Short Story

The Unburied Contradictions of Sacramento Noir

John Freeman on the noir shadings of California's capital, captured in a new collection of stories.

March 5, 2025 By John Freeman

Digging Deep, Staying with It: James Sallis on Writing, Reality, and the Danger of Creative Work

A new collection spans the career of a modern master.

November 25, 2024 By Nick Kolakowski

The Bloomingdale Story: Read the Never-Before Published Patricia Highsmith Draft That Would Become Carol (The Price of Salt)

A rare gem from Highsmith's newly released diaries and notebooks, with annotations from the author and her editor.

November 16, 2021 By Patricia Highsmith

Latinx Crime Fiction Anthologies

Latinx writers are producing some of the world's most exciting short fiction. Time to get your hands on a few story collections.

October 6, 2021 By Richie Narvaez

Lee Child on the Invention of Fiction

The first humans to make up stories may just have saved us all. Or not. It's hard to know for sure.

October 5, 2021 By Lee Child

Berlin Noir

Katja Bohnet, edited by Thomas Wörtche

"Thea Stauffer looked at her hands and was surprised at how she had managed to let herself go."

May 13, 2019 By CrimeReads Excerpts

"The Duchess at Prayer"

Edith Wharton, edited by Graeme Davis

"Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house..."

February 6, 2019 By CrimeReads Excerpts

Starry, Starry Night

René Appel & Josh Pachter

"Mila has shown him he can live a better life. He has to behave himself, if he doesn’t want to go back to being a total loser."

December 21, 2018 By CrimeReads Excerpts

"Possessed"

Naomi Hirahara

"It was cabin time: sharing and praying. "

June 5, 2018 By CrimeReads Excerpts

"Withhold the Dawn"

Richie Narvaez

"Gladys Gutierrez hated the IRS."

May 25, 2018 By CrimeReads Excerpts

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