• Suspense

    Monstrous Souls

    Rebecca Kelly

    "It’s the sort of day that you dream of: a blue sky, a hot fist of sun and the sound of bees in clover, yet the air vibrates with unnatural tension."

    June 25, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

    The author of some of the darkest, most disturbing novels in years wants people to know: she's not April Ludgate.

    June 24, 2020  By Michael Seidlinger
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    You Can Go Home Now

    Michael Elias

    "From my bedroom window, I had a view of the woods behind our house, a Catskill forest speckled with tall red black spruce, thick balsam fir, and slender mountain ash."

    June 24, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Literary Visions of the Female Sociopath

    From Euripides to Gone Girl, fictional sociopaths have always given vent to feminist rage.

    June 23, 2020  By Nicola Maye Goldberg
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    How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

    The lovers in these thrillers take “spicing up their relationship” to the dark side.

    June 23, 2020  By Robyn Harding
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    Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

    Can't Sleep? These Suspense Characters Can't Either!

    June 23, 2020  By Megan Miranda
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    The Uneasy Noirs of
    Stephen King

    From Bachman to The Outsider, King revels in subtly subverting the rules of mystery.

    June 22, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

    The Great Disambiguation Project marches on through a crowded field of "girl" books.

    June 22, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Can You Really Separate Edgar Allan Poe's Work from His Life?

    Sarah Weinman on "the Gordian knot holding together Poe's tumultuous life and fragmented personality with his body of work"—and an audacious biography.

    June 19, 2020  By Sarah Weinman
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    Safe

    S.K. Barnett

    "Mom was at her real estate office and Dad was in the city being an executive producer."

    June 19, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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