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    A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

    Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.

    May 7, 2021  By Sharon Dempsey
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    My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

    How Harlan Coben went from guiding tour buses in Spain to writing blockbuster novels that the French (and just about everyone else) can't get enough of.

    May 6, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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    Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

    In 1906, Grace Brown, a factory worker in upstate New York, was killed, her supervisor was arrested for the crime, and the course of American literature was altered forever.

    May 6, 2021  By L.R. Dorn
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    The Search for China's Serial Killers

    Reliable figures are hard to come by, but recent arrests indicate that China has an unknown number of American-style serial killers.

    May 6, 2021  By Brian Klingborg
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    To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings

    "It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."

    May 6, 2021  By Gin Phillips
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    The 2021 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

    A round of applause for the nominees!

    May 5, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Irish Women Are Reinventing the Thriller

    Celebrating the New Wave of Irish crime writing

    May 5, 2021  By Michelle Dunne
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    The Art of Worldbuilding
    In Medias Res

    "Your readers are very, very smart. Trust them. They will pick up those breadcrumbs of context and piece them together like nobody’s business..."

    May 5, 2021  By Nicole Kornher-Stace
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    10 Novels You Should Read This May

    The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    May 5, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Cursed History of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church

    The church's first two pastors killed themselves—and that was before the double murder in 1895 that sealed the building's reputation as haunted.

    May 5, 2021  By Bob Calhoun
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