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    Val McDermid on the Remarkable Rise of Tartan Noir

    Val McDermid on the Remarkable Rise of Tartan Noir

    The Birth and Boom of Scottish Crime Fiction

    By Val McDermid | March 8, 2018

    The Original Ladies of Crime

    The Original Ladies of Crime

    Sarah Weinman Celebrates the Mystery Women Who Paved the Way for Agatha Christie

    By Sarah Weinman | March 8, 2018

    When Your Fictional Sex Scandal Unfolds In Real Life

    When Your Fictional Sex Scandal Unfolds In Real Life

    Sarah Vaughan on Britain’s #MeToo Movement and Life Imitating Art

    By Sarah Vaughan | March 8, 2018

    The Comfort of Crime Novels

    The Comfort of Crime Novels

    “Crime novels are comforting not in spite of their darkness, but because of it.”

    By Emily Winslow | March 8, 2018

    Laura Lippman on James M. Cain's Transgressive Noir

    Laura Lippman on James M. Cain's Transgressive Noir

    Crime Fiction’s Most Reluctant Icon

    By Laura Lippman | March 7, 2018

    Jim Crow Stories Made Me Want<br> to Write Spy Fiction

    Jim Crow Stories Made Me Want
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    Spy Fiction and the Black American Experience

    By Jason Overstreet | March 7, 2018

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    Fighting Injustice with Fiction

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    Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

    Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

    Fighting for Equality, from a Kansas Campus to the South Side of Chicago

    By Sara Paretsky | January 4, 2018

    The Suburban Serial Killer Next Door

    The Suburban Serial Killer Next Door

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    On Rape Culture in Crime Fiction

    On Rape Culture in Crime Fiction

    Why We Can't Seem to Stop Reading (and Writing) Violence and Abuse Against Women

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    Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

    Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

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    The Graduate Research Paper That Helped Me Solve a Century-Old Crime

    The Graduate Research Paper That Helped Me Solve a Century-Old Crime

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    By Rachel McCarthy James | October 25, 2017

    The Perils of Parenting as <br>a True Crime Author

    The Perils of Parenting as
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    Female Serial Killers Are More Common Than You Think

    Female Serial Killers Are More Common Than You Think

    Tori Telfer Wonders Why We Have Such a Hard Time Imagining Murderous Women

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