• Suspense

    The Secret Talker

    Geling Yan, translated by Jeremy Tiang

    "Qiao Hongmei stood before the mirror, posing the way he’d described her, with her weight on one leg."

    May 6, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

    Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

    May 5, 2021  By Michelle Dunne
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    Find You First

    Linwood Barclay

    "As an adult, Miles had always lived alone."

    May 5, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Girl Who Died 

    Ragnar Jónasson

    "As she was approaching Skálar, fog rolled in without warning, blotting out the landscape and merging sea with sky."

    May 4, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder: The Dark Promise of 'D.O.A.'

    Revisiting the many iterations of a classic scenario.

    May 4, 2021  By Catherine McKenzie
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    Yes, Crime Writers, You Can Kill the Dog: A Counterpoint

    Carter Wilson on breaking the cardinal rule of crime fiction.

    May 4, 2021  By Carter Wilson
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    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.

    May 4, 2021  By Otto Penzler
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    A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight

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

    May 3, 2021  By Clare Whitfield
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    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."

    April 29, 2021  By Joshilyn Jackson
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    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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