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Isolation as the Enemy

Isolation as the Enemy

These thrillers make use of many kinds of solitude to amp up the tension.

By Victoria Helen Stone | May 2, 2022

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: April 2022

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: April 2022

Featuring new books by Gary Phillips, Don Winslow, Janelle Brown, and more.

By CrimeReads | April 29, 2022

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Featuring more Bosch, more Staircase, more Lincoln Lawyer, and most importantly Rosie Perez.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 29, 2022

Beyond the Plot: Craft Tricks of Great Commercial Thrillers

Beyond the Plot: Craft Tricks of Great Commercial Thrillers

Cassidy Lucas brings some much-needed analysis to the craft of commercial fiction.

By Cassidy Lucas | April 29, 2022

MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Winners

MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Winners

Celebrating the best mystery and crime fiction of the year.

By CrimeReads | April 28, 2022

Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

"[U]nreliable narration can be enormously successful when the author’s use of misdirection or withholding is tied expressly to the character’s experience, behavior, and/or worldview."

By Kit Frick | April 28, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Victoria Thompson: My Favorite Sleuthing Partners

By Victoria Thompson | April 28, 2022

The State of the Crime Novel in 2022, Part 2: Genre, Publishing, and What to Read Next

By Molly Odintz | April 27, 2022

"Perception, self-deception, and truth": Soon Wiley Talks Craft and Character

By Molly Odintz | April 27, 2022

Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

When the writing gets personal...

By Alma Katsu | April 27, 2022

How Dorothy B. Hughes' <em>In a Lonely Place</em> Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

Elizabeth D. Samet on the legacy of a postwar classic

By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable With The Edgar Nominees

The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable With The Edgar Nominees

Edgar Awards Nominees Reflect On How The Pandemic Has Changed Their Writing Lives

By Molly Odintz | April 26, 2022

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

By David Gordon | April 26, 2022

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

With City on Fire, the author returns home and finds a new epic.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 26, 2022

Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

Dick Lipez (1938-2022), writing under the pen name of Richard Stevenson, wanted to "present a gay man as contented and not tortured."

By Michael Nava | April 26, 2022

Lost and Found: Rediscovering E.C.R. Lorac’s Two-Way Murder

Lost and Found: Rediscovering E.C.R. Lorac’s Two-Way Murder

Martin Edwards on a Golden Age classic, an enigmatic author, and her "pleasantly persistent Inspector Macdonald."

By Martin Edwards | April 25, 2022

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