• Mystery

    Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

    Rosalie Knecht

    "The morning after Jane left me, I woke in a Russian diner that overlooked the boardwalk at Brighton Beach, sitting upright in the corner of a booth."

    June 16, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    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.

    June 15, 2020  By Shane Mawe
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    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

    June 15, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    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.

    June 12, 2020  By J.A. Jance
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    Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

    Can you truly know the people in your life? Or yourself?

    June 10, 2020  By Catherine McKenzie
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    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

    June 10, 2020  By Laurie R. King
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    Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

    Over the course of crime fiction history, authors have always wrestled with questions of setting.

    June 10, 2020  By Angela Marsons
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    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."

    June 9, 2020  By Kimberly Belle
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    Is Sydney Australia's Capital of Noir?

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

    June 8, 2020  By Paul French
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    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.

    June 5, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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