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Summer Thrillers Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

June 15, 2020

Enter below for a chance to win these 8 summer thrillers: The Half Sister by Sandie Jones The Safe Place by Anna Downes One Last Lie by Paul Doiron Outsider by Linda Castillo Cut to the Bone by Ellison Cooper Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich Reasonable Doubt by Philip Margolin Into the Fire by…

Cozy Mystery Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

April 13, 2020

Start your spring reading with six cozy mysteries! Enter below for a chance to win: one ARC of Lineage Most Lethal by S.C. Perkins one mass market paperback copy of Hems & Homicide by Elizabeth Penny one mass market paperback copy of Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien one hardcover copy of The Stolen Letter…

I Don’t Read Crime Fiction Just for the Crimes

By Sherry Thomas

October 15, 2019

I don’t read crime fiction just for the crimes. Well, sometimes I do. When I pick up an Agatha Christie novel, I’m usually in it solely for the intricacy of the plot—to see how the whodunit was done. But there are other instances when the murder(s), adventures, thrills and suspense of each book—usually in a…

The Bitterroots by C.J. Box: Advanced Copy Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

June 10, 2019

The ties that bind can burn you. Enter for a chance to win one of 10 advanced copies of The Bitterroots, a searing novel of loyalty, lies, and lethal retribution from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

Of All the Gin Joints

By Charles Cumming

February 19, 2019

In a culture of prequels and sequels, origin stories and franchise reboots, it seems no box-office hit can be considered safe from the recycling junkies in Hollywood. Psycho, Minority Report, The Karate Kid, Fargo—all have been variously updated and rebranded for the 21st century, with wildly different results. For every Dawn of the Dead there…

Steve Berry’s The Malta Exchange Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

February 11, 2019

A deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret fuels Steve Berry’s latest international Cotton Malone thriller, The Malta Exchange. Enter for a chance to win one of 50 advanced copies!

How Gentrification May Force Crime Novels to Change

By Nick Kolakowski

February 9, 2019

Seven a.m. in early December is the best time to visit Times Square. The hordes of holiday tourists have yet to descend; the stores and theaters are closed; the costumed “performers” won’t show up to hustle the passersby for another few hours. Sure, you have to deal with the visual offense of building-sized screens flashing…

Winter Cozy Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

January 21, 2019

Cozy up with these six winter mysteries by entering for a chance to win below! * Country Select oneUnited StatesOtherSorry, you cannot enter at this time. * E-mail Official Rules OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES…

The Killer Beside Me

By Joanna Schaffhausen

January 11, 2019

Have you ever met a murderer? I’ve brushed up against three infamous murder cases—each lurid enough to be fictionalized on programs like Law and Order and Cold Case. In the first one, I lived in the same dorm with Gina Grant, a young woman convicted at age fourteen of murdering her mother. In Gina’s telling, her mother was an…

Jessica Barry, author of Freefall

Taming the Wilderness: Jessica Barry on How to Write Survival Fiction

By Jessica Barry

January 9, 2019

When the idea for my debut thriller, Freefall, first came to me, I knew it was one I wanted to develop: a plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies and the sole survivor must fight her way through the wilderness with the clothes on her back and whatever supplies she can salvage from the wreckage. The…

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