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    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    By Katherine Dykstra | June 23, 2021

    The Best New Books Out In Paperback This Month

    The Best New Books Out In Paperback This Month

    Featuring New Paperback Releases from Louise Penny, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, S.A. Cosby, and James Lee Burke.

    By CrimeReads | June 23, 2021

    10 Thrillers That Revolve Around  Grief

    10 Thrillers That Revolve Around Grief

    Grief is one of the most complex, universal emotions, but one we rarely find at the center of a thriller.

    By Nicci French | June 23, 2021

    The Strange Intimacy of Domestic Suspense

    The Strange Intimacy of Domestic Suspense

    "That would never happen to me. I’d know if you were out killing people while I slept."

    By Nicole Trope | June 23, 2021

    How the Banning of Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em> Led to

    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    By Samantha Barbas | June 22, 2021

    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | June 22, 2021

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    • Switzy
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    • 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

    It's Time for Crime Fiction to Respect Sex Workers

    By V. Castro | June 22, 2021

    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    By Curtis Wilkie | June 22, 2021

    How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

    By Sarah Stewart Taylor | June 22, 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 | June 21, 2021

    The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America

    The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America

    Paul S. Hirsch on the invention of a new art form and the renegades and rogues who went to work in its earliest shops.

    By Paul S. Hirsch | June 21, 2021

    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    By Paul French | June 21, 2021

    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Authors join together to discuss the state of queer identity and representation in today's crime fiction.

    By Lisa Levy | June 21, 2021

    "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

    Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

    By Laura Lippman | June 18, 2021

    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not <em>Not</em> Noir)

    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

    "[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

    By Paul Neilan | June 18, 2021

    Father's Day Noir: Six Dark Novels and Stories About Fatherhood and Crime

    Father's Day Noir: Six Dark Novels and Stories About Fatherhood and Crime

    The sins of the father...

    By Zach Vasquez | June 18, 2021

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