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The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction
Obsessives and eccentrics populate the fishing world. You better know your stuff if you're going to set your crime fiction there.
By
John Galligan
| June 29, 2021
Immortalizing Jack Reacher
Authors of long-running series face a difficult question: how should their characters age?
By
J.A. Crawford
| June 28, 2021
Bosch Season 7 Preview: In a Changed World, How Should We Feel About Police Shows?
What to expect from the new, final season of the hit series from Michael Connelly and company.
By
Keith Roysdon
| June 24, 2021
How the Banning of Joyce's
Ulysses
Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"
Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.
By
Samantha Barbas
| June 22, 2021
The Best Books of the Year (So Far): Crime Fiction in 2021
CrimeReads editors select their favorite thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels of the year.
By
CrimeReads
| June 17, 2021
The Shadow Was Pulp Fiction's Original Pop Culture Phenomenon. Now, He's Mostly Forgotten. What Happened?
Before Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, and Philip Marlowe, there was the crime-fighter who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men.
By
Hector DeJean
| June 9, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Art of Balancing Multiple Mystery Series
By
J.A. Jance
| June 4, 2021
Female Public Defenders Are Unsung Heroines. It Is Long Past Time to Change That.
By
Lara Bazelon
| May 11, 2021
The Search for China's Serial Killers
By
Brian Klingborg
| May 6, 2021
To Tap Into The Gender Politics of My 1970s and 80s Childhood, I Turned To Playthings
"It was toys that brought home how frighteningly recent the still shaky notion of gender equality is in our country."
By
Gin Phillips
| May 6, 2021
Six Novels Featuring Adoptions Gone Awry
An adoption is full of stories. And literature is full of adoptions.
By
R.J. Hoffman
| April 12, 2021
For One Author, the 2011 Terror Attack on Norway Changed Everything. But Could He Write It Into Fiction?
Grief, violence, and the writer's responsibility in the aftermath
By
Ben McPherson
| February 10, 2021
Writing About the Russian Mob: The Brutal and the Absurd
An author reflects on a sprawling international criminal outfit.
By
Emilya Naymark
| February 9, 2021
The Crime Books of Malta
At the center of the Mediterranean, a small island nation reckons with invasion, corruption, and organized crime.
By
Paul French
| February 8, 2021
The Future of Police Procedurals
What is the responsibility—and the path forward—for authors writing crime fiction about police?
By
Michael Kaufman
| February 5, 2021
25+ New Releases from Black Authors to Keep You Reading All Year Long
From cozy mysteries to hardboiled crime to international thrillers to domestic suspense, the contributions of Black authors to crime fiction as as varied as the genre itself.
By
CrimeReads
| February 4, 2021
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