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    The Unspoken Criminality of the Female PI

    The Unspoken Criminality of the Female PI

    Why The Girl Friday?

    By Emily Edwards | November 14, 2022

    Robert Crais: Straight from the Heart

    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

    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 <em>High John the Conqueror</em>

    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

    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

    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

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    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

    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?

    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

    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?’

     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

    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

    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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