May's Best Psychological Thrillers

May's Best Psychological Thrillers

Featuring new books from Elizabeth Day, Dervla McTiernan, May Cobb, and more.

By Lisa Levy | May 12, 2022

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

Pea-soup fog, charlatans, death cults, spiritualists, and so much more!

By Connie Berry | May 12, 2022

Experiencing Everyday Horror Through The Eyes Of A Post-Trauma Protagonist

Experiencing Everyday Horror Through The Eyes Of A Post-Trauma Protagonist

"That’s the magic of writing. This book is upsetting people. It’s making people feel."

By Kelly McClure | May 12, 2022

Eight Biological Horror Movies Guaranteed to Make Your Skin Crawl

Eight Biological Horror Movies Guaranteed to Make Your Skin Crawl

These films go beyond body horror to prove that biology itself is what's terrifying.

By Chris Holm | May 11, 2022

The Nanny Diaries: Six Creepy Novels Involving Childcare

The Nanny Diaries: Six Creepy Novels Involving Childcare

6 books "featuring inquisitive nannies, creepy children, supernatural forces, curiously distant parents, disapproving housekeepers, and so much more."

By Jason Rekulak | May 11, 2022

Eight Thrilling Books To Read About Mountaineering

Eight Thrilling Books To Read About Mountaineering

Author and high altitude climber Amy McCulloch recommends the best literature set in the high peaks.

By Amy McCulloch | May 11, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Amber Cowie on Elevating Horror

By Amber Cowie | May 11, 2022

Crime Fiction Is Having a TV Moment, and That Moment Isn’t Going To Be Over Any Time Soon. 

By Dervla McTiernan | May 10, 2022

8 Unnerving New England Psychological Thrillers

By Brian Lebeau | May 10, 2022

Sara Paretsky: V.I. <br>Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

Sara Paretsky: V.I.
Warshawski and My Quest for Voice and Justice

"V. I. Warshawski becomes not just my voice in the world, but the expresser of my own conflicts over morality."

By Sara Paretsky | May 10, 2022

Ten Close Families in Literature

Ten Close Families in Literature

In these families, "it’s often their closeness that threatens to pull them apart."

By Harriet Evans | May 10, 2022

Hollywood and Hookers: Debunking the Stereotype

Hollywood and Hookers: Debunking the Stereotype

"I wanted to discover whether Hollywood has perpetuated the early 20th Century stereotype of sex workers as boozy, broke and burned out."

By Jodé Millman | May 9, 2022

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | May 9, 2022

The Pandemic: Inspiration and Injury to Writers

The Pandemic: Inspiration and Injury to Writers

Lark O. Jensen on what mystery authors did to get by without conferences, book signings, and holiday fairs.

By Lark O. Jensen | May 9, 2022

The Final Twist

The Final Twist

"I’m talking about the twist...in the final pages, the twist that morphs the way you interpret the entire book."

By Sandra Block | May 9, 2022

Bosch Is Back — But Can <em>Bosch: Legacy</em> Find the Original's Sunbaked Noir Magic?

Bosch Is Back — But Can Bosch: Legacy Find the Original's Sunbaked Noir Magic?

Bosch is a private eye, Maddie is a cop, and Honey is out for revenge. So does it work?

By Alexis Gunderson | May 6, 2022

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