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How Murder Mystery Theater Taught Me How to Craft Diabolical PuzzlesAbout a year ago, I was sitting at a coffee shop when I had a great idea: instead of doing work, I should make a puzzle for a friend. This...
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Indiana Jones: Here We Go AgainThere are things you want from an Indiana Jones movie. You want Indy to to yell directions at a stunned, fuddy-duddy academic while trying to...
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Fourth of July Crime MoviesWhen I was doing my preliminary research for this little listicle, I googled as many synonymic combinations of “independence day” and...
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The Return of the Cold War Novel and Its Glorious UncertaintiesI was a kid playing Atari with my best friend when she informed me, as she sent her frog darting through traffic, that Nostradamus had predicted...
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Mark O’Connell on Walking Around Dublin Looking for a MurdererLast fall, when the BBC released Obscene: The Dublin Scandal , a podcast about an aristocratic Irishman’s deadly 1982 crime spree, there...
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The Best New Crime Shows Coming Out in JulyJune had a pretty paltry rollout of crime shows, with Based on a True Story the only real standout worth watching. July is better, though...
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New Orleans Bounce and the Rise of Cash Money RecordsBirdman, the Big Tymers, Juvenile, Manny Fresh, BG, Turk, and most famously Lil Wayne—all names that jump out when New Orleans’ Cash Money...
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The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far): 2023CrimeReads has been accused of a bias toward noir in the past, and we’re sorry (not sorry) to report that this year’s best of the...
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How Michael Finkel Tracked Down the World’s Most Successful Art ThiefBeginning in the 1990s, when he was 19 or so, Stéphane Breitwieser stole hundreds of artworks and antiquities from dozens of small museums,...
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Five Great Thrillers Featuring Domineering ParentsParents. We all have them, one way or the other. Biological, step, foster, surrogate. Estranged. Long-distance. And now—through the magic of...
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The Tale of an Accidental Horror WriterFirst, a confession: I am a chicken. Not just a chicken, but the chickenest chicken that ever chickened. A constant jump scare waiting to...
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Arianna Reiche and C.J. Leede on Weird Lit, Angry Girls, and Amusement ParksArianna Reiche and C. J. Leede are the authors of two new books set at an iconic theme park modeled on Disneyland, but with nefarious goings-on...
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Four Popular Mystery Tropes and Why We Love ThemTropes. Whether you’re new to the genre or can spot a red-herring 300 pages away, there’s at least one trope you love. Like magnets, we’re drawn...
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Can Your Series Characters Evolve? Yes. Do They Have To Change Over Time? No.To evolve or not to evolve, that is the question. I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of meeting the late, great Sue Grafton some years...
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5 Books That Mess With TimeWhile writing my debut novel Dead Eleven , I found myself dwelling on the concept of time. In the novel, an island off the coast of Wisconsin is...
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The Bizarre, True Story of the World’s Greatest Living Art ThiefThe world’s greatest living art thief is likely a 52-year-old Frenchman named Stéphane Breitwieser, who has stolen from some 200 museums, taking...
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In These Thrillers, the Setting Becomes a Pivotal CharacterYears ago I had a discussion with another author about someone’s work she admired. What stood out to her was that the setting came alive in this...
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Killers with a CodeMorally ambiguous characters wouldn’t make the best of friends, but they do make for interesting books. So—why is it that readers are often able...
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Women Detectives Who Changed the GameSince they first appeared in fiction, women detectives have been a force to be reckoned with. Often underestimated, they use this to their...
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A Reading List of Troubled GirlsThe teens are not all right. According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 42 percent of U.S. high schoolers...
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Bologna: Crime Fiction in the Red CityBologna, capital of northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. With only about 400,000 citizens the city is still one of Italy’s most multicultural,...
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Amanda Linsmeier and Amy Goldsmith On Writing Horror for a YA AudienceThe following is a conversation between two debut YA novelists: Amanda Linsmeier, author of Starlings , and Amy Goldsmith, author of Those...
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The Kaleidoscopic Immortality of Jimmy HoffaThere are few people in the history of organized labor in America who are as infamous as Jimmy Hoffa. He rose from poverty to become the...
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How Cormac McCarthy Used Crime Fiction’s Tropes to Make MasterpiecesThe late Cormac McCarthy, widely regarded as the literary heir to Herman Melville and William Faulkner, a traditionalist in a sea of...
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Current Trans-Hysteria Mirrors Jekyll and HydeAs a young child, my favorite activity involved going into my make-believe laboratory (a.k.a. the bathroom) and experimenting with powerful...
