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    7 Novels In Which The Dead Step In To Solve Their Own Murders

    7 Novels In Which The Dead Step In To Solve Their Own Murders

    These books center the experiences of murder victims by allowing them to tell their own stories.

    By Hilary Davidson | July 2, 2021

    A Quiet Hero: Why George Smiley Is and Always Has Been the Protagonist We Need

    A Quiet Hero: Why George Smiley Is and Always Has Been the Protagonist We Need

    "...a play in which the hero kept silent and everyone round him spoke incessantly"

    By Neil Sharpson | July 1, 2021

    What Makes The Suburbs So Terrifying?

    What Makes The Suburbs So Terrifying?

    On The New Golden Age of Suburban Noir

    By Aggie Blum Thompson | July 1, 2021

    Cadaver Dogs: A Nose for Murder

    Cadaver Dogs: A Nose for Murder

    Sure, they're not as glamorous as a search and rescue pup or a Covid-sniffing Labrador, but cadaver dogs get the job done.

    By Jeffrey B. Burton | July 1, 2021

    Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

    Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

    Housing projects are places of struggle, but also optimism; they are full of human lives, and alive with human stories.

    By Gabriel Krauze | June 30, 2021

    The Crime Books Top Authors Read Twice Because They’re Just That Good   

    The Crime Books Top Authors Read Twice Because They’re Just That Good   

    Kate White asked fellow authors Harlan Coben, Lisa Unger, Alafair Burke and others about the books they keep revisiting.

    By Kate White | June 29, 2021

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    • 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

    The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction

    By John Galligan | June 29, 2021

    Immortalizing Jack Reacher

    By J.A. Crawford | June 28, 2021

    Donna Leon: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    By Neil Nyren | June 25, 2021

    Deadpool Creator Fabian Nicieza on (Finally) Finishing His Novel

    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.

    By Fabian Nicieza | June 24, 2021

    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    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?

    By Katherine Dykstra | June 23, 2021

    How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

    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."

    By Sarah Stewart Taylor | June 22, 2021

    "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

    Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

    By Laura Lippman | June 18, 2021

    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not <em>Not</em> Noir)

    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."

    By Paul Neilan | June 18, 2021

    Millennial Thrillers and the Power of Obsession

    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.

    By Melissa Larsen | June 17, 2021

    On Cars, Characters, and Crime

    On Cars, Characters, and Crime

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

    By John McMahon | June 17, 2021

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