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How Building My Dream House Became an American Nightmare

How Building My Dream House Became an American Nightmare

"I dwelled not in an American dream-home, but an already haunted house of my own design."

By Nickolas Butler | July 28, 2021

How One Author with Aphantasia Builds Fictional Worlds

How One Author with Aphantasia Builds Fictional Worlds

Into the darkness—writing when your mind is a void

By Dea Poirier | July 28, 2021

Rules for Writing Romantic Suspense

Rules for Writing Romantic Suspense

Your love story needs to be as genuine as your thriller plot is compelling—and for heaven's sake, don't let your readers down!

By Meg Tilly | July 28, 2021

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

"Hilarity ensues. And ensues. And ensues some more."

By Darynda Jones | July 27, 2021

July's Best Debut Novels

July's Best Debut Novels

The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | July 27, 2021

Five Thrillers That Will Make You Delete Your Social Media Accounts Forever

Five Thrillers That Will Make You Delete Your Social Media Accounts Forever

What to read if your social accounts aren’t making you feel #blessed.

By Lindsay Cameron | July 27, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Recipe For Hardboiled Fiction

By Terry Roberts | July 27, 2021

How a Crime Author Found the Inspiration to Write a Vampire Revenge Thriller Set in the 1970s Southwest

By Richard Lange | July 27, 2021

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | July 26, 2021

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime and the City goes island-hopping in search of mystery.

By Paul French | July 26, 2021

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

Wealthy drawing rooms, middle class parlors, working-class tea houses: on the many ways that the British take their tea.

By Vicki Delany | July 26, 2021

Toxic Masculinity in Psychological Thrillers

Toxic Masculinity in Psychological Thrillers

"Toxic masculinity negatively impacts all of us. This might be why psychological suspense so often includes dramatic instances of it."

By Caitlin Wahrer | July 26, 2021

The Imperial Russians Who Defied the Czar For Love

The Imperial Russians Who Defied the Czar For Love

Even the members of the Romanov family chafed under the heavy-handed rulers of Russia.

By Dianne Freeman | July 26, 2021

Elizabeth Gilpin: The Brutal Survival Summer Camp That Nearly Killed Me

Elizabeth Gilpin: The Brutal Survival Summer Camp That Nearly Killed Me

"Programs like mine that operated from the most remote and unchecked places in the country. Where no one was watching and tragic things happened all the time."

By Elizabeth Gilpin | July 23, 2021

John Candy Rants About Hollywood in a <br>Calgary Hotel Room

John Candy Rants About Hollywood in a
Calgary Hotel Room

"Only someone who has experienced that kind of love and adoration can so deeply feel its absence."

By Tommy Swerdlow | July 23, 2021

Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?

Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?

An intercontinental, cross-generational obsession explained by one of its practitioners.

By Katharine Schellman | July 23, 2021

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