Clay Stafford has a conversation with editor Otto Penzler on writing mysteries, making memorable stories, and more. The post A Conversation With Otto Penzler on What Writers Overlook When Crafting Crime Fiction (Killer Writers) appeared first on Writer's Digest.| Writer's Digest
Hi friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Ragnar Jónasson’s novel, Death at the Sanatorium.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
Caution: The best new thriller books are so addicting you’ll find yourself glued to the page. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. A new season brings new books, and the list of new thrillers in 2025 is particularly long. Of course, my fall 2025 reading list is full of all the best new thriller books ... Read More about The Best New Thriller Books of Fall 2025| Booklist Queen
We've lined up twelve crime and horror novels to read during Hispanic Heritage Month (and beyond). We want to encourage readers and the greater Novel Suspects community to explore these amazing authors, their breathtaking creations, and through them, new and magical worlds.| Da Capo
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared on her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Publication Date: May 6th 2025 Welcome to the Thrashers, the elite friend group at New Helvetia High. They’re everything everyone wants to be. Jodi Dillon was never meant to be one of them. Julian, Lucy, Paige, and the infamous Zack Thrasher are rich, sophisticated, and love attention. Jodi feels out of place, but Zack’s her… Continue reading Book Review: The Thrashers by Julie Soto| AceReader
Former crime reporter Walter B. Levis shares the different tools used for being a crime reporter and crime novelist and benefits of both.| Writer's Digest
Internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla discusses how taking on a deepfake thriller taught him how to write realistic AI in fiction.| Writer's Digest
Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger,…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
This is my pick for my 2025 Book Challenge for July: Beach Read. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
We've lined up twelve crime and horror novels to read during Hispanic Heritage Month (and beyond). We want to encourage readers and the greater Novel Suspects community to explore these amazing authors, their breathtaking creations, and through them, new and magical worlds.| Hachette Book Group
Hi friends, happy Monday, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
How To Write A Murder Mystery is a guide to help ensure you are on the right road to successfully completing a work in this genre. Whether you are new to writing, a seasoned professional, or somewhere in between, this step-by-step guide from premise to plot twist may be just what you are looking for […] The post How To Write A Murder Mystery appeared first on Jack Ronald Cotner.| Jack Ronald Cotner
Hello friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Samantha M. Bailey’s novel, Watch Out for Her.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. An…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
A review for the upcoming new YA thriller by Natasha Preston, The Party. A group of students go to a remote castle for a party, when a storm traps them there. They soon realize that one of them is …| Confessions of a Serial Reader
Stars and Smoke was fun to read — I liked Marie Lu's take with an idol-featured story going undercover as a spy and teaming up with one of the youngest spies| Bookwyrming Thoughts
Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
