Vote for Your Favorite Classic YA Mystery Series
By Crime HQ
May 2, 2017Tell us what you chose and why in the comments below!
R. L. Stine
Give Me a K-I-L-L: New Excerpt
By R.L. Stine
March 31, 2017Packed with screams and guaranteed to send a shiver up your spine, Give Me a K-I-L-L is a terrifying installment in R. L. Stine's bestselling Fear Street series (available April 4, 2017). The cheerleading squad at Shadyside has always been strong, but now there are rumors that lack of funds may mean the end of…
Crime/Mystery/Thrillers Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix in September 2016
By Crime HQ
August 29, 2016After an admittedly tepid August, September comes out swinging with a superb list of newly added movies—including the entire Jaws series to help you live every week like it's shark week. Then, Wagner Moura gives you the bump you need to stay up all night and binge-watch Season 2 of Narcos, with his chilling portrayal…
Crime/Mystery/Thrillers Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix in May 2016
By Crime HQ
April 25, 2016April showers bring May flowers, which sadly rings true in the world of streaming media, as Netflix is bringing loads of romance titles to its library this month. Despite the influx of Netflix and chill options, there are still a few thrillers, mysteries, and horror flicks to get your heart rate up a different way.…
Can You Keep a Secret?: New Excerpt
By R.L. Stine
April 9, 2016Can You Keep a Secret? by R.L. Stine is another installment of his young-adult/teen horror series, Fear Street (Available April 12, 2016). Eddie and Emmy are high school sweethearts from the wrong side of the tracks. Looking for an escape from their dreary lives, they embark on an overnight camping trip in the Fear Street…
CraftFest: Day Two
By Thomas Pluck
July 10, 2015The second day of CraftFest is technically CareerFest, with two tracks: one for independent (self) publishing and the other for traditional publishing. As I am yet unable to split myself in twain like a liver fluke and inhabit two spaces at once, I visited the first panel of the indie track and the second panel…
Fan Favorites: Mystery Conventions
By Deborah Lacy
February 18, 2013Mystery conventions (aka conferences) can be a great way to meet some of your favorite authors and to find kindred crime fiction friends. There are so many different fan conventions to choose from, ranging from those that focus on traditional mysteries and cozies (Malice Domestic) to thrillers (ThrillerFest), up to the big daddy of them…
Goosebumps for Grown-Ups: R.L. Stine Debuts Adult Horror Novel
By Jennifer Proffitt
October 11, 2012Growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was pretty hard to avoid Goosebumps. No, I’m not talking about the little bumps you get on your skin when it’s cold outside, but the gripping and sometimes terrifying Goosebumps children’s series by R.L. Stine. Now Stine has turned his hand to adult fiction with his debut…
On P.G. Wodehouse and Crime Fiction: Or, Wodehouse Writes a Thriller?
By Maggie Schnader
November 4, 2011P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse (1881-1975) was one of the great writers of comic literature of the twentieth century. I never travel far from home without one of his volumes tucked in a pocket somewhere. Wodehouse wrote over 70 novels and 200 short stories, lyrics and libretti for dozens of musical comedies (early in his career),…