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CrimeReads@CrimeReads7 Mar 2018

"Readers make the best sleuths." A word from the editors of CrimeReads, your new home for noir, mystery, true crime, spycraft, and thrills. ow.ly/c0MV30iOsXg

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Here are the best psychological thrillers of October! crimereads.com/the-best-psyc…

The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: October 2026

Here are five psychological thrillers out this month, all excellent, all different, and all bound to please. Many of the following books are also very much gothic, part and parcel of the psychologi…

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What should you watch this weekend? We've got some ideas. crimereads.com/what-should-y…

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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Croatian folklore meets female rage meets the Gothic!? crimereads.com/natalie-kikic…

Natalie Kikic on Croatian Folklore, Female Rage, and Writing a Gothic Novel

When I first started working on The Haunting of Lavender House, I didn’t set out to write a Croatian gothic novel. But that is what it became. The story started with a protagonist like me: A Croati…

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If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out just who is inside the Roman sarcophagus that was unearthed at Westminster Abbey in 1869. crimereads.com/westminster-a…

Westminster Abbey’s Roman sarcophagus mystery remains have been identified!

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out just who is inside the Roman sarcophagus inscribed as carrying Valerius Amandinus that was unearthed at Westminster …

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Twinning with Riley Sager and Tom Ryan! crimereads.com/riley-sager-a…

Riley Sager and Tom Ryan on coincidentally writing thrillers with the same premise

Riley Sager’s tenth thriller, The Unknown, was released in August and immediately hit number one on the NYT bestseller list. Return to Breakneck Island, the first sequel to Tom Ryan’s USA Today bes…

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An old-school crook meets 21st-century villains in Noah Segan’s new film, "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York." crimereads.com/noah-segan-di…

Noah Segan discusses his new film, ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’

An old-school crook meets 21st-century villains in Noah Segan’s new film, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which played at the 64th New York Film Festival and releases in theaters this month…

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Here are the best psychological thrillers of October! crimereads.com/the-best-psyc…

The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: October 2026

Here are five psychological thrillers out this month, all excellent, all different, and all bound to please. Many of the following books are also very much gothic, part and parcel of the psychologi…

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What should you watch this weekend? We've got some ideas. crimereads.com/what-should-y…

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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It's never too early to start the holiday season. Especially when you're celebrating a Halloween-Christmas hybrid. crimereads.com/holiday-horro…

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas: Essential Holiday Horror Reading

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives who forward you AI slop videos, Mariah Carey takes up residence inside y…

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"On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has stuck to my brain like fungus." crimereads.com/on-wellness-c…

On wellness culture, horror fiction, and shifting the blame

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has stuck to my brain like fungus. At some point that evening, my liver transpla…

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Are these the scariest movies ever made? crimereads.com/folk-horror-o…

Folk Horror on Film

I don’t like folk horror. I don’t like it! When I turn on a horror movie, I would prefer it not be about how rural townsfolk participate in an annual pagan festival that takes a murdero…

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On Beth Klingensmith and "The 1910's Ax Murders." crimereads.com/the-graduate-…

The Graduate Research Paper That Helped Me Solve a Century-Old Crime

Most research papers are written for education, not posterity. They linger awhile in an overstuffed bottom desk drawer, on a shared drive with a password that changes every 90 days, or attached to …

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Characters? Scary. Settings? Absolutely terrifying. crimereads.com/5-horror-stor…

5 Horror Stories with Settings Just as Creepy as Their Characters

Sen tting is a central element to any novel, though within the horror genre, it can also have the wonderfully eerie ability to become its own living, breathing secondary monster that characters are…

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Here's how Anna Maloney does it. crimereads.com/anna-maloney-…

Anna Maloney on Writing Badass, Believable Older Women in Thrillers

It is now common to see young women depicted on screen and in books fighting skillfully and killing people—often much bigger men. That’s a welcome break from past depictions of their broken, semi-n…

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There’s a “true crime concert documentary” about David Byrne crimereads.com/theres-a-true…

There’s a “true crime concert documentary” about David Byrne

I love the work of documentarian John Wilson, the wildly observational filmmaker who specializes in discovering strange, whimsical, and poignant aspects of everyday life via capturing the mundane. …

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CrimeReads@CrimeReadsOct 22

The Backlist: Sarah Weinman on a Classic Domestic Thriller, ‘The Hours Before Dawn’ crimereads.com/domestic-thri…

The Backlist: Sarah Weinman on a Classic Domestic Thriller, ‘The Hours Before Dawn’

The expression “so many books, so little time” doesn’t seem to apply to the writer and New York Times crime fiction columnist Sarah Weinman. Every time I’ve had the opportunity to talk with her abo…

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"On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has stuck to my brain like fungus." crimereads.com/on-wellness-c…

On wellness culture, horror fiction, and shifting the blame

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has stuck to my brain like fungus. At some point that evening, my liver transpla…

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CrimeReads@CrimeReadsOct 22

Used bookstores are more than just "stores with old books." crimereads.com/what-is-it-th…

What Is It That Makes Used Bookstores So Wonderful?

After I recently lamented on social media about how much I miss used bookstores, a couple of people pointed out that I could get used books here or there. They usually cited those used books supers…

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CrimeReads@CrimeReadsOct 22

Harry Hunsicker on Transforming Grief into Conflict in Crime Fiction crimereads.com/harry-hunsick…

Harry Hunsicker on Transforming Grief into Conflict in Crime Fiction

Eleven years ago, within the span of a few months, my parents died suddenly, both from natural causes. I was their only child, and we were a close-knit family, living only a few blocks apart. I did…

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CrimeReads@CrimeReadsOct 22

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas: Essential Holiday Horror Reading crimereads.com/holiday-horro…

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas: Essential Holiday Horror Reading

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives who forward you AI slop videos, Mariah Carey takes up residence inside y…

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