• Suspense

    The Search Party

    Simon Lelic

    "So much for the rainbow bridge."

    August 21, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Jack Reacher and The Grand Unified Theory of Thrillers

    Malcolm Gladwell dives into the world of Lee Child and his legendary wandering warrior.

    August 20, 2020  By Malcolm Gladwell
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    Seven Novels That Use Weather to Enhance the Suspense

    The Forecast Calls for...Murder!

    August 20, 2020  By Jody Gehrman
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    Kylie Schachte on Empathy, Vulnerability, and Teenage Girls as Natural Detectives

    From the Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

    August 20, 2020  By Unlikeable Female Characters 
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    The Bangtail Ghost

    Keith McAfferty

    "The house was a fish out of water for the setting, a split‑level mid‑century modern with a backward‑slanting roof and casement windows offering a spectacular view of the Madison Range, if only a sliver of the river itself."

    August 20, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Five Flawed Characters You’ll Learn to Appreciate

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

    August 19, 2020  By Amy Stuart
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    'She Has Haunted Me:' Virginia Woolf, Mothers and Me

    On Grief, Memory, Fiction, and Motherhood

    August 19, 2020  By Maggie Humm
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    The Texas Terrors of My Childhood Imagination

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

    August 18, 2020  By Christopher Rice
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    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."

    August 18, 2020  By Pamela Crane
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    The Second Wife

    Rebecca Fleet

    "It’s past midnight and the lights along the pier are jumping points of static, reflected in silver glimmers on the sea."

    August 18, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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