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    <em>Double Indemnity</em> isn’t <br>about bad people—<br>it’s about redemption

    Double Indemnity isn’t
    about bad people—
    it’s about redemption

    It's not a movie about doing terrible things, it's a movie about making mistakes (and owning up to them).

    By Michael Ledwidge | March 3, 2020

    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.

    By Daneet Steffens | March 3, 2020

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.

    By Ed Ruggero | March 3, 2020

    12 Novels You Should Read This March

    12 Novels You Should Read This March

    The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | March 2, 2020

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.

    By Jason Pinter | March 2, 2020

    Your Guide to What's Streaming in March: <br>Crime Edition

    Your Guide to What's Streaming in March:
    Crime Edition

    The best new TV series and movies coming out this month.

    By Dwyer Murphy | March 2, 2020

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    The Woman in Black, and the Ongoing Effort to Make New York City a Little More Gothic

    By Olivia Rutigliano | February 28, 2020

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    By Robert Desiderio | February 28, 2020

    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    By Darcy Coates | February 27, 2020

    The Year's Best Action Thrillers (So Far) <br>(It's Not Even March)

    The Year's Best Action Thrillers (So Far)
    (It's Not Even March)

    A look at the best new political, spy, and serial killer thrillers arriving on bookstore shelves.

    By Ryan Steck | February 27, 2020

    Black Power, Blaxploitation, & The Sounds of the Seventies

    Black Power, Blaxploitation, & The Sounds of the Seventies

    How Isaac Hayes' soundtrack to Shaft ushered in an era of iconic Blaxploitation cinema.

    By Ashawnta Jackson | February 26, 2020

    A Brief History of <br>After-Hours Clubs

    A Brief History of
    After-Hours Clubs

    How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'

    By Terry Williams | February 26, 2020

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    By Gary Phillips | February 25, 2020

    Pretty as a Picture

    Pretty as a Picture

    Elizabeth Little

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | February 25, 2020

    People v. Gillette: How an Obscure Execution in the Finger Lakes  Inspired Generations of Storytellers

    People v. Gillette: How an Obscure Execution in the Finger Lakes Inspired Generations of Storytellers

    The Long Cultural Afterlife of a Horrifying Crime

    By S.L. McInnis | February 24, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 25

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 25

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