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    Female Friendships in Crime and Thriller Novels

    Female Friendships in Crime and Thriller Novels

    From good to bad, bad to dead: here are nine novels with complex female friendships at their core

    By Sian Gilbert | June 13, 2023

    Rethinking Genre, or, The Great Genre Rebellion

    Rethinking Genre, or, The Great Genre Rebellion

    Wendy Walker on psychological thrillers, finding your niche, and experimenting with genre conventions.

    By Wendy Walker | June 13, 2023

    The Best Psychological Thrillers of June 2023

    The Best Psychological Thrillers of June 2023

    Twisty thrillers, haunting character studies, and one incredibly vicious Disney princess

    By Molly Odintz | June 9, 2023

    Six Great Thrillers Featuring Manipulative Mom-Friends at Their Best

    Six Great Thrillers Featuring Manipulative Mom-Friends at Their Best

    Ashley Audrain on circumstantial friendship and dangerous secrets.

    By Ashley Audrain | June 9, 2023

    10 Thrilling Novels featuring Horses 

    10 Thrilling Novels featuring Horses 

    These books use the sensitive equines "to echo the qualities of their human counterparts."

    By Eliza Jane Brazier | June 7, 2023

    Why Are We So Obsessed with Missing Persons Stories?

    Why Are We So Obsessed with Missing Persons Stories?

    On losing our beloveds, and writing what we fear.

    By Seraphina Nova Glass | June 7, 2023

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    How The Homes of My Past Continue To Haunt My Life

    By Adorah Nworah | June 6, 2023

    S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He Writes

    By Nick Kolakowski | June 6, 2023

    125 Years Later, Why The Turn of the Screw Still Haunts Us

    By Kate Griffin | June 5, 2023

    The Moms of Mystery: Six Books About Motherhood and Crime

    The Moms of Mystery: Six Books About Motherhood and Crime

    Who's watching the kids?

    By Nicole Hackett | June 2, 2023

    Top 6 Fictional Serial Killer Books

    Top 6 Fictional Serial Killer Books

    Sam Holland on her favorite books from one of humanity's darkest corners.

    By Sam Holland | June 2, 2023

    Megan Abbott on Dreams, Dangers, and Going to Strange Places in Her Newest Novel

    Megan Abbott on Dreams, Dangers, and Going to Strange Places in Her Newest Novel

    In 'Beware the Woman,' a pregnant woman travels to a remote stretch of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

    By Dwyer Murphy | May 30, 2023

    Vengeance Becomes Her: 5 Great Thrillers About Women Getting Revenge

    Vengeance Becomes Her: 5 Great Thrillers About Women Getting Revenge

    Victoria Helen Stone on discovering the satisfactions of revenge.

    By Victoria Helen Stone | May 25, 2023

    Six Thrillers in Which the House Hides a Sinister Past

    Six Thrillers in Which the House Hides a Sinister Past

    "I will invariably pounce on any cover featuring an old house...give me all the sprawling, sinister abodes."

    By Jaclyn Goldis | May 24, 2023

    How Not To Get Murdered At a Thriller Conference

    How Not To Get Murdered At a Thriller Conference

    Follow these simple rules and more likely than not you'll survive your next writing conference.

    By Jaime Lynn Hendricks | May 23, 2023

    The Origin of the Red Herring and its Place in Literature

    The Origin of the Red Herring and its Place in Literature

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    By Liv Constantine | May 23, 2023

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