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They Get the Assignment: Alison Gaylin's Favorite Fictional Female Detectives

They Get the Assignment: Alison Gaylin's Favorite Fictional Female Detectives

These PIs move through the world with their own style.

By Alison Gaylin | September 12, 2024

Unsung Detectives From a Millennial Youth

Unsung Detectives From a Millennial Youth

From Carmen Sandiego to Cowboy Bebop, Libby Cudmore looks at the 90s icons that taught her to love noir

By Libby Cudmore | September 9, 2024

Labors of Love: Eli Cranor on Education, Empathy and Experience

Labors of Love: Eli Cranor on Education, Empathy and Experience

"The point is how much is enough? And what is the cost of wanting more?"

By John B. Valeri | August 30, 2024

Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting; it is about understanding."

By Adam Mitzner | August 27, 2024

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

Looking back at the controversial reception and tangled legacy of the blood-soaked 1994 film.

By Martyn Conterio | August 26, 2024

An Ode to Charles Willeford

An Ode to Charles Willeford

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of American crime fiction fans.

By Michael Ledwidge | August 23, 2024

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Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

By Kailee Pederson | August 21, 2024

On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

By James Wade | August 21, 2024

The Admirable Uncertainty of the Antidetective Novel

By Eugenie Montague | August 20, 2024

Genre Drift: Mysteries with Speculative Touches

Genre Drift: Mysteries with Speculative Touches

Morgan Richter on books "in which two genres caress, not collide."

By Morgan Richter | August 20, 2024

Green Mountain Mysteries: A Taxonomy of Vermont Noir

Green Mountain Mysteries: A Taxonomy of Vermont Noir

Sarah Stewart Taylor considers the many fictional horrors and murders of her beloved home state

By Sarah Stewart Taylor | August 15, 2024

Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime

Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime

"The internet is now ubiquitous in our lives, so why does it appear so rarely in popular literature?"

By Stephen Harrison | August 14, 2024

Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel

Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel

Snowden Wright on Elmore Leonard and the evolution of an American icon.

By Snowden Wright | August 13, 2024

The Rockford Files and the Allure of the Shady PI

The Rockford Files and the Allure of the Shady PI

Keith Roysdon remembers a favorite seriess, and the real-life PI who proved that ‘Rockford Files’ was practically a documentary.

By Keith Roysdon | August 12, 2024

Gated Community Noir

Gated Community Noir

These seemingly nice neighborhoods conceal dark secrets

By Molly Odintz | July 26, 2024

We Need More Crime Fiction By Defense Attorneys

We Need More Crime Fiction By Defense Attorneys

"[W]hat defenders do is slow, patient, grinding, and infected with uncertainty. We don’t have the whole story, and we never will."

By Joshua Perry | July 25, 2024

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