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    The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

    The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

    Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Patricia Highsmith (wait, Patricia Highsmith...?)—they can all make a claim for the title of funniest crime novelist. So how to choose a winner?

    By Dwyer Murphy | July 26, 2022

    George Dawes Green On Southern Gothic Fiction, Savannah, and Dark Humor

    George Dawes Green On Southern Gothic Fiction, Savannah, and Dark Humor

    "I think you need a warped sense of humor that finds the darkest moments of life to be hilarious."

    By Molly Odintz | July 26, 2022

    8 Unconventional Coming-of-Age Horror Novels

    8 Unconventional Coming-of-Age Horror Novels

    "What about the other ages we go through/come to? Where are those coming-of-age tales?"

    By Nat Cassidy | July 22, 2022

    My First Thriller: Laura Lippman

    My First Thriller: Laura Lippman

    How Lippman went from Baltimore reporter to crime fiction icon...with a few obstacles along the way.

    By Rick Pullen | July 21, 2022

    Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

    Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia on eugenics, racism, and
    creation gone awry.

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 21, 2022

    The Best International Crime Fiction Out This June and July

    The Best International Crime Fiction Out This June and July

    A double dose of fiction in translation for the dog days of summer.

    By Molly Odintz | July 20, 2022

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Exit Party
    • Fallow
    • Our Noble Selves
    • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
    • The Newer World
    • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
    • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
    • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
    • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
    • The Rouse

    On Otherness And Terror

    By Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason | July 20, 2022

    In Plain Sight: Barbara Bourland on Writing Under the Surface

    By Barbara Bourland | July 19, 2022

    A Roundtable Discussion on The Meaning of "The Other"

    By CrimeReads | July 19, 2022

    Ruth Ware On It Girls, Dark Academia, and the Pervasive British Class System

    Ruth Ware On It Girls, Dark Academia, and the Pervasive British Class System

    "[T]here's always that 'what if?' What if things had gone wrong, would I have had the resources and experience I have now to handle it?"

    By Molly Odintz | July 18, 2022

    Desperate Measures: On Ordinary People Who've Had Quite Enough

    Desperate Measures: On Ordinary People Who've Had Quite Enough

    "What do they do when they’re backed into a corner? What do they do when they decide enough is enough?"

    By Elaine Murphy | July 18, 2022

    Musician and Author Don Bruns On Putting Together A Music-Themed Anthology

    Musician and Author Don Bruns On Putting Together A Music-Themed Anthology

    Hotel California? At the Hotel Bar."">"Where did I get friendly enough to ask these elites to contribute to Hotel California? At the Hotel Bar."

    By Don Bruns | July 18, 2022

    Caves, Cellars, Crawl Spaces: The Power of Dark Passages in Suspense Fiction

    Caves, Cellars, Crawl Spaces: The Power of Dark Passages in Suspense Fiction

    "[C]aves, basements, and crawl spaces are our ways of visualizing the dark places within our own minds."

    By Margot Harrison | July 18, 2022

    Exploring the Complexity of Love Through Crafting A Criminal Family 

    Exploring the Complexity of Love Through Crafting A Criminal Family 

    "I knew what it was like for my family to love me, but also do and say things that hurt me too."

    By Alex Temblador | July 15, 2022

    Susie Steiner: An Appreciation

    Susie Steiner: An Appreciation

    On the author of the Manon Bradshaw novels who passed away earlier this month.

    By Frederick Weisel | July 14, 2022

    Theater and Other <br>Criminal Acts

    Theater and Other
    Criminal Acts

    What famous crime stories and films borrow from theater

    By Ann Aptaker | July 13, 2022

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