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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    October 6, 2025  By CrimeReads 
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    Wake Yourself Up With These Caffeinated Mysteries!

    Naomi Kaye looks at five novels in which coffee, tea, and mate fuel the plot

    October 6, 2025  By Naomi Kaye
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    Cheap, Quick, and Dirty: Five Noirs from Hollywood's Poverty Row

    Alex Rollins Berg on five classic B-movie noirs

    October 3, 2025  By Alex Rollins Berg
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    Remember The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?

    Olivia Rutigliano discusses this late-career Coen Brothers' installment

    October 3, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney

    60 years after the publication of Capote's masterpiece, one detail evokes the history of homophobic crimes and shameful excuses, then and now

    October 3, 2025  By Carsten Andresen
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    The 15 Best Mafia Comedies

    Leave the gun, take the remote!

    October 2, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    A Roundtable Discussion on Climate Change and Crime Fiction’s Role in Meeting the Moment

    Authors from a new anthology explore the crimes, injustices, and consequences of this existential crisis

    October 2, 2025  By Curtis Ippolito
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    Nice Guys with Lethal Weapons: The Influential Style of Shane Black, Our Last Noir Director

    Nick Kolakowski on the Settings, Shane-Black-isms, and Signature Leitmotifs of a Long Cinematic Career

    October 1, 2025  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Let's Do the Crime Warp: Keith Roysdon Makes The Case for Keeping Settings Vintage in Contemporary Productions

    "[C]rime stories produced in contemporary times but set in the past are just as enticing and have the additional benefit of hindsight."

    October 1, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Backlist: Reading Kate Elizabeth Russell's "My Dark Vanessa" with Attica Locke

    Locke and Polly Stewart revisit Russell's powerhouse debut in the wake of #metoo and renewed misogyny

    October 1, 2025  By Polly Stewart
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