• Suspense

    Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

    Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.

    March 24, 2020  By Andrea Bartz
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    A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

    Five short stories that conjure up an immediate and inescapable feeling that something bad is about to happen.

    March 24, 2020  By Rachel Harrison
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    Romantic Christian Suspense: A Roundtable Discussion

    Six romantic suspense authors, all with a Christian focus to their work, discuss the joys and challenges of their beloved subgenre.

    March 24, 2020  By Colleen Coble
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    All the Pretty Things

    Emily Arsenault

    "I glanced back toward the double doors and realized that I’d had to buzz in because they were locked."

    March 24, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Our Obsession with Beautiful Dead Girls Is Keeping Us from Addressing Domestic Violence

    Why do we crave stories of violence, yet turn our faces from the reality of that violence?

    March 23, 2020  By Jessica Moor
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    Red Herrings in Contemporary Crime Literature

    Celebrating the 21st century masters of misdirection.

    March 20, 2020  By Karen Dietrich
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    10 of the Most Morally Bankrupt Narrators in Fiction

    They're horrible people, but we can't stop reading their stories.

    March 20, 2020  By Samantha Downing
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    The Tools of Abuse: Why Technology Deserves a Place at the Heart of Modern Crime Narratives

    How abusers use phones and other devices to control their victims.

    March 20, 2020  By Gytha Lodge
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    8 Books About Male Protagonists by Female Authors

    Classic and contemporary novels offer insight into damaged male psyches.

    March 20, 2020  By Scarlett Harris
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    A Conspiracy of Bones

    Kathy Reichs

    "The phone rang again at eight."

    March 20, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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