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    5 Crime Must-Reads for January

    5 Crime Must-Reads for January

    From Suspicious Nannies to Bomb Makers

    By Lisa Levy | December 27, 2017

    The Best Crime Books of 2017

    The Best Crime Books of 2017

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    8 Overlooked Crime Reads from 2017

    8 Overlooked Crime Reads from 2017

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    The Power of Pulp Fiction: Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and More

    The Power of Pulp Fiction: Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and More

    On the Counterculture Politics of Trashy 1950s Novels

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    A Little Noir in Macau:

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    Crime Fiction in the Casablanca of the South Seas

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    Five Crime Must-Reads This December

    Five Crime Must-Reads This December

    A Christmas Mystery, a High-End Call Girl, and Serial Killers Galore!

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    On Rape Culture in Crime Fiction

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    Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

    By C.L. Taylor | November 17, 2017

    The High Drama and Epic Violence of Small Rural Towns

    The High Drama and Epic Violence of Small Rural Towns

    Frank Bill's Guided Glimpse at the Violent Truth Behind Rural Noir

    By Frank Bill | November 13, 2017

    Cold War Noir: 10 Novels That Defined an Anxious Era

    Cold War Noir: 10 Novels That Defined an Anxious Era

    From Greene to le Carré to Putin v. Trump, Cold War Stories Are Still in the Air

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    The Graduate Research Paper That Helped Me Solve a Century-Old Crime

    The Graduate Research Paper That Helped Me Solve a Century-Old Crime

    On Beth Klingensmith and "The 1910's Ax Murders"

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    The Many Careers of Joe Ide

    The Many Careers of Joe Ide

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    The Perils of Parenting as <br>a True Crime Author

    The Perils of Parenting as
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    How Do You Explain Murder to a Seven-Year-Old?

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    Female Serial Killers Are More Common Than You Think

    Female Serial Killers Are More Common Than You Think

    Tori Telfer Wonders Why We Have Such a Hard Time Imagining Murderous Women

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    Attica Locke on the Rise of the Aryan Brotherhood, and Never Quite Leaving East Texas

    Attica Locke on the Rise of the Aryan Brotherhood, and Never Quite Leaving East Texas

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