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Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 12

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 12

The Sting (1973)

By Otto Penzler | June 29, 2020

6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

6 Crime Books For Those in Need of a Fresh Start

On the escapist pleasures of donning the life of another.

By Julie Clark | June 26, 2020

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

Because people may cheat, steal, and kill, but their hips don't lie.

By Dwyer Murphy | June 26, 2020

6 International Crime Novels You Should Read This June

6 International Crime Novels You Should Read This June

Travel the world with these far-flung mysteries and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | June 25, 2020

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times

Because history is full of the small, the inexplicable, and the downright confounding....

By W.M. Akers | June 25, 2020

Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

Five Great Thrillers Set in Isolated Places

We're all thinking a little differently about the horrors of solitude these days.

By Nina Laurin | June 25, 2020

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The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

By CrimeReads | June 24, 2020

Fictional Characters Who Are Bent, But Not Broken

By Kate McLaughlin | June 24, 2020

Literary Visions of the Female Sociopath

By Nicola Maye Goldberg | June 23, 2020

How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

The lovers in these thrillers take “spicing up their relationship” to the dark side.

By Robyn Harding | June 23, 2020

Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

Can't Sleep? These Suspense Characters Can't Either!

By Megan Miranda | June 23, 2020

Crime Fiction and the Close, Sometimes Twisted Bonds of Sisterhood

Crime Fiction and the Close, Sometimes Twisted Bonds of Sisterhood

Whether searching for sisters or covering up their crimes, the bonds of family are tightest in crime fiction.

By Sarah Stewart Taylor | June 23, 2020

How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

These authors are using noir to capture a new era's zeitgeist.

By Shelley Blanton-Stroud | June 22, 2020

The Uneasy Noirs of <br>Stephen King

The Uneasy Noirs of
Stephen King

From Bachman to The Outsider, King revels in subtly subverting the rules of mystery.

By Nick Kolakowski | June 22, 2020

There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

The Great Disambiguation Project marches on through a crowded field of "girl" books.

By Lisa Levy | June 22, 2020

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #13

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #13

Double Indemnity (1944)

By Otto Penzler | June 22, 2020

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