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When Time Is the Enemy: The Ticking-Clock Thriller

When Time Is the Enemy: The Ticking-Clock Thriller

When there's a deadline, everything is a just little more interesting.

By Andrew Bourelle | December 20, 2021

The Best Espionage Novels of 2021

The Best Espionage Novels of 2021

Perfume thieves, Silicon Valley spies, and Cold War slow-burns. We're looking back at the year in spy fiction.

By CrimeReads | December 15, 2021

How a Career in the Foreign Service Prepared Me to Write Thrillers

How a Career in the Foreign Service Prepared Me to Write Thrillers

With over twenty years of service in postings from Damascus to East Germany, Otho Eskin has plenty of stories fit for a thriller.

By Otho Eskin | December 14, 2021

Get Wise to <em>Get Smart</em>

Get Wise to Get Smart

Looking back on Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's groundbreaking spy comedy series

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 1, 2021

Strong Women in Fiction: The Problem With Magic Bracelets

Strong Women in Fiction: The Problem With Magic Bracelets

Elysia Whisler was told her protagonist was 'too strong'

By Elysia Whisler | December 1, 2021

Vandalism, Graffiti, and The Art of the Non-Belongers

Vandalism, Graffiti, and The Art of the Non-Belongers

On the rude, beautiful power of rebellious words scrawled on the side of an underpass

By M. Steven S. | November 24, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

By Casey Michel | November 23, 2021

Why Are There So Many Missing Mothers in Fiction with Empowered Young Heroines?

By Sara Foster | November 18, 2021

The Best Espionage Thrillers, According to U.S. Ambassador and Novelist Philip Kaplan

By Ambassador Philip Kaplan | November 17, 2021

The Story of Espionage Is (Often) the Story of Incompetence

The Story of Espionage Is (Often) the Story of Incompetence

"Blundering is writ large across the history of betrayal."

By James Wolff | November 15, 2021

Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

It was there in Fleming's books and now it's in the movies, too: James Bond wants to die.

By Nick Kolakowski | November 5, 2021

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Border Towns, Villains, and the New Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Border Towns, Villains, and the New Jack Reacher Novel

The brothers discuss the second novel in their collaboration.

By Dwyer Murphy | October 26, 2021

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding This Fall

These novels ask the scariest question of all:
what wouldn't you do to survive?

By Rektok Ross | October 26, 2021

The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

Germany's fifth largest city has a bad rap for being boring. Behind all those book fairs and convention centers, there's a mystery.

By Paul French | October 25, 2021

The Monsters of Maple Falls

The Monsters of Maple Falls

On suspected serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and stumbled-upon remains in Whatcom County, Washington.

By Spencer Kope | October 25, 2021

Crime Books That Challenge Notions of Inherent Female Goodness

Crime Books That Challenge Notions of Inherent Female Goodness

"Why shouldn’t evil be an equal-opportunity trait?"

By Christina Dalcher | October 25, 2021

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