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The Terror Around the Corner: The Enduring Appeal of the Suburban GothicA town of seemingly perfect housewives. A severed ear in a patch of green grass. The last man alive hiding from his monstrous neighbors. A...
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Imran Mahmoud On Grief, Justice, and the Long Path Towards ResolutionMy latest novel Finding Sophie is a crime novel about a teenager (Sophie) who goes missing one seemingly uneventful day. That simple but...
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Wrapping Up Against The Chill: Coats and Cloaks In Gothic FictionClothes are a storyteller’s dream when it comes to showing, not telling. In Patricia Highsmith’s 1950s novel, The Price of Salt , Therese...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Bid to Become a Real-Life Crime Solver“The trial of Polly Bodine will take place at Richmond, on Monday next, and will, no doubt, excite much interest,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe on June...
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That One Time You Almost Saw a GhostOne time my brother almost saw a ghost. He was in New Orleans, in an ancient bar, during a bachelor party weekend, I think. To be honest, I...
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Jeff Hoffmann On Accountability and Crime FictionI started writing my second novel, Like It Never Happened , at the beginning of 2020. It started, as all stories do, with a handful of...
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The Irrepressible Charm of ‘Romancing the Stone’The early 1980s were a crazy time for adventure movies. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” had come out in the summer of 1981 and was a huge box-office...
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Amnesia and the Modern ThrillerThe amnesia trope is a popular one in mysteries and thrillers, and for good reason. It’s a terrifying thought, having a secret locked away in...
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Nassau and the Bahamas: Death in ParadiseFunky Nassau – capital of the Bahamas, beauty spot of the Caribbean, a British colony until 1973. Officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, it...
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Remembering Richard Lewis and Once Upon a CrimeAfter his five decades in show business, the late Richard Lewis is rightly being remembered for many career highlights: his peerless stand-up...
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Mark Twain Wrote a Book Called Tom Sawyer, DetectiveYes, you read that right. Mark Twain consistently reinvented his original 1876 novel Tom Sawyer , adding sequels of different genres to it...
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Big Pimpin: On Iceberg Slim and ‘Reflections’Living in Harlem in the early 1970s, my father’s third floor apartment on 123 rd and Seventh Avenue was upstairs from infamous barbershop...
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The Many Real Life Deaths Surrounding The “Star Wars” Defense InitiativeIn my current release, The Deepest Kill , the central murder may possibly relate to a lucrative missile defense contract. One character compares...
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Eight Books Exploring Real Life Crimes in Fiction and Narrative NonfictionMinnesotans of a certain age remember when 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling went missing the night of October 22, 1989. Jacob, his brother, and a...
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: February 2024A look at the month’s best reviewed books in crime fiction, nonfiction, mystery, and thrillers, from Bookmarks . * Michael...
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Drinking with Agatha ChristieTisanes, hot chocolate, a pint, gin and gingerbeer, a strong cup of tea: it’s simply not a Christie mystery without an array of beverages at the...
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Thomas Mullen On Writing About Historical Conspiracy Theories in a Post-Truth AgeYou’re reading a mystery. You want to know whodunnit. You follow the detective—maybe it’s a cop or a PI, maybe it’s an amateur sleuth forced into...
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Framed: Mysteries Where the Sleuth is Wrongly AccusedI often wonder when reading mysteries such as the first of its kind The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins or the groundbreaking Gone Girl by...
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My First Thriller: Mary KubicaMary Kubica is a very private person. So private, in fact, no one but her husband knew she’d started writing a novel, The Good Girl . And...
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A Writer’s Themes: Why and How Do They Keep Returning?When I was asked to contribute an essay to CrimeReads, I was given a choice between compiling a Reading List, or to come up with something...
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Writing the Stories I Needed to Read: Fiction as a LifelinePharaoh Ramesses II was an unrepentant warmonger and slaver, but he is also credited with building the earliest known library in the 1200s BCE....
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Peg Tyre and Peter Blauner On Three Decades of Marriage and WritingPeg Tyre and Peter Blauner are New York Times bestselling authors who have over a dozen published novels and multiple awards between...
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Which Jane Austen Protagonists Would Make the Best Detectives?My debut novel is a tribute to my hero, Jane Austen, in the format of a murder mystery. It is fitting because Austen’s classic works are...
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On the Freedoms and Horrors of Creating a Fictional Setting For Your Murder MysterySpenser’s Boston, Temperance Brennan’s North Carolina, Dave Robicheaux’s New Iberia…real places with fictional detectives. The setting is an...
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7 Films and TV Shows Featuring Park RangersThe hero of Leave No Trace , Michael Walker, is a former park ranger and current special agent for the Investigative Services Branch (ISB) of...
