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    With the World on Lockdown, Crime Fiction Is the Perfect Way to Travel

    With the World on Lockdown, Crime Fiction Is the Perfect Way to Travel

    A travel writer turns to fiction to quell the wanderlust.

    By Debra Bokur | June 12, 2020

    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    How fiction helped me learn about the world beyond my small mining town—and gave me a new understanding of my home.

    By J.A. Jance | June 12, 2020

    5 True Crime Books to Read This June

    5 True Crime Books to Read This June

    A look at the month's best crime nonfiction.

    By CrimeReads | June 12, 2020

    Bone, Blood & Bigots: On 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones'

    Bone, Blood & Bigots: On 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones'

    A 1965 novel about racial injustice and police brutality in the Deep South was hailed by critics and made into a major movie. The story would haunt its author until the bitter end.

    By Michael Gonzales | June 11, 2020

    <em>Good Girls</em>, <em>Weeds</em>, And The Problem with Suburban Criminality on Screen

    Good Girls, Weeds, And The Problem with Suburban Criminality on Screen

    They're not doing it for their families. They're doing it for the ideals of middle-class consumerism.

    By Molly Odintz | June 11, 2020

    The True Crime Bond

    The True Crime Bond

    On Inheriting My Mother's Obsession with Murder

    By Marcia Trahan | June 11, 2020

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    The Best Way to Know an Author Is Through Their Characters

    By Iris Johansen | June 11, 2020

    The 2020 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

    By CrimeReads | June 10, 2020

    Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

    By Catherine McKenzie | June 10, 2020

    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

    By Laurie R. King | June 10, 2020

    Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

    Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

    Over the course of crime fiction history, authors have always wrestled with questions of setting.

    By Angela Marsons | June 10, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #16

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #16

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    By Otto Penzler | June 10, 2020

    On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical

    On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical "Nice Guy" Cop

    Meet the insidious Mr. Bucket, who embodies Dickens' misgivings about the police force he once enthusiastically supported

    By Olivia Rutigliano | June 9, 2020

    A Small Nevada Town Inspires a Crime Novel and a Personal Reckoning

    A Small Nevada Town Inspires a Crime Novel and a Personal Reckoning

    Envy and relief in small town America.

    By Heather Young | June 9, 2020

    Into the Deep: Six Novels That Prove Lakes Are the Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery

    Into the Deep: Six Novels That Prove Lakes Are the Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery

    "I’ve spent enough time puttering across their waters or sunning on their docks to know what lurks underneath."

    By Kimberly Belle | June 9, 2020

    How Advertising Taught Me The Art of the Twist

    How Advertising Taught Me The Art of the Twist

    An Ad-Man's Secrets for Keeping Your Readers on Their Toes

    By S.K. Barnett | June 9, 2020

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