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    Crime in a Tenured Position: <br>The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

    Crime in a Tenured Position:
    The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

    As Amanda Cross, Carolyn Heilbrun used her Kate Fansler series to explore academia, politics, and modern womanhood.

    By Marlowe Benn | June 17, 2020

    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

    By Olivia Rutigliano | June 16, 2020

    Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

    Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

    Rosalie Knecht

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | June 16, 2020

    The Mostly Forgotten Irish Crime Novelist at the Center of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

    The Mostly Forgotten Irish Crime Novelist at the Center of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

    On the enormously influential works of a Golden Age innovator.

    By Shane Mawe | June 15, 2020

    We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

    We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

    The third installment of The Great Disambiguation Project

    By Lisa Levy | June 15, 2020

    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    How fiction helped me learn about the world beyond my small mining town—and gave me a new understanding of my home.

    By J.A. Jance | June 12, 2020

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    • Exit Party
    • Fallow
    • Our Noble Selves
    • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
    • The Newer World
    • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
    • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
    • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
    • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
    • The Rouse

    Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

    By Catherine McKenzie | June 10, 2020

    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    By Laurie R. King | June 10, 2020

    Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

    By Angela Marsons | June 10, 2020

    Into the Deep: Six Novels That Prove Lakes Are the Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery

    Into the Deep: Six Novels That Prove Lakes Are the Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery

    "I’ve spent enough time puttering across their waters or sunning on their docks to know what lurks underneath."

    By Kimberly Belle | June 9, 2020

    Is Sydney Australia's Capital of Noir?

    Is Sydney Australia's Capital of Noir?

    Crime and the City explores the crime literature of Australia's biggest metropolis.

    By Paul French | June 8, 2020

    11 Crime Novels That Explore Tensions Between Police and Communities

    11 Crime Novels That Explore Tensions Between Police and Communities

    It's time to go beyond the idea of bad apples and acknowledge the structural issues that pervade our system. Crime fiction can help.

    By Molly Odintz | June 5, 2020

    My First Thriller: <br>Tess Gerritsen

    My First Thriller:
    Tess Gerritsen

    How the creator of Rizzoli & Isles went from working late-night hospital shifts in Honolulu to writing bestselling thrillers.

    By Rick Pullen | June 4, 2020

    The Best Crime, Thriller, and Horror Books for Your Quarantine Situation

    The Best Crime, Thriller, and Horror Books for Your Quarantine Situation

    These books will help you feel much better about that bad roommate (or at least, less alone).

    By Lauren A. Forry | June 4, 2020

    A Writer's Walk Through New York City During the Pandemic

    A Writer's Walk Through New York City During the Pandemic

    An author observes a new reality and wonders how future books will reckon with it.

    By A.F. Carter | June 3, 2020

    9 Thrillers Featuring Writers As Characters

    9 Thrillers Featuring Writers As Characters

    Fashionistas, Literati, and Hacks Galore!

    By Emily Liebert | June 2, 2020

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