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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
"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
"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
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
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
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
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
"[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
"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
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
"[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
"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
On the author of the Manon Bradshaw novels who passed away earlier this month.
By
Frederick Weisel
| July 14, 2022
Theater and Other
Criminal Acts
What famous crime stories and films borrow from theater
By
Ann Aptaker
| July 13, 2022
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