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"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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Which international thriller should you stream this weekend? crimereads.com/which-interna…

Which international thriller should you stream this weekend?

This month, I’m recommending three very different films—Nosferatu, which I first watched ages ago and am planning to see again on the big screen for Halloween; Le Samouraï, the inspiration for the …

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026 crimereads.com/the-best-debu…

The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

Here are five debut crime novels, thrillers, and mysteries, all worthy of your attention. Enjoy these first forays into the published world; the start, we hope, of many. As always, blurbs are by me…

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week 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. * DM Pulley, Stone Mad (Blackstone) “[In this] creepy gothic thriller…Pulley whips up a menacing atmosphere…

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The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle’s Detective crimereads.com/real-sherlock…

The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle’s Detective

The following is an excerpt from Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes. Joe Bell was a man who liked to keep busy. In addition to his hospital and police work, he gradually built one o…

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Suspense by the sea! crimereads.com/swanson-suspe…

Peter Swanson: 7 Great Stories of Suspense in a House by the Sea

The trope of a house being a character in and of itself, especially in gothic fiction, is well-known, and well earned. Old dark houses can anchor even the flimsiest stories. They have secrets or th…

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Natalie Kikic on Croatian Folklore, Female Rage, and Writing a Gothic Novel 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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Olivia Blacke’s Favorite Halloween-Themed Reads (Plus a Haunted Bookstore Tour) crimereads.com/olivia-blacke…

Olivia Blacke’s Favorite Halloween-Themed Reads (Plus a Haunted Bookstore Tour)

Picture this. It’s October. You’re wrapped in a cozy handmade blanket, feet swaddled in fuzzy socks and a pumpkin spice latte in one hand. Then, you hear something. A scraping, creaking noise. It’s…

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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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Featuring folk horror, body horror, vampires, demons, literal hellscapes, and lots of haunted houses: here's all the horror fiction we've recommended this fall (so far). crimereads.com/all-the-horro…

All the Horror Fiction We’ve Recommended This Fall (So Far)

When I put together our big fall preview list a couple of months ago, some readers thought there might be a bit too much horror included in amongst the mysteries, thrillers, and noir. To figure out…

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Croatian folklore!? 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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SUBMERSED, the true crime/deep dive into personal submersibles by @matthewgfrank is out in paperback today w/ @PantheonBooks! In celebration, @CrimeReads has published this behind-the-scenes piece by one of our great narrative nonfiction writers. crimereads.com/matthew-gavin…

Matthew Gavin Frank on Kim Wall and the Ethics of Sensationalistic True Crime

In August 2017, the Swedish journalist, Kim Wall, was brutally assaulted and murdered by the amateur submersible builder, Peter Madsen, while onboard his sub, UC3 Nautilus, off the coast of Copenha…

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Meet Dr. Joseph Bell! crimereads.com/real-sherlock…

The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle’s Detective

The following is an excerpt from Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes. Joe Bell was a man who liked to keep busy. In addition to his hospital and police work, he gradually built one o…

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Sarah Weinman and Polly Stewart (@pollystew) discuss Celia Fremlin's 1958 novel "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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The author of "The Chain House" reflects on Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite, and others. crimereads.com/cult-leaders-…

J.H. Markert on the Cult Leaders That Inspired His New Novel

I wasn’t scared easily as a child, but I watched two things early on in my life that certainly managed to do the trick. And they weren’t just “scares” that came and went; they lingered.…

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Wait, what? 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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Start off the week with SEVEN crime, mystery and thriller writers talking to me for a @CrimeReads piece about short stories and novels. crimereads.com/7-crime-write…

7 crime writers talk about novels and short stories and what they love writing most

Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephen King wrote both novels and short stories, Zora Neale Hurston as well, as did John Steinbeck. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a classic, but so is his short sto…

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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. * DM Pulley, Stone Mad (Blackstone) “[In this] creepy gothic thriller…Pulley whips up a menacing atmosphere…

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October debuts!!!!! crimereads.com/the-best-debu…

The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

Here are five debut crime novels, thrillers, and mysteries, all worthy of your attention. Enjoy these first forays into the published world; the start, we hope, of many. As always, blurbs are by me…

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Keith Roysdon (@keithroysdon) asks writers: short stories or novels? crimereads.com/7-crime-write…

7 crime writers talk about novels and short stories and what they love writing most

Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephen King wrote both novels and short stories, Zora Neale Hurston as well, as did John Steinbeck. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a classic, but so is his short sto…

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Here, I chat with the wonderful Lizzie Davis, the translator of Don’t Leave Her Alone. How lucky I was to have had her on board! Thank you @CrimeReads crimereads.com/the-writer-an…

The Writer and her Translator: A Conversation Between Desirée de Fez & Lizzie Davis

The following is a conversation between translator Lizzie Davis and author Desirée de Fez, as the two discuss bringing de Fez’s particular brand of body horror to English-reading audiences, a…

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