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Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer's New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries

Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer's New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries

What really defines the sub-genres of crime?

By Deon Meyer | February 18, 2025

Kevin Wade on the Move from Dramatic Writing to His Debut Novel

Kevin Wade on the Move from Dramatic Writing to His Debut Novel

The "Bluebloods" showrunner talks with Terry McDonell about his years of writing for the screen and TV, and why he decided to write a crime novel.

By Terry McDonell | February 17, 2025

Atlantic City: Crime Fiction on the Boardwalk

Atlantic City: Crime Fiction on the Boardwalk

How to read your way through the gritty seaside playground.

By Paul French | February 17, 2025

Tying Your Story to Current Events: Brilliant Strategy or a Fool’s Mission?

Tying Your Story to Current Events: Brilliant Strategy or a Fool’s Mission?

A mystery author grapples with the lure of 'ripped-from-the-headlines' stories.

By Jenn Bregman | February 17, 2025

Speculative Murder Mysteries and Alternative History Thrillers Out in 2025

Speculative Murder Mysteries and Alternative History Thrillers Out in 2025

Space heists, dark fairy tales, weird magic, sinister star academies, and so, so much misuse of technology

By Molly Odintz | February 14, 2025

Why Posh London Is Just as Good A Setting For Mysteries as Any Gritty Side Street

Why Posh London Is Just as Good A Setting For Mysteries as Any Gritty Side Street

Scratch beneath the stucco of Belgravia, London’s most upmarket residential district, and dark secrets lurk.

By Orlando Murrin | February 14, 2025

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By Jeff Macfee | February 13, 2025

How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

Kate Alice Marshall on dreams, memories, and what happens when the real world can't be trusted.

By Kate Alice Marshall | February 12, 2025

8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

Let your imagination run wild with these bizarre, compelling, definitely-not-true celebrity rumors

By Margarita Montimore | February 12, 2025

10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

Vanessa Montalban considers the "generational patterns and themes that tie these ancient stories to our modern world."

By Vanessa Montalban | February 12, 2025

Asking What If?: Mystery as Respite for the Anxious Mind

Asking What If?: Mystery as Respite for the Anxious Mind

On seeing "fears played out through narrative...[and] experiencing that fear within the safe embrace of a book."

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | February 11, 2025

Why We Love to Read About Rich People Behaving Badly

Why We Love to Read About Rich People Behaving Badly

And why charming, sociopathic social climbers are the true heroes of our age of inequality

By Anna Sophia McLoughlin | February 11, 2025

Where Is Everybody?<br>A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

Where Is Everybody?
A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

The greatest terror is reserved, not for death, but for a life alone

By Philip Fracassi | February 11, 2025

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Ande Pliego on the power of humor in horror and thrillers.

By Ande Pliego | February 10, 2025

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