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Neil Nyren
Frederick Forsyth: An Editor's Remembrance
Neil Nyren recalls his first time working with the great thriller author.
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Neil Nyren
| June 12, 2025
Robert Crais: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
Neil Nyren on Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, and all the other stories along the way.
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Neil Nyren
| January 3, 2025
Laurie R. King: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
The Mary Russell series is beloved by readers the world over. But just how did this extraordinary character come about?
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Neil Nyren
| February 8, 2024
Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
A guide to the life and work of "the founding mother" of the hardboiled woman as private eye.
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Neil Nyren
| February 3, 2023
Kate Atkinson: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
A study of the life and work of one of contemporary crime fiction's greatest authors.
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Neil Nyren
| September 15, 2022
Andrea Camilleri: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
A tour through Inspector Salvo Montalbano's Sicily and the life and works of an Italian mystery icon.
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Neil Nyren
| September 17, 2021
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Donna Leon: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
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| June 25, 2021
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
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| January 22, 2021
Alexander McCall Smith: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
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| September 11, 2020
P. D. James: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
She refined the crime novel to its dark, poetic core and created a roster of iconic detectives along the way.
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Neil Nyren
| July 2, 2020
Catherine Aird: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
50 years - and counting - of clever, compelling mysteries.
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Neil Nyren
| April 24, 2020
Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
Discover the wild, corrupt, uproarious world of Hiaasen's Florida.
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Neil Nyren
| January 30, 2020
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics
Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, and a Queen of Crime
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Neil Nyren
| October 11, 2019
Rex Stout: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, and a Crime Fiction Legend
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Neil Nyren
| August 23, 2019
Patricia Moyes: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics
In midcentury Britain, there was one more entry into the Golden Age of Mystery
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Neil Nyren
| July 19, 2019
Tony Hillerman: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
On the Richly Sensory Mystery Novels of the Navajo Tribal Police
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Neil Nyren
| June 7, 2019
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