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CrimeReads is a culture website for people who believe suspense is the essence of storytelling, questions are as important as answers, and nothing beats the thrill of a good book. It's a single, trusted source where readers can find the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
Crime Reads
13h ago
We all know her. Let’s call her Claire. She appears in many books: a woman in her late 20s or early 30s; sometimes a parent, sometimes not. She’s usually cishet and white, embroiled in a mystery or scandal. And she has a drinking problem. Sometimes her drinking is used as a plot device. She’s unreliable ..read more
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23h ago
Robbing a bank is bad. It’s bad. Don’t do it. But I won’t deny that the movies make it look kind of cool. Well, not the robbery part, but the part where the robbers storm into the bank in coordinated disguises. You can’t deny it either! It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of ..read more
Crime Reads
23h ago
These are dire times. Human rights, and especially the rights of trans folks, are under attack. And thankfully, some of the crime fiction community has come together to fight back. For the next week, leading up to the March 31st Day of Trans Visibility, over 100 crime writers are participating in an auction benefitting the ..read more
Crime Reads
1d ago
Chris Offutt has long been a “writer’s writer” acclaimed for his short story collections, memoir and novels. And though he spent his earlier career raising children and working occasionally in Hollywood, in recent years he’s been busier and more prolific than ever. Offutt’s new novel The Reluctant Sheriff is his fourth novel featuring Mick Hardin ..read more
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1d ago
Tess Gerritsen may not have been trained in the art of spy craft, but she knows a thing or two about flying under the radar. As a woman of a certain age, no matter how accomplished (30+ books published in forty countries with sales in excess of forty million copies), Gerritsen has felt firsthand how ..read more
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1d ago
My new book, The Invisible Spy, is all about Ernest Cuneo, an ex-NFL football player who became America’s first spy of World War II, and how he worked secretly with Churchill’s spies at Rockefeller Center in the days before Pearl Harbor. This story tells how a mysterious Manhattan fatal accident involving Nazi spies was investigated ..read more
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1d ago
It is my earnest belief that two things will generally make a novel, if not necessarily better, at least more entertaining and/or interesting: 1. Queerness 2. A bog or a bog body (tell me that Sense and Sensibility and Bog Bodies wouldn’t totally slap, I dare you). Because I love bogs so much that I ..read more
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1d ago
Kill Your TV read the sticker my mother had affixed to the bumper of our Volvo station wagon. It was the early 1990s in the Bay Area, before Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates awkwardly danced on stage to celebrate the launch of Windows 95, before anyone had ever heard of something called the Y Combinator ..read more
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2d ago
Honestly, who cares about books at a time like this? Not that you need me to enumerate the ways in which the human enterprise has gone completely off the rails of late, but for the purpose of establishing a who-gives-a-crap-about-books baseline, I offer an incomplete roundup of where we find ourselves: A reality-tv star and ..read more
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2d ago
I grew up on the North Side of Pittsburgh in the 1950s in a typical lower-middle-class family—mother, father, sister, brother—and by the time I was forty-six they were all dead. My mother was the last to go, adrift in a gentle fog of senility that seemed to spare her the heartache of outliving two of ..read more