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Please, Don't Use AI to Solve Crimes
'The problem occurs when we rely on its “thinking” to replace our thinking.'
By
Joshua Corin
| December 11, 2024
The Best Crime Novels of 2024
Shattering noir, furious thrillers, and satisfying conclusions
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CrimeReads
| December 10, 2024
The Violence Is Still There: Reinvestigating
Mike's Murder
Looking back at James Bridges’ true-crime-inspired film forty years later
By
Vince Keenan
| December 6, 2024
The End as the Beginning: Alex Segura on his Continuing Adventures in Comic Book Noir
Segura's new book, 'Alter Ego', adds a new chapter to the story of the Legendary Lynx.
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John B. Valeri
| December 5, 2024
Is Suspense the Enemy of Realism?
"[T]he more success a writer enjoys in conjuring suspense...the less likely the story will exist in the realm of the real."
By
John Brandon
| December 5, 2024
Is 'The Penguin' the Bloody, Nihilistic Crime Saga We Need Right Now?
"Like all other virtues, sincerity is a sham in Gotham City–another costume."
By
Hector DeJean
| November 26, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Digging Deep, Staying with It: James Sallis on Writing, Reality, and the Danger of Creative Work
By
Nick Kolakowski
| November 25, 2024
The Backlist: Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson's 'Angels'
By
Polly Stewart
| November 21, 2024
On Coming of Age in an Era of Feminist Awakenings and Roaming Serial Killers
By
Ajay Close
| November 19, 2024
The Outsized Impact of George Cukor's "Gaslight"
The movie masterpiece spawned a psychological analysis and a host of crime novels
By
Bonnie Kistler
| November 19, 2024
Gullion and the Bullshit of Mythology
Austin Duffy on a mountain, a killing, and a dark legacy from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
By
Austin Duffy
| November 15, 2024
Jacquie Pham On Historical Fiction, Colonialism, and "the Many Imbalances that Wealth, Gender, and Power Wield."
Jenny Bartoy talks with the debut novelist about her new book set in 1920s Saigon and the resonances between past and present
By
Jenny Bartoy
| November 13, 2024
Honolulu Noir: A Tsunami of Colonization
Chris McKinney lays out the noir history of the Hawaiian city.
By
Chris McKinney
| November 5, 2024
Nilanjana Roy On Reporting on Gender In India
When Indian women sought independence inside and outside the home in the aughts, a wave of patriarchal violence followed
By
Nilanjana Roy
| October 28, 2024
The Place of Murder
How setting has come to define great crime fiction – in Scandinavia, Britain, and the desert of the American Southwest.
By
Sydney Graves (Kate Christensen)
| October 23, 2024
In a Bleak Midwestern Noir, an Author Finds Cause for Hope
A.F. Carter on finding signs of life in a downtrodden setting.
By
A.F. Carter
| October 23, 2024
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