How To Turn Your Happy Place Into a Setting for A Psychological Thriller

How To Turn Your Happy Place Into a Setting for A Psychological Thriller

"Knowing a place inside and out means I can write a page-turner about it."

By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | July 21, 2021

In These Six Thrillers, The Natural World Is a Character, Not Just a Setting

In These Six Thrillers, The Natural World Is a Character, Not Just a Setting

Novels that explore the great (and sometimes terrifying) outdoors.

By Elisabeth de Mariaffi | July 20, 2021

Alma Katsu and Owen Matthews on Ideal Spies, Historical Fiction, and the Russia-West Divide

Alma Katsu and Owen Matthews on Ideal Spies, Historical Fiction, and the Russia-West Divide

She was a senior intelligence analyst. He was a Moscow bureau chief. Now they're both writing spy thrillers.

By Alma Katsu | July 20, 2021

Defections and Detections: How a Sprawling Soviet Atomic Spy Network Was First Exposed

Defections and Detections: How a Sprawling Soviet Atomic Spy Network Was First Exposed

In postwar America, Soviet spies were busy gathering up atomic secrets. A series of defections soon threw the network into chaos.

By Ann Hagedorn | July 20, 2021

Crime Fiction in San Francisco: From Barbary Coast to Tech Noir

Crime Fiction in San Francisco: From Barbary Coast to Tech Noir

The City by the Bay has a literary tradition like no other.

By Paul French | July 19, 2021

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 | July 19, 2021

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

We Need More Victim-Focused Narratives

By Amanda Kabak | July 19, 2021

The Internet Made Crime Public. That's When Things Got Complicated.

By Rozlan Mohd Noor | July 19, 2021

Carolyn Ferrell on Church, Belonging, and Holding onto Humanity in the Face of Erasure

By Carolyn Ferrell | July 16, 2021

The Needle and the Damage Done: The Genius of Robert Stone’s <em>Dog Soldiers</em>

The Needle and the Damage Done: The Genius of Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers

Stone's tale of heroin, smugglers, and moral striving remains one of the most relevant American crime novels ever written.

By Bruce Riordan | July 16, 2021

Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?

Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?

Rounding up the month's best in suspense.

By Lisa Levy | July 16, 2021

The Most <strike>Ridiculous</strike> ahem, <em>Memorable</em> Serial Killers in Literature

The Most Ridiculous ahem, Memorable Serial Killers in Literature

Grady Hendrix reads an unhealthy number of murder books. Here are some of the most absurd(ly entertaining).

By Grady Hendrix | July 16, 2021

6 Magical Cozy Mysteries Where Speculative Premises Are Taken To Quite Logical Conclusions

6 Magical Cozy Mysteries Where Speculative Premises Are Taken To Quite Logical Conclusions

Readers will let you get away with just about any setup—as long as the world building makes sense.

By Esme Addison | July 16, 2021

Shop Talk: Jordan Harper Pulls Down the Blinds, Turns Up the Heat, and Writes Novels on Hotel Stationery

Shop Talk: Jordan Harper Pulls Down the Blinds, Turns Up the Heat, and Writes Novels on Hotel Stationery

Crime writers discuss cold brew coffee and riding the tiger.

By Eli Cranor | July 15, 2021

For One Writer, Rediscovering the Novels of Dick Francis Was the Answer to a Personal Crisis and a Mysterious Illness

For One Writer, Rediscovering the Novels of Dick Francis Was the Answer to a Personal Crisis and a Mysterious Illness

John Fram was at work on his second novel when a strange illness knocked him down. A chance encounter with some wildly popular horse racing mysteries helped get him right. But how?

By John Fram | July 15, 2021

A Beginner's Guide to Waterfront Cozies

A Beginner's Guide to Waterfront Cozies

Relax and feel the breeze with these seven mysteries set along the water's edge.

By Holly Danvers | July 15, 2021

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