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    Immortalizing Jack Reacher

    Authors of long-running series face a difficult question: how should their characters age?

    June 28, 2021  By J.A. Crawford
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    Donna Leon: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    For thirty years, Leon's Venetian mysteries have entranced readers. New readers are discovering her work all the time.

    June 25, 2021  By Neil Nyren
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    Deadpool Creator Fabian Nicieza on (Finally) Finishing His Novel

    It only took 35 years of writing comics to learn that 35 years of writing comics would help him write his debut mystery.

    June 24, 2021  By Fabian Nicieza
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    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    June 23, 2021  By Katherine Dykstra
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    How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

    Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Elizabeth Bowen chronicled the death of her class through her sinister depictions of the "big house."

    June 22, 2021  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

    Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

    June 18, 2021  By Laura Lippman
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    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

    "[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

    June 18, 2021  By Paul Neilan
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    Millennial Thrillers and the Power of Obsession

    In an increasingly untethered world, women in thrillers use obsession as a counter to their disconnect and ennui.

    June 17, 2021  By Melissa Larsen
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    On Cars, Characters, and Crime

    "Driving shapes identity. And in turn, it becomes a sign of our identity."

    June 17, 2021  By John McMahon
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    Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City ... Only to Disappear Into It

    A new novel explores the mysterious legacy of Andrew Haswell Green, the Father of Greater New York, who built Central Park and the New York Public Library, then all but disappeared into history.

    June 15, 2021  By Dwyer Murphy
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