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    MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Winners

    MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Winners

    Celebrating the best mystery and crime fiction of the year.

    By CrimeReads | April 28, 2022

    The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: April 2022

    The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: April 2022

    First novels from Samantha Jayne Allen, Grace D. Li, Adam Oyebanji, and more.

    By CrimeReads | April 28, 2022

    Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

    Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

    "[U]nreliable narration can be enormously successful when the author’s use of misdirection or withholding is tied expressly to the character’s experience, behavior, and/or worldview."

    By Kit Frick | April 28, 2022

    The State of the Crime Novel in 2022, Part 2: Genre, Publishing, and What to Read Next

    The State of the Crime Novel in 2022, Part 2: Genre, Publishing, and What to Read Next

    "Noir is a state of mind regardless of genre." - S. A. Cosby

    By Molly Odintz | April 27, 2022

    "Perception, self-deception, and truth": Soon Wiley Talks Craft and Character

    "When it comes to my characters, I almost always start with their desires."

    By Molly Odintz | April 27, 2022

    Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

    Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

    When the writing gets personal...

    By Alma Katsu | April 27, 2022

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    How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

    By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

    The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable With The Edgar Nominees

    By Molly Odintz | April 26, 2022

    Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

    By David Gordon | April 26, 2022

    Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

    Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

    Dick Lipez (1938-2022), writing under the pen name of Richard Stevenson, wanted to "present a gay man as contented and not tortured."

    By Michael Nava | April 26, 2022

    Lost and Found: Rediscovering E.C.R. Lorac’s Two-Way Murder  

    Lost and Found: Rediscovering E.C.R. Lorac’s Two-Way Murder  

    Martin Edwards on a Golden Age classic, an enigmatic author, and her "pleasantly persistent Inspector Macdonald."

    By Martin Edwards | April 25, 2022

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    By CrimeReads | April 25, 2022

    Parenting, Paranoia, and the Pandemic

    Parenting, Paranoia, and the Pandemic

    How lockdown helped one parent and author overcome fear and embrace living life to the fullest.

    By Samantha M. Bailey | April 25, 2022

    On the Genuine Delights of Hugh Laurie's Murder Mystery <em>Why Didn't They Ask Evans?</em>

    On the Genuine Delights of Hugh Laurie's Murder Mystery Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

    BritBox's new adaptation of Agatha Christie's funniest mystery is the jubilant romp through the English countryside that we all need right now.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 22, 2022

    The Best International Crime Books Coming Out This April

    The Best International Crime Books Coming Out This April

    Mexican gated communities, Ukrainian squats, French seaside towns, and fractured Lebanese city centers are the settings for this month's best crime books in translation.

    By Molly Odintz | April 22, 2022

    You Know, For Kids! The History of a Teenage James Bond

    You Know, For Kids! The History of a Teenage James Bond

    The license to kill, the drinking, the racy affairs...what could go wrong bringing Bond to young readers?

    By Luke Poling | April 22, 2022

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