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    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    June 22, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    It's Time for Crime Fiction to Respect Sex Workers

    "Historically, female sex workers are often portrayed as victims, easily used and discarded as plot fodder..."

    June 22, 2021  By V. Castro
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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    Tom Landrum was strongly opposed to joining the KKK—that is, until an FBI agent asked him to infiltrate the organization.

    June 22, 2021  By Curtis Wilkie
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    How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

    Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Elizabeth Bowen chronicled the death of her class through her sinister depictions of the "big house."

    June 22, 2021  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    June 21, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Early, Wild, Exploited, and Sometimes Radical Days of the Comic Book Industry in America

    Paul S. Hirsch on the invention of a new art form and the renegades and rogues who went to work in its earliest shops.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul S. Hirsch
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    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul French
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    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Authors join together to discuss the state of queer identity and representation in today's crime fiction.

    June 21, 2021  By Lisa Levy
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    "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

    Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

    June 18, 2021  By Laura Lippman
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    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

    "[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

    June 18, 2021  By Paul Neilan
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