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    What to Watch in November: Your Guide to the Month's Essential Crime TV

    What to Watch in November: Your Guide to the Month's Essential Crime TV

    The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.

    By Camille LeBlanc | November 8, 2019

    Six Legal Thrillers With Essential Social Messages

    Six Legal Thrillers With Essential Social Messages

    Where legal fiction meets the fight for social justice.

    By Chad Zunker | November 6, 2019

    On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century

    On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century

    How the salacious double murder of a minister and a choir member in 1922 inspired one of the earliest legal thrillers.

    By Hank Phillippi Ryan | November 4, 2019

    5 Action Thrillers to Read This October

    5 Action Thrillers to Read This October

    Spies, Cold Cases, and the Sui Generis Thrills of Jack Reacher

    By Ryan Steck | October 30, 2019

    Attica Locke:

    Attica Locke: "My unconscious is a better writer than I am."

    The Texas crime author on the legacy of history, the resurgence of prejudice, and the meaning of forgiveness.

    By Molly Odintz | October 25, 2019

    Now Streaming in Crime: October

    Now Streaming in Crime: October

    Your Guide to the Best Noir, Mystery, and Thrillers Now Streaming

    By Camille LeBlanc | October 25, 2019

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    • The Disappearers
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    • Under Story
    • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
    • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
    • I Liked Rex
    • Asmodeus
    • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

    Berlin: A City of Crime Fiction

    By Paul French | October 21, 2019

    All the President's Men Was Crime Literature—The Ukraine Scandal Is Something Else

    By Noah Berlatsky | October 21, 2019

    Detecting During Disasters

    By J. Kingston Pierce | October 17, 2019

    Did <em>Hill Street Blues</em> Rip Off Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series?

    Did Hill Street Blues Rip Off Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series?

    A tragicomic tale of stolen set-ups, threatened lawsuits, bruised egos, stalled adaptations, and besieged productions.

    By Paul Abbott | October 15, 2019

    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of October

    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of October

    The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.

    By Camille LeBlanc | October 4, 2019

    Franz Kafka: Misunderstood Crime Author

    Franz Kafka: Misunderstood Crime Author

    How The Trial upended what we know about crime fiction.

    By Peter Steiner | October 3, 2019

    From Boston To Cape Cod and Back Again—In Crime Fiction

    From Boston To Cape Cod and Back Again—In Crime Fiction

    Exploring a region's mystery pantheon

    By Peter Colt | October 2, 2019

    The 5 Essential Elements of Unforgettable Crime Thrillers

    The 5 Essential Elements of Unforgettable Crime Thrillers

    You're going to need an unforgettable villain, for starters.

    By Derik Cavignano | September 27, 2019

    September's Best Debut Fiction

    September's Best Debut Fiction

    Literary spies, dogged reporters, and a fight against contagion.

    By CrimeReads | September 25, 2019

    Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

    Law & Order SVU Has Been Going Strong for 20 Years—But the Original Was Better

    Celebrating procedure over personal lives.

    By Lilly Dancyger | September 20, 2019

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