• Genres

    Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

    Transcripts, letters, news clippings...These novels ratchet up the suspense and character development with unexpected elements.

    April 28, 2021  By Amy Suiter Clarke
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    Bone Rattle

    Marc Cameron

    "A single bone—or even a bone shard—wouldn’t just slow work down. It would stop everything."

    April 28, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Meet Me In Another Life

    Catriona Silvey

    "Santi is lost."

    April 27, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    On the Dognapping Gangs that Terrorized Victorian London, and the Poet who Fought Back

    The tale of the most dramatic dognappinng of the 19th century, which sealed a romance and changed literary history.

    April 27, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Driving in the Dark: Getaway Drivers in Fiction and the Dark Side of the American Dream

    The greatest getaway drivers in contemporary crime fiction.

    April 27, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Nine Things Your Thriller Needs to Be Lean, Mean, and Exhilarating

    Meg Gardiner breaks down the essential elements of great thrillers.

    April 27, 2021  By Meg Gardiner
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    The LAPD's Secret History of Citizen Spying

    Los Angeles has a long history of activism—and police infiltrators in activist groups.

    April 27, 2021  By Michael Nava
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    The Amazing Tale of Fergus Hume and William Freeman; or, the Critic’s Comeuppance

    Critic William Freeman despised the mediocre mysteries of Fergus Hume. But was bad writing all there was to his enduring hatred?

    April 26, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    Psychological Thrillers and Domestic Suspense in the Pandemic Era: A Roundtable

    Ruth Ware, Liz Nugent, Susie Yang, Samantha Downing, and the Liv Constantine duo discuss writing during the pandemic and where the genre is headed next.

    April 26, 2021  By Lisa Levy
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    She's Your Man: A Ode To The Trouser Roles and Tenement Kids of the Gilded Age

    A historical novelist turns to the cross-dressing actresses of the turn of the century in crafting a fierce, independent sleuth.

    April 26, 2021  By Kathleen Marple Kalb
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