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In the annals of infamous American criminals and crimes, cults and their messianic leaders hold a sacred position. Unlike most violence and malfeseance, the he…
They say the key to comedy is timing, and I suppose the morbidly funny is no exception. I recently enjoyed a rewatch of the 1967 abstract modernist neo-noir c…
It’s the night before my first trip to the archives, and I still haven’t decided where I’m going to start. I open the Doubleday hardcover copy of Pet Sematary…
Growing up in a small town in Upstate, New York, I didn’t really think much about stuff like reluctant heroism or martyrdom or what happens in the vacuum of sp…
Writing is hard. And if you’re not going to work hard at it you probably shouldn’t even try. Several novels in, some published, some not, and it still hasn’t g…
It’s humbling to be proven wrong, especially by a six-year-old. Let’s say you’re a clinical psychologist. You spent the better part of a decade chasing down cr…
I have a fairytale snapshot in my head of one moment where as an eleven or twelve-year-old, I stood in the incredibly dark and moody Art’s End of the Bodleian…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Molly Harper, A Cute Little Murder (Berkley) “Delivers quaint charm, humor,…
A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend. ___________________________________ New and Returning Mystery and Thriller Series…
There is scene in “The Backboard Jungle, ” episode ten of season three, in NYPD Blue that is unsettling even thirty years after its airdate. Detective Andy Sip…
April’s new releases include quite a few translated works, so many that I’ve had to pick and choose more than usual to make sure that we get a soli…
The landscape of crime fiction is as vast and voluminous as the Australian terrain— and both have proved fertile territory for the queen of “outback noir…
As opposed to thrillers, in which spies and rogue agents routinely travel the world, dashing from Venice to Hong Kong to Rio, most mysteries take place in a si…
What do spies do? I mean, what do they actually do? Despite having been one for close to fifteen years, I’m not sure I could give a wholly satisfying answer to…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. James Wolff, Spies and Other Gods (Atlantic Crime) “A quirky and captivatin…
The queer community is no stranger to horror. Life as we know it horrifies. Scarcely a minute goes by without gruesome news flashing across our close-held scre…
rtSpring 2026’s queer crime fiction arrives amid storms, secrets, and more than a few bodies turning up where they shouldn’t— from hurricane-battered New Orlea…
The open road has long been a symbol of freedom; a blank stretch of land ignorant of your past that offers nothing more than a fresh start, an opportunity to s…
I first got on Gloria and Sergio’s trail shortly after returning from Africa, where I’d been searching for a Philadelphia file clerk who had disapp…
The secret double life of a network television news journalist inspired me to write my debut domestic thriller, As Far As She Knew (April 1, 2026). But it too…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling (Doubleday) “Consider this a real-life Harla…
When the author James Sallis died in January, the first few paragraphs of his obituaries inevitably mentioned “Drive, ” the 2011 film based on one of his novel…
April brings new releases from some of the most prominent names in crime writing, alongside plenty of rising voices and several hotly anticipated series instal…
Anyone who’s ever been around a group of writers knows that we’d rather talk about craft than almost anything— more than gossip, more than movie deals, more th…
Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city after Bogata and known around the world, unfortunately as it’s a beautiful city, for the drug cartels. And the city ha…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Tana French, The Keeper (Viking) “The patron saint of moody, literary crime is cl…
Prologue, 2022 A box truck with Massachusetts plates trundled down a winding country road lined with scarred pines and exhaust-blackened snowbanks. Morning mis…
He’s brought into the visitation area just like you see in the movies. She dreamed about this long before it was a reality. She always wondered what it would b…
Kaira Rouda was at a romance writers conference in Cincinnati when she realized she didn’t belong there. She’d decided she was not quite a fit with the romance…
I first met Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills at the Vancouver Art Gallery on a drizzly fall evening. Sherman started making this suite of seventy black-and…
In 2007, I spent a chunk of the summer in the glorious Canadian Rockies, a land of towering, snowy peaks and sapphire and emerald lakes glistening like hidden…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru (Berkley) “Gilmor…
If this article may seem like a shitpost entirely inspired by the worm girlfriend meme (my partner has repeatedly assured me that he would indeed love me as a…
I visited in the winter of 2024, when the Manhattan streets were sickly gray. The front door glittered, glass sprayed with a youthful logo: Virtual Reality Cen…
Law and Order: what is it with me and Law and Order? I’d never been one for crime shows, but I can still remembering seeing it for the first time, when it was…
My forthcoming novel Lucien tells the story of two students at Harvard, an artist and an imposter, who become mixed-up in a scheme to sell forgeries of impress…
Robert Arthur, Jr. had had a long successful career writing for magazines and pulps, television and radio when he began writing for kids. He’d received three E…
Opening shot: Mongyr, a small town in Bihar Province, British India, in 1935. Palm trees rise up and ripple across a clear blue sky. The camera slowly moves fr…
I’d first heard about the Gardner Museum robbery when I was a recent college graduate living in New York, probably a week or so after it occurred. I was…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Lisa Unger, Served Him Right (Park Row) “The combination of revenge, generational…
In like a lamb, out like a lion: if you reverse the proverb, March is rather suspense-coded, don’t you think? Which is my awkward transition into praisin…
Fiction has a long history of exploring the damage wrought by adults on the lives of youngsters. In my own crime novel, A Bad, Bad Place, twelve-year-old Janey…
