• Features

    Driving in the Dark: Getaway Drivers in Fiction and the Dark Side of the American Dream

    The greatest getaway drivers in contemporary crime fiction.

    April 27, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Nine Things Your Thriller Needs to Be Lean, Mean, and Exhilarating

    Meg Gardiner breaks down the essential elements of great thrillers.

    April 27, 2021  By Meg Gardiner
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    The LAPD's Secret History of Citizen Spying

    Los Angeles has a long history of activism—and police infiltrators in activist groups.

    April 27, 2021  By Michael Nava
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    How Anti-Catholic Propaganda, Racism, and One Man's Paranoid Obsessions Helped Form Oregon's Founding Myths

    Henry Spalding was a sometimes missionary regarded by many as a lunatic. His lies about a frontier killing helped shape a new state.

    April 27, 2021  By Blaine Harden
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    The Amazing Tale of Fergus Hume and William Freeman; or, the Critic’s Comeuppance

    Critic William Freeman despised the mediocre mysteries of Fergus Hume. But was bad writing all there was to his enduring hatred?

    April 26, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    April 26, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Psychological Thrillers and Domestic Suspense in the Pandemic Era: A Roundtable

    Ruth Ware, Liz Nugent, Susie Yang, Samantha Downing, and the Liv Constantine duo discuss writing during the pandemic and where the genre is headed next.

    April 26, 2021  By Lisa Levy
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    She's Your Man: A Ode To The Trouser Roles and Tenement Kids of the Gilded Age

    A historical novelist turns to the cross-dressing actresses of the turn of the century in crafting a fierce, independent sleuth.

    April 26, 2021  By Kathleen Marple Kalb
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    A Crime Film Fan's Guide to the Oscars

    Want to catch up on all the crimey Oscar nominations, this year? We've got you covered.

    April 23, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Why The Thomas Crown Affair Is a Masterpiece of Surrealism

    The art heist film, which multiplies Maigrittes and melts Monets, plays with doubling, warping, and looping back, becoming a Surrealist artwork all on its own

    April 23, 2021  By Sabina Stent
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