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It’s a Wonderful Noir: Exploring the Seedy Underbelly of a Christmas Classic
The quintessential Christmas movie is also a reverse noir.
By
Michael Ledwidge
| December 23, 2022
The Ladies of (Modern) LA Noir
The Los Angeles crime fiction scene is as strong as ever, and these authors are at the forefront.
By
Alex Kenna
| December 20, 2022
Yes, Incredibly, Another 10 Crime Movies You Forgot Take Place at Christmas
Our fifth list in this series features Holland March & Jackson Healy, Mike Hammer, and... Norman Bates?
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| December 20, 2022
New Orleans Crime Fiction: Where Nothing Is Too Extreme
In this city, every day is Anything Can Happen Day
By
T.G. Herren
| December 16, 2022
The Best Noir Fiction of 2022
Journeys into the dark heart of noir, from Don Winslow, Kelly J. Ford, Gabino Iglesias, and more.
By
CrimeReads
| December 15, 2022
Dirty Snow and Dark Secrets in Midwestern Noir
What is it about the Midwest that makes for such a great mystery setting?
By
Hannah Morrissey
| December 9, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Five Character-Driven Mystery Novels from European Authors
By
Joël Dicker
| December 8, 2022
“True Detective” Season Two: An Unholy Mess, or Better Than You Remember?
By
Nick Kolakowski
| December 2, 2022
Behind the Blue Wall: How my time in the LAPD Academy helped Shape My Series
By
Aaron Philip Clark
| November 18, 2022
Trouble Was His Business: 50 Years of
Trouble Man
Revisiting a movie that told the story of a fixer in South Central LA, with a Marvin Gaye score that changed the game.
By
Michael Gonzales
| November 17, 2022
The Best Cars in the History of Fictional Detectives
Craig Henderson looks at the iconic (and revelatory) rides of some of fiction's greatest detectives.
By
Craig Henderson
| November 15, 2022
The Unspoken Criminality of the Female PI
Why The Girl Friday?
By
Emily Edwards
| November 14, 2022
Robert Crais: Straight from the Heart
This longtime favorite is back from a life-threatening scare and ready to tell new stories about "Elvis Coles’ Los Angeles."
By
Nancie Clare
| November 14, 2022
A Moment of Racial Reckoning in Crime Fiction
Ausma Zehanat Khan on the need to deglamorize policing in the age of Black Lives Matter.
By
Ausma Zehanat Khan
| November 11, 2022
Ley Lines, Folk Magic, and “True Detective”: Tariq Goddard on the Writing of
High John the Conqueror
On the strange alchemy underlying a new detective novel.
By
Tobias Carroll
| November 10, 2022
The Probable and the Personal: How I Grapple With Writing Violent Fiction
"If I turn my back on the uncomfortable, ignoring the things that ever lurk in the dark, I allow them to move unhindered..."
By
James Wade
| November 10, 2022
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