The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

By John Copenhaver | September 13, 2019

Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer

Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer

On learning to write thrillers about social issues from comic books.

By John Vercher | September 12, 2019

It's Time to Read More Spy Fiction By Women, About Women

It's Time to Read More Spy Fiction By Women, About Women

10 novels that explore the world of women spies in the World Wars

By Susan Elia MacNeal | September 12, 2019

A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

Criminal Broads Presents: An interview with Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites

By Tori Telfer | September 12, 2019

In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

Or, how to write villains with empathy (but no excuses)

By Nathan Makaryk | September 12, 2019

The Crime Novels of WWII

The Crime Novels of WWII

How Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Hughes, and other crime icons addressed (or didn't) the war in crime fiction.

By James R. Benn | September 11, 2019

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The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

Because what is love if not a complete mystery?  

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 10, 2019

8 Novels About Academics Behaving Disgracefully

8 Novels About Academics Behaving Disgracefully

These campus thrillers provide an education in suspense

By T.M. Logan | September 10, 2019

100 Years Ago, the Country Debated Arming Women to Combat Sexual Assaults

100 Years Ago, the Country Debated Arming Women to Combat Sexual Assaults

In the buildup to war, a complicated conversation about guns, rape, and the wearing of pants.

By Amy Stewart | September 10, 2019

Was H.H. Holmes the Real Jack the Ripper?

Was H.H. Holmes the Real Jack the Ripper?

On the terrible crimes, suspicious talents, and long cultural shadow of America's "first" serial killer

By Kerri Maniscalco | September 10, 2019

The Long, Proud Tradition of Jazz-Infused Crime Novels

The Long, Proud Tradition of Jazz-Infused Crime Novels

From the beginning, noir and jazz have gone hand-in-hand.

By Alex Segura | September 9, 2019

Thrillers Revisit the <br>First Gulf War

Thrillers Revisit the
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30 Years Later, Looking at the War's Legacy in Fiction

By Siri Mitchell | September 9, 2019

The Crime-Solving, Plant-Savvy Scientists at the Cutting Edge of a New Forensics

The Crime-Solving, Plant-Savvy Scientists at the Cutting Edge of a New Forensics

Forensic ecologists make it their life's work to study pollen grains and microscopic spores left behind at crime scenes.

By Patricia Wiltshire | September 9, 2019

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