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Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction to Check Out This Fall
Presented by Queer Crime Writers, an organization advocating for LGBTQIA+ authors. Where would you like to go this autumn? Sydney during the Depression? New York City at the turn of the century? How...
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026
Here are five debut crime novels, thrillers, and mysteries, all worthy of your attention. Enjoy these first forays into the published world; the start, we hope, of many. As always, blurbs are by me...
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Eriq La Salle on Storytelling, TV Scripts, and Shifting the Focus of His New...
Eriq La Salle has many titles: Actor. Director. Producer. Novelist. But perhaps the one word that encapsulates them all is…storyteller. “As an actor and a director, you are handed a script. You are...
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Rebekah Faubion on the Male Gaze, Patriarchy, and Women Writing Horror
We’ve all used the term male gaze to talk about a piece of media with a male at the helm, usually pointing out ways it fell short in representing anyone who wasn’t a dude. And while I’m always happy to...
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The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Under normal circumstances (say at a watering hole sipping something gin-forward, or in a bookshop café petting the reigning cat), I would not commence a casual chat with, “Poe, Shakespeare, and Doyle...
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Adrian Van Young on Growing Up in the Metal Scene and Finding His Way to...
The night when I learned that I wasn’t a tough guy, I was in my early twenties, at a Motörhead show. This was in New York City, 2006. All my headbanger buddies were with me that night—except for Luke,...
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A Home Inspector’s Guide to Haunted Houses, Courtesy of D.M. Pulley
Stigmatized properties are among the hardest to sell on the open market and do not often come up for full appraisal or inspection. However, given the tremendous increase in the cost of housing across...
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Pen as Sword: Elizabeth Kostova on Killing Off Characters
I’ve never been a violent person, except perhaps in my nearly violent love of literature. In fact, I’m a practicing Buddhist, so I’ve taken vows to try to do as much kindness and as little harm as...
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5 Thrillers That Blend True Crime Elements with a Gothic Ambience
I read all types of thrillers, but the ones that tend to lure me in the most usually have a gothic layer. It’s no surprise, then, that my adult debut, Please Enjoy Your Stay, is a gothic thriller that...
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5 Books for Younger Fans of Edgar Allan Poe
I have an Edgar Allan Poe-themed backpack that I bought at a bookstore and whenever I am wearing it, folks stop me to talk about Poe. Young, old, adult or teen, they share with me their favorite Poe...
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Emily Heil on the History of Belittling, Erasing, and Stealing Women’s Writing
As someone who mostly reads novels by female authors (a group Nathaniel Hawthorne once dismissed as “that damned mob of scribbling women”), and now as a card-carrying member of that cabal myself, I’ve...
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Tom Ryan on Nostalgia, Audiences, and Writing Coming-of-Age Crime Capers
If books have all the makings of a treasure (and of course they do!), the prospect of a new story from Tom Ryan is as good as X marks the spot…. This is an indisputable truth that readers young and...
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Amy Bloom on the Imperfect Protagonist and the Wabi-Sabi of Us All
Is there any other kind? Depending on how you like your protagonist and your humans, there are faults enough for every reader. To enjoy the Golden Age of mysteries and the princely protagonists therein...
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5 Revenge and Eat-the-Rich Thrillers About the 1 Percent
You’ll often find me in my pajamas, a mug of lukewarm coffee in one hand and a book about Dom Perignon and Dior in the other. But the reason I’m speeding through the pages is because I know that before...
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Rosie Sycamore on Horror, Female Rage, and Feminist Critiques of Animal...
Horror is huge right now. We’re seeing it in the furious surge of female rage in books, and we’re seeing it on the screen, too, such as Curry Barker’s Obsession. But what if this rabid hunger for...
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A Guide to the Dexter Spinoffs
Dexter: Resurrection is coming back this month, but what does that mean!? Which Dexter is THIS Dexter? Wait, HOW many Dexters are there? Well, buckle up, friends, because I’m going to take you through...
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Mariah Fredericks on the Great Sea Monster Hoax of Nantucket
In the summer 1937, a fisherman spotted a giant sea monster off the coast of Nantucket. So far as we know, he was entirely sober. Returning to shore, Bill Manville did what any enterprising fellow...
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Ryan Burruss on Monstrously Mashing Up Genres in His New Novel
Back in the 1900s, we had albums and cassette tapes and, eventually, CDs, but you still couldn’t burn songs onto those in the beginning (at least I couldn’t). Regardless, those shiny discs like strange...
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Jonathan Edward Durham on Infusing Yourself Into Your Villains
So, you’re a writer? First of all, c’mere. Hugs. Being a writer is hard for so many reasons, but chief among them is that it’s hard to invent truth. It’s hard to make something up that feels real,...
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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026
Here are 10 of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Tom Ryan, We Had a Hunch (Atlantic Crime) “Ryan’s novel is as immersive as it is satisfying....
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