Hugh Addison

Genres

  • The Best International Crime Novels of 2023

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    Molly Odintz

    Well, it’s a horrible year in world history, but it’s a great year in international fiction! Specifically, international thrillers and noir. France and the Scandinavians are, as usual, well-represented on this list, and there’s also a great showing from South American writers and a shocking number of Italians. Sorry not sorry to those who think…

  • 10 Things We Learned in 20 Years of Writing Mysteries

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    Cleo Coyle

    After two decades of making our living as mystery authors, we thought, hey, we must have done something right. If you think so, too (or you’re simply curious), read on. Just to be clear. This is not a list of mechanical techniques. Much has been written on genre tropes and tricks. This is a list…

  • The Seeds of a Pharmaceutical Thriller: A Conversation Between Co-Authors

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    Thomas Locke and Jyoti Guptara

    Many thanks to Jyoti Guptara and Thomas Locke for kindly offering a conversation about their new thriller, Roulette.   Jyoti Guptara: Thomas, remember when you visited me at the UN in Geneva? You arrived with this brilliant story seed: “What appears to be a simple case of overdose turns into an ER nightmare. Patients seem…

  • What Makes a Novel Unique? On Retellings and Plagiarism

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    Jillian Cantor

    My latest novel, The Fiction Writer, is a modern-day gothic mystery that explore the boundaries of creative freedom. It asks questions about writing and ownership and who owns the right to tell any story. My main character, Olivia, is a writer, whose most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was a flop….

  • The 15 Best Psychological Thrillers of 2023

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    Molly Odintz

    Wow, this was a hard list to compile–I don’t know that I’ve ever seen as many great new psychological thrillers come out in a single year. I had to physically restrain myself from adding at least ten more titles, or getting bogged down in crafting a notable list, because I wanted to put so many…

  • The Best Young Adult Mysteries, Thriller and Horror Novels of 2023

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    Molly Odintz

    The young adult mystery continues to thrive, along with plenty of YA horror thrillers, and this year was distinguished by quality storytelling, careful constructions, and social justice elements placed front and center. Whether you want to defeat the monsters or be the monster, solve the murder or get your own deadly vengeance, 2023 has an…

  • Peril in Paradise: A List Of Thrillers In Which Bad Things Happen In Beautiful Places

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    Annelise Ryan

    Conflict lies at the heart of all mystery and suspense, and what could be more conflicting than taking a trip to paradise only to get caught up in the dark and deadly underbelly you didn’t know was there? Imagine your favorite or most desired vacation mecca, somewhere beautiful, maybe even exotic, somewhere you feel relaxed…

  • Mystical Threads: Spirit Mediums and Psychics in Crime and Suspense Fiction

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    M. M. DeLuca

    I never met my paternal grandmother. She died before I was born, but from a few family photos, I formed a picture of a smartly turned-out woman with warm brown eyes, a wavy, blunt-cut bob and a weakness for silk scarves. Deeply respected in her small north-eastern England mining town, she was a pillar of…

  • Dark Academia: YA Edition

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    Cynthia Murphy

    If you’re anything like me, you’ll find the winter evenings perfect for immersing yourself in a little dark academia. Whether you enjoy the prestigious school settings, the thrown-together friendships that shouldn’t work but do, or simply the higher education of it all, there is one thing in particular that brings readers to this genre in…

  • The Best Crime Novels of 2023

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    CrimeReads

    The CrimeReads editors make their picks for the year’s best fiction. * Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women (Simon & Schuster) Jessica Knoll’s brilliant, blistering third novel is a tart new addition to the growing oeuvre of novels critiquing our fetishization of serial killers and focusing on their victims as whole people with interrupted lives, not…

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