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    My First Thriller: James Grady

    In 1971, a young Capitol Hill staffer walked by an old townhouse and wondered if it could be a CIA front. The idea would become Six Days of the Condor.

    September 9, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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    Transformation and Transcendence in
    1980s Body Horror

    On David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and the embrace of the grotesque as a representation of lived experience.

    September 9, 2021  By Darryl Jones
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    No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

    On The Challenges of Writing Historical Crime Fiction

    September 9, 2021  By James R. Benn
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    September 7, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

    Go behind the scenes in these tales of love, murder and revenge among the glitterati. 

    September 7, 2021  By Helen Walsh
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    McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

    William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

    September 7, 2021  By Ian Rankin
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    Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

    More than twenty years later, Jewell still resists making any firm plans for her novels.

    September 7, 2021  By Daneet Steffens
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    In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

    In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.

    September 3, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

    And it deserves a cult status of its own.

    September 3, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

    The Neutral Netherlands spent WWI riddled with spies, secret agents, and deserters. Their stories are incomplete, and all the more fascinating for it.

    September 3, 2021  By Anna Lee Huber
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