Legal/Procedural

In Defense of a Thriller Trope: “Damsels in Distress”

Nancy Allen spent her career prosecuting felonies in the Ozarks. She urges readers not to turn away from the dangers women face.

March 24, 2022  By Nancy Allen
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Crime and the City: Birmingham

Crime in England’s Second City, “Courtesy of the Peaky B’s”

March 14, 2022  By Paul French
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Crime Fiction in Moscow: Spies Aside, Just Crimes and Very Cold Cases

"Crime and the City" visits a world of smugglers, defectors, and Thieves in Law.

February 21, 2022  By Paul French
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Now Is the Time to Read Office Thrillers

Bonnie Kistler on work-from-home, return-to-office, and the grand tradition of the office thriller.

February 15, 2022  By Bonnie Kistler
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Steven Torres on Getting Rid of the Labels and Just Writing About Humans (and Inevitably, Violence)

The Bronx-born author returns with a tale of revenge

February 11, 2022  By Richie Narvaez
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B-More or B-Less: Meditations on The Wire and Baltimore

Michael A. Gonzales on a long, complex relationship with The Wire and its depictions of Black life in Baltimore.

February 10, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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Big Trouble in the “93”: Olivier Norek’s Banlieue Trilogy

A former French cop—and a writer on the hit series "Spiral"—is taking French crime fiction in a new direction.

December 22, 2021  By Paul French
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The 1980s: A Forgotten Golden Age of Crime Television

Author and showrunner Howard Michael Gould looks back on six underappreciated gems of 80s crime television.

December 7, 2021  By Howard Michael Gould
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Detection Dogs

What do working dogs do? And what happens to them when they retire?

November 29, 2021  By Sara Driscoll
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The Crime Novels of Frankfurt

Germany's fifth largest city has a bad rap for being boring. Behind all those book fairs and convention centers, there's a mystery.

October 25, 2021  By Paul French
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