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Five Riveting Thrillers Unfolding in Wooded IsolationWhat is it about being alone in the woods that’s so frightening? Is it a fear of predators, disorientation, or a sense of vulnerability? What...
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The 19 Most Polished Detectives in Crime Film and TVThree months ago, I put together a list of the 19 scruffiest detectives in crime film and TV . I wrote in that list that “[t]he scruffy...
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Panic Like It’s 1999: Analyze This, The Sopranos, and Mob Men in TherapyThe whole doctor-patient confidentiality except in the case of crimes committed and threatened makes mobsters going to therapy a difficult needle...
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The Five Best Debut Novels of the MonthThe CrimeReads editors select the month’s best first novels in crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers. * Clémence Michallon,...
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The Backlist: Revisiting Dorothy Sayers’ “The Man Who Knew How” with Liv ConstantineWhen I first learned that “Liv Constantine” was the co-writing name of two sisters, Lynne Constantine and Valerie Rees, I was immediately...
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Clémence Michallon On the Ethics of Writing Violence and the Banality of Serial KillersClémence Michallon is an award-winning French journalist, a dog owner, a New Yorker, and a Sopranos convert/superfan. Her US debut, The Quiet...
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Shop Talk: Wanda Morris Tears Through Those Yellow Legal Pads and Blue Pilot G-2 Gel Ink PensThe first time I met Wanda Morris, we talked, in depth, about body odor. I won’t go into the details, but it was the sort of conversation that...
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On Millennial Aging and Nostalgia in ThrillersThere’s a scene in the 2019 movie Captain Marvel where Brie Larson’s character crashes to Earth in 1995, falling through the roof of a...
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Sun, Sand, and Sin: A Dive into Gulf Coast NoirThere’s just something about the Gulf Coast region that invites gritty crime stories. From Dennis Lehane’s Joe Coughlin stories to the work of...
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The End of the Soviet Union and The Rise of the OligarchsWith the collapse of communism in the Soviet satellite states in 1989 and in Russia in the early 1990s, the transition to various types of...
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Grady Hendrix and Riley Sager Talk Horror, Thrillers, and CraftI’m so, so, excited to present the conversation below to y’all. I’ve been a huge fan of Grady Hendrix and Riley Sager for...
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The Western Gothic in Film, Music, and Literature: A PrimerThere’s a scene in Clint Eastwood’s 1992 film Unforgiven where a kid named Schofield has just killed a man for the first time, and he’s...
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Why Dating Is Like a WhodunnitIf you’ve ever been stuck on a bad date, you might have found yourself looking at your watch and considering if there’s any way you can escape...
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Asteroid City is Wes Anderson’s Metaphysical MasterpieceWhen I was watching Asteroid City , the new film from Wes Anderson, I kept thinking of a line from The Fabelmans , the Steven Spielberg movie...
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Historical Mystery Reads for When Summer Is Calling Your NameWhether you spend the summer lounging at the pool, hopping on a plane, or sweating it out on the train as you slog through your daily commute,...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of JuneAlas, there are only four works in translation that I could find for June that counted as crime fiction, but what crime novels they are!...
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The Danger of AdventureWhen my husband and I lived in British Columbia, we used any and every opportunity to get outdoors. After trying life in suburbia, we opted to...
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Latinx Horror and Crime Fiction to Check Out in 2023It’s been a really great year for new books coming out from Latine authors (including authors based in the United States and writers from...
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The Private Investigator and the Hollywood Con QueenNicole Kotsianas was a Garden State girl, born and bred. “Jersey through and through,” she told anyone who asked, as if it wasn’t already...
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Alison Gaylin on the Challenges of Bringing a Robert B. Parker PI into the Social Media EraI’ve always loved Sunny Randall. Introduced at the dawn of the Millennium, Robert B. Parker’s youngest—and only female—PI is also his most...
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The Butcher, The Embezzler, and the Fall GuyI never knew my grandfather, Alpha LaRue Eberhart; he died long before I was born. But I knew of him through my father’s stories, along with...
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Three Pivotal, Villainous Heroines in Contemporary LiteratureAbout four years ago, when I was sharing a few chapters of my novel-in-progress 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster with my creative...
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Unlikely Friendships in Crime Fiction“Opposites attract” is a romantic adage that translates into numerous languages, exists in many cultures, and, thanks to an incredibly catchy...
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Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered, And Three Other Conspiracy Theories I BelieveOne of my favorite lines about conspiracy theories is that when the famous director Stanley Kubrick was hired to fake the moon landing, he was...
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How A Hollywood Costumer’s Unusual Profession Inspired Her Murder MysteryThe inspiration for FINAL CUT, my murder mystery set behind-the-scenes of a Hollywood movie shoot that’s plagued by a string of disasters,...
