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How to Read Mysteries While Recovering from the Patriarchy
In the summer of 2019, I read only mysteries. I was trying to finish a book about American girlhood that I had begun writing four years earlier, on the cusp of an election that I foolishly expected to...
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Hokuloa Road: Exclusive Cover Reveal and First Look
Grady turned his attention to the landscape on his right. Lots of cactus, dense thickets of saplings like overgrown weeds, a tree massed with neon-pink flowers that reminded him of Halloween as a kid,...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022: Summer Reading Edition
It may be the fact that this CrimeReads editor moved back to Texas, but did anyone else feel like summer started months ago?!? Or maybe I just felt that way because I started reading for the summer...
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The Best New Crime Novels Coming Out in July
The CrimeReads editors select the month’s best new fiction in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do In The Dark (Minotaur) I’ve been obsessed with Jennifer Hillier’s sly...
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The Five Best Psychological Thrillers Coming Out This July
I don’t know about you, but I am grateful for everything that makes me laugh these days. I am also seeking and finding humor wherever I can: my dog’s inability to understand the rules of fetch; reruns...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of 2022
Here they are: my top ten thrillers, and a few other outstanding crime books and TV shows. ___________________________________ Top Ten Psychological Thrillers ___________________________________ Ewan...
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30 More Horror Books To Look Out For in 2023
The horror renaissance continues! And the second half of the year brings plenty of new standout titles to add to your TBR. The works below twist, shatter, and reinvent gothic and horror tropes,...
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
A look at the month’s best reviewed new novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. From Bookmarks. * Elizabeth Hand, A Haunting on the Hill (Mulholland Books) “An exciting and risky venture … Fans of...
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Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson
This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. A Haunting on the Hill is now available from Mulholland Books. Olivia Rutigliano: I’m so excited because this is the first continuation of The...
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The Best Horror Fiction of 2023
This year’s top horror novels distinguished themselves not only through quality but with their use of metaphor to approach societal ills obliquely. Through the lens of horror, and the examination of...
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