• Suspense

    Second Sister

    Chan Ho-Kei

    "Nga-Yee stood outside a six-story tenement building on Second Street in Sai Ying Pun, staring at the house number in confusion."

    February 18, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Some narrators go beyond unreliability and change our very conception of narrative storytelling.

    February 17, 2020  By Michael Seidlinger
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    A Crime Reader's Antidote to Valentine's Day

    12 psychological thrillers to read this Valentine’s Day if you (like me) will be spending the evening at home, alone, drinking wine on the couch, with your cat next to you.

    February 14, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    The Chill

    Scott Carlson

    "Deshawn Ryan came out of one hole in the ground and walked thirteen blocks through the rain to reach the next."

    February 14, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

    Stories of waiting, of hoping, and of half-lives.

    February 13, 2020  By Kathleen Donohoe
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    The Ruins

    Mat Osman

    "I was about to start the earthquake when the phone rang. It wasn’t to be a big earthquake—I was thinking of two, maybe three hundred dead."

    February 13, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Only Child

    Mi-ae Seo

    "I told you about the room, didn’t I? The room with dozens of locks on it."

    February 12, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in February

    A look at the new thrillers that are going to get us all through winter.

    February 10, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

    HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

    February 7, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    February 7, 2020  By Christina McDonald
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