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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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Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares
Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 at the tender young age of seven or eight. Due to the fog of time, the reason...
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10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking
The delight of an epistolary novel is the feeling of reading something you shouldn’t. Letters, yes. But take a broad definition and include emails, court filings, news clippings, archives, and it gets...
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Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries
The title is a bit misleading as the “British” have been with us for quite some time. I doubt anyone would have anticipated the tsunami of Jane Austen’s popularity when her first film adaptations hit...
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Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World
By nature, any artistic pursuit has passion poured into it, whether it’s performing on a stage under spotlights or writing locked behind a door under the cover of night. And that much passion has a...
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Hank Phillippi Ryan on Endings, Generational Scars, and Secrets in Mysteries
Secrets are her trade and truth is her destiny. Whether writing fictional crime stories or solving real ones, bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan—who has thirty-seven Emmys and fourteen Edward R....
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Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries
I love when a mystery knows it’s a mystery. I mean, I love when any story knows it’s a story, but I especially love it when that story is a mystery. For me, the more meta, the more playful with genre...
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9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings
As a reader and a writer, I crave stories with a very strong sense of place. I love when a setting is so vivid and distinctive that it shapes the story as much as the characters do. One of the early...
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Dan Warner on A.I., Life as Data, and Depicting Emerging Technologies in Fiction
My newborn twins are finally asleep. White noise chirring, dawn beginning to hum through the bedroom’s linen curtains, and I’m studying their identical bald heads—the twins are not identical, but their...
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Sherry Thomas’ Favorite Mysteries Set on the South West England Coast
I first came across the South West Coast of England on Google Earth. At the time, having young children prevented me from traveling to the places I wrote about and I turned to Google Earth, especially...
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5 Horror Novels Set in Grand Country Homes
Ah…the quintessential English country house. A rural idyll with all the refinements expected in an enormous manor. Formal dinners after a day spent tromping the extensive pastoral grounds, perhaps...
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5 Horror Novels Set in Georgia and Written by Georgia Authors (Plus One...
There’s something about digging for horror in your own backyard. You know the land, you know the creepy things that crawl in its loam, and in Georgia, you often end up with red clay under your...
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