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    Revenge in Fiction – and in Life: A Roundtable Discussion

    Revenge in Fiction – and in Life: A Roundtable Discussion

    Alison Gaylin, Winnie Li, Ashley Audrain, Stephanie Wrobel, Chelsea Summers, and Lisa Levy sit down to discuss one of literature's oldest and most complex tropes.

    By Lisa Levy | March 7, 2022

    What if the FBI Required Recruits to  Read Paranormal Crime Thrillers?

    What if the FBI Required Recruits to Read Paranormal Crime Thrillers?

    Or, how supernatural mystery novels can help America’s elite law enforcement organization defeat today’s most creative criminals.

    By Matt Miksa | March 7, 2022

    Seven Colorful Cover Themes from Crime Fiction’s Past

    Seven Colorful Cover Themes from Crime Fiction’s Past

    It was a different time. A time of long legs, falling bodies, disembodied heads, and butterfly chairs.

    By J. Kingston Pierce | March 4, 2022

    A List of Multigenerational Family Mysteries

    A List of Multigenerational Family Mysteries

    Seven books in which families are destroyed by their own secrets.

    By Jane Cockram | March 4, 2022

    Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles discuss what's in store for Molly Murphy

    Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles discuss what's in store for Molly Murphy

    The mother-and-daughter team talk about collaboration, historical fiction, and women's rights.

    By Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles | March 3, 2022

    Shop Talk: David Heska Wanbli Weiden Takes His Craft Seriously and His Coffee Very Strong

    Shop Talk: David Heska Wanbli Weiden Takes His Craft Seriously and His Coffee Very Strong

    Crime writers talking writing routines, research, putting in the work, and keeping caffeine levels strong.

    By Eli Cranor | March 3, 2022

    Best Reviewed
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    • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
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    • 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

    Six Thrillers That Will Make Even the Steeliest Readers a Little Squeamish

    By Leanne Kale Sparks | March 3, 2022

    The End of Getting Lost

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | March 3, 2022

    The Best New Crime Fiction Coming Out This Month

    By CrimeReads | March 2, 2022

    Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films

    Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films

    Tracing the long cultural afterlife of Los Angeles crime

    By D.C. Taylor | March 2, 2022

    The Books Will Keep You Warm

    The Books Will Keep You Warm

    A celebration of small-town libraries and retro mysteries

    By Nikki Knight | March 2, 2022

    The Greatest Apartments in Crime Fiction

    The Greatest Apartments in Crime Fiction

    Louise Candlish on some evocative, provocative flats from the annals of mystery.

    By Louise Candlish | March 1, 2022

    Can Contemporary Spy Novels Ever Live Up to the Cold War Classics?

    Can Contemporary Spy Novels Ever Live Up to the Cold War Classics?

    James Wolff on the halcyon days of moral ambiguity—and some possible ways forward.

    By James Wolff | March 1, 2022

    I'm Dying Up Here: What a Decade of Stand-Up Taught Me About Fear and Thrillers

    I'm Dying Up Here: What a Decade of Stand-Up Taught Me About Fear and Thrillers

    Erica Ferencik on the unsurpassable terror of telling jokes

    By Erica Ferencik | March 1, 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 | February 28, 2022

    The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: February 2022

    The Best Reviewed Crime Books of the Month: February 2022

    Featuring new books from Rob Hart, Lan Samantha Chang, Nina de Gramont, Paul Vidich, and more.

    By CrimeReads | February 28, 2022

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