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The Best Paperback Releases of Summer 2023Here are 25 of the best novels to come out in paperback over the past three months, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. Alaina...
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Why Our Most Engrossing Mysteries Are UnderwaterDetails leaked onto the front page, saturated global consciousness. The inaptly named Titan, a 22-foot deep-sea sub had gone missing. The...
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The Best Historical Fiction of 2023 (So Far)It’s been an amazing year for historical fiction (just like every year is an amazing year for historical fiction!), so I thought I’d...
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Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Inspiration for Their New Sci-Fi Queer Romance NoirProphet is a mystery, a sci-fi adventure, a spy thriller, a queer romance, a military horror story, and satire about the weaponisation of...
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Will Dean’s Top 10 Locked-Room ThrillersNote: I’ve expanded the definition of ‘locked-room’ to include closed-set. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie – The...
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Five Novels Portraying Toxic ReligionAt its best, religion can help and encourage. At its worst, it can be used to manipulate, control and abuse. Such is the case in my upcoming...
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Remembering William FriedkinWilliam Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of the masterpieces The French Connection and The Exorcist has died at the age of 87. Born in...
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Yepoka Yeebo on the Ghanaian Con Man Who Swindled the WorldYepoka Yeebo’s rigorously researched, beautifully written first book takes its title from a folk story familiar to generations of Ghanaian...
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August’s Best Psychological ThrillersAugust brings with it a tense, twisty crop of compelling new thrillers exploring the ways our most intimate relationships can go terribly awry—or...
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Catherine Ryan Howard On the Missing Women of 1990s IrelandThere’s a lot of Irish female crime-writers. Liz Nugent, Jane Casey, Andrea Mara, Andrea Carter, Amanda Cassidy, Catherine Kirwan, Sam Blake—to...
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Denise Mina Takes on Philip Marlowe and Chandler’s Los AngelesFictional characters are immortal, their creators, not so much. Authorial death be damned: fans, both longtime and new, often want more. And the...
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Nuclear NoirNoir, both fiction and film, is built on a foundation of fear, and no fear grips us quite like the specter of our world ending at any second in...
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How Hardboiled Whodunits Have Given Way to the Psychological ThrillerI grew up with Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, both on the page and the screen. Raymond Chandler had an early and enduring influence on my...
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On The Ethics of Taking Writing Inspiration from True CrimeIt is fair to say true crime is having more than a “moment.” According to a recent YouGov poll, a third of Americans consume true crime at...
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The Grifter in Popular CultureIn TV, film, and books, both on our screens and on our bedside tables, con artists are rife. This year alone, four novels (“The...
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Gothic vs. Horror: It’s Time to Settle the DebateIt’s a small bugbear of mine that gothic and horror are so often lumped together as the same genre. Many would argue that gothic is a subgenre of...
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9 Crime Novels About Stolen ChildrenMore than once, I’ve found myself sitting around with other parents of no-longer-small children, all of us telling stories in hushed voices about...
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Five Books Exploring Twisted Mother/Daughter RelationshipsWhen it comes to fraught, intense bonds, it’s hard to top the twisted ties between some mothers and daughters. For my new thriller, Gone...
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Unlikely Investigative Teams in Crime FictionWhether it’s Felix Unger and Oscar Madison or Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, we love a good odd couple. Watching two opposite...
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On Final Girls And The Sums of Their PartsI have always wanted to be the Final Girl. I am the kind of person who delights in her own fear. There is something cathartic about the...
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The Exorcist Is a Supernatural Detective ThrillerAfter writing what many consider the most frightening book ever published and then scripting the scariest movie ever made, William Peter Blatty...
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M. W. Craven On The Subtle Charms of SnakesI’ve always loved snakes. Don’t know why. My sisters didn’t. My sisters feared snakes. Which is irrational, as there aren’t any snakes in the...
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Lynn Hightower on Writing A Heroine with Hearing LossI knew when I gave my heroine, Junie Lagarde, a hearing loss, my secret would be out. It was going to be blatantly obvious that I knew exactly...
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Peter Heller: My Mother the GumshoeMy mother was a private eye. She was petite and elegant, she could shoot and drive, and she was a crack investigator. She was born in Paris...
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10 New Crime Novels You Should Read in AugustThe CrimeReads editors make their picks for the best new fiction in crime, mystery, and thrillers. Naomi Hirahara, Evergreen...
