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The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2025
2025 has barely begun, but it’s already shaping up to be a terrible year, full of incredible books. As per usual, we’ve assembled a great big list of all the crime, mystery, horror, and thriller titles...
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The Crime Fiction of Fiji
Hey, it’s a long winter for some of us! And so we start to dream of places like Fiji, that charmed South Pacific Isle, 1,300 miles from New Zealand, an archipelago of over 330 islands, about only a...
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Atlantic City: Crime Fiction on the Boardwalk
Atlantic City, AC, New Jersey’s fun city, the “Las Vegas of the East Coast” and of course the Boardwalk Empire. Who doesn’t know 1920s Prohibition-era Atlantic City from the HBO series? Just in case...
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Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer’s New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries
Here’s a confession: I don’t think about genre when I’m writing. Especially not during the planning, the research or the writing process. And mostly not after it’s finished, either. Look, I am...
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Khartoum and the Crime Writing of Sudan
Khartoum – the sprawling capital of Sudan with a population of six and a half million people. On the Nile (the city where the two Niles – the white and the blue – meet), by Lake Victoria. Famously a...
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Crime Fiction in Vatican City
You never know. Maybe the success of the Edward Berger movie Conclave will spur a revival in the Vatican thriller? Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci done up as cardinals with a big decision to make has...
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Agustina Bazterrica on Violence, Dystopia, and the Power of Art
In Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh—a 2017 dystopian novel that won a major award in her country—“mass hysteria” ensues when a deadly virus seems to leap from animals to...
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From Out-of-Print to Global Hit: The Surprising Resurgence of Michael...
The novelist and screenwriter Michael McDowell (1950-1999) published his debut novel The Amulet, a horror novel set in his native Alabama, in 1978. He wrote 32 more books, and Stephen King once called...
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Crime and the City: Albuquerque and New Mexico
Even compared to Mississippi and Connecticut, Albuquerque, New Mexico is by far the most infuriatingly difficult city name to spell in the United States of America – no wonder they often opt for just...
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Crime and the City: Port Moresby and Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, or simply PNG, sandwiched between Indonesia and Australia. A confection of over 800 languages and dialects. The capital, Port Moresby (Pom City) is generally regarded as a tough town,...
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