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    July's Best True Crime Books

    July's Best True Crime Books

    Con Artists, Scandal in Boston, and the Hunt for a Meticulous Serial Killer

    By CrimeReads | July 23, 2019

    Raymond Chandler: The Art of Beginning a Crime Story

    Raymond Chandler: The Art of Beginning a Crime Story

    The 10 Greatest Opening Paragraphs from a Noir Master

    By Dwyer Murphy | July 23, 2019

    When Crime Authors Write Non-Crime Books

    When Crime Authors Write Non-Crime Books

    8 crime authors moonlighting in other forms of literature

    By Lisa Levy | July 22, 2019

    The Silence of the Lambs: The Seminal Serial Killer Novel, and Still the Best

    The Silence of the Lambs: The Seminal Serial Killer Novel, and Still the Best

    A thriller author and her forensics expert partner celebrate the literary and investigative merits of an all-time great thriller.

    By Ashley Dyer | July 22, 2019

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #46

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #46

    Mean Streets (1973)

    By Otto Penzler | July 22, 2019

    Patricia Moyes: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics

    Patricia Moyes: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics

    In midcentury Britain, there was one more entry into the Golden Age of Mystery

    By Neil Nyren | July 19, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Will and Attention: A Memoir
    • The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
    • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
    • Music Against the Night
    • Peck & Peck
    • The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
    • The End of Everything
    • Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
    • American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs
    • Solace House

    Now Streaming in Crime: Nazi Hunters, Boston Noir, and the Most Chilling Movie Ever

    By Camille LeBlanc | July 19, 2019

    The Evolution of Walt Longmire: Somewhere Between Laughter and Death

    By Scott Montgomery | July 18, 2019

    Nadezhda Popova: Commander
    of the Night Witches

    By Tori Telfer | July 17, 2019

    Miami Vice: How an Icon of 80s Cool Transformed a City and the Landscape of Television

    Miami Vice: How an Icon of 80s Cool Transformed a City and the Landscape of Television

    South Beach was in decay, crime was rampant, and tourism was dry. Then came Miami Vice, and South Florida found its mojo.

    By Craig Pittman | July 17, 2019

    The Tragic, Violent History of the Brooklyn Waterfront

    The Tragic, Violent History of the Brooklyn Waterfront

    Pete Panto was a hero to dockworkers across New York. His disappearance was part of a long, bloody history shaping the city.

    By Nathan Ward | July 17, 2019

    Edna Buchanan's Miami

    Edna Buchanan's Miami

    She was Edna Rydzik in Jersey. In Miami, she was the hardboiled crime writer who defined an era and left a complex legacy.

    By Sarah Weinman | July 16, 2019

    Why True Crime Podcasts Have Us So Enthralled

    Why True Crime Podcasts Have Us So Enthralled

    A crime author's appreciation for a new/old form of storytelling

    By Alison Gaylin | July 16, 2019

    Havana to Miami: Crime Fiction Across the Straits of Florida

    Havana to Miami: Crime Fiction Across the Straits of Florida

    Leonardo Padura & Alex Segura talk about noir, hometowns, homelands, and how being a crime writer in Cuba has evolved.

    By Alex Segura | July 15, 2019

    Hollywood Will Never Give Up Making Hardboiled Movies

    Hollywood Will Never Give Up Making Hardboiled Movies

    Jim Thompson and William Lindsay Gresham have proven difficult to adapt to screen. Directors can't resist the challenge—or the noir.

    By Zach Vasquez | July 15, 2019

    The Weird, Wild, Inimitable Noir of Donald E. Westlake

    The Weird, Wild, Inimitable Noir of Donald E. Westlake

    A day to celebrate the life and work of a crime fiction icon

    By Dwyer Murphy | July 12, 2019

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