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Five Novels Exploring Complex Relationships Between Mothers and Sons

Five Novels Exploring Complex Relationships Between Mothers and Sons

A boy's best friend is his mother...

By Amber Garza | August 26, 2020

Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere. And They're Only Going to Get More Ubiquitous.

Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere. And They're Only Going to Get More Ubiquitous.

A crime writer's thoughts on our increasingly watched world.

By Laura Griffin | August 26, 2020

When Home is The Most Dangerous Place of All

When Home is The Most Dangerous Place of All

Thrillers that turn home into a place of mortal danger.

By Karen Dionne | August 25, 2020

Jennifer Hillier on Being the Murder Mom

Jennifer Hillier on Being the Murder Mom

This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

By Unlikeable Female Characters | August 24, 2020

Why Motherhood Is a Fertile Subject For Crime Fiction

Why Motherhood Is a Fertile Subject For Crime Fiction

Psychological thrillers allow writers to explore the ambiguities and dark realities of parenting.

By Sarah Vaughan | August 21, 2020

Why Are We So Fascinated by Houses in Literature?

Why Are We So Fascinated by Houses in Literature?

On the profoundly disturbing notion that home is not safe, and we are prisoners within our own walls.

By Kate Riordan | August 21, 2020

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When "The Other Woman" Becomes the Main Character

By Unlikeable Female Characters | August 21, 2020

The Search Party

By CrimeReads Excerpts | August 21, 2020

Jack Reacher and The Grand Unified Theory of Thrillers

By Malcolm Gladwell | August 20, 2020

Seven Novels That Use Weather to Enhance the Suspense

Seven Novels That Use Weather to Enhance the Suspense

The Forecast Calls for...Murder!

By Jody Gehrman | August 20, 2020

Kylie Schachte on Empathy, Vulnerability, and Teenage Girls as Natural Detectives

Kylie Schachte on Empathy, Vulnerability, and Teenage Girls as Natural Detectives

From the Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

By Unlikeable Female Characters | August 20, 2020

The Bangtail Ghost

The Bangtail Ghost

Keith McAfferty

By CrimeReads Excerpts | August 20, 2020

Five Flawed Characters You’ll Learn to Appreciate

Five Flawed Characters You’ll Learn to Appreciate

Forget traditional rubrics of likability. Depth is much more interesting.

By Amy Stuart | August 19, 2020

'She Has Haunted Me:' Virginia Woolf, Mothers and Me

'She Has Haunted Me:' Virginia Woolf, Mothers and Me

On Grief, Memory, Fiction, and Motherhood

By Maggie Humm | August 19, 2020

The Texas Terrors of My Childhood Imagination

The Texas Terrors of My Childhood Imagination

How a chance sighting of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster kickstarted a lifetime of writing horror.

By Christopher Rice | August 18, 2020

Parenting Gone Wild—In Crime Fiction

Parenting Gone Wild—In Crime Fiction

"You’ll never read a book as dramatic, as thrilling, and as unpredictable as a day in the life of a parent."

By Pamela Crane | August 18, 2020

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