• Historical

    Her Sister’s Tattoo

    Ellen Meeropol

    "As they reached the rally site, double rows of blank-faced National Guard troops lined the wide avenue, sunlight bouncing off their helmets."

    April 27, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    Hollywood spies, assassins, and a forgotten kidnapping epidemic.

    April 23, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    The Courtesan:
    A Fascinating Woman

    The women who shattered taboos and crossed social barriers in 19th century Europe.

    April 10, 2020  By M.J. Tjia
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    Women of Intrigue: Unconventional Female Protagonists in Long-Running Crime Fiction Series

    Complex women, evolving over the course of many books.

    April 9, 2020  By Brenda Chapman
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    Sin Eater

    Megan Campisi

    "When I stumble into the road, folk look and look away."

    April 8, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Strange, Sordid World of Elizabethan-Era True Crime

    Elizabethan England had a true crime phenomenon of its own, full of con artists, cannibals, wizards, and tales from prison.

    April 7, 2020  By Megan Campisi
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    Historical Novels and the Morally Gray Character

    The best historical fiction explores compelling characters stuck in the murky moral in-betweens.

    April 7, 2020  By Anika Scott
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    Who Speaks for the Damned

    C.S. Harris

    "“Dead bodies in my gardens?” muttered Irvine Pennington, sweating heavily as he led the way along a central allée of pleached hornbeam under‑planted with low‑clipped hedges of boxwood and waves of purple allium."

    April 7, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Ishmael Reed’s Hoodoo Detective

    The 1972 cult crime novel that explores Black identity, African religion, civilizations at war, and all of recorded history.

    April 6, 2020  By Scott Adlerberg
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    The Man Who Can’t Be Beat: Peaky Blinders and the Rise of Fascism

    The Shelby crime family finds a new politics in 1920's Birmingham.

    March 31, 2020  By Torrey Crim
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