Six Nonfiction Books You Should Read This February

Six Nonfiction Books You Should Read This February

Colonial Murders, Iconic Outlaws, Brilliant Criminalists, Driven Filmmakers, and Never-Solved Crimes

By CrimeReads | February 13, 2020

Cold Cases of History: The Murder of Juan Borgia

Cold Cases of History: The Murder of Juan Borgia

500 years ago, a scion of the infamous Borgias was murdered. Plenty had reason to murder him, but the exact culprit has never been discovered.

By Alyssa Palombo | February 13, 2020

How Charles Dickens Presaged the Rise of True Crime Podcasts

How Charles Dickens Presaged the Rise of True Crime Podcasts

Barnaby Rudge was a new kind of 'crime' story, with an unresolved murder tale which unfolded orally and serially. Today's podcasters are chasing the same magic.

By Susan Cook | February 13, 2020

The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

Stories of waiting, of hoping, and of half-lives.

By Kathleen Donohoe | February 13, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #30

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #30

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

By Otto Penzler | February 13, 2020

February's Best International Crime Fiction

February's Best International Crime Fiction

Nairobi noir, Korean thrillers, and more this month.

By CrimeReads | February 12, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

By Radha Vatsal | February 12, 2020

The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

By Steph Post | February 12, 2020

Four True Crime Cases Where DNA Evidence Yielded Unexpected Results

By Joanna Schaffhausen | February 12, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

By Otto Penzler | February 12, 2020

Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.

By Kelly Braffet | February 11, 2020

How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

A hundred years ago, a 'criminalist' deciphers the story behind a murder from a single ear.

By Kate Winkler Dawson | February 11, 2020

The Life and Legend of <br>Calamity Jane

The Life and Legend of
Calamity Jane

Martha Jane Canary was a nonconformist icon of the old West. She was also a talkative, tall-tale-telling alcoholic in the right place at the right time to make herself a legend.

By Karen R. Jones | February 11, 2020

The True Crimes of Dallas: A Lifetime's Obssesion

The True Crimes of Dallas: A Lifetime's Obssesion

An author's enduring interest in hometown crime

By Kathleen Kent | February 11, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

By Otto Penzler | February 11, 2020

5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in February

5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in February

A look at the new thrillers that are going to get us all through winter.

By Lisa Levy | February 10, 2020

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