• Noir/Hardboiled

    Expect No Mercy: Crime Fiction and Gentrification

    Vancouver's Housing Crisis and the Fiction of Changing Cities

    March 16, 2018  By Sam Wiebe
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    “Are You Going to Take
    Care of This Guy or Not"

    Patricia Abbott

    "It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you."

    March 14, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
    0

    Back Up

    Paul Colize

    "No one imagined Steve Parker would ever do the deed, though his suicidal threats were well known to his entourage, and to the members of Pearl Harbor, who spent every day in his company."

    March 13, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
    0

    The Sons

    Anton Svensson

    "Change. When you can’t run any more, when you don’t make your way home, or even know where it is—sooner or later change is the only road to travel, he was absolutely convinced of that."

    March 12, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
    0

    Beast in View

    Margaret Millar

    "She stared at what she had written, subconsciously aware that a mistake had been made but not seeing it at first. It looked so right, somehow: I hope that all is hell with you and Douglas."

    March 10, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
    0

    Mickey Spillane Turns 100

    Max Allan Collins on Sex, Violence, and Mike Hammer

    March 9, 2018  By Max Allan Collins
    1

    Val McDermid on the Remarkable Rise of Tartan Noir

    The Birth and Boom of Scottish Crime Fiction

    March 8, 2018  By Val McDermid
    0

    The Comfort of Crime Novels

    “Crime novels are comforting not in spite of their darkness, but because of it.”

    March 8, 2018  By Emily Winslow
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    Laura Lippman on James M. Cain's Transgressive Noir

    Crime Fiction’s Most Reluctant Icon

    March 7, 2018  By Laura Lippman
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    Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

    Fighting for Equality, from a Kansas Campus to the South Side of Chicago

    January 4, 2018  By Sara Paretsky
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