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Laurie R. King: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Laurie R. King: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

The Mary Russell series is beloved by readers the world over. But just how did this extraordinary character come about?

By Neil Nyren | February 8, 2024

Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

“You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”

By Karen Outen | February 7, 2024

What Does It Mean to Write a Feminist Home Invasion Thriller?

What Does It Mean to Write a Feminist Home Invasion Thriller?

Tracy Sierra on plunging her everywoman into an action movie scenario

By Tracy Sierra | February 6, 2024

Writing with a Mask: Language and Authenticity In Literature

Writing with a Mask: Language and Authenticity In Literature

On writing American characters realistically when English is your second language

By Teresa Dovalpage | February 6, 2024

Chennai: Crime Writing in a South Indian Megalopolis

Chennai: Crime Writing in a South Indian Megalopolis

Crime and the City visits Chennai

By Paul French | February 5, 2024

An Ode to Newsprint on Screen

An Ode to Newsprint on Screen

For Keith Roysdon, seeing a newspaper on screen is one of life's finest pleasures.

By Keith Roysdon | February 2, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Delightful Encounters of Historical Crime Fiction

By H.B. Lyle | February 2, 2024

To Write a Brutalist Novel

By Zachary C. Soloman | February 1, 2024

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

By Chris Cander | February 1, 2024

Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through 'Sea of Love' and the 1980s NYC Dating Scene

Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through 'Sea of Love' and the 1980s NYC Dating Scene

Michael Gonzales on the neo-noir classic.

By Michael Gonzales | January 31, 2024

Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

Or, How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Embrace the Crossover

By Andrea Tang | January 31, 2024

Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion

Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion

"It wasn’t just hard, but almost impossible, to be a woman in fashion at this time."

By Natasha Lester | January 30, 2024

Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

Crime and the City visits a Texas town with a big history.

By Paul French | January 29, 2024

Inviting Nature Onto The Page

Inviting Nature Onto The Page

The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop

By Eliot Pattison | January 29, 2024

Requiem for

Requiem for "Hightown," a Queer Noir About the Rot Beneath Paradise

The Provincetown-set noir begins its third and final season.

By Zack Budryk | January 26, 2024

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of <em>Helter Skelter</em>?

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of Helter Skelter?

Bugliosi's account of the Manson Family and Tate-LaBianca killings is the best-selling true crime book of all-time. But what do we know now?

By Nathan Smith | January 26, 2024

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