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September's Best New International Crime Fiction
Scandinavian serial killers, French asylums, and Italian missed connections
September 23, 2021
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September's Best Debut Novels
The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.
September 22, 2021
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The Discreet Charm of the Berkeley Crime Novel
Why Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman set their new novel in a California city rarely explored in crime fiction.
September 21, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New releases from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
September 20, 2021
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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.
September 17, 2021
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Looking Back on the Magical Mystery Series Pushing Daisies
It had everything: homemade pies, murder mysteries, touchless romances, and waking the dead.
September 16, 2021
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A Reader’s Guide to Crime and Suspense Fiction on the River
Why some of crime fiction's best stories are set on rivers.
September 14, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
September 13, 2021
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The Most Anticipated Books of 2021: Fall and Winter Edition
63 crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, and nonfiction books to cozy up with this fall.
September 10, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
September 7, 2021
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In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production
In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.
September 3, 2021
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What to Stream This September: Robert Redford's Crime Movies
Nothing takes you from the end of summer to the start of fall like a Robert Redford movie
September 2, 2021
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12 Crime Novels You Should Read This September
Northern Irish noir, lakeside horror, plenty of psychological thrillers, and a new novel from Colson Whitehead.
September 1, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 30, 2021
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In These Crime Books, The City Is As Much A Character As A Backdrop
"Cities are full of grifters on the make, the downtrodden and the lost, and the sound of easy money. The D.N.A. of crime fiction."
August 27, 2021
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The Month's Best Nonfiction Crime Books
A refuge from modernity, a history of Mexico's drug trade, and an investigation into the "science of suspense."
August 26, 2021
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August's Best Debut Novels
The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 25, 2021
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The Storyteller’s Promise
William Kent Krueger on the power of fiction and the profound experience of offering readers a little hope.
August 24, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 23, 2021
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Eight Science Fiction and Fantasy Heist Novels
Matt Bell explains why the heist might just be the perfect worldbuilding tool.
August 19, 2021
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Five Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This Month
New novels from Lexie Elliott, Louise Penny, and more.
August 18, 2021
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Seven of the Best Noir Novels of the 1960s and 1970s
Silvia Moreno-Garcia on the international noir that inspired her vision of Mexico City in 1971.
August 17, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 16, 2021
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Why the Nazis Launched a Bizarre, Racist War on Modern Art
As the National Socialist party rose to power in Weimar Germany, they took aim at the country's "degenerate" artists.
August 13, 2021
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Die Hard with a Vengeance is the most relatable "summer in the city" movie ever
"Too many films are love-letters to New York City; Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of its rare pieces of hate mail."
August 12, 2021
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Six Great Gothic Castles from Literature
"The walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements..."
August 11, 2021
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When You Can’t Call the Cops
Michele Weinstat Miller endured rape, incarceration, and addiction and later became an attorney. She decided to write a thriller about people who don't feel safe calling the police.
August 10, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 9, 2021
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Murder on the Move: Suspense Novels Set on Trains, Boats & Transport
Louise Candlish on the long, proud tradition of setting mysteries on moving vehicles.
August 6, 2021
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11 Novels You Should Read This August
New fiction from Megan Abbott, Naomi Hirahara, William Kent Krueger, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Andrea Bartz, Louise Penny, and more.
August 4, 2021
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In Today's Psychological Thrillers, Women Have Had Enough—And They're Turning to Violence
In psychological thrillers, as in life, women aren’t always the victims.
August 3, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
August 2, 2021
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1980s Noir Films Are Better Than 1940s Noir Films: Discuss.
1980s crime films are more sophisticated than their 1940s predecessors. But are they better?
July 30, 2021
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Five International Crime Novels To Read In July
Swedish dilemmas, French musketeers, and Spanish serial killers
July 29, 2021
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Rain City Rediscovered: Why Crime Novelists Are Drawn to Seattle
Glen Erik Hamilton returns to his hometown of Seattle to find nothing is where he left it.
July 28, 2021
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July's Best Debut Novels
The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 27, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 26, 2021
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Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?
An intercontinental, cross-generational obsession explained by one of its practitioners.
July 23, 2021
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Villains and Victims: The Role of Animals in Crime Fiction
Why it's time to do away with literary taboos and confront violence against animals.
July 22, 2021
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8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Summer
Fall down a long, winding rabbithole with these binge-worthy podcasts full of thoughtful, complex storytelling.
July 21, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 19, 2021
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Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?
Rounding up the month's best in suspense.
July 16, 2021
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The 30 Best Diner Scenes in Crime Movies, Ranked
What's on the menu? Only some of the best sequences in cinema. And pancakes.
July 15, 2021
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When Gothic Goes to the Suburbs
Today's psychological thriller authors bring a legacy of gothic fiction into the suburban idyll.
July 14, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 12, 2021
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The Strange Story of Orson Welles' Lost Film, Mr. Arkadin
The 1955 film was supposed to be Welles' masterpiece. Or maybe it was just a lark. Or a KGB-funded money laundering enterprise.
July 9, 2021
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Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir
"On a steamy summer day, the residential streets are absent of people and can possess an unsettling quiet. Where is everyone?"
July 8, 2021
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On Loving, and Leaving, Barcelona
"If I saw the beauty in Barcelona, I also saw the shadows."
July 7, 2021
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7 Coming-of-Age Mysteries That Capture "The Oddness of the Moment in Question"
Will these protagonists succumb to the rigid spaces of adulthood, or rebel and find a path all their own?
July 6, 2021
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
July 5, 2021
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