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Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar

Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar

"To me, it's a unicorn of a book—a so-called women's novel, written by a man, that takes its heroine very seriously."

By Laura Lippman | July 23, 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

The Evolution of Walt Longmire: Somewhere Between Laughter and Death

The Evolution of Walt Longmire: Somewhere Between Laughter and Death

A Bookseller's Guide to Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Series

By Scott Montgomery | July 18, 2019

Pinkerton Spy, Feminist Icon

Pinkerton Spy, Feminist Icon

Meet Kate Warne, America's first female detective and spy, who thwarted an assassination plot on Lincoln.

By Nile Cappello | July 18, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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

By Craig Pittman | July 17, 2019

The Tragic, Violent History of the Brooklyn Waterfront

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

Bali: The Darker Side of an Island Paradise

Bali: The Darker Side of an Island Paradise

Drugs, Gangs, Expats...and Crime Literature on the Rise

By Paul French | July 15, 2019

What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

What Fiction Teaches Us About The Allure of Cults

People don't join cults. They join communities that become cults. Literature can help us understand this all-important nuance.

By Kali Wallace | July 12, 2019

Grappling with PTSD <br>in Crime Fiction

Grappling with PTSD
in Crime Fiction

Forget the PTSD-fueled psychotic killer of pop culture lore. Crime novels are capable of a far more complex treatment.

By Hilary Davidson | July 11, 2019

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