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    Science Fiction For Crime Lovers: a Beginner’s Tour

    Science Fiction For Crime Lovers: a Beginner’s Tour

    Or, a look at five great scifi novels that also happen to be pitch-black noirs.

    By Adam Oyebanji | April 13, 2022

    The Enduring Appeal of the Country House Murder

    The Enduring Appeal of the Country House Murder

    M.E. Hilliard on the many possibilities for malice on offer at your typical country manor, and why we love them all.

    By M.E. Hilliard | April 13, 2022

    John Glatt on Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and Writing About True Crime as It Unfolds

    John Glatt on Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and Writing About True Crime as It Unfolds

    Glatt speaks with Gabino Iglesias about the horrific crimes behind his new book, The Doomsday Mother

    By Gabino Iglesias | April 13, 2022

    There's More Art and Antique Theft in Rural New England Than You Might Think

    There's More Art and Antique Theft in Rural New England Than You Might Think

    Weathervanes, cemetery gates, really big marble balls...all targets.

    By Trish Esden | April 13, 2022

    Argonne Forest Park, Then and Now

    Argonne Forest Park, Then and Now

    How Argonne Forest Park became a succor for veterans and the inspiration for a novel.

    By Jess Montgomery | April 12, 2022

    Seven Great Rural Crime Films

    Seven Great Rural Crime Films

    These crime stories take advantage of the “wide-open intimacy” of a small, tight-knit community.

    By Jeremy Scott | April 12, 2022

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    The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

    By W. H. Flint | April 12, 2022

    Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

    By Mark Arsenault | April 12, 2022

    C. S. Harris on Historical Fiction and Her Iconic Regency-Era Series

    By Molly Odintz | April 11, 2022

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | April 11, 2022

    Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

    Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

    A few good mystery novels help to pass the long winter nights on this North Atlantic archipelago.

    By Paul French | April 11, 2022

    The Literary Greats of Scotland

    The Literary Greats of Scotland

    Paige Shelton, author of the Scottish Bookshop mysteries, celebrates Scotland's Big Three.

    By Paige Shelton | April 11, 2022

    <em>Tokyo Vice</em> Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

    Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

    The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2022

    How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

    How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

    TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

    By Keith Roysdon | April 8, 2022

    On Junk Science and Poverty

    On Junk Science and Poverty

    How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

    By M. Chris Fabricant | April 8, 2022

    <em>Slow Horses</em> is <br>Worth the Slow Burn

    Slow Horses is
    Worth the Slow Burn

    Come for the spy drama’s creative pedigree, stay for the deeply bleak comedy of spycraft gone 'goblin mode'

    By Alexis Gunderson | April 8, 2022

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