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Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash On Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash On Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

The authors of two new books on fame and its discontents talk 21st century culture.

By Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash | March 20, 2023

Anna Biller on Bluebeard, The Love Witch, and Her Suspenseful New Novel

Anna Biller on Bluebeard, The Love Witch, and Her Suspenseful New Novel

Read an interview with the director and see an exclusive reveal of the cover of Bluebeard's Castle

By CrimeReads | March 20, 2023

Aviation Thrillers: Novels That Get the Pressures of Flying Right

Aviation Thrillers: Novels That Get the Pressures of Flying Right

Author and pilot Ward Larsen on stories that fly right

By Ward Larsen | March 17, 2023

Lisa Levy Signs Off with a Final Column: 5 Psychological Thrillers to Read This Month

Lisa Levy Signs Off with a Final Column: 5 Psychological Thrillers to Read This Month

Read recklessly, read reverently, read riotously.

By Lisa Levy | March 17, 2023

Horror Does a Body Good, or, The Story of My Teeth

Horror Does a Body Good, or, The Story of My Teeth

"Horror understands the space between our selves and our bodies, that detachment, gruesome and addictive, disgusting, beautiful, loving and oh-so-human."

By Gerardo Sámano Córdova | March 17, 2023

Shop Talk: How Nita Prose Wrote a Bestseller in Shifts, Working at Dawn and Dusk

Shop Talk: How Nita Prose Wrote a Bestseller in Shifts, Working at Dawn and Dusk

Crime writers talking craft, routine, and balancing the work with day jobs.

By Eli Cranor | March 16, 2023

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Books of the Week

Ashes in the Aspic: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s Life and Short Crime Fiction

By Curtis Evans | March 16, 2023

I Was a Teenage Pop Culture Detective

By Hector DeJean | March 16, 2023

Writing the Forest and the Trees

By Vibhuti Jain | March 16, 2023

J.A. Jance on Creating Believable Characters

J.A. Jance on Creating Believable Characters

Behind every character that graces the page, there's a life story waiting to be discovered.

By J.A. Jance | March 15, 2023

Jesse Q. Sutanto's Favorite Feel-Good Crime Novels of the Year

Jesse Q. Sutanto's Favorite Feel-Good Crime Novels of the Year

It was a very good year for fun suspense and mysteries that can also make you laugh.

By Jesse Q. Sutanto | March 15, 2023

James R. Benn On Finding Inspiration in the Strangeness of Everyday Moments

James R. Benn On Finding Inspiration in the Strangeness of Everyday Moments

Or, who's buried in Guy Topper's grave?

By James R. Benn | March 15, 2023

A Sense of Place and The Weight of History: On Setting and Fiction

A Sense of Place and The Weight of History: On Setting and Fiction

"Setting is absolutely key, an extra dimension and a character that changes as much as any other."

By Ian Moore | March 15, 2023

Sleeping with the Enemy: Alma Katsu's Reading List to Understand the Rise of the Oligarchs

Sleeping with the Enemy: Alma Katsu's Reading List to Understand the Rise of the Oligarchs

A former CIA analyst tees up why the Russian oligarchy in the UK remains a threat

By Alma Katsu | March 14, 2023

Writing in the South—About Southern Women

Writing in the South—About Southern Women

Kristen Bird on the archetype and defying expectations.

By Kristen Bird | March 14, 2023

All in the Family: On the Mesmerizing Subgenre of Familial Crimes

All in the Family: On the Mesmerizing Subgenre of Familial Crimes

Or, six novels featuring skeletons that refuse to stay in the closet.

By Katherine Higgs-Coulthard | March 14, 2023

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