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    How Subplots and Plot Filaments Lend Texture and Depth to Any Novel

    And they’re the key to continuity in a mystery series.

    September 20, 2023  By Michael Craft
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    Queer Crime Fiction Coming Out This Fall

    LGBTQIA+ reads for everyone!

    September 20, 2023  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    Murder Ballads, the Original True Crime

    On the long tradition of folk music about crimes, used to help communities process trauma and memorialize victims.

    September 19, 2023  By Janet Beard
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    September 18, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    When Characters Fake Their Own Deaths

    Exploring pseudocide in fiction and film.

    September 18, 2023  By Manning Wolfe
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    Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations

    "As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a tightrope dance deciding what to present to the outside world."

    September 18, 2023  By Deborah J. Ledford
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    A Haunting in Venice is the Best of Kenneth Branagh's Poirot Adaptations, and an Engaging Film On Its Own

    Olivia Rutigliano on the newest Agatha Christie adaptation.

    September 15, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?

    On finding empowerment and autistic representation in an unlikely source: Friday the 13th's iconic slasher

    September 15, 2023  By Mark Wheaton
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    The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin

    "Behind the terse style, there is a poetry to the ironies of Levin’s plots, and there is a brutality that emerges from his intricate imagination."

    September 15, 2023  By James Reich
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    Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer Novel

    Hughes' masterpiece was fresh, feminist, and ahead of its time.
    It's also extraordinarily chilling.

    September 15, 2023  By Laura Picklesimer
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