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    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

    By Dietrich Kalteis | November 3, 2021

    6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

    6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

    Fictional families can be messy and twisted, but these books are dedicated to exploring complex and tender relationships over the destructive and perverse.

    By Kimi Cunningham Grant | November 3, 2021

    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

    By William Boyle | November 2, 2021

    A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

    A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

    "I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

    By Eloísa Díaz | November 2, 2021

    Ed Brubaker on 1980s Los Angeles, Private Eye Fiction, and the Changing Face of Graphic Novels

    Ed Brubaker on 1980s Los Angeles, Private Eye Fiction, and the Changing Face of Graphic Novels

    In the latest installment of Graphic Content, Alex Segura talks with Brubaker about the new Reckless novel, Destroy All Monsters

    By Alex Segura | November 2, 2021

    Masterful Mysteries Set in the Midwest

    Masterful Mysteries Set in the Midwest

    Crime fiction in America's Heartland

    By Nicole Baart | November 2, 2021

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    Locusta of Gaul: Rome's Imperial Poisoner and Possibly the World's First Serial Killer

    By Jennifer Wright | November 2, 2021

    Alex Schulman: In Order To Heal From The Trauma of My Past, I Had To Stop Ignoring It

    By Alex Schulman | November 1, 2021

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    By CrimeReads | November 1, 2021

    Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

    Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

    An African capital with turbulent politics and an impressive literary output.

    By Paul French | November 1, 2021

    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

    "We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

    By Joy Castro | November 1, 2021

    Redemption for Doctor Watson

    Redemption for Doctor Watson

    Olivia Rutigliano reads the detective duo as a brilliant double-act, designed by Watson himself.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | October 29, 2021

    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' <em>Turn of the Screw</em>

    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

    "It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

    By Susan L. Mizruchi | October 29, 2021

    What Makes a Psychological Thriller?

    What Makes a Psychological Thriller?

    Nicci French on the fine line that divides everyday life and the raw material of psychological thrillers.

    By Nicci French | October 29, 2021

    Growing Up Spooky

    Growing Up Spooky

    A fond remembrance of the ghoulish geek culture of 1960s & 70s.

    By Keith Roysdon | October 29, 2021

    Five Eerie Tales of Folk Horror

    Five Eerie Tales of Folk Horror

    Tom Cox looks at a few favorite stories that "touch on the uncanny and mystical in a low-key way"

    By Tom Cox | October 29, 2021

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