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    The Best Crime Novels of 2019

    The Best Crime Novels of 2019

    The year's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | December 12, 2019

    The Elements of the Haunted House: A Primer

    The Elements of the Haunted House: A Primer

    Or, How to Build a Haunted House Mystery from the Ground Up

    By Emily Littlejohn | December 12, 2019

    Jeff Lindsay Has a New Anti-Hero

    Jeff Lindsay Has a New Anti-Hero

    The Dexter Author Talks Craft, Character, and Cannibalism

    By CrimeReads | December 12, 2019

    Winter Grave

    Winter Grave

    Helene Tursten

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | December 12, 2019

    The New Voices of Country Noir

    The New Voices of Country Noir

    A new literature of remote, outlaw country is on the rise.

    By Nick Kolakowski | December 11, 2019

    Three Books that Explore the Violence of Women’s Appetites

    Three Books that Explore the Violence of Women’s Appetites

    The world is creepy."">"Why shouldn’t there be something creepy in us?
    The world is creepy."

    By Katie Gutierrez | December 11, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Exit Party
    • Fallow
    • Our Noble Selves
    • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
    • The Newer World
    • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
    • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
    • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
    • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
    • The Rouse

    I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About

    By Gar Anthony Haywood | December 11, 2019

    Ice Skating as an Education for Writing Crime Fiction

    By J. D. Griffo | December 11, 2019

    Every Stolen Breath

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | December 11, 2019

    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

    By Gary Phillips | December 10, 2019

    7 Things Crime Readers Will No Longer Tolerate

    7 Things Crime Readers Will No Longer Tolerate

    Crime fiction is getting harder to write—and that's a good thing.

    By Christopher Fowler | December 10, 2019

    5 Mysteries Set Between the World Wars

    5 Mysteries Set Between the World Wars

    Why mystery writers are drawn to the 1920s and 30s.

    By Donis Casey | December 10, 2019

    How Women Authors Are Reshaping the Horror Genre

    How Women Authors Are Reshaping the Horror Genre

    "The boogeyman in the closet isn’t an amorphous shape in the dark—It’s someone we know and trust."

    By Damien Angelica Walters | December 10, 2019

    The Crime Novels of Christmas

    The Crime Novels of Christmas

    A merry rundown of crime fiction set during the holiday season.

    By Paul French | December 9, 2019

    The Assassination of Thomas Doughty by the Brigand Sir Francis Drake

    The Assassination of Thomas Doughty by the Brigand Sir Francis Drake

    Or, what the Doughty Affair reveals about piracy, superstition, and witchcraft in the 16th Century.

    By S.J. Parris | December 9, 2019

    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    From the beginning, the novella has always gripped our attention.

    By Manning Wolfe | December 9, 2019

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