A killer is on the loose. Soaring through the skies above Manhattan, one of nature’s most deadly predators, a peregrine falcon, eyes its potential prey on the sidewalks below. A flash of reflective light on the ground marks the target and signals the moment to strike. A beautiful ice skater… Read more
I had my pick of several compelling reads, all past Edgar Award winners, but felt drawn to the novel Whip Hand by Dick Francis. I’ve long been curious about Dick Francis’s stories, though I have never actually read one. I offer this confession willingly and with regret for what I’ve… Read more
In stark contrast to her husband, Mary Todd Lincoln has a bad reputation.
Sheryl Browne, author of The Babysitter, discusses how people and ordinary (though unfortunate) events, such as falling off a boat into the water, can be the perfect cocktail of inspiration to write a psychological thriller. I’m often asked what inspires me to write psychological thrillers. The short answer is people…. Read more
Arthur Maling’s 1979 novel The Rheingold Route may hold the dubious distinction of being the least remembered book to ever win the Edgar Award for best novel of the year. It is a challenge to find anyone who has heard of it, let alone read it. A 2019 internet search… Read more
My book, Milady, is a new take on The Three Musketeers—with the story told from the point of view of literature’s most notorious villainess, Milady de Winter. In Dumas’ tale she’s harshly condemned. But in Milady, we see another side to her story and realize the Musketeers were the villains… Read more
Women are having a moment in the suspense genre. Look on any bestseller list, and there we are, pressed between the Harlan Cobens and the Lee Childs—these books written by, marketed to, and starring women. They have pretty titles and prettier covers, with images designed to appeal to female readers…. Read more
Ken Follett published Eye of the Needle in 1978, and the book achieved a level of success that few other Edgar Award winners have matched; I can only think of a small handful of Edgar winners that ascended to similar heights (The Long Goodbye, The Spy Who Came in from… Read more
Right from the very title, William H. Hallahan has written a book of juxtapositions, a novel that relentlessly compares and contrasts its two main protagonists and the situations and societies in which they find themselves. Ostensibly a spy thriller, Catch Me: Kill Me follows two men who never meet, and… Read more
Join Nina Laurin, author of The Starter Wife, as she breaks down five of her favorite books featuring stalkers. Can love ever be too much? At what point does it stop being love and become something deadly? Stalkers have been a mainstay of psychological thrillers for as long as the… Read more
