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A daily culture site featuring the best crime, mystery, and thriller writing. From the makers of @lithub.
"Why does the worst case scenario create the best entertainment? And why, as an audience, do we keep coming back for more?" crimereads.com/death-delive...
Death, Delivered with a Wink and a Nod
My inability to handle jump scares is legendary among my friends and family, to the point that my husband and I have a no scare rule in our house in case I inadvertently try to attack him with a fr…
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Adaptation news! crimereads.com/theres-a-new...
There’s a New Adaptation ofThe Thomas Crown Affair
Featured image credit: Amazon MGM Studios/YouTube, via People Attention, heist fans! A new adaptation of The Thomas Crown Affair is coming out, next spring! Yes, a new adaptation! You might be wond…
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Here are this week’s brand-new books! crimereads.com/10-new-books...
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Robyn Gigl, All We Hide (Soho Crime) “The carefully drawn characters and the skill with which Gigl balances the persona…
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Erica Wright on Setting a Mystery in a Museum, Supernatural Crime, and Novel Research
Erica Wright’s haunting new novel, The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, the first in the “Psychic City Mystery” series, is set in a museum of curiosities by the same name. The museum’s own…
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"A beautiful tale, subtly told, clinically precise, and emotionally shattering." Great to see Mother of Sorrows by Jurica Pavicic included in this July Best International Crime Fiction round-up by @crimereads.bsky.social #Croatia crimereads.com/the-best-int...
The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026
Here are four novels in translation to check out this month, all excellent for crime lovers. Enjoy! Seichō Matsumoto, The Quiet Place Translated by Louise Heal Kawaii (Modern Library) Seichō Matsum…
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Great new @crimereads.bsky.social piece on Jim Thompson & Stanley Kubrick with a very cool side glance at the the Black Lizard book revival of the 1980s by @magonzales.bsky.social crimereads.com/kubrick-jim-...
Sinners, Saints and Screenplays: On Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick
Recently I’ve been watching my former Chelsea, NYC neighbor Ethan Hawke in the cool FX neo-noir series The Lowdown, which is streaming on Hulu. Though I won’t get into the plot of this sizzling sou…
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Kubrick and Thompson were close collaborators. Why did their time together yield so little? crimereads.com/kubrick-jim-...
Sinners, Saints and Screenplays: On Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick
Recently I’ve been watching my former Chelsea, NYC neighbor Ethan Hawke in the cool FX neo-noir series The Lowdown, which is streaming on Hulu. Though I won’t get into the plot of this sizzling sou…
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TCM's Summer of Darkness ends with a screening of MIKE'S MURDER (1984) at 12:30 AM PT. This underrated film is based on a real-life crime involving one of the film's stars. I wrote about it for @crimereads.bsky.social. #TCMParty crimereads.com/the-violence...
The Violence Is Still There: Reinvestigating Mike’s Murder
Film maudit. It’s a haunting phrase for a haunting concept. Translated as “cursed film,” it refers to a movie spurned by critics and audiences alike, remembered by a coterie of admirers too small t…
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"In an age that worships speed, there remains a vast, hungry and curiously underserved readership longing to slow down and truly inhabit a story."
CrimeReads@crimereads.bsky.social · 6d agoThe author of "The Taverna at the Edge of Night" pushes against our cult of speed. crimereads.com/h-y-hanna-on...
Here's what to watch, this weekend! crimereads.com/what-should-...
What Should You Watch This Weekend?
A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend. ___________________________________ New and Returning Mystery and Thriller Series __________________________________ The…
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Glamorous settings for thrillers: crimereads.com/6-thrillers-...
6 Thrillers Set in Glamorous and Wealthy Neighborhoods
Who hasn’t scrolled luxury real estate (way out of one’s budget) whilst double screening the latest Netflix true crime series? We all love to imagine how we’d knock-through and really make the most…
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The Inside Story of Stalin’s Obsession with Killing Trotsky
How Stalin Seized the Revolution Leon Trotsky’s fall from revolutionary hero to hunted exile ranks among the most dramatic reversals in modern political history. As Vladimir Lenin’s most brilliant …
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The author of "The Taverna at the Edge of Night" pushes against our cult of speed. crimereads.com/h-y-hanna-on...
H.Y. Hanna on Craving Slow, Atmospheric Suspense in the Era of Short Attention
We live in an age that worships the cult of speed. Our attention span, we’ve been told, has shrunk to barely a minute; journalists are reduced to writing in skimmable subheadings—and any anecdote o…
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Meet the (Woman) Stunt Performer Who Doubled Matt Damon in The Odyssey
At CrimeReads, we’ve long advocated for more fanfare for cinematic stuntwork, so we want to share a little nugget of recent mainstream stuntwork appreciation! In an interview for Christopher …
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Molly Odintz (@mollsotov.bsky.social) rounds up the best international fiction of July! crimereads.com/the-best-int...
