January's Best Psychological Thrillers

January's Best Psychological Thrillers

Featuring new titles from Alison Gaylin, Layne Fargo, and more!

By Molly Odintz | January 24, 2025

The Joys of Writing a Standalone Thriller

The Joys of Writing a Standalone Thriller

"I travel somewhere new every book"

By Carter Wilson | January 24, 2025

All Work and No Play: Returning to <em>The Shining</em> as a Writer

All Work and No Play: Returning to The Shining as a Writer

"Writing is its own demon, one that follows us wherever we go."

By Leah Konen | January 23, 2025

What We Miss When We Talk About the Preppy Killer

What We Miss When We Talk About the Preppy Killer

Cynthia Weiner on capturing the world of 1980s NYC elites and their violent misdeeds

By Cynthia Weiner | January 23, 2025

Rick Childers on Writing Rural Noir With a Sense of Love

Rick Childers on Writing Rural Noir With a Sense of Love

A conversation about getting to the truth of life in Appalachia.

By Chris McGinley | January 23, 2025

Historical Fiction 101

Historical Fiction 101

How to craft tales of the past that are as riveting for the reader as they are respectful of the source material

By Erin Cotter | January 23, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Rediscovering the Golden Age Detective Novels of Dostoevsky Translator David Magarshack

By Martin Edwards | January 22, 2025

Why These Crimes Against Women in 1950s London Captured a Novelist's Imagination

By S.J. Bennett | January 22, 2025

Crime Fiction Has a Dead Girl Problem

By Gigi Griffis | January 22, 2025

25 Horror Novels to Look Out For in 2025

25 Horror Novels to Look Out For in 2025

Dark web denizens, carnival grotesqueries, and so. much. cannibalism.

By Molly Odintz | January 21, 2025

5 Mystery Novels with Unique Settings

5 Mystery Novels with Unique Settings

Stories where the setting is just as compelling as the crimes they’re investigating

By Jenny Elder Moke | January 21, 2025

6 Great Thrillers Featuring Sisters (and Murder)

6 Great Thrillers Featuring Sisters (and Murder)

Kate Alice Marshall on the people who would help cover up a murder – and "might end up murdering each other."

By Kate Alice Marshall | January 21, 2025

Laura Buchwald On The Rules of the Spirit World

Laura Buchwald On The Rules of the Spirit World

When writing about the dead, it's best to follow certain "standards by which the no-longer-living operate."

By Laura Buchwald | January 17, 2025

9 Books Combining The Gothic & The Glamorous

9 Books Combining The Gothic & The Glamorous

Bedazzle your bookshelf with these glitzy, grungy, and oh-so-atmospheric thrillers

By Layne Fargo | January 16, 2025

The Russian Roots of American Crime Fiction—and the O.G.

The Russian Roots of American Crime Fiction—and the O.G.

Joseph Finder on Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and the legacy of transgressive fiction.

By Joseph Finder | January 16, 2025

Women in Control: 5 Thrilling Novels of Power Reversals

Women in Control: 5 Thrilling Novels of Power Reversals

These psychological thrillers flip the script to demonstrate the "brutal unfairness of it all"

By Asia Mackay | January 16, 2025

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