• Reading Lists

    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.

    June 23, 2020  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

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

    June 22, 2020  By Shelley Blanton-Stroud
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    The Uneasy Noirs of
    Stephen King

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

    June 22, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    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.

    June 22, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #13

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    June 22, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    How to Write Legal Thrillers That Won't Drive Lawyers Crazy with Mistakes and Inventions

    I Object...To Unrealistic Courtroom Drama

    June 19, 2020  By Craig Pittman
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    Perry Mason and the Case of the Wildly Successful, Perpetually Restless Author

    Erle Stanley Gardner had an idea for a lawyer who liked to brawl on behalf of the little guy. 170 million copies later, he had an icon.

    June 18, 2020  By Lee Randall
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    Queer True Crime:
    A Reading List

    "Queer people have always had a relationship to crime—often by force rather than choice. Our very existence has been outlawed, criminalized, medicalized."

    June 18, 2020  By James Polchin
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    8 Debut Novels You Should Read This June

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

    June 17, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    10 Physicians Who Also Write Crime Fiction

    From Arthur Conan Doyle to Tess Gerritsen, medical professionals have also excelled at writing mysteries.

    June 16, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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