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We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

The third installment of The Great Disambiguation Project

By Lisa Levy | June 15, 2020

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The True Crime Bond

By Marcia Trahan | June 11, 2020

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

Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

Can you truly know the people in your life? Or yourself?

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

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