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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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Melissa Anderson Sweazy on Gifts, Magical Inheritances, and Defying Expectations
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” –William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night * I was thirteen the first time I visited New Orleans. It would be two years...
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6 Eclectic Historical Mysteries Set in the Early Modern Era
History, by its very nature, lends itself to mystery. The loss of archival records and living witnesses means we can never have a complete picture of events that occurred centuries ago. Historical...
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Kelly McWilliams on Racial Passing, Tulsa, and Reimagining the Spy Walter F....
I first heard about Walter F. White, the spy, when I was in elementary school. I grew up in a mixed and Black family, the lightest child in every bunch. Possibly the lightest child in history, I...
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Trent Dalton on Australian Noir, Journalism, and Writing Against a Country’s...
Trent Dalton is one of the biggest contemporary writers in Australia, best known for his debut novel Boy Swallows Universe, a semi-autobiographical coming of age story which was made into an...
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If You Loved Watching This Show, Read This Thriller!
If you’re anything like me, you’ve awaited the film or TV adaptation of your favorite thriller with a mix of excitement and trepidation—will they do it justice? What if they miscast it or mess with the...
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Ethics of Amateur Sleuthing
I, like virtually every other younger small-town American millennial I know, grew up reading a series called Encyclopedia Brown. You must know the one: A tweenage resident of an unspecified state...
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5 Powerful Horror Novels for Animal Lovers
When I was ten years old, I picked up Watership Down, assuming it would be a lighthearted adventure story like The Incredible Journey. Instead, I got an allegorical mindfuck about politics and...
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Why Tour Guides Make the Best Detectives
When a crime-fiction conference recently came to San Francisco, a friend of mine issued me a challenge: since Capri Sanzio, the protagonist of my current mystery series, is a true-crime walking tour...
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10 dark London locales to visit, including storied cemeteries, crypt cafes,...
If you’ve ever been to London before, you’ve surely seen all the glittering highlights—Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Maybe you’ve even...
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Sara Z. Carson on Cults and Writing a Novel Inspired by the Horrors of Jonestown
“Whenever I see your interview with Don Harris of NBC, I am so saddened by your constricted and contorted body language that does not match your positive words. Obviously, you were saying what you were...
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Megan Mostyn-Brown on Grounding Fictional Horror in Real Science
Genetics have fascinated me since I was a teenager. My interest didn’t spawn from a well-meaning science teacher or an Oscar winning documentary. My interest in genetics came from one man—Dean Koontz....
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5 Modern, Literary Ghost Stories That Inspired Chris Vanjonack’s Short Story...
I didn’t set out to write a book that includes as much ghost sex as there is in my debut story collection, Out of Body, but I guess it’s tough to know exactly what it is you’re writing until after...
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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: September 2026
Here are x number of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Brian Freeman, Photograph (Blackstone) Publication Date: September 8, 2026 “This is a...
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Jessica Brody on Going from Writing the Book on Plot to Plotting Out Murders
I should be able to see every plot twist coming. After all, I wrote the book on plot. Literally. I wrote a bestselling guide called Save the Cat! Writes a Novel that teaches writers how stories work....
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5 Weird and Wanton Crime Novels Set in Australia’s Suburbs
Australia has sold itself well to the world over the past fifty or so years. The pitch has been as consistent as it has been factual: sunlit white sand beaches as long as your barefoot legs can walk;...
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Courtney Psak on the Narrative Potential of Sibling Rivalry in Thrillers
For most, there is nothing more important than family. It’s a bond that sticks with us, no matter where we are in life. This could be with the families we were born into or the families we keep, but...
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The Sordid History of New York City’s Nightclub Crime Scene
Nightclubs encourage depravity. I think that’s why I was drawn to them, despite being a straight-edge square. The New York City spots of my youth offered seminude dancers, sex and coke in the...
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Sam Tallent, Brut (Random House) “[T]he intense final scenes provide an immensely satisfying payoff to Beauj’s character...
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