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    Food and Mystery: A Perfect Pairing

    Food and Mystery: A Perfect Pairing

    Food is so much more than fuel for your characters—it can be the engine for your entire plot!

    By Lucy Burdette | August 13, 2021

    Shop Talk: Steph Cha Writes Yelp Reviews, Works Jigsaw Puzzles, and Always Has a Blanket

    Shop Talk: Steph Cha Writes Yelp Reviews, Works Jigsaw Puzzles, and Always Has a Blanket

    Crime writers talk routine, craft, and looking forward to lunch.

    By Eli Cranor | August 12, 2021

    <em>Die Hard with a Vengeance</em> is the most relatable

    Die Hard with a Vengeance is the most relatable "summer in the city" movie ever

    Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of its rare pieces of hate mail."">"Too many films are love-letters to New York City; Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of its rare pieces of hate mail."

    By Olivia Rutigliano | August 12, 2021

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    The "Facebook Murder" That Shattered the Chinese Dutch Community

    It started with a dispute between friends on social media. It soon turned into a terrifying murder-for-hire plot.

    By Mitzi Szereto | August 12, 2021

    The Beautifully Skewed Insights of Protagonists with Uncertain Inner Lives

    The Beautifully Skewed Insights of Protagonists with Uncertain Inner Lives

    When a novel's worldview comes untethered from reality, that's when the magic happens.

    By Brandon Graham | August 12, 2021

    The Perfect Beers to Pair with Your Favorite Crime Novels

    The Perfect Beers to Pair with Your Favorite Crime Novels

    Reading some noir? Try some double IPA. And if you're making your way through a Poirot, you must have a Belgian Stout.

    By Steven Tingle | August 12, 2021

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Switzy
    • Taipei Story
    • Ambivalence: An Education
    • The Pirate Queen
    • The Living Realm
    • Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
    • In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir
    • Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
    • The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
    • Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

    Six Crime Novels Based on Real Cases

    By Sarah Warburton | August 11, 2021

    A History of Serial Killers Who Went Quiet Before Being Caught

    By Joanna Schaffhausen | August 11, 2021

    What's the Secret to Writing a Bestseller? Hint: There Isn't One.

    By Joy Fielding | August 11, 2021

    Using Fiction to Demonstrate the Power of Therapy

    Using Fiction to Demonstrate the Power of Therapy

    Shanora Williams takes mental health seriously. Her new psychological thriller warns against the dangers of letting trauma fester.

    By Shanora Williams | August 11, 2021

    Six Great Gothic Castles from Literature

    Six Great Gothic Castles from Literature

    "The walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements..."

    By Veronica Bond | August 11, 2021

    Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

    Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

    The profitable panic that inspired both journalists and crime writers to focus on the (extremely exaggerated) crisis of "white slavery"

    By Curtis Evans | August 10, 2021

    The Strange Story of Mexico's First Narco, the Drug Panic He Helped Incite, and the Revolution to Come

    The Strange Story of Mexico's First Narco, the Drug Panic He Helped Incite, and the Revolution to Come

    In 1908, José del Moral and his stash of marijuana cigarettes were public enemy number one, and it all had to do with the classes who were smoking the herb.

    By Benjamin T. Smith | August 10, 2021

    When You Can’t Call the Cops

    When You Can’t Call the Cops

    Michele Weinstat Miller endured rape, incarceration, and addiction and later became an attorney. She decided to write a thriller about people who don't feel safe calling the police.

    By Michele Weinstat Miller | August 10, 2021

    A New Wave of Crime Fiction Explores Collective Guilt and Individual Complicity

    A New Wave of Crime Fiction Explores Collective Guilt and Individual Complicity

    Crime fiction is working to represent a more abstract antagonist—institutions and ideologies that perpetuate violence—and a harder-to-pin form of guilt: complicity.

    By Ashley Winstead | August 10, 2021

    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 | August 9, 2021

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