• Suspense

    The Mist

    Ragnar Jónasson

    "Darkness had fallen outside. Einar and Erla were sitting at the supper table with their guest."

    June 29, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

    Why reading Highsmith's novels resonates so deeply—and disturbingly—in unsettled times.

    June 26, 2020  By Sarah Hilary
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    6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

    On the escapist pleasures of donning the life of another.

    June 26, 2020  By Julie Clark
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    The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

    We weren't meant to fly, but we do. Stories of crash survivors speak to something primitive—and mysterious—in us.

    June 25, 2020  By Richard Farrell
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    Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

    We're all thinking a little differently about the horrors of solitude these days.

    June 25, 2020  By Nina Laurin
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    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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