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    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Some narrators go beyond unreliability and change our very conception of narrative storytelling.

    By Michael Seidlinger | February 17, 2020

    Why Are We Still So Fascinated by Diana Mitford?

    Why Are We Still So Fascinated by Diana Mitford?

    On our cultural obsession with Diana Mitford, the English aristocrat who went from well-dressed socialite to loathsome fascist.

    By Jessica Fellowes | February 17, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #29

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #29

    The Big Sleep (1946)

    By Otto Penzler | February 17, 2020

    A Crime Reader's Antidote to Valentine's Day

    A Crime Reader's Antidote to Valentine's Day

    12 psychological thrillers to read this Valentine’s Day if you (like me) will be spending the evening at home, alone, drinking wine on the couch, with your cat next to you.

    By Molly Odintz | February 14, 2020

    True Romance: 7 Noir Love Stories

    True Romance: 7 Noir Love Stories

    This Valentine's Day, consider some noir counter-programming.

    By Nick Kolakowski | February 14, 2020

    Violent Delights, Violent Ends: 5 Savage Cinematic Visions of Romeo and Juliet

    Violent Delights, Violent Ends: 5 Savage Cinematic Visions of Romeo and Juliet

    Shakespeare's great romance is also a wickedly violent story of tribalism, vengeance, and blood.

    By Zach Vasquez | February 14, 2020

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    15 Crime Movies Where Love Comes as a Surprise

    By Olivia Rutigliano | February 14, 2020

    The Pleasure (Reading) of Impending Doom

    By Tosca Lee | February 14, 2020

    Six Nonfiction Books You Should Read This February

    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

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

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

    The forgotten history of "Fearless Peerless Pearl" and the brief heyday of silent movie action heroines.

    By Radha Vatsal | February 12, 2020

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    By Steph Post | February 12, 2020

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