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    CrimeReads Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of the Month

    CrimeReads Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of the Month

    January's Best CrimeReads Features

    By CrimeReads | January 31, 2020

    Agatha Christie's Greatest Mystery Was Left Unsolved

    Agatha Christie's Greatest Mystery Was Left Unsolved

    In December of 1926, Agatha Christie vanished after an argument with her husband, only to resurface 11 days later. A crime writer explores why we're still so fascinated with her disappearance.

    By Kate Weinberg | January 30, 2020

    Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Discover the wild, corrupt, uproarious world of Hiaasen's Florida.

    By Neil Nyren | January 30, 2020

    Books to Read When Winter Isolation Sets in and Cabin Fever Takes Over

    Books to Read When Winter Isolation Sets in and Cabin Fever Takes Over

    It's cold outside. Stay indoors and open a good thriller.

    By Greg Bastianelli | January 30, 2020

    The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s <em>The Tall Woman</em>

    The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s The Tall Woman

    Rediscovering A Lost Classic of Mid-Century Literature

    By Chris McGinley | January 29, 2020

    Checking in with 2019's Breakout Crime Authors

    Checking in with 2019's Breakout Crime Authors

    These crime authors broke through in a big way last year. We find out how their lives changed and what they're anticipating ahead.

    By Lisa Levy | January 29, 2020

    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

    How to Travel Like a Crime Novelist

    By Jeff Gunhus | January 29, 2020

    What Authors Can Learn from the Greatest Long Takes in Movie History

    By Nicci French | January 28, 2020

    A Murder Shared . . .

    By C.J. Tudor | January 28, 2020

    Who is Rodney Reed? A Primer on this Texas Death Row Case

    Who is Rodney Reed? A Primer on this Texas Death Row Case

    A brief introduction to the principal figures of a complex case earning comparisons to To Kill A Mockingbird

    By Nile Cappello | January 28, 2020

    The Elusive Crime Novels of Prague

    The Elusive Crime Novels of Prague

    Crime and the City visits the land of Kafka and asks why more Czech mysteries aren't translated into English.

    By Paul French | January 27, 2020

    Me and the G-Man

    Me and the G-Man

    A crime writer's research sparks an unlikely
    friendship with an FBI agent

    By Nina Sadowsky | January 27, 2020

    Women Writers Are Bringing New Mystery to the Old West

    Women Writers Are Bringing New Mystery to the Old West

    There's a new generation of western mystery series.

    By Ann Parker | January 27, 2020

    6 True Crime Books to Read This January

    6 True Crime Books to Read This January

    A look at the month's best in crime nonfiction.

    By CrimeReads | January 24, 2020

    What We Write About When We Write About the Past

    What We Write About When We Write About the Past

    How to make historical fiction true to its time period, without making it stuffy. (Hint: the devil is in the details.)

    By Raymond Fleishchmann | January 24, 2020

    Crimes Without Punishment: Inside the Narratives That Border True Crime

    Crimes Without Punishment: Inside the Narratives That Border True Crime

    The books pushing at the boundaries of true crime storytelling.

    By Tobias Carroll | January 24, 2020

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