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The New Adaptation of I Will Find You Is Extremely Watchable

Photo Credit: Netflix Tudum “It’s meticulous, it’s complicated, it’s diabolical,” says crime kingpin Nicky Fisher (Clancy Brown) to wanted fugitive David Burroughs (Sam…

CrimeReads · Jun 24 · Read original →

On Slashers, Summer Flics, and Moving Beyond Typecasting

I saw my first slasher movie when I was about nine years old, at a school friend’s birthday party.

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When is a Sports Mystery Not a Sports Mystery? When It’s Greek Tragedy.

Over the past several years, I’ve had similar conversations about my Shamus Award-nominated Andy Hayes private eye series at numerous book festivals.

CrimeReads · Jun 24 · Read original →

Jack Murphy on Modern Military Thrillers, Tech Moguls, and Sniper Safaris

When you’ve served as a Ranger and Green Beret, trained as a sniper, and spent fourteen years as an investigative journalist, you have a full magazine of material from which to…

CrimeReads · Jun 24 · Read original →

Breakout

CHAPTER TWO R I V E R 10:42 a.m. RIVER REYNOLDS HAD never seen water so black. From the sun deck of the yacht, the Atlantic Ocean looked like Onyx Ink, the newest color from her…

CrimeReads · Jun 23 · Read original →
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Gaslighting and Self-Doubt: Six Books That Make Us Question Those Closest To Us

‘He’s gaslighting you,’ is surely a phrase we’ve all heard countless times in recent years.

Ride the Rails with These Train-Set Mysteries and Thrillers

“Trains are relentless things, aren’t they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but trains go on just the same.”— The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie Crime…

Gregg Olsen on the Spokane River Killings and the Responsibilities of True Crime

Gregg Olsen’s new book, By the River’s Edge (Thomas & Mercer), chronicles the killings of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe, and Kathy Brisbois, and a decades-long hunt for a serial…

Sean David Robinson on Why Missing Person Thrillers Are Addictive (According to Science)

Vanished…without a trace. It is both a powerful motif in fiction and a fascination seemingly hardwired into the human psyche.

Sturm und Drang: Allison Brennan on Turning Weather into a Character in Thrillers

I’ll confess: I’ve used weather as a plot device more times than I care to admit.