• Essays

    Catherine Aird: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    50 years - and counting - of clever, compelling mysteries.

    April 24, 2020  By Neil Nyren
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    The Hunter, The Hunted, and “The Most Dangerous Game"

    A political thriller author and former SEAL Team member reflects on the warrior's life and a classic short story.

    April 23, 2020  By Jack Carr
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    In Praise of the Slow, Complex Crime Novel

    A look at two recent novels that take on intergenerational trauma and violence against women.

    April 23, 2020  By TaraShea Nesbit
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    Why True Stories Don’t Always
    Make Good Fiction

    His prison stories were visceral and true. But did they make for compelling fiction?

    April 22, 2020  By David Moloney
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    From Atticus Finch to Saul Goodman: The Evolution of Lawyers on Screen and Page

    How did heroic lawyers turn into dirtbag defenders?

    April 21, 2020  By Paul Levine
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    Motherhood and Monsters: How Being a Parent Helps Me Write Thrillers

    "Nightmares have always been a normal occurrence for me, but during my pregnancy they were more vivid than usual, more visceral."

    April 21, 2020  By Jennifer Hillier
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    The King of the Golden Age
    Crime Novel in Japan:
    Seishi Yokomizo

    The Golden Age of Mystery had its heyday in Japan, too. One author led the way.

    April 20, 2020  By Paul French
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #19

    North by Northwest (1959)

    April 20, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    Bosch Is Back—And He's Still the Prickly Bastard You Want Showing Up at a Crime Scene

    Six seasons in, Bosch may just be TV's best police procedural.

    April 17, 2020  By Keith Roysdon
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    Carter Brown and the Australian Craze for Faux American Crime Fiction

    In 1950s Australia, one author—writing books about detectives and cities he'd never visited—gave birth to a phenomenon.

    April 17, 2020  By Andrew Nette
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