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The Psychology of Writing a Serial Killer

To write convincingly from the perspective of a serial killer, you have to spend time inside a mindset most people instinctively avoid. That discomfort reveals things about how people justify their actions. When I began writing Memoirs of a Serial Killer, shock value wasn’t the goal. I wasn’t interested in…

Dan UseltonMarch 23, 2026

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A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

In Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren (Zando), a man named Jeremy knows all of that very well. A second-year medical student at Tulane University, his interests in experimentation go way beyond anything he’s been taught in class. His father’s advice echoes in his mind: “You want to learn…

Neil NyrenAugust 26, 2022

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Eat the Rich? More Like “Kill the Rich”

The question is raised as two co-workers at Larrabee Yacht Company in the small community of Sandy Harbor, WA, contemplate killing their boss before he can mastermind a plan to shut down the facility, move operations to Mexico, eliminate the staff, and walk away with a fortune. That’s the storyline…

Jim AlkonAugust 24, 2022

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The Babysitter is Out for Blood in New Joyce Carol Oates Thriller

Why can Joyce Carol Oates give us Babysitter — a psychological nail-biter — at a time when some readers are looking to escape to a calmer, friendlier world these days? Because she’s Joyce Carol Oates, that’s why. Highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of nearly sixty novels, as well as a…

Valerie Taylor, author of the "Venus Bixby Mystery" seriesAugust 22, 2022

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ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work with a new partner in Verses for the Dead (Grand Central), the latest thriller in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s hugely popular series. And, as fans of the famously rogue operative might expect, Pendergast finds that almost as challenging as the series of…

R.G. BelskyJanuary 8, 2019

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ITW Spotlight: Chatting with David Baldacci

According to bestselling author David Baldacci, when you’ve written as many books as he has—10 series, or a total of 30 books and counting; and another 12 stand-alone novels—there’s one way to keep his writing razor-sharp: “Start from Square One: create a new character, a new series—a new world.” With…

Josie BrownDecember 12, 2018

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“Sunrise Highway:” Fresh Approach in Serial Killer Thriller

First of all, as is the case in Peter Blauner’s Sunrise Highway (Macmillan), you cut back and forth in time, between... October 2012. As Hurricane Sandy hits New York City, a man in Rockaway, Brooklyn, hearing pounding on his front door, goes to the peephole. He sees a young woman,…

Jim ParryNovember 7, 2018

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“Havana Brown” Offers a Rule-Breaking, Literal Cat-and-Mouse Mystery

Turns out they’re a rare breed with unusual chocolate-brown fur. It also turns out that the clues left by a certain feline owned by a serial killer whose methods are unusually sick — even by serial killer standards — can form the basis of an excellent procedural thriller. Havana Brown…

Dennis HetzelDecember 3, 2021

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Crime and Bias Collide in Tamron Hall’s Heart-Hammering New Thriller “As the Wicked Watch”

THE AUTHOR Most of us know Emmy Award-winning Tamron Hall as a talk-show host and former host of NBC’s Today Show — the first Black woman to co-anchor the show. She grew up poor in a small Texas town, then became a journalist in Bryan, Texas, before moving to Dallas…

K.L. RomoNovember 15, 2021

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Join the Pursuit of a Globe-Hopping Serial Killer in David Temple’s “The Impostor”

In author David Temple’s newest police procedural, The Impostor (82 Mercer Publishing), book two in his series featuring Hollywood Detective Pat Norelli, the search for a serial killer becomes a global hunt for a man Norelli no longer recognizes but vows to take down. Dubbed “The Poser” because he poses…

K.L. RomoJuly 1, 2021

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No One Can Be Trusted in Riley Sager’s Thriller “Survive the Night”

Riley Sager’s latest suspense novel, Survive The Night (Dutton), takes the “Never get into a car with a stranger” warning to a new, spine-tingling, hair-raising and goosebump-inducing level. As Brit from the podcast Crime Junkies would say, this book would give even the most levelheaded individual “full-body chills.” It’s November…

Gabby DavisJune 29, 2021

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A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

“Memory, of course, is also a story. It feels like the truth, especially when there is no one to dispute your recollection of events. But it is a story nonetheless — some moments have been elided, and others have been emphasized and made either luminous or horrific or both ……

Neil NyrenJune 25, 2021

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“A Shepherd of Wolves” Depicts A Fictional Murder With Convincing Realism

In a small town in rural America, a quiet boy who likes to draw evolves into a tortured man with an irresistible urge to kill and maim, while another, bullied and abandoned, chooses to become a detective. Author R.J. King doesn’t try to explain why one child becomes a monster…

Sherri DaleyApril 20, 2021

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Writers, Ink Podcast: “Daphne” with NYT Bestseller Josh Malerman

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in…

Writers, InkSeptember 19, 2022

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AuthorBuzz: Cozy Mystery Features Amateur Sleuth and Tea Sommelier

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AuthorBuzzAugust 8, 2022

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David Temple Shoots for the Next Thrill in Both Life and Art

Author David Temple sure knows how to set a mood and set the scene. His latest police drama, The Imposter (82 Mercer Publishing), delivers all the edge-of-your-seat thrills you could want plus all the entertainment value you could expect from career experience as a radio star. In the author’s debut…

BookTribAugust 30, 2021

The Psychology of Writing a Serial Killer

A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

Eat the Rich? More Like “Kill the Rich”

The Babysitter is Out for Blood in New Joyce Carol Oates Thriller

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

ITW Spotlight: Chatting with David Baldacci

“Sunrise Highway:” Fresh Approach in Serial Killer Thriller

“Havana Brown” Offers a Rule-Breaking, Literal Cat-and-Mouse Mystery

Crime and Bias Collide in Tamron Hall’s Heart-Hammering New Thriller “As the Wicked Watch”

Join the Pursuit of a Globe-Hopping Serial Killer in David Temple’s “The Impostor”

No One Can Be Trusted in Riley Sager’s Thriller “Survive the Night”

A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

Writers, Ink Podcast: “Daphne” with NYT Bestseller Josh Malerman

AuthorBuzz: Cozy Mystery Features Amateur Sleuth and Tea Sommelier

David Temple Shoots for the Next Thrill in Both Life and Art

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