Hugh Addison

crime

  • Small Town Horror: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

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    CrimeReads Excerpts

    Matthew Meacham’s body quaked, his mind raced, and his skin burned. He raked overlong fingernails down the tender flesh of his arms, praying for his eyes to adjust to the lightlessness. They never adjusted. After a time, he sat up in that dark space, feeling the elements of the world pressing against every inch of…

  • Real Steel: 7 Iconic Crime Movie Car Chases 

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    Nick Kolakowski

    In another era, the cinematic car chase was a purely analog affair: stunt performers would strap themselves into modified vehicles, then do their best to violate traffic norms and the laws of physics for the audience’s pleasure. But at a certain point, that changed. The demand for bigger spectacle meant studios turned more to digital…

  • The Wild, Bizarre, Sometimes Criminal Pleasures of London’s Bartholomew Fair

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    Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    For over a thousand years, the area known as Smithfield, north of St Paul’s, has been home to London’s principal meat market. Live animals were banned from Smithfield in the 19th century, but until then the ten-acre site was filled with sheep and cattle pens, nearly two million animals bought and sold there every year….

  • Bloodstock Sales: The Biggest Gambles in Horseracing

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    Felix Francis

    Horse racing and gambling are intertwined – always have been, and always will be. But the biggest gambles in racing are not made at the races or with a bookmaker, they occur in the sale rings, where vast sums are staked on untested, unridden and as yet unnamed one-year-old Thoroughbred colts in the hope they…

  • Reflections on The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s Classic Biblio-Mystery

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    Lucia Graves

    Like many great novels, the book you are about to read is one whose every page is imbued with the art of storytelling. Its first five words, ‘I still remember the day’, spoken by the narrator, Daniel Sempere, open the door to what will soon expand into a complex world of both mystery and realism,…

  • The Best Debut Novels Out This September

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    CrimeReads

    The CrimeReads editors select the best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Laura Picklesimer, Kill For Love (Unnamed Press) The bored college fifth-year narrating Kill For Love has always been good at suppressing her appetites—you can see it in her carefully counted calories, svelte figure, and attempts to mask her sociopathy from her sisters….

  • Anjili Babbar On The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction

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    Molly Odintz

    I met Anjili Babbar smoking cigarettes at Bouchercon last year (she has since quit), and thought, this chick is really cool. And also, she knows a lot about Irish crime fiction. Babbar is, in fact, the author of an excellent new work on Irish crime writing, aptly titled Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish…

  • Shop Talk: Nina Simon Tells the Incredible Story Behind Her Breakout Debut Novel

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    Eli Cranor

    I met Nina Simon shortly after I read her beautiful, heartfelt debut, Mother Daughter Murder Night. If there were ever an author whose persona perfectly captures the verve of her work, it’s Nina.  Nina’s all natural, almost crunchy in a Santa Cruz kind of way. She speaks from the gut and doesn’t pull any punches….

  • Six Books Featuring Ghosts with Unfinished Business

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    Meredith R. Lyons

    What’s a character without motivation? Even if that character is dead, they need a reason to be in the scene. In my novel Ghost Tamer, one of the ghosts tells the main character, “Everyone who dies had plans, Raely.” Whether it’s revenge, righting an injustice, or protecting a loved one, unfinished business is a common…

  • How Subplots and Plot Filaments Lend Texture and Depth to Any Novel

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    Michael Craft

    More than any other variant included under the umbrella of “crime fiction,” mystery novels embody a straightforward setup of the conflict-and-resolution components of storytelling. The conflict is murder. The resolution is naming whodunit. Everything in between—the rising and falling action, the crises and complications, the revelations and setbacks—all of that can be summed up as…

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