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    On Ed Lacy's Room to Swing and Early Representation of Black Sleuths in Crime Fiction

    Written by a Harlem-based white author, Room to Swing features a Black detective and is an earnest effort infused with the jazzy spirit of the 1950s.

    November 4, 2022  By Leslie S. Klinger
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    My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby

    The making of a crime fiction sensation.

    November 3, 2022  By Rick Pullen
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    Graeme Macrae Burnet on Writing Comedy, Crime, and Characters with Divided Selves

    Lily Meyer talks with the Booker-nominated author about his new mystery, Case Study

    November 3, 2022  By Lily Meyer
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    Simenon in America

    How Georges Simenon escaped a reckoning at the end of WWII by fleeing to the United States.

    November 3, 2022  By Gregory Galloway
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    What Is It About the Wilderness That Lures Writers?

    "Nature isn’t merely a setting in these novels, but a force that propels the story forward."

    November 3, 2022  By Laura Griffin
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    On Abortion, Murder, and Patriarchal Definitions

    "Abortion is freedom. Without authority over our own internal organs, we become the property of the state the moment we become pregnant."

    November 2, 2022  By Meghan Joyce Tozer
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    History Is Shouting…All You Need to Do Is Listen

    "What could a story set in 1913 have to say about life in 2022?" Plenty!

    November 2, 2022  By Laura Ann Gilman
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    Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill

    "[T]he quest to understand the reasons for violence in the young is not one that offers easy answers..."

    November 2, 2022  By Lisa Ballantyne
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    Yeah Noir: Discovering New Zealand Crime Fiction

    Four Kiwi authors you should be reading now.

    November 1, 2022  By Jacqueline Bublitz
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    On The Morality of Immorality

    "[T]hrillers fling straight and piercing arrows into the heart of morality itself...[b]y displaying catastrophic consequences for “bad” behavior."

    November 1, 2022  By Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
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