Making the Story Earn It By Dawn Ius Though he’s been picking away at short stories since the tender age of 12, S.A. Cosby recalls the exact moment he received what remains…

Using Magic to Build a Realistic World By Jaden Terrell Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, Esme Addison had access to her father’s collection of beautifully bound classic books. In elementary and…

Digging for Character Gold By April Snellings Cassandra Raines, the cop-turned-private investigator who leads author Tracy Clark’s Chicago Mystery series, is relentless. She won’t back away from a challenge, and she won’t…

A Western—Except the Protagonist is Chinese American By Charles Salzberg If you’re looking for Tom Lin’s debut novel on the shelves of your local bookstore, you might find it under Crime Fiction…

Final Girls and Kung Fu Movies By April Snellings In Grady Hendrix’s new novel, six women who survived horrific attacks in their teens gather every month to commiserate in the basement of…

Taking on a Charming Dog’s Life By Karen Hugg Peter Abrahams’s first dog was a pretty little golden retriever named Bailey. She liked to trot alongside the author during his jogs and…

Connecting Through Emotion By P.J. Bodnar In every professor’s career, there’s one or maybe two students who are smarter or more talented than their professor. For Dr. Connor Nye, Madeline O’Brien is…

Audio Gifts from the Golden Voices to Mystery and Suspense Fans By Ellen Quint During the month of June, AudioFile Magazine celebrated the Golden Voices of audiobooks, honoring their work with a…

Some Lies Are Worth Telling By Millie Naylor Hast Is there ever a good lie? A. R. Torre sets out to explore the question in her latest psychological suspense, THE GOOD LIE,…

So Many Ways to Disappear By April Snellings In Laura McHugh’s stunning fourth novel, WHAT’S DONE IN DARKNESS, a teenage girl is kidnapped in broad daylight from her family’s roadside produce stand…

Capturing Tragedy in a Way Nonfiction Can’t By Dawn Ius Karin Slaughter recalls reading about the Spanish flu in high school—passages in textbooks that only skimmed the surface of a pandemic that…

Boiling It Down to Basics By Dawn Ius Riley Sager needed a break. Burnt out both physically and emotionally by the pandemic but still facing a deadline, Sager knew he couldn’t churn…

Infectious Diseases, Genome Mapping, and Death By Dawn Ius New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs has always been fascinated with the evolution of technology, in particular when that evolution happens ahead…

Nothing in Common—Except Tragedy By José H. Bográn Jeff Abbott’s new novel, the devilishly titled AN AMBUSH OF WIDOWS, is about two women with nothing in common except a tragedy. An “ambush”…

Over to the Dark Side By Rick Pullen It was a dark time. Everything had started falling apart around Hilary Davidson. Four close friends had told the award-winning novelist their marriages were…

Truth, Trauma, and the Legacy of Abuse By K.L. Romo “We can’t build a safe—or just or free—world by burying the secrets of the past or hiding injustices or by telling only…

Memories Make the World Go Round…Or Crash and Burn By K.L. Romo “I don’t remember.” So says protagonist Addison Hope in bestselling author-duo Liv Constantine’s newest thriller, THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR.…

Staking Her Claim in Psychological Suspense By E.M. Powell Londoners tend to have a somewhat love/grumble relationship with their Tube network. There’s plenty of love for a half-empty carriage and a welcome…

A Family, and a City, Confront Their Monsters By Neil Nyren “Memory, of course, is also a story. It feels like the truth, especially when there is no one to dispute your…

Video Game Style of Storytelling Propels Plot By Angela Channel Greg Buchanan’s debut opens with a bone-chilling puzzle set by an unknown assailant—a puzzle that unfortunately involves the subject of the novel’s…