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A daily culture site featuring the best crime, mystery, and thriller writing. From the makers of @lithub.

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A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds crimereads.com/a-roundtable-…
A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds

A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds

The following roundtable discussion features a variety of contributors to a new anthology, A Speculative Detective Agency: Case Files of the Supernatural and Fantastic, as they answer questions fro…

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Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel crimereads.com/desert-serial…
Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel

Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you hike across the desert, intently looking at the ground, you will eventually find a dead body. Let me back up a step to explain why an otherwise me…

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"I got back into bed, turned off the light, and lay there, mind racing, acutely aware of every shadow and sound." crimereads.com/a-writers-nig…
A Writer’s Night at America’s Most Haunted Hotel

A Writer’s Night at America’s Most Haunted Hotel

Book tours have taught me to expect the unexpected. There was the couple in Texas who kindly housed me but warned about their vicious late-night, door-opening, biting cat, and the time a prominent …

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Remembering Mark Pryor, beloved crime novelist and iconic Austinite crimereads.com/remembering-m…
Remembering Mark Pryor, beloved crime novelist and iconic Austinite

Remembering Mark Pryor, beloved crime novelist and iconic Austinite

On October 8th, we lost Mark Pryor, a great craftsman of entertaining mysteries and thrillers, and an active and much loved member of the crime fiction community. He conceived unique heroes and ant…

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Alysandra Dutton on writing historical noir and investigating ancient Roman crimes crimereads.com/historical-no…
Alysandra Dutton on Writing Historical Noir and Investigating Ancient Roman Crimes

Alysandra Dutton on Writing Historical Noir and Investigating Ancient Roman Crimes

In 753 BCE something happened to the Sabine Women. Romulus, fresh off of founding Rome, could not make marriages for himself and his men, who were considered little more than a gang of particularly…

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Debra Webb and Allison Brennan on villains, suspense, and writing standalone thrillers crimereads.com/debra-webb-al…
Debra Webb and Allison Brennan on villains, suspense, and writing standalone thrillers

Debra Webb and Allison Brennan on villains, suspense, and writing standalone thrillers

USA Today Bestselling author Debra Webb began her career writing romantic suspense but by the early 2000s had started to lean into darker suspense. A few years later she was fully immersed in the w…

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books-…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Alan Bradley, Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers (Bantam) The final novel in the Flavia de Luce series. William Boy…

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A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds crimereads.com/a-roundtable-…
A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds

A Roundtable Discussion on Genre Mashups and Shared Worlds

The following roundtable discussion features a variety of contributors to a new anthology, A Speculative Detective Agency: Case Files of the Supernatural and Fantastic, as they answer questions fro…

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We Are Underlings crimereads.com/we-are-underl…
We Are Underlings

We Are Underlings

In line with my belief that it’s important to always keep the resumé fresh, I signed up for first aid training six months ago and the first class is today. The Nine Circles exalts dying and death, …

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What should you watch this weekend? crimereads.com/what-should-y…
What should you watch this weekend? (Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2026)

What should you watch this weekend? (Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2026)

A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend. ___________________________________ New and Returning Mystery and Thriller Series __________________________________ Dex…

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Why The Mechanic, not The Jackal, Is the Ultimate 1970s Movie Hitman crimereads.com/hitman-movies…
Why The Mechanic, not The Jackal, Is the Ultimate 1970s Movie Hitman

Why The Mechanic, not The Jackal, Is the Ultimate 1970s Movie Hitman

In the annals of hitman movies, The Day of the Jackal holds a place of special distinction.  The 1973 adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s classic novel boasts a 91 percent critics’ rating on Rotten T…

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Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction crimereads.com/adam-planting…
Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction

Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction

I’ve always been fascinated by tough, formidable protagonists, whether they’re cops, private eyes or Harlan Coben’s standalones where, say, a suburban housewife turns into an intrepid investigator.…

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Sparkle: teen dreams and ghetto superstars crimereads.com/sparkle-teen-…
Sparkle: Teen Dreams and Ghetto Superstars

Sparkle: Teen Dreams and Ghetto Superstars

While most movies released during the 1970s Blaxploitation era were action flicks about pimps, drug dealers and rogue vigilantes, Sparkle (1976) told a different story. With a plot about struggling…

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Succession, but make it supernatural crimereads.com/succession-bu…
Succession, but make it supernatural

Succession, but make it supernatural

While primogeniture was supposedly embraced in order to deal with this sort of issue, inheritance is always a messy business, especially when there’s little difference between intended succes…

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A Brief History of Occult Detectives crimereads.com/a-brief-histo…
A Brief History of Occult Detectives

A Brief History of Occult Detectives

When you conjure up the image of an occult detective in your mind, what do you see? Wrinkled trenchcoat—or trenchcloak? Smoke—tobacco laced with brimstone? Shadowy alleys, filled with unseen, whisp…

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America’s lady Bluebeard: the strange murder trial of Lyda Trueblood crimereads.com/americas-lady…
America’s lady Bluebeard: the strange murder trial of Lyda Trueblood

America’s lady Bluebeard: the strange murder trial of Lyda Trueblood

The following is an excerpt from Ordinary Wife: The True Story of America’s Forgotten Serial Killer. It was nearly Halloween, the spooky season of mischief, ghost stories, and macabre costume…

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Jim Ruland on writing a campus heist novel inspired by Bad Bunny and ‘Bullet Train’ crimereads.com/jim-ruland-on…
Jim Ruland on writing a campus heist novel inspired by Bad Bunny and ‘Bullet Train’

Jim Ruland on writing a campus heist novel inspired by Bad Bunny and ‘Bullet Train’

I should have suspected my wife was up to something. When we go to the movies together, usually one of us has to compromise. I like horror movies and action flicks; Nuvia prefers comedies and anima…

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Five crime novels set in grand hotels, from Peter James crimereads.com/5-crime-novel…
5 crime novels set in grand hotels, from Peter James

5 crime novels set in grand hotels, from Peter James

People who read are intelligent, and it is my firm view that when we read a novel, the vast majority of us want more than just want a page-turning story, we want to learn stuff too. And all these n…

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Meet Rosemary's grandbabies: how a new wave of horror changed America crimereads.com/rosemarys-gra…
Rosemary’s Grandbabies: How a New Wave of Horror Changed America

Rosemary’s Grandbabies: How a New Wave of Horror Changed America

The 2024 film Immaculate opens with a prayer whispered in the dark. A sweet-faced Catholic nun kneels before a portrait of the Virgin. She recites the Hail Mary and asks breathlessly for help ̶…

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Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel crimereads.com/desert-serial…
Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel

Nika Grace on finding remains in deserts and writing a serial killer novel

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you hike across the desert, intently looking at the ground, you will eventually find a dead body. Let me back up a step to explain why an otherwise me…

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