Crime fiction

Karin Slaughter's unflinching crime novels dare to acknowledge the dangers women face in everyday life

Can "citizen detectives" online, like those on Reddit or Websleuths, be helpful to missing persons or homicide investigations? This is one of the elements our debut thriller On the Surface explores.

It was another era. Not easier, but maybe not quite so crazy hectic as today. The stakes were still high, and in their day - the early 1980s-getting your first book published was still hard work. In many ways, harder.

Diana Urban is the author of several YA thrillers, including All Your Twisted Secrets and the upcoming Paris catacombs survival story, Under the Surface (Putnam, Aug. 13). In this essay, Urban reflects on why young readers are so enthralled by murder-centric stories, making mysteries and thrillers such hot genres in YA publishing today.

'The one thing I take with me into my writing every single day, is that no one is ever really who you think they are. We're all projections of the person we think we should be'  Read more