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My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

How Harlan Coben went from guiding tour buses in Spain to writing blockbuster novels that the French (and just about everyone else) can't get enough of.

By Rick Pullen | May 6, 2021

Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

In 1906, Grace Brown, a factory worker in upstate New York, was killed, her supervisor was arrested for the crime, and the course of American literature was altered forever.

By L.R. Dorn | May 6, 2021

The Search for China's Serial Killers

The Search for China's Serial Killers

Reliable figures are hard to come by, but recent arrests indicate that China has an unknown number of American-style serial killers.

By Brian Klingborg | May 6, 2021

The Secret Talker

The Secret Talker

Geling Yan, translated by Jeremy Tiang

By CrimeReads Excerpts | May 6, 2021

Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

By Michelle Dunne | May 5, 2021

Find You First

Find You First

Linwood Barclay

By CrimeReads Excerpts | May 5, 2021

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Linwood Barclay on Reading Voraciously, Making a Career in Writing, and Meeting Ross Macdonald

Linwood Barclay on Reading Voraciously, Making a Career in Writing, and Meeting Ross Macdonald

The author remembers his old fan fiction and how it finally led to a life in books.

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A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight

A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight

"Everyone is potentially masquerading as something or someone else..."

By Clare Whitfield | May 3, 2021

The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even

"By the time we are five, we have an inkling that the world is not fair; I am not sure we ever resign ourselves fully to that awful truth."

By Joshilyn Jackson | April 29, 2021

Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

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

By Amy Suiter Clarke | April 28, 2021

Bone Rattle

Bone Rattle

Marc Cameron

By CrimeReads Excerpts | April 28, 2021

Meet Me In Another Life

Meet Me In Another Life

Catriona Silvey

By CrimeReads Excerpts | April 27, 2021

On the Dognapping Gangs that Terrorized Victorian London, and the Poet who Fought Back

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.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 27, 2021

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