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Our Culture's Ongoing, Ever-Evolving Fascination with "The Mad Scientist"
An author of sci-fi thrillers reflects on distrust of science.
By
Jane Gilmartin
| October 21, 2020
Eight Thrillers That Bring an Uncanny Slant to the Natural World
"The setting of a horror tale needs to create a sense of unheimlich, with the reader every bit as nervous...as the characters."
By
C.J. Cooke
| October 9, 2020
Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox
Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.
By
Curtis Evans
| October 8, 2020
The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life
"The con artist has a special gift for knowing what we want and giving it to us, then taking what they were after all along."
By
Lisa Unger
| October 8, 2020
Adventures in Shark Cage Diving
Ecotourists looking for extreme thrills have embraced cage diving—but how do sharks feel about it?
By
Sara E. Johnson
| October 6, 2020
Gillian Flynn on Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, and Adding "Showrunner" to Her Resume
The novelist takes on a new challenge as the creator of the sci-fi thriller series,
Utopia
.
By
Caitlin Flynn
| October 5, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Two Assassinations (and One Attempt) That Changed The Course of the Russian Revolution
By
Jonathan Schneer
| October 2, 2020
What's New to Streaming in October: Crime Edition
By
Dwyer Murphy
| October 2, 2020
On Drawing Inspiration From a Rich History of Ruins
By
Anna Lee Huber
| October 2, 2020
The Grand Tour: Eight Thrillers Featuring Americans in Europe
These fish-out-of-water crime novels drop their American protagonists across the ocean and into hot water.
By
Mark Pryor
| October 1, 2020
The Evolution of Jack Reacher
Lee Child's biographer on the creation of an iconic figure, from the first draft to the published novel.
By
Heather Martin
| September 29, 2020
Human Resources: How My Conspiracy Fiction Began to Bleed Into My Life
On Conspiracy, Commodification, and Corporate Nightmares
By
Jeremy Robert Johnson
| September 29, 2020
Sympathy for the Double Agent
"Whether fiction or non, the lot of the double agent is rarely a happy one."
By
M. L. Huie
| September 28, 2020
Six True Crime Books to Read in September
Cold War spy games, motorcycle gangs, and modern detectives.
By
CrimeReads
| September 25, 2020
Ten American Masterpieces That Are Actually Crime Fiction
At the heart of nearly every great novel, there is a crime.
By
Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith
| September 24, 2020
The Last Agent
Robert Dugoni
By
CrimeReads Excerpts
| September 23, 2020
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