• Essays

    Three Books that Explore the Violence of Women’s Appetites

    "Why shouldn’t there be something creepy in us?
    The world is creepy."

    December 11, 2019  By Katie Gutierrez
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    I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About

    Twenty years later, he's still surprising me.

    December 11, 2019  By Gar Anthony Haywood
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    Ice Skating as an Education for Writing Crime Fiction

    It looks blithe and glamorous, but it's one of the most dangerous and cutthroat activities imaginable

    December 11, 2019  By J. D. Griffo
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    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

    December 10, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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    The Crime Novels of Christmas

    A merry rundown of crime fiction set during the holiday season.

    December 9, 2019  By Paul French
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    Adventures in Narco-Tourism

    In an evolving Medellín, locals and tourists struggle with the bloody legacy of Pablo Escobar.

    December 9, 2019  By Dave Seminara
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    The Assassination of Thomas Doughty by the Brigand Sir Francis Drake

    Or, what the Doughty Affair reveals about piracy, superstition, and witchcraft in the 16th Century.

    December 9, 2019  By S.J. Parris
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    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    From the beginning, the novella has always gripped our attention.

    December 9, 2019  By Manning Wolfe
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    The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

    From moral disruptor, to crazy b----, to the anti-heroine of our century: an ode to femmes fatales through the ages.

    December 5, 2019  By Halley Sutton
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    The Mass Atonement of Salem, Massachusetts

    On finally feeling accepted despite social difference, in the unlikeliest of places

    December 5, 2019  By Alice Blanchard
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