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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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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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Zelly Ruskin explores the promise of writing thrillers to process intense emotions. crimereads.com/zelly-ruskin-…

Zelly Ruskin on Gaslighting, Relationships, and Psychological Suspense

The thrill of psychological suspense is in the familiar. Take, for example, that perfect couple living in the fabulous house with their brilliant children. On a typical day, in a typical world, we …

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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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"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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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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Something fishy this way comes: crimereads.com/i-dont-know-w…

I Don’t Know Why, but It’s Time to Watch A Fish Called Wanda

Look, sometimes you just get a feeling. You can’t explain it! You just know what you have to do. And in this case, it’s watch the 1988 John Cleese-co-authored, Charles Crichton-directed…

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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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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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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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J.H. Markert on the Cult Leaders That Inspired His New Novel 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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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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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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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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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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Zelly Ruskin explores the promise of writing thrillers to process intense emotions. crimereads.com/zelly-ruskin-…

Zelly Ruskin on Gaslighting, Relationships, and Psychological Suspense

The thrill of psychological suspense is in the familiar. Take, for example, that perfect couple living in the fabulous house with their brilliant children. On a typical day, in a typical world, we …

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