• Espionage/Thriller

    How Women Are Upending the Action Thriller

    Gillian McAllister on the recalibration of high-octane thrillers.

    February 25, 2025  By Gillian McAllister
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    Political Thrillers: Where the Good Guys Don’t Always Win

    Mike Lawson on the morally ambiguous world of contemporary political thrillers.

    February 25, 2025  By Mike Lawson
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    Tinker Tailor Soldier... Shifgrethor

    Calvin Kasulke on the strange politeness of 1979’s "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" miniseries

    February 24, 2025  By Calvin Kasulke
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    7 Iconic Lone Wolf Protagonists

    These fictional (anti)heroes work alone. They do things their own way. And they never look for trouble, but trouble finds them anyway.

    February 7, 2025  By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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    Spies as Storytellers: Crafting Aliases, Inventing People, and Weaving Tales from Information

    Suzanne Nelson on the history of storyteller spies in WWII.

    February 5, 2025  By Suzanne Nelson
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    Balancing Technical Jargon with Reader Engagement

    "Make sure a technical detail is critical to the story...then find the briefest way possible to describe it."

    February 5, 2025  By Nicholas Harvey
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    The Power of the Twist

    Jakob Kerr on some of the best plot twists ever executed in mystery.

    January 27, 2025  By Jakob Kerr
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    The Russian Roots of American Crime Fiction—and the O.G.

    Joseph Finder on Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and the legacy of transgressive fiction.

    January 16, 2025  By Joseph Finder
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    The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2025

    80+ mysteries, thrillers, and horror novels to look forward to in the year ahead

    January 10, 2025  By Molly Odintz
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    5 Great Spy Novels Set in Small Towns

    Sometimes the greatest espionage adventures happen on the smallest possible stage.

    January 7, 2025  By Ryan Britt
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