• Genres

    Villains and Victims: The Role of Animals in Crime Fiction

    Why it's time to do away with literary taboos and confront violence against animals.

    July 22, 2021  By Greg Buchanan
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    Seven Mysteries Filled with Family Members

    In these novels, families go to extreme lengths to close ranks, keep secrets, and take their revenge.

    July 22, 2021  By S. C. Perkins
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    Very Bad People: Exclusive Cover Reveal

    Kit Frick

    "We are the Bolan sisters. Calliope, Lorelei, and Serafina."

    July 21, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Nine Books With Plots Pulled From Real Life

    Literature can fill in the emotional gaps of true crime and reportage.

    July 21, 2021  By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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    When Exactly Was 'The Golden Age' of Detective Fiction? It's a Mystery.

    "Defining what is a mystery is just as elusive as pinpointing its invention."

    July 21, 2021  By Otto Penzler
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    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."

    July 21, 2021  By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
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    In These Six Thrillers, The Natural World Is a Character, Not Just a Setting

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

    July 20, 2021  By Elisabeth de Mariaffi
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    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.

    July 20, 2021  By Alma Katsu
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    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.

    July 20, 2021  By Ann Hagedorn
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    Crime Fiction in San Francisco: From Barbary Coast to Tech Noir

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

    July 19, 2021  By Paul French
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