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    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of October

    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of October

    The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.

    By Camille LeBlanc | October 4, 2019

    Who's Missing from the Michelle Carter Documentary? Michelle Carter Herself.

    Who's Missing from the Michelle Carter Documentary? Michelle Carter Herself.

    A new documentary about Michelle Carter demonstrates a still-limited vocabulary when it comes to talking about female criminals and mental health.

    By akankshasingh | October 4, 2019

    From Boston To Cape Cod and Back Again—In Crime Fiction

    From Boston To Cape Cod and Back Again—In Crime Fiction

    Exploring a region's mystery pantheon

    By Peter Colt | October 2, 2019

    The 5 Essential Elements of Unforgettable Crime Thrillers

    The 5 Essential Elements of Unforgettable Crime Thrillers

    You're going to need an unforgettable villain, for starters.

    By Derik Cavignano | September 27, 2019

    Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

    Martin Scorsese’s Gangland Sagas and the Dream of Upward Social Mobility

    For decades, the director has been charting a dark, debauched journey up the criminal ladder.

    By Zach Vasquez | September 26, 2019

    Now Streaming in Crime: September

    Now Streaming in Crime: September

    Your Guide to the Best Noir, Mystery, and Thrillers Now Streaming

    By Camille LeBlanc | September 25, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • The Disappearers
    • The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
    • Agrippa
    • Under Story
    • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
    • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
    • I Liked Rex
    • Asmodeus
    • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

    Hog Noir and the Morally Ambiguous Hero

    By Heather Harper Ellett | September 24, 2019

    The Mysteries of Budapest

    By Paul French | September 23, 2019

    Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

    By Lilly Dancyger | September 20, 2019

    Craig Johnson on the Enduring Popularity of <em>Longmire</em> and Its Deeply Human Characters

    Craig Johnson on the Enduring Popularity of Longmire and Its Deeply Human Characters

    Three years after the series wrap, Johnson is still crafting complex worlds for Walt Longmire—and readers are still connecting.

    By Scott Montgomery | September 18, 2019

    Neon No Man’s Land and Sleaze Noir: On The Underseen Brilliance of <em>Vice Squad</em>

    Neon No Man’s Land and Sleaze Noir: On The Underseen Brilliance of Vice Squad

    Celebrating a lost 1980s neo-noir classic

    By Zach Vasquez | September 17, 2019

    Munchausen by Proxy Is the Crime Story of the Moment

    Munchausen by Proxy Is the Crime Story of the Moment

    Four case studies of a disease that's rarer in real life than on TV.

    By Nile Cappello | September 17, 2019

    Seven of Crime Fiction's Most Terrifying Marriages

    Seven of Crime Fiction's Most Terrifying Marriages

    The complex, twisted literature of "till death do us part"

    By Gina LaManna | September 16, 2019

    50 Years Ago, <em>Scooby Doo</em> Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

    50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

    An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | September 13, 2019

    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos | September 13, 2019

    The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

    The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

    How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

    By John Copenhaver | September 13, 2019

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