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Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Your Guide to the Best Crime Shows Coming Out This Month

Featuring more Bosch, more Staircase, more Lincoln Lawyer, and most importantly Rosie Perez.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 29, 2022

How Dorothy B. Hughes' <em>In a Lonely Place</em> Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

Elizabeth D. Samet on the legacy of a postwar classic

By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

By David Gordon | April 26, 2022

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

Don Winslow on New England Roots, Greek Poetry, and Clams in Broth

With City on Fire, the author returns home and finds a new epic.

By Dwyer Murphy | April 26, 2022

Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

"It’s really a compulsion. I’d feel like I’d die if I didn’t get these stories out of me."

By Eli Cranor | April 21, 2022

Blood and Belonging: Seven Novels of Crime and Coming-of-Age

Blood and Belonging: Seven Novels of Crime and Coming-of-Age

Samantha Jayne Allen on fiction that explores a very particular moment of youth.

By Samantha Jayne Allen | April 20, 2022

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Ten Crime Novels with Isolated Settings

By Nell Pattison | April 14, 2022

Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

By Paul French | April 11, 2022

Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2022

On Junk Science and Poverty

On Junk Science and Poverty

How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

By M. Chris Fabricant | April 8, 2022

Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

Crime writers talking craft, routine, and finding the perfect twist.

By Eli Cranor | April 7, 2022

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

"New York is an onion with endless, overlapping layers. I could study it for the rest of my life and only scratch the surface of what there is to know."

By Carol Lawrence | April 4, 2022

Funny Girls, Dangerous Women: Humor in the Modern Crime Novel

Funny Girls, Dangerous Women: Humor in the Modern Crime Novel

"[T]he tonal shift created by humor also allows for a brief respite, a safe space of contemplation..."

By Candice Wuehle | March 30, 2022

Crime and the City: Palm Springs

Crime and the City: Palm Springs

A long tradition of murder and mystery in the desert city known for architecture, design, and monied denizens.

By Paul French | March 28, 2022

Payback is Forever

Payback is Forever

Nick Kolakowski

By CrimeReads Excerpts | March 24, 2022

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at <em>True Grit</em> Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at True Grit Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

It was a long journey from coaching football to his breakout debut novel, but there's no doubting it: Eli Cranor has arrived.

By Dwyer Murphy | March 22, 2022

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