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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    November 22, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Crime Fiction Is Ridiculous. We Might As Well Have Fun With It.

    "[T]here needs to be a tacit acknowledgement...that author and reader are both in on the same joke. And it is a joke."

    November 22, 2021  By Daisy Waugh
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    The Downstairs World: A Fascinating Setting for a Murder Mystery Sleuth

    There's no better sleuth for an interwar novel than a housekeeper.

    November 22, 2021  By Colleen Cambridge
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    The CrimeReads 2021 Gift Guide, Part 2: Coffee Table Edition

    What do you buy for the crime lover who already has everything...that is, everything murder-related?

    November 19, 2021  By Molly Odintz
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    November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    Offshore exploits, Dostoevsky's murderer, and America's first civil war.

    November 19, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

    Sergio Leone filmed "For A Few Dollars More" in the Spanish desert, now a destination for tourists rather than filmmakers.

    November 19, 2021  By Nick Hunt
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    Forensic Psychologist Richard Lettieri On The Many Pathways to a False Confession

    Coercive tactics, subtle suggestions, and the urge to comply with authority figures all may cause the innocent to confess.

    November 19, 2021  By Richard Lettieri, PhD
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    Ten Murders-by-Pen in Movies

    These scenes prove that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword. In the right hands.

    November 18, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Making Good out of Murder: On Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, Crime Reporters and Crime Writers

    In the 1930s, crime reporters and spouses Bristow and Manning turned their New Orleans crime beat into fertile fodder for fiction.

    November 18, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    Why Are There So Many Missing Mothers in Fiction with Empowered Young Heroines?

    Sara Foster on challenging a persistent trope

    November 18, 2021  By Sara Foster
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