Adrian McKinty on Family, Survival, and Finding Inspiration in 1970s Thrillers

Adrian McKinty on Family, Survival, and Finding Inspiration in 1970s Thrillers

The author traces his new thriller back to an incident on a remote Australian island and repeated viewings of Deliverance

By Dwyer Murphy | May 17, 2022

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?

Do you feel more like Hungarian student radicals or deep-cover hostile-country spies?

By Dwyer Murphy | May 13, 2022

Eight Biological Horror Movies Guaranteed to Make Your Skin Crawl

Eight Biological Horror Movies Guaranteed to Make Your Skin Crawl

These films go beyond body horror to prove that biology itself is what's terrifying.

By Chris Holm | May 11, 2022

My First Thriller: David Baldacci

My First Thriller: David Baldacci

After David Baldacci got the phone call that would change his life, he had to walk back into a roomful of insurance lawyers.

By Rick Pullen | May 5, 2022

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Featuring more Bosch, more Staircase, more Lincoln Lawyer, and most importantly Rosie Perez.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 29, 2022

You Know, For Kids! The History of a Teenage James Bond

You Know, For Kids! The History of a Teenage James Bond

The license to kill, the drinking, the racy affairs...what could go wrong bringing Bond to young readers?

By Luke Poling | April 22, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

Walking the Line: A Marriage of Thriller & Romance

By Nicole Fanning | April 15, 2022

My First Thriller: Robert Dugoni

By Rick Pullen | April 14, 2022

Slow Horses is
Worth the Slow Burn

By Alexis Gunderson | April 8, 2022

Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

Superheroes are celebrated for their heroism. Supermums are celebrated for their drudgery. These books flip the script.

By Anna Downes | April 7, 2022

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

'I don’t think we’ll ever stop being fascinated by the country Winston Churchill famously called "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"'

By Ellen Crosby | April 4, 2022

The Unknown Man of Shandigor: How a Sixties Spy Spoof Went to the Arthouse

The Unknown Man of Shandigor: How a Sixties Spy Spoof Went to the Arthouse

Spy fiction was all the rage in the late Sixties. Jean-Louis Roy brought to the genre a unique vision.

By Tanner Tafelski | April 1, 2022

Tyrants and Propaganda, Or The Totalitarian Need for Total Information Control

Tyrants and Propaganda, Or The Totalitarian Need for Total Information Control

What William Maz learned from life in 1980s Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu's repressive regime.

By William Maz | March 29, 2022

10 Must-Read Alternate History Thrillers

10 Must-Read Alternate History Thrillers

"How easy would it be for a country, particularly one founded on democratic principles, to slip quietly into fascism without anyone batting an eye?"

By Josh Weiss | March 25, 2022

<em>The Conversation</em>: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the

The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

By Brian Hochman | March 22, 2022

Curfew

Curfew

Jayne Cowie

By CrimeReads Excerpts | March 17, 2022

Page 21 of 61

  • Support Us!

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member