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Hint: It's all the rain, gloom, secrecy, and serial killers.

Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.

How Harlan Coben went from guiding tour buses in Spain to writing blockbuster novels that the French (and just about everyone else) can't get enough of.

"It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."

A round of applause for the nominees!

Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

"Your readers are very, very smart. Trust them. They will pick up those breadcrumbs of context and piece them together like nobody’s business..."

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

Revisiting the many iterations of a classic scenario.

Carter Wilson on breaking the cardinal rule of crime fiction.

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