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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
Boston's Combat Zone: Why Two Authors Were Drawn to the Same 45 Year-Old Crime
A 1976 murder captured the interest of two Boston-area authors, who took very different approaches to the story.
By
Gabriel Valjan and Jan Brogan
| November 4, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
On Ed Lacy's
Room to Swing
and Early Representation of Black Sleuths in Crime Fiction
By
Leslie S. Klinger
| November 4, 2022
My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby
By
Rick Pullen
| November 3, 2022
Simenon in America
By
Gregory Galloway
| November 3, 2022
Yeah Noir: Discovering New Zealand Crime Fiction
Four Kiwi authors you should be reading now.
By
Jacqueline Bublitz
| November 1, 2022
What Can We Learn From A 1794 Novel About Turning Points In Crime Fiction?
Caleb Williams..."">"The reader can see the seed of many other stories of crime fiction in
Caleb Williams
..."
By
Heather Redmond
| November 1, 2022
The Big Sleep and The Black Cat
Or, searching for queer culture in the era of hard-boiled fiction.
By
Lev AC Rosen
| October 24, 2022
Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’
Crimes that are both everyday and yet brutal seem to be front and center only in a small subset of the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. Is that taste, craft—or something that should make us all a little uncomfortable?
By
Christopher Chambers
| October 21, 2022
"If Found Please Return to Abigail Serna 158 3/4 E MLK Blvd"
Désirée Zamorano
By
CrimeReads Excerpts
| October 13, 2022
5 Uniquely Chicanx/Latinx Representations in Crime Fiction
These novels by writers from historically marginalized communities create rendezvous-points of cultural negotiation by appropriating major commercial genres.
By
Christopher David Rosales
| October 13, 2022
The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald
Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry...
By
Curtis Evans
| October 7, 2022
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