• Noir/Hardboiled

    LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Summer 2025 Reads For Every Reader

    Check out these new and upcoming novels from queer writers!

    August 11, 2025  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

    Crime fiction is neat. Real life is messy. And the best novels hit somewhere in between.

    August 8, 2025  By Victor Suthammanont
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    The Backlist: John Copenhaver and Polly Stewart Revisit Ross Macdonald's "The Zebra-Striped Hearse"

    Reflecting on a mid-career Lew Archer classic

    August 7, 2025  By Polly Stewart
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    A Port for the Stranded and Criminal: A Look at the Exciting Hamburg Noir Scene Today

    Jan Karsten's Introduction to a New Anthology of German Mystery Stories

    August 5, 2025  By Jan Karsten
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    Simon Spurrier on The Best Crime Comics, and Why We Need More Crossover Readers

    Spurrier makes the case for bringing together readers of crime novel and crime comics.

    July 24, 2025  By Simon Spurrier
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    The Dirty Work: The On-Going Romance Between Sex Work and Crime Fiction

    David Gordon on a long tradition of entanglement.

    July 22, 2025  By David Gordon
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    One Morning in Auckland

    A glimpse of the city, through the eyes of Hana Westerman, the main character in Michael Bennett's New Zealand-set crime series.

    July 15, 2025  By Michael Bennett
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    American Carnage: Hammett's Red Harvest and Mass Violence in the United States

    "The intensity of the mass violence which afflicted the United States in the years following World War One is truly remarkable"

    July 14, 2025  By Curtis Evans
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    Michael Robotham On Why We Love Stories About Gangsters

    Family. Loyalty. Success. Prosperity. How did mobsters come to represent the American Dream?

    July 10, 2025  By Michael Robotham
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    Thom Mount on Hollywood, Fixers, and a Town Full of Secrets

    The former president of Universal Pictures has his debut novel, and it's full of insider stories and secrets.

    June 25, 2025  By Terry McDonell
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