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Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

"The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

By Gabrielle St. George | November 8, 2021

The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

By Lynne Reeves | November 8, 2021

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend? November 2021

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend? November 2021

Brand new Korean thrillers and not so new but still very worthwhile Gabriel Byrne slow-burns.

By Dwyer Murphy | November 5, 2021

Josephine Tey and the Detection Club: A Mystery Solved

Josephine Tey and the Detection Club: A Mystery Solved

Tey was invited to join the Detection Club, yet her name never appeared on the membership roll. What happened?

By Martin Edwards and Jennifer Morag Henderson | November 5, 2021

Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

It was there in Fleming's books and now it's in the movies, too: James Bond wants to die.

By Nick Kolakowski | November 5, 2021

In <em>Last Night in Soho</em>, Too Much Nostalgia Can Be Dangerous

In Last Night in Soho, Too Much Nostalgia Can Be Dangerous

Rather than romanticize the past, the new film demands that you understand the bad alongside the beautiful.

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 5, 2021

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Columbo's First Case: How One of TV's Most Iconic Detectives Got His Start

By Keith Roysdon | November 4, 2021

What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

By Lori Rader-Day | November 4, 2021

The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

By Heather Redmond | November 4, 2021

When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

"You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

By Anne Emery | November 4, 2021

10 Novels You Should Read This November

10 Novels You Should Read This November

New fiction from Alison Gaylin, William Boyle, and more.

By CrimeReads | November 3, 2021

A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

"Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

By Raquel V. Reyes | November 3, 2021

Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

By William Boyle | November 2, 2021

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 | November 1, 2021

How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

"We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

By Joy Castro | November 1, 2021

On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' <em>Turn of the Screw</em>

On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

"It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

By Susan L. Mizruchi | October 29, 2021

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