On a blustery February day, plucky, red-headed nurse Sarah Keate takes a taxi to the gloomy, isolated Federie mansion. Her charge: to care for the wealthy agin…
When it comes to conjuring atmosphere, good old Pathetic Fallacy is one of literature’s hardest working tropes. From the desolate Arctic setting of Mary Shelle…
Life, like novels and movies, plays out in a series of acts— and Deborah Goodrich Royce has embraced each chapter of her story, using fragments of fact in the…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Elizabeth Arnott, The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives (Berkley) “Arnott plays scr…
Corvids! They’re everywhere— stealing shiny objects, remembering their enemies’ faces, holding funerals for their dead, and stealing all the touris…
My husband and I and our two sons hiked for many years in Rocky Mountain National Park, beginning when the boys were very young. I loved watching them amble al…
If you’re like me, I’m sure there’s no way you’re avoiding seeing the AI slop that seems to have seeped into every nook and cranny of the internet these days.…
Quick question: why do we read mysteries? What is it about identifying the secret perpetrator of a singular crime that rocks our socks, so to speak? Well, lots…
Motherhood has long followed an unspoken script: a woman becomes a mother by carrying a child, giving birth, and raising that child within a recognizable famil…
I’ve always been fascinated by the question of how well you can truly know another person. We all have secrets, after all. But what happens if that perso…
A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend. ___________________________________ Mystery and Thriller Series to Binge _________…
An early lesson My father’s den was a small dark room with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves packed tight with crime paperbacks. I spent hours going over the spines…
For decades, Valerie Wilson Wesley has been a noted journalist, the author of many books for children and adults, including the award-winning and beloved Tamar…
I’m not the first to notice we’re living in a new age of cannibals, brought to us by late stage capitalism and the urge to examine consumption itse…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Naomi Hirahara, Crown City (Soho Crime) “Poignant, marvellously well imagined, an…
I don’t really watch a lot of superhero things, but I have seen the two Into the Spider-Verse movies that have come out. My favorite part about them, uns…
Who would have thought a turning point in John Grisham’s career would be supporting the losing candidate for speaker of the house in the Mississippi state legi…
My family is cursed. At least, that’s what my nonna always used to say. Back in Italy, before she was even born, her grandfather caught a witch on his property…
The late Toni Morrison wrote, “Those writers plying their craft near to or far from the throne of raw power, of military power, of empire building and counting…
On afternoon in September 1979, Linton Weeks was working at Volume One bookstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi, not far from Harris’s home-town of Rich, when a fa…
All Fight. No Flight. Shiny penny-size blood drops on the white tile floor of the East Los Angeles bodega reflect back the sterile fluorescent lights above. In…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Yosha Gunasekera, Midnight Taxi (Berkley) “This is a richly detailed, well-crafte…
Featured image credit: Peacock Welcome to Friday, and with that, we’d like to bring you TELEVISION. Now, some of you might be watching “the Olympic…
There are so many good books in February. It is ridiculous. This treasure trove of thrillers, this delightful dip into fictional dangers, this masterclass in m…
This year’s horror ranges from the absurd, to the affecting, to the absurdly affecting, with each of the titles on the list below proving the consistent…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Leodora Darlington, The Exes (Dutton) “Darlington’s promising debut has more twis…
Halloa, good people! It’s the weekend! My pregnant self is exhausted and relieved to have two days of solid sleeping time. However, if you’re not p…
Rounding up the month’s best new releases in crime, mystery, and thrillers, via Bookmarks. Gordon Corera, The Spy in the Archive (Pegasus) “More th…
Great news for crime fiction fans! Adrian McKinty, Irish crime writer and friend of CrimeReads, is about to have his novel The Chain turned into an HBO series!…
I’ll admit it: I don’t really believe in the distinction between sympathetic and unsympathetic characters. All fictional people (and perhaps all real people to…
A few weeks ago, I found myself with a burning desire to watch The Terminator. I love The Terminator for many reasons; it’s a perfect movie. It has easily adap…
I love actors who are chameleons, those master thespians who disappear into every role so that they become different people each time you see them on screen. I…
All morning long, the detectives in the Homicide Department had done their best to keep to their regular business, refraining from glancing up every time the d…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Don Winslow, The Final Score (William Morrow) “After a brief period of retirement…
Featured image credit: Ludovic, Robert/Prime Video We made it to yet another weekend! Hooray!! And you know what that means… it’s time for our week…
Middle class. To my grandparents, it meant a college degree paid for by the GI Bill, a mortgage payment of under a hundred dollars in the rapidly expanding sub…
Bug horror is not a new niche in the horror fiction landscape— as long as humans have been afraid of creepy crawlies, we’ve been writing stories about them. A…
A thriller that focuses on ordinary people impacted by extraordinary, unexpected events is always a must-read for me. That explains my love of domestic suspens…
Historical novelists are often asked to choose sides. Are we guardians of the record, charged with preserving facts as they appear in archives and footnotes? O…
Five minutes before a crucial presentation, an executive twice my age and three times as confident pulled me aside. He didn’t offer me guidance or wish me luck…
Celebrities. The very word sparks complex feelings and questions: do these people deserve to be where they are? Why can’t I be them? How did they get to be so…
The Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television…
Michael Koryta is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won or been nominated for the Los Ange…
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