, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Food and Mystery: A Perfect Pairing

    Food is so much more than fuel for your characters—it can be the engine for your entire plot!

    August 13, 2021  By Lucy Burdette
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    The Beautifully Skewed Insights of Protagonists with Uncertain Inner Lives

    When a novel's worldview comes untethered from reality, that's when the magic happens.

    August 12, 2021  By Brandon Graham
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    The Perfect Beers to Pair with Your Favorite Crime Novels

    Reading some noir? Try some double IPA. And if you're making your way through a Poirot, you must have a Belgian Stout.

    August 12, 2021  By Steven Tingle
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    Six Crime Novels Based on Real Cases

    Inspired by real events. But that's only the start.

    August 11, 2021  By Sarah Warburton
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    Six Great Gothic Castles from Literature

    "The walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements..."

    August 11, 2021  By Veronica Bond
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    A New Wave of Crime Fiction Explores Collective Guilt and Individual Complicity

    Crime fiction is working to represent a more abstract antagonist—institutions and ideologies that perpetuate violence—and a harder-to-pin form of guilt: complicity.

    August 10, 2021  By Ashley Winstead
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