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Kellye Garrett and Alex Segura: Two Authors Look Back on a Year of Literary Firsts

Kellye Garrett and Alex Segura: Two Authors Look Back on a Year of Literary Firsts

Garrett and Segura discuss new paperbacks, the year in mystery, and what's in store for the industry.

By Alex Segura | February 8, 2023

The Great, Always Bizarre Florida Crime Fiction Tradition

The Great, Always Bizarre Florida Crime Fiction Tradition

What other state has produced so many good novels about crime and corruption?

By Mike Lawson | February 7, 2023

Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

Or, a brief taxonomy of a very strange oeuvre.

By J. D. O'Brien | February 6, 2023

São Paulo: City of Extremes

São Paulo: City of Extremes

Crime and the City visits the Brazilian megalopolis in search of good books.

By Paul French | February 6, 2023

The Novelist As Method Actor

The Novelist As Method Actor

Or, how to get to know your characters inside and out.

By M. J. Rose | February 6, 2023

Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

A guide to the life and work of "the founding mother" of the hardboiled woman as private eye.

By Neil Nyren | February 3, 2023

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Capturing the Voice—and Honesty—of Adolescence

By Sterling Watson | February 2, 2023

The Backlist: Revisiting Larry Brown's 'Father and Son' with Ace Atkins

By Polly Stewart | February 2, 2023

Is Real Housewives Lowkey the Best Crime Show On Television?

By Jumata Emill | February 1, 2023

Notes from a Hardscrabble Childhood

Notes from a Hardscrabble Childhood

"This is an acute time of unprotected’ness."

By Kerri Schlottman | January 31, 2023

Crime Fiction Heroes: To Age or Forever Young?

Crime Fiction Heroes: To Age or Forever Young?

"My vote is that our heroes shouldn’t appear to be immortal."

By Paul Levine | January 25, 2023

Murder, Mystery, and Midwestern Noir

Murder, Mystery, and Midwestern Noir

'Midwestern Noir is what happens when you take all the elements of Nordic Noir and plant them in what even midwesterners refer to as "the middle of nowhere."'

By Hannah Morrissey | January 23, 2023

Madam Tomahawk

Madam Tomahawk

Nick Kolakowski

By CrimeReads Excerpts | January 19, 2023

North Atlantic Noir

North Atlantic Noir

Dark novels from both sides of the pond.

By Samuel Martin | January 18, 2023

Colin Cotterill Is on a Mission to Write Something That Will Make You Shout with Glee

Colin Cotterill Is on a Mission to Write Something That Will Make You Shout with Glee

The crime writer's circuitous journey from cinemas to educational sitcoms in Thailand to crime novels.

By Colin Cotterill | January 18, 2023

Lone Woman and Cub: The Divergent Paths of Two Neo-Noirs

Lone Woman and Cub: The Divergent Paths of Two Neo-Noirs

A double feature with John Cassavetes' 'Gloria' and Erick Zonca's 'Julia'

By Scott Adlerberg | January 13, 2023

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