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The Crime Stories of Kabul: From the Paris of Central Asia to Kingdom of ChaosKabul – of late a poor benighted city of three and half million people destroyed by politics, extremism, endemic poverty, and foreign...
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For Today’s Crime Novels, the Stakes Are High, Right from the First SentenceIt’s never been more important to start your crime novel with high-stakes. Doesn’t matter if it’s life-or-death type peril, or if someone’s...
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To A Shark, Swimming Humans May Look Like Seal Meat From BelowShark! Coming soon to an Eastport, Maine beach near you – sharks! Big ones, little ones, even huge, bitey ones: In 2021, nearly 50 Great White...
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Time Is The Best Killer: 8 Taut Thrillers Set Over Three Days Or LessA few years ago, I went to see the film Victoria with a friend. It was his pick and I knew nothing about the film beforehand apart from that it...
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May’s Best Psychological ThrillersMegan Abbott, Beware the Woman (Putnam) Megan Abbott goes Rosemary’s Baby! A pregnant woman and her doting husband head to a...
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Frank Bill On Growing Up in the Shadow of WarGrowing up, there was a box full of three-by-three cardboard-framed Kodak slides that lay in my parents’ closet upon a plywood shelf. The slides...
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7 Criminally Under-Rated Heist Films That Deserve Another Watch“It’s important to know your genre if you’re going to make an impact on it,” says Millie Blomquist, the protagonist of my debut novel, Breaking...
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On Writing a Climate Change Thriller With Realism and HopeI spend my days working on municipal climate change policy. Each day I confront details of the dire future ahead if we don’t collectively change...
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Six Novels Exploring the Underbelly of Privileged EnclavesThe soaring popularity of shows like Succession , White Lotus , and Gossip Girl is a testament to our insatiable appetite for stories set in...
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Terrible Mothers in Horror: A Reading ListThere is something particularly sinister about horror media centering around moms and motherhood. Traditionally, mothers are thought of as...
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Whodunnits With a Killer TwistAs a mystery writer, it’s no surprise that whodunnits are my favourite genre to read—especially if I’m caught off guard by a shocking twist. But...
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‘Assault on Precinct 13’ Was the Siege Thriller Done to PerfectionTwo years before writer, director and composer John Carpenter reshaped horror films with “Halloween,” he made “7Assault on Precinct 13,” a lean,...
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My First Thriller: Tosca LeeIt probably goes without saying, New York Times bestselling novelist Tosca Lee is a woman possessed. You may not want to say it...
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Painting the Town Red: What Art Can Add to a MysteryEkphrasis: (noun) a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art As a published poet, I tend to lean heavily on...
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The Best Debut Novels Released This MonthThe CrimeReads editors select the month’s best debuts in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny...
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Urban Legends, True Crime, and the Threads that Bind ThemListen. This actually happened to the friend of my cousin’s cousin. It was years ago, mind, way before we had the internet or mobile phones, so...
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“An Unnatural Body”: Queerness, Monstrosity, and FrankensteinThe first time I read Frankenstein , I was unimpressed. I was freshly fifteen, slogging my way through a series of classics for English...
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Charles Reznikoff: The Finest Noir Poet You’ve Never Heard OfLike many poets, Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) spent much of his life toiling in literary obscurity. He helped found the Objectivist Press in...
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What Journalism Can Teach You About Writing FictionIf journalism is the first rough draft of history, fiction is where a writer gets to rewrite that draft and reorder the world to his or her...
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What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing HorrorA desolate moor, haunted by incomprehensible supernatural beings. Chains rattling in a dark castle, ghosts prowling the ramparts. A grisly...
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9 Books Illustrating Agatha Christie’s Enduring Presence in Our Cultural ZeitgeistAgatha Christie is called the Queen of Crime for a reason; her novels are masterpieces of mystery, often hooking readers by trapping characters...
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The Best Scary Media for People Who Don’t Like HorrorListen, when it comes to gore and jump scares, I’ll be the first one covering their eyes. I hate being scared in a movie theater. I...
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Dorothy B. Hughes at the MoviesDuring a key scene early in Nicholas Ray’s romantic thriller In a Lonely Place (1950), our hero, brilliant but volatile Hollywood...
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‘The Diplomat’ is a New Breed of Political – and Marital – ThrillerThe mix of political maneuvering, terrorism, murder and the volatile dynamics of marriage makes for great thrillers. The TV series “House of...
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Crafting Will They or Won’t They Tension in ThrillersI started my writing career in romantic suspense — twelve books where readers knew that the two main characters would fall in love and be...
