Crime Reads » The Latest

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Stolen Art, Nazis, and the Eternal Search for Justice

By Lawrence Dudley | February 10, 2020

Printing Novels in the Gulag

By Varlam Shalamov | February 10, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

By Otto Penzler | February 10, 2020

'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 7, 2020

<em>American Dirt</em> Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

American Dirt may be trauma porn, but that doesn't mean that a novel engaged with politics has to be literary—on the contrary, commercial fiction reaches a far wider audience.

By Aya de Leon | February 7, 2020

Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

Edgar Rice Burroughs and the City of Los Angeles

Inside Burroughs' prescient novel of harassment and Hollywood.

By Steph Cha | February 7, 2020

The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

By Christina McDonald | February 7, 2020

The Great Los Angeles Crime Novel—And the Women Who Are Revitalizing It

The Great Los Angeles Crime Novel—And the Women Who Are Revitalizing It

2020 Brings a Dazzling Array of Women-Authored LA Mysteries

By Wendy Heard | February 6, 2020

Secret Histories: Eight Compelling Crime Novels About People Haunted by Their Pasts

Secret Histories: Eight Compelling Crime Novels About People Haunted by Their Pasts

The past is never dead. Especially in a good crime novel.

By Harry Dolan | February 6, 2020

The Novelist and the Medical Examiner: A Love Story

The Novelist and the Medical Examiner: A Love Story

A Married Couple Talks Collaborative Writing, Expertise, and Finding Your Niche

By Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell | February 6, 2020

« First ‹ Previous 383 384 385 386387388 389 390 391 Next ›Last »

Page 387 of 477