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Your Guide to What's Streaming in April: Crime Edition

Your Guide to What's Streaming in April: Crime Edition

All the new shows and movies you need to get through a month of social distancing.

By Dwyer Murphy | March 30, 2020

The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990

The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990

30 years later, looking back at an epic year in crime movies.

By Zach Vasquez | March 27, 2020

Seattle: Primed and Ready for Crime Fiction Fame

Seattle: Primed and Ready for Crime Fiction Fame

Exploring the city's history and character, through crime novels

By J. Kingston Pierce | March 27, 2020

The Dark, Strange Noirs of Pascal Garnier

The Dark, Strange Noirs of Pascal Garnier

Exploring the disorienting, unsettling novels of a French master.

By Brian Greene | March 27, 2020

The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye

The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye

Cheryl A. Head on the authors and books ushering PI fiction into the 21st century.

By Cheryl A. Head | March 26, 2020

12 True Crime Podcasts to Listen to this Spring

12 True Crime Podcasts to Listen to this Spring

New Shows to Discover + New Seasons of Old Favorites = Never-Ending Podcast Binge

By Lizzy Steiner | March 26, 2020

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Books of the Week

The Girl in the Title of the Crime Novel: The Great Crime Fiction Disambiguation Project

By Lisa Levy | March 26, 2020

14 Enormous Crime Books for the Long Days Ahead

By Molly Odintz | March 25, 2020

How to Start a Love Affair with Audiobooks

By Victoria Helen Stone | March 25, 2020

Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

Come for the thatched roofs and bicycles...stay for the murder.

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 24, 2020

Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.

By Andrea Bartz | March 24, 2020

A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

Five short stories that conjure up an immediate and inescapable feeling that something bad is about to happen.

By Rachel Harrison | March 24, 2020

The Crime Novels of Bogotá

The Crime Novels of Bogotá

Colombia's capital city has seen decades of trauma. It has also produced some of fiction's most powerful stories.

By Paul French | March 23, 2020

Red Herrings in Contemporary Crime Literature

Red Herrings in Contemporary Crime Literature

Celebrating the 21st century masters of misdirection.

By Karen Dietrich | March 20, 2020

10 of the Most Morally Bankrupt Narrators in Fiction

10 of the Most Morally Bankrupt Narrators in Fiction

They're horrible people, but we can't stop reading their stories.

By Samantha Downing | March 20, 2020

8 Books About Male Protagonists by Female Authors

8 Books About Male Protagonists by Female Authors

Classic and contemporary novels offer insight into damaged male psyches.

By Scarlett Harris | March 20, 2020

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