• Reading Lists

    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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    Writers Under Lockdown: Surviving (and Writing) During a Pandemic

    Is anyone getting any writing done these days? Contributors to a new anthology share stories of creativity, inspiration, and outrage.

    June 15, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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