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Espionage/Thriller
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
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
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
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
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
On suspected serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and stumbled-upon remains in Whatcom County, Washington.
By
Spencer Kope
| October 25, 2021
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By
Christina Dalcher
| October 25, 2021
Exclusive Cover Reveal:
Two Nights in Lisbon
By
CrimeReads Excerpts
| October 22, 2021
Five Thrillers Set In the Woods
By
Romy Hausmann
| October 19, 2021
The Bizarre History of the Many, Many Bond Imitators of 60s and 70s Pop Culture
For two strange decades, the spawn of Bond were everywhere.
By
Keith Roysdon
| October 11, 2021
The Obscure French Thriller That May Hold the Secrets to Jack Reacher's World
In the late '80s, Lee Child—he was still Jim Grant then—picked up a copy of a French novel by Loup Durand. Its influence was profound.
By
Heather Martin
| October 8, 2021
The Birth of the CIA—And the Soviet Mole Who Had a Hand in Everything
At a dinner in London, 1946, Kim Philby hinted at an intriguing proposition: the complete merger of American and British intelligence.
By
Michael Holzman
| October 7, 2021
Switzerland: A Crime Writing Tradition Full of Holes?
When it comes to crime fiction set in Switzerland, it's all about secrecy.
By
Paul French
| October 4, 2021
The Books, Tragedies, and Unsolved Mysteries That Inspired a New Novel Connecting Italy and New York
Vito Racanelli on Itavia Flight 870, Leonardo Sciascia, and more.
By
Vito Racanelli
| October 1, 2021
How to Add a Layer of Fear to Your Fiction
When it comes to getting the physiognomical effects of fear right, who cares why your characters are afraid. What matters is how they experience fear.
By
DiAnn Mills
| October 1, 2021
Every James Bond Movie, Ranked
From Connery to Craig, here are the best takes on 007
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| September 30, 2021
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