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    January's Best International Crime Fiction

    January's Best International Crime Fiction

    Fashionistas in Ghana, old soldiers in Italy, and medical malfeasance in Denmark

    By Molly Odintz | January 29, 2021

    How Do You Write an Isolation Thriller When  Everyone Is Connected All of the Time?

    How Do You Write an Isolation Thriller When Everyone Is Connected All of the Time?

    A classic thriller trope may be on its way to retirement.

    By Zoje Stage | January 29, 2021

    On the Art of the Plot Twist

    On the Art of the Plot Twist

    "Psycho" and "Les Diaboliques" shocked audiences with their unpredictable revelations. What made them so effective?

    By Milan Terlunen | January 28, 2021

    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas

    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas

    A look at five films where morality is supplanted by need

    By Thomas H. Carry | January 27, 2021

    10 Novels That Explore True Crime Obsession

    10 Novels That Explore True Crime Obsession

    Obsessed with true crime? So are these characters!

    By Eliza Jane Brazier | January 26, 2021

    Part of the Family

    Part of the Family

    Charlotte Philby

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | January 26, 2021

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    • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
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    Killing the People You Love: Fiction and Medicine Intersect

    By John Burley | January 21, 2021

    Secrets, Smartphones, Social Media, and Suspense

    By Ellery Lloyd | January 21, 2021

    Paula Hawkins on Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, 70 Years Later

    By Paula Hawkins | January 20, 2021

    Crime Fiction Needs Neurodiversity

    Crime Fiction Needs Neurodiversity

    The human brain works in fascinating, diverse ways, and authors should strive to represent those modes in fiction.

    By Josh Stallings | January 20, 2021

    Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

    Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

    You're on the mountaintop, a storm blows in, the phone lines go dead...

    By Allie Reynolds | January 19, 2021

    10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

    10 of the Best Dinner Parties in Modern Fiction

    "Study the smiling, privileged guests around you: can you guess which one knows where the bodies are buried?"

    By Emma Rous | January 13, 2021

    The Scorpion’s Tail

    The Scorpion’s Tail

    Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | January 12, 2021

    All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

    All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

    What's more suspenseful than waiting on a letter from someone with a story to tell?

    By Amy Stewart | January 11, 2021

    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This January

    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This January

    Domestic entanglements, coastal mansions, and mysterious deaths.

    By Lisa Levy | January 8, 2021

    The Many and Sometimes Sinister Retellings of Jane Eyre

    The Many and Sometimes Sinister Retellings of Jane Eyre

    "Reader, I murdered him."

    By Rachel Hawkins | January 8, 2021

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