Under normal circumstances (say at a watering hole sipping something gin-forward, or in a bookshop café petting the reigning ...

I’ve never been a violent person, except perhaps in my nearly violent love of literature.  In fact, I’m a practicing Buddhist ...

The night when I learned that I wasn’t a tough guy, I was in my early twenties, at a Motörhead show.  This was in New York ...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things (Little ...

As someone who mostly reads novels by female authors (a group Nathaniel Hawthorne once dismissed as “that damned mob of ...

I have an Edgar Allan Poe-themed backpack that I bought at a bookstore and whenever I am wearing it, folks stop me to talk ...

Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 ...

“El-Hai digs into a case involving an Apache shaman and the author of Perry Mason in this fascinating true crime account. He ...

Thomas Babington “Babe” Levy has it rough. He’s poor, single, and lives in a slum. He’s mocked by the street gang on his ...

Is there any other kind? Depending on how you like your protagonist and your humans, there are faults enough for every reader ...

You’ll often find me in my pajamas, a mug of lukewarm coffee in one hand and a book about Dom Perignon and Dior in the other.

Here are 10 of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Tom Ryan, We Had a Hunch (Atlantic Crime) “Ryan’s novel is as immersive as ...