• Features

    Why Narrative Structure Is One of the Crime Writer's Most Valuable Tools

    When it comes to suspense, it's all about perspective and structure.

    November 7, 2020  By Sara Foster
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    No Badges: Running for the Border in American Noir

    Crossing the border is deeply woven into the DNA of noir fiction. But what that border represents is ever-shifting.

    November 6, 2020  By Christopher Brown
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    London's First Police Force Was Established by Novelist Henry Fielding and His Brother

    In 1749, Henry Fielding devised a plan for the Bow Street Runners, a group of men given permission to confront suspected criminals.

    November 6, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How a Woman's Quest For Vengeance Started a #metoo Movement in the 1840s

    Amelia Norman, destitute and abandoned, attacked her former lover on the steps of the Astor House Hotel. Her trial would have surprising, and long-lasting, repercussions.

    November 6, 2020  By Julie Miller
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    A Collection of Rare Ian Fleming Books & Manuscripts Heads to Auction

    Here’s your chance to bid on Bond

    November 6, 2020  By Rebecca Rego Barry
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    10 Novels You Should Read This November

    Class thrillers, diamond conspiracies, and a wave of new L.A. noir highlight the month's best new crime fiction.

    November 5, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Tana French Talks Westerns, Folklore, and The Comfort of Crime Fiction

    "I think one of the reasons we read (and write) crime novels is to understand and process dark places, and this year definitely counts."

    November 5, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    High Life: The Carnegie Deli Murders

    In 2001, Michael Gonzales visited the apartment of a hospitable actress and dealer. Soon it would be the site of a notorious murder.

    November 5, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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    How to Gracefully Subject Your Detectives to the Vicissitudes of Time

    "A series in which the protagonist ages with the years becomes in effect a long novel, the record of a life..."

    November 5, 2020  By Dominic Martell
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    Erskine Childers: Gentleman, Spy Novelist, and Gunrunner for the IRA

    How did the aristocratic author of English’s first great spy novel end up dead in the Irish Civil War?

    November 4, 2020  By H.B. Lyle
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