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Five Great Suspense Novels Set in the Entertainment WorldFor my latest thriller, With My Little Eye , I wanted to write a creepy, twisty, funhouse-ride of a story that also let me examine our...
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The Lure of the Bookshop Setting“Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighbourhoods.” – John Updike John Updike clearly...
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Cozies that Bloom in the SpringMy favorite season is spring, with its tender, fragrant early flowers, its pale baby leaves, its scudding clouds in blue skies, its breezes, and...
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Dennis Lehane on Boston, Busing, and the Summer of ’74Few writers are so inextricably linked to a place as Dennis Lehane is to Boston. For many, he’s come to define the modern understanding of...
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Elly Griffiths on Knowing When to Say GoodbyeWhen I wrote The Crossing Places in 2009, I didn’t think that it would be the start of a long-running series. I was only grateful that it...
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Dangerous Affairs in LiteratureAffairs are perhaps the original literary trope. You can go all the way back to the oldest surviving piece of English literature, Beowulf— or...
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Technology, Magic, and How Your Word Lights a CandleScience fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I’m not sure I fully...
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Kyle Decker and Daniel Weizmann Talk Music and MysteryKyle Decker is a musician and teacher, whose years playing in punk bands inform his new book, This Rancid Mill . Like the genre that inspired...
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A Brief History of America Freaking Out About Horror ComicsFourteen-year-old David Drew was the poster boy for horror comics in the 1950s, in the worst possible way. Drew made headlines across...
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Patricia Ward On Writing About Violence And Growing Up Amidst Civil WarWhen I was six, I wrote a story called “An Adventure of the Past.” A fast-paced thriller (written in multiple colors), the story goes like this:...
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The Unexpected Power of Dream SequencesAspiring authors are often told to forgo dream sequences. It’s stressed that a single night terror might derail your story, annoy the hell out...
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Harnessing the Storm: Six Crime Novels that Feature Natural DisastersMy grandmother used to watch the Weather Channel all day. Her recliner with the landline next to it was her command central; she’d call and ask...
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13 Unforgettable Nancy Drew Stories (And the New Action Figures Inspired By Them)Calling all Nancy Drew Fans! Grab your magnifying glass and hop in Nancy’s convertible as we adventure back through Nancy Drew’s most famous and...
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“Holmes and Watson in Manhattan”: Musings on the Creation of Nero Wolfe and Archie GoodwinRex Stout began writing before Hammett, Chandler, and Gardner did. Between 1912 and 1917, he published more than thirty stories and four novels,...
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The Understated Brilliance of ‘A Most Violent Year’2014’s “A Most Violent Year” had a lot going for it from the jump. Its lead, Oscar Isaac, was fresh off his acclaimed performance as the titular...
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the MonthThe CrimeReads editors select the month’s best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Nick Medina, Sisters of a...
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True Crime and Its Potential for GoodTrue crime has come to dominate our thoughts—for better or for worse. Whether by news notifications pushed to your phone, suggestions to stream...
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8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This SpringReader, I’ve been keeping a secret from you. Perhaps my insistence on writing endlessly about the Elizabeth Holmes case at the start of...
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The Enduring Appeal of Country Music’s Murder BalladsGrowing up, we lived a ways out in the country and never had any unplanned trick-or-treaters. But my aunt and uncle would bring my young...
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Whitey Bulger and The Cozy Crime Writer“I once received a lovely letter from a lady who told me how she had got this book [of mine], made herself a cup of tea and drawn the...
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Charles Manson’s Body, Or, How I Ended Up Paying For the Notorious Cult Leader’s FuneralWhen I was 29 years old, I pushed Charles Manson’s corpse into an incinerator. There’s something mean about cremation, to make a body...
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Taylor Moore on Thrillers in the New Green WestAmong the many tropes associated with the Old West, environmental activist hero isn’t one of them. But the world has transformed since the...
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If You Build It, They Will Profit: Reflecting on J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise 48 Years LaterA tower stands alone. J. G. Ballard’s modern fable High-Rise is almost fifty years old. In the past few decades, its potency has come closer...
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A Devil’s Bargain: Is Satan a Reliable Narrator?In a recent novella I’ve tried to reimagine the Christian Gospels from the point of view of the Devil. This posed a number of problems, most...
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Jonathan Rosen on Mental Illness, Murder, and a Life-Altering FriendshipJonathan Rosen and his best friend Michael Laudor grew up in bookish households in New Rochelle, N.Y. in the 1970s. They were expected to do...
