Month: December 2016

(2016 has been a banner for the Strand’s blog, our blog has been a hit with readers all around the world with over 100,000 hits per month. Here’s a sampling of our ten most popular […]

Beyond the Twilight Saga – Five mystery/thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest By A.J. Banner, author of The Twilight Wife (January; Touchstone) A few years ago, Business Insider named Twilight the most famous book set in Washington state. But […]

TOP TEN WARTIME THRILLERS Although war itself tends to push thrillers into the background—how can even the most ruthless murderer compete with the wholesale carnage that ensues when nations take up arms—along with other writers, […]

Scary children don’t always have to draw blood. They can send shivers down your spine. They might make you question your own morals. They are manipulative. Or they terrify you because they are so naive […]

Top Ten Midwestern Mysterious Tales… I’ve always loved a good mystery – especially those with a paranormal element. As a child, I watched reruns of “In Search Of” religiously every Saturday afternoon and begged my […]

Ten of the Best CREEPY THRILLER NOVELS We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Best creepy sisters book ever! One of the many things Shirley Jackson does so well is to portray the way […]

You’ve read Nordic, dabbled with Tartan, but what about Sunburnt Noir? Recently, a few crime writers and readers on Twitter had a stab at coming up with a snappy identifier for Australian crime fiction. My […]