• Essays

    The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990

    30 years later, looking back at an epic year in crime movies.

    March 27, 2020  By Zach Vasquez
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    Seattle: Primed and Ready for Crime Fiction Fame

    Exploring the city's history and character, through crime novels

    March 27, 2020  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye

    Cheryl A. Head on the authors and books ushering PI fiction into the 21st century.

    March 26, 2020  By Cheryl A. Head
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    The Girl in the Title of the Crime Novel: The Great Crime Fiction Disambiguation Project

    How did we end up with so many books with "girl" in the title? (Slowly, then all at once.)

    March 26, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI

    The life, work, and strange times of Arnold Mesches

    March 25, 2020  By Alix Lambert
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    Memories, Hauntings, and The Meaning of a Home

    A shocking murder happened in my community when I was child. I could never stop thinking about it. Then I became haunted by it.

    March 25, 2020  By T. Marie Vandelly
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    Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

    Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.

    March 24, 2020  By Andrea Bartz
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    The Crime Novels of Bogotá

    Colombia's capital city has seen decades of trauma. It has also produced some of fiction's most powerful stories.

    March 23, 2020  By Paul French
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    Our Obsession with Beautiful Dead Girls Is Keeping Us from Addressing Domestic Violence

    Why do we crave stories of violence, yet turn our faces from the reality of that violence?

    March 23, 2020  By Jessica Moor
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    Why Journalists Have Such a Hard Time Writing About Themselves

    And why turning to fiction is the solution for many.

    March 23, 2020  By Christi Daugherty
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