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    What We Relate To When We Relate to Books

    What We Relate To When We Relate to Books

    Is it the characters, or the scenario?

    By Josh Malerman | July 23, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 5

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 5

    The Godfather, Part II (1974)

    By Otto Penzler | July 23, 2020

    The Binge-Read: 10 Iconic Crime Fiction Series of the 1970s

    The Binge-Read: 10 Iconic Crime Fiction Series of the 1970s

    Time to read your way through the modern history of crime novels.

    By CrimeReads | July 22, 2020

    The Evolution of Dennis Lehane

    The Evolution of Dennis Lehane

    How the acclaimed author's work has transformed through the decades, bringing readers some of the era's most powerful noirs.

    By Keith Roysdon | July 22, 2020

    How To Write Realistically About Politics and Current Events When the Real World Can Be Stranger Than Fiction

    How To Write Realistically About Politics and Current Events When the Real World Can Be Stranger Than Fiction

    Tips from a political thriller writer on how to keep your writing relevant in a constantly changing world.

    By Eric Van Lustbader | July 22, 2020

    Pain Is Universal—That's What Binds All of Crime Fiction Together

    Pain Is Universal—That's What Binds All of Crime Fiction Together

    From traditional mysteries to hardboiled noirs to psychological thrillers, there's a thread of pain through the books we love.

    By S. A. Cosby | July 21, 2020

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    How Writing a Nature Thriller Helped Me Tap Into the Extremes of Human Nature

    By Jen Waite | July 21, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 6

    By Otto Penzler | July 21, 2020

    July's Best Crime Nonfiction

    By CrimeReads | July 17, 2020

    The Coen Brothers' Enduring Ties to Crime Literature

    The Coen Brothers' Enduring Ties to Crime Literature

    From Macbeth to Lebowski and Back Again

    By Zach Vasquez | July 17, 2020

    How America Once Fell in Love with Mystery “Wheels”

    How America Once Fell in Love with Mystery “Wheels”

    In the 1960s, TV executives came up with a novel way of delivering Americans their mysteries—the "wheel"

    By J. Kingston Pierce | July 16, 2020

    My Upstairs Downstairs Childhood

    My Upstairs Downstairs Childhood

    I didn't think anything was different between me and the girl upstairs. Then, I learned how to read.

    By Lee Conell | July 16, 2020

    Let's Not Forget the Time Mario Vargas Llosa Sucker Punched Gabriel García Márquez

    Let's Not Forget the Time Mario Vargas Llosa Sucker Punched Gabriel García Márquez

    It was about a woman.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | July 16, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 7

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 7

    The Thin Man (1934)

    By Otto Penzler | July 16, 2020

    Why Exposing Kids to Horror Might Actually Be Good for Them

    Why Exposing Kids to Horror Might Actually Be Good for Them

    An open letter to the two girls still stuck in the early showing of 'The Conjuring'

    By Stephen Graham Jones | July 15, 2020

    How I Stopped Worrying About the Rules and Learned to Write a Mystery Novel

    How I Stopped Worrying About the Rules and Learned to Write a Mystery Novel

    Workshops, an MFA, and a pair of literary novels couldn't prepare him for the intricate workings of noir, so he turned to the masters.

    By Sung J. Woo | July 14, 2020

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