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<em>Good Girls</em>, <em>Weeds</em>, And The Problem with Suburban Criminality on Screen

Good Girls, Weeds, And The Problem with Suburban Criminality on Screen

They're not doing it for their families. They're doing it for the ideals of middle-class consumerism.

By Molly Odintz | June 11, 2020

The True Crime Bond

The True Crime Bond

On Inheriting My Mother's Obsession with Murder

By Marcia Trahan | June 11, 2020

The Best Way to Know an Author Is Through Their Characters

The Best Way to Know an Author Is Through Their Characters

Bestselling Crime Writer Iris Johansen On Her Series Protagonist, Eve Duncan, and the Relationships That Define Her Work

By Iris Johansen | June 11, 2020

Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

By Laurie R. King | June 10, 2020

Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

Over the course of crime fiction history, authors have always wrestled with questions of setting.

By Angela Marsons | June 10, 2020

On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical

On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical "Nice Guy" Cop

Meet the insidious Mr. Bucket, who embodies Dickens' misgivings about the police force he once enthusiastically supported

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 9, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Small Nevada Town Inspires a Crime Novel and a Personal Reckoning

By Heather Young | June 9, 2020

How Advertising Taught Me The Art of the Twist

By S.K. Barnett | June 9, 2020

Is Sydney Australia's Capital of Noir?

By Paul French | June 8, 2020

My First Thriller: <br>Tess Gerritsen

My First Thriller:
Tess Gerritsen

How the creator of Rizzoli & Isles went from working late-night hospital shifts in Honolulu to writing bestselling thrillers.

By Rick Pullen | June 4, 2020

Falling in Love with <em>The Rockford Files</em>—All Over Again

Falling in Love with The Rockford Files—All Over Again

James Garner and 'The Rockford Files' didn’t just humanize the TV private detective; for some, the show was a kind of guide to life.

By Nathan Ward | June 4, 2020

A Writer's Walk Through New York City During the Pandemic

A Writer's Walk Through New York City During the Pandemic

An author observes a new reality and wonders how future books will reckon with it.

By A.F. Carter | June 3, 2020

The Eerie Similarities Between the Start of the 20th Century and Today

The Eerie Similarities Between the Start of the 20th Century and Today

It was the so-called "Belle Epoque." It was also a violent, anxious period that gave birth to fascism.

By Matthew Carr | June 2, 2020

SciFi Tech Is Here—And Criminals Can (and Will) Use It

SciFi Tech Is Here—And Criminals Can (and Will) Use It

Autonomous vehicles and augmented reality are ripe for illegal exploitation.

By Drew Murray | June 2, 2020

Dylan’s Apocalyptic Visions

Dylan’s Apocalyptic Visions

For fifty years, Bob Dylan has been writing about the end of the world. What does he want us to know about it?

By Richard Z. Santos | May 29, 2020

Noir: An Antidote to Social Distancing

Noir: An Antidote to Social Distancing

Building community out of noir story anthologies in times of crisis.

By Peter Carlaftes | May 29, 2020

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