CrimeReads

CrimeReads is a dedicated website for those who feel that suspense is at the heart of storytelling. It caters to readers who understand that asking questions is just as vital as finding answers, and who enjoy the excitement of a gripping book. This platform serves as a reliable destination for discovering exceptional writing in the realms of crime, mystery, and thrillers—genres that are thriving yet widely spread out. Similar to its sister site, Literary Hub, CrimeReads organizes and highlights a daily selection of top-notch content, creating a digital hub where readers and authors can connect and interact. With the support of its editorial partners, CrimeReads offers a trustworthy source for insightful and entertaining writing about the literary culture that captivates its audience. Each day, readers can explore original articles and exclusive excerpts, as well as featured editorial pieces from various partners within the crime literature community, including publishers, bookstores, non-profits, librarians, and more.

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Murder at the Museum

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Molly Odintz

As funding gets cut off and climate change gets worse, all our cultural treasures are at risk of being stolen by kleptocrats, sold off by bankrupt cities, or at the very least, environmentally damaged in heat waves. So while we still have museums, why not read some museum-based mysteries and thrillers! here are four excellent recent and upcoming novels featuring cultural institutions and plenty of crimes.
Gabino Iglesias: Let’s Talk About Some New Books

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Gabino Iglesias

There is a particular type of novel that is simultaneously about everything and nothing. You’ve read at least a couple of them. They’re novels that meander, that revel in minutiae, that shine a very big, very intense spotlight on common things, on small details, on relatively meaningless conversations. Writing a novel like this is relatively easy. Writing a novel like this that works is a different story.
That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Insisted He Had Encountered the Ghost of Charles Dickens

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Olivia Rutigliano

This is an excerpt from the transcript of a talk that was given, by Dr. Olivia Rutigliano, at the Red Circle of Washington D.C. (a Sherlock Holmes society), on March 8th, 2025. Article continues after advertisementThis talk starts with a story that I learned from Daniel Stashower’s meticulously chronicled, Edgar-award-winning biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Teller of Tales.
Margot Douaihy Talks Hardboiled Fiction, Queer Themes, and her Iconic Sleuthing Nun

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Molly Odintz

I know, the series is only three books in (and that’s if we count the upcoming installment), but I’m already batting hard for Sister Holiday as one of the most startlingly original protagonists of the century. Margot Douaihy is just as cool as her protagonist, and let me ask a few questions about the series and its characters as we reveal the cover design for the next installment in the series, Divine Ruin, to be published in January 2026.
The State of the Mystery, Part 2: Issues, Concerns, and The Long Road Ahead

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Molly Odintz

Welcome to part two of our roundtable discussion featuring nominees for the Edgar Awards (as well as other special categories awarded during the same ceremony). 29 writers weighed in on the most pressing issues facing the genre today, and the place of crime writing in our current political landscape (perfectly timed for May Day!). Article continues after advertisementCheck out part one of the discussion, published yesterday, for thoughts on craft, tropes, and favorite reads.
Here’s who should play James Bond Next ‹ CrimeReads

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Olivia Rutigliano

May I have your attention, please. I have a proposition for you. Article continues after advertisementIt has been four years since we had an installment of the James Bond franchise. And not only that, good people. Since the contradictory ending of No Time To Die, the fifth chapter in Daniel Craig’s portrayal of the character, we have been waiting not only for another Bond film, but another Bond actor. Who would be picked to play 007? We had wondered if we might finally have a nonwhite Bond, this time.
The State of the Mystery, Part 1: Craft Lessons and Favorite Reads

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Molly Odintz

For the past 7 years, I’ve had the privilege of putting together a roundtable discussion between the nominees for the Edgar and other MWA awards, with predictably spectacular (and somewhat long-winded) results, necessitating the result of publishing the collated responses in two parts. This year had the most contributors yet, and may be my favorite conversation thus far (I know, I say that every year).
James Gandolfini, The Searcher

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Jason Bailey

The New York tabloids covered his death with all the respect and nuance with which they’d covered his life—which is to say, none. TONY SOPRANO DEAD , read the front-page headline of the New York Post, with an interior article hed of LAST ACT FOR TONY SOPRANO, while the New York Daily News went with the simpler TONY’S DEAD on the cover and ‘MOB’ STAR’S SHOCK END: TOP ‘SOPRANO’ FELLED BY HEART ATTACK ON ITALY TRIP on page 2.
Bodies of Evidence: Anne Soon Choi on the Life and Crimes of Controversial “Coroner to the Stars” Thomas Noguchi

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | John Valeri

In death, there is silence—and yet the body remains as testament to the story of its demise. Article continues after advertisementIn cases where the reason is unknown, unexpected, or thought to be unnatural, a Medical Examiner-Coroner is brought in to determine the cause and manner of death.
The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2025

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Molly Odintz

This month’s batch of psychological thrillers features an eclectic bunch of authors and a wide variety of plots, yet a surprisingly unified theme emerges: stay off the internet! Stay off social media! And don’t believe anything you read in the marketing copy (that is, except for the quotes that shall inevitably be taken from the blurbs below and placed upon front and back covers of future editions). This is also a rather fun list.