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    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

    A Recipe For Hardboiled Fiction

    A Recipe For Hardboiled Fiction

    Breaking down the essential ingredients of crime fiction in five perfect thrillers.

    By Terry Roberts | July 27, 2021

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

    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
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    "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

    How to Write a Memorable Hit Man: A Conversation Among Connoisseurs

    How to Write a Memorable Hit Man: A Conversation Among Connoisseurs

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