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Honestly, Writing a Recurring Character is a Lot Like Having an Imaginary Friend

Honestly, Writing a Recurring Character is a Lot Like Having an Imaginary Friend

You don't have to stop inventing wonderful individuals just because you're an adult.

By Sulari Gentill | April 7, 2020

Who Speaks for the Damned

Who Speaks for the Damned

C.S. Harris

By CrimeReads Excerpts | April 7, 2020

Ishmael Reed’s Hoodoo Detective

Ishmael Reed’s Hoodoo Detective

The 1972 cult crime novel that explores Black identity, African religion, civilizations at war, and all of recorded history.

By Scott Adlerberg | April 6, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 21

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 21

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

By Otto Penzler | April 6, 2020

Something She's Not Telling Us

Something She's Not Telling Us

Darcey Bell

By CrimeReads Excerpts | April 6, 2020

The Rise of Australian True Crime Podcasts

The Rise of Australian True Crime Podcasts

Author Sara Foster on the growing world of true crime podcasting from down under.

By Sara Foster | April 3, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Border Stories: A Guide to the Novels of Don Winslow

By Bruce Riordan | April 3, 2020

Hilary Davidson and Susan Elia MacNeal on Writing PTSD in Fiction

By Susan Elia MacNeal and Hilary Davidson | April 3, 2020

Crime in the Time of Corona: How Genre Fiction Leads Us Through the Darkness

By Lyndsay Faye | April 2, 2020

My First Thriller: Lee Child

My First Thriller: Lee Child

How the creator of Jack Reacher got fired, started writing, found a pen name, found an agent, and launched a new career.

By Rick Pullen | April 2, 2020

Our Personalized Quarantine Crime Fiction Recommendations: Part 1

Our Personalized Quarantine Crime Fiction Recommendations: Part 1

Wondering what to read next? Just ask, and we'll help.

By Molly Odintz | April 2, 2020

Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

What a different movie that would have been.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2020

10 Books You Should Read This April

10 Books You Should Read This April

The month's best new crime, mystery, and thriller fiction.

By CrimeReads | April 1, 2020

These Are Plot Descriptions of Actual Episodes from the 1960s Spy Television Series <em>The Man From U.N.C.L.E</em>, and Wow they are… Insane

These Are Plot Descriptions of Actual Episodes from the 1960s Spy Television Series The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and Wow they are… Insane

Sometimes the best medicine is bonkers 60s spycraft.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 1, 2020

Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

The ex-convict turned police detective who inspired generations of authors and helped launch a new genre of literature.

By Nick Kolakowski | April 1, 2020

Hour of the Assassin

Hour of the Assassin

Matthew Quirk

By CrimeReads Excerpts | April 1, 2020

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