I first learned about one of Alfred Hitchcock’s maxims for suspense in a GrubStreet class. Say five people are sitting around a table talking about baseball or playing poker – suddenly, a bomb goes off. It’s shocking, but the minutes…
Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of…
Hold Me Down, acclaimed author Clea Simon’s new suspense novel about a hard-driving punk rocker dragged into the trauma of her wild past by a murder in her present, will grab you by the heart even as it makes you…
Stephanie Gayle is the author of the Thomas Lynch mystery series, which includes Idyll Threats and Idyll Fears, out today. Her first novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, was one of Redbook magazine’s Top Ten Summer Reads, and her short fiction…