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Small Town America: Five Books that Serve Up a Perfect Setting for Murder

Small Town America: Five Books that Serve Up a Perfect Setting for Murder

"[A] closed community is a perfect microcosm of everything that’s good and bad about human beings."

By Vaseem Khan | August 22, 2025

Clones, Dragons, Time Travel Terror: Five Speculative Fiction Novels with Feminist Themes

Clones, Dragons, Time Travel Terror: Five Speculative Fiction Novels with Feminist Themes

Melissa Pace Recommends Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman, Kelly Barnhill, and More

By Melissa Pace | August 20, 2025

Scalpel and Shadow: Eight Historical Thrillers with Macabre Medical Themes

Scalpel and Shadow: Eight Historical Thrillers with Macabre Medical Themes

Tonya Mitchell Recommends Books with Dreadful Diagnoses by A. Rae Dunlap, Noel O’Reilly, and Others

By Tonya Mitchell | August 19, 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

The Best Psychological Thrillers of August 2025

Beachy thrillers, gothic families, road trip shenanigans, and speculative mind-bogglers

By Molly Odintz | August 18, 2025

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

Tim Chawaga Imagines Cross-Literary Bonds in Work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and More

By Tim Chawaga | August 13, 2025

Books for fans of <br>

Books for fans of
"Goodbye Earl"

Do you like tales of women banding together and taking revenge?

By Katie Collom | August 12, 2025

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Sand, Martinis, Remote Isles, Murder: Eight Thrillers with Beach and Jungle Settings

By Jo Morey | August 12, 2025

LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Summer 2025 Reads For Every Reader

By Queer Crime Writers | August 11, 2025

Puzzle Me a Mystery: Solve the Puzzle to Find the Killer

By Roz Noonan | August 11, 2025

Austen, Demons, Gorgons, Shakespeare: Seven Novels That Reimagine Classic Stories

Austen, Demons, Gorgons, Shakespeare: Seven Novels That Reimagine Classic Stories

Claire M. Andrews Recommends Katherine Arden, Renée Adieh, Chloe Gong, and More

By Claire M. Andrews | August 7, 2025

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Joy Fielding recommends the novels that have most informed her craft

By Joy Fielding | August 6, 2025

Scandals, Cliques, Judgment: Six Novels Where Competitive Parenting Goes Off the Rails

Scandals, Cliques, Judgment: Six Novels Where Competitive Parenting Goes Off the Rails

Jennifer Jabaley Recommends Liane Moriarty, Bruce Holsinger, Laurie Gelman, and More

By Jennifer Jabaley | August 5, 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 | August 4, 2025

The Little Known Noir of Timor-Leste

The Little Known Noir of Timor-Leste

Crime and the City makes the case for reading more crime fiction set in Timor-Leste.

By Paul French | August 4, 2025

Five Unreliable Narrators That Upend Expectations on Voice

Five Unreliable Narrators That Upend Expectations on Voice

Irenosen Okojie looks at "revelatory characters from five astounding books."

By Irenosen Okojie | August 1, 2025

"I Do"...Plan the Perfect Crime: Seven Cozy Mysteries That Revolve Around Weddings

Valerie (V.M.) Burns Says "Yes" to Capers from Catherine Bruns, Isis Crawford, Lee Hollis, and Others

By V. M. Burns | August 1, 2025

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