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Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting; it is about understanding."

By Adam Mitzner | August 27, 2024

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Looking back at the controversial reception and tangled legacy of the blood-soaked 1994 film.

By Martyn Conterio | August 26, 2024

Philadelphia: Plenty of Crime Fiction, Not So Much Brotherly Love

Philadelphia: Plenty of Crime Fiction, Not So Much Brotherly Love

Crime and the City visits Philadelphia.

By Paul French | August 26, 2024

An Ode to Charles Willeford

An Ode to Charles Willeford

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of American crime fiction fans.

By Michael Ledwidge | August 23, 2024

Of Psychopaths and CEOs

Of Psychopaths and CEOs

On the rise of entrepreneurs who act like "Greek gods—mercurial, sometimes destructive, and murkily in control of our lives."

By Elisabeth Eaves | August 22, 2024

Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s <em>The Big Four</em>

Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s The Big Four

Curtis Evans on the least-well-liked of Christie's Poirot novels

By Curtis Evans | August 22, 2024

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On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

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Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

By Bridget Collins | August 21, 2024

This Isn’t The End: What To Do When Your Publisher Dies

By James Queally | August 20, 2024

The Irresistible Pull of an Anonymous Note—Why the Most Frightening Possibility Is All of Them

The Irresistible Pull of an Anonymous Note—Why the Most Frightening Possibility Is All of Them

Elizabeth Staple on dread, and what it does to us.

By Elizabeth Staple | August 19, 2024

Murder in <em>Middlemarch</em>

Murder in Middlemarch

Everyone performs, in George Eliot's famous novel. But some are performing to cover up a killing!

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 16, 2024

Meet Thomas Byrnes, Gilded Age New York's Performative, Corrupt Police Detective

Meet Thomas Byrnes, Gilded Age New York's Performative, Corrupt Police Detective

He staged elaborate scenes to extract confessions, presented prisoners to police in a "parade," and invented the "Rogues' Gallery"

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 15, 2024

Oh Mother! Mothers in Horror and the Horror They Represent

Oh Mother! Mothers in Horror and the Horror They Represent

Leslie J. Anderson considers the literature of scary kids, scarier mothers, and the terrifying project of raising a child

By Leslie J. Anderson | August 14, 2024

Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime

Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime

"The internet is now ubiquitous in our lives, so why does it appear so rarely in popular literature?"

By Stephen Harrison | August 14, 2024

Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel

Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel

Snowden Wright on Elmore Leonard and the evolution of an American icon.

By Snowden Wright | August 13, 2024

Katrina Monroe on Eldest Daughter Syndrome

Katrina Monroe on Eldest Daughter Syndrome

Or, writing a psychological thriller as a both a love song to sisterhood and a reckoning with its uneven responsibilities

By Katrina Monroe | August 13, 2024

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