The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026
Here are four novels in translation to check out this month, all excellent for crime lovers. Enjoy! Seichō Matsumoto, The Quiet Place Translated by Louise Heal Kawaii (Modern Library) Seichō Matsum…
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Mary Wine and Cindy Dees answer a hyper-specific question with some very serious recommendations. crimereads.com/what-crime-n...
What Crime Novels Would the Greatest Women Pilots of All Time Enjoy Reading?
Between the two of us, (Mary Wine and Cindy Dees) we’ve published over 200 novels in the historical, romantic, suspense, and thriller genres. So when we sat down to write Where the Skies Begin, we …
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Agatha Christie loved Charles Dickens. crimereads.com/did-charles-...
Did Charles Dickens’s Bleak House Inspire Murder on the Orient Express?
This post contains spoilers for Murder on the Orient Express. In 2013, the official estate of Agatha Christie posted a bit of trivia to its Facebook. “Did you know,” they asked their fo…
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Detectives who are in their Sunday best every day: crimereads.com/the-19-most-...
The 19 Most Polished Detectives in Crime Film and TV
Three months ago, I put together a list of the 19 scruffiest detectives in crime film and TV. I wrote in that list that “[t]he scruffy detective is one of the purest, most persistent tropes i…
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The author of “Indie Darling” curates a reading list of characters who refuse to be silent: crimereads.com/musicians-no...
Lauren Nossett on the Rise of Novels Centering Female Musicians and Rule-Breakers
The lights go out. The crowd roars. And suddenly she’s there, the pop icon fans have travelled hundreds of miles to see. I’m not talking about Beyoncé or Taylor Swift. This is Daisy Jones, Hannah C…
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Sometimes the line between serial killer and avenging crusader is perilously thin! crimereads.com/a-guide-to-d...
A Guide to Deciding Whether Your Fictional Character Is a Vigilante or a Straight-Up Killer
Dr. Scarlett Clark, the heroine of my latest thriller They Never Learn, hunts and kills rapists in her spare time. That’s led many readers to refer to her as a vigilante. But Scarlett doesn’t see h…
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The author of "The Night Hunter" enjoins us to depict animals more accurately in fiction: crimereads.com/beyond-man-v...
Beyond “Man vs. Beast”: Natalie Moss on the Outdated Trope of Nature as Monstrous
Far from being cooked up in English classrooms to torment essay-writing students, “man versus nature” is one of our oldest storytelling conflicts. You can trace it from cave paintings a…
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A shocking history: crimereads.com/the-man-who-...
The Man Who Became Electricity’s First Human Test Subject
Spectacle was an essential component of Victorian scientific promotion—perhaps most famously enacted by (eventual) Royal Society president Sir Humphry Davy, who would demonstrate chemical and physi…
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When you're on island time, but it's also murder time: crimereads.com/shannon-morg...
Shannon Morgan on Why Islands Are Perfect Settings for Mysteries
Any novelist will tell you the construction of a novel boils down to the trifactor of characters, plot and setting. But setting is so often seen as the poor relation, merely a framework for the cha…
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James Renner explores the phenomenon of true crime authors writing themselves into their stories. crimereads.com/how-the-rise...
How the Rise of Mystery Podcasts Created the True Crime Memoir Boom
A couple years before Amy Bradley vanished on a family cruise in 1998, she dated a woman named Kat. They fell in love at Longwood University in central Virginia, at time when it was still dangerous…
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Catherine Ryan Howard on Murder Houses, Strange Science, and Finding Inspiration for Her New Novel
“Could you live in a house that had been the scene of a murder?” asked the headline of the article my agent had sent me, presumably in a bid to inspire a future book idea. As a single woman who mak…
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Nine great cozy mysteries by writers of color: crimereads.com/diversifying...
Diversifying Bookshelves: 9 Great Cozy Mysteries by Writers of Color
Walter Mosley said, “A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.” When I read this quote ten years ago, I confidently scanned my own booksh…
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Meet George Forster... and the man who tried to bring him back to life, Giovanni Aldini. crimereads.com/the-man-who-...
The Man Who Became Electricity’s First Human Test Subject
Spectacle was an essential component of Victorian scientific promotion—perhaps most famously enacted by (eventual) Royal Society president Sir Humphry Davy, who would demonstrate chemical and physi…
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The author of "Confessions of the Green River Killer" explores evil's facets in a hybrid genre. crimereads.com/true-crime-m...
Maria DiLorenzo on Capturing the Souls of Serial Killers in True Crime and Memoir
When I began communicating with Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, I hoped to uncover details about murders he committed he had not yet admitted to, secrets he had kept under the lock and key of…
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