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<em>The Great Muppet Caper</em> Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

The Great Muppet Caper Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

Four decades ago, a ragtag group of vaguely self-aware puppets solved the greatest jewel heist in the world, and it was wonderful.

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 26, 2020

6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

On the escapist pleasures of donning the life of another.

By Julie Clark | June 26, 2020

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

Because people may cheat, steal, and kill, but their hips don't lie.

By Dwyer Murphy | June 26, 2020

6 International Crime Novels You Should Read This June

6 International Crime Novels You Should Read This June

Travel the world with these far-flung mysteries and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | June 25, 2020

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Because history is full of the small, the inexplicable, and the downright confounding....

By W.M. Akers | June 25, 2020

The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

We weren't meant to fly, but we do. Stories of crash survivors speak to something primitive—and mysterious—in us.

By Richard Farrell | June 25, 2020

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Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

By Nina Laurin | June 25, 2020

The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

By CrimeReads | June 24, 2020

Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

By Michael Seidlinger | June 24, 2020

<em>American Gods</em> has a new annotated version with a Sherlockian twist

American Gods has a new annotated version with a Sherlockian twist

American Gods">Catching up with Leslie Klinger to discuss his "Sherlockian" approach to annotating Neil Gaiman's American Gods

By Aaron Robertson | June 24, 2020

Fictional Characters Who Are Bent, But Not Broken

Fictional Characters Who Are Bent, But Not Broken

For these characters, what doesn't kill them only makes them stronger.

By Kate McLaughlin | June 24, 2020

Literary Visions of the Female Sociopath

Literary Visions of the Female Sociopath

From Euripides to Gone Girl, fictional sociopaths have always given vent to feminist rage.

By Nicola Maye Goldberg | June 23, 2020

How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

The lovers in these thrillers take “spicing up their relationship” to the dark side.

By Robyn Harding | June 23, 2020

Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

Can't Sleep? These Suspense Characters Can't Either!

By Megan Miranda | June 23, 2020

Crime Fiction and the Close, Sometimes Twisted Bonds of Sisterhood

Crime Fiction and the Close, Sometimes Twisted Bonds of Sisterhood

Whether searching for sisters or covering up their crimes, the bonds of family are tightest in crime fiction.

By Sarah Stewart Taylor | June 23, 2020

How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

These authors are using noir to capture a new era's zeitgeist.

By Shelley Blanton-Stroud | June 22, 2020

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