• Noir/Hardboiled

    Five Character-Driven Mystery Novels from European Authors

    Swiss author Joël Dicker selects some favorite European mysteries with human dramas at the center.

    December 8, 2022  By Joël Dicker
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    “True Detective” Season Two: An Unholy Mess, or Better Than You Remember?

    Was the celebrated/ridiculed show's second season actually in keeping with the tradition of California Noir?

    December 2, 2022  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Behind the Blue Wall: How my time in the LAPD Academy helped Shape My Series

    "If departments are societal microcosms populated by individuals with vast motives for desiring power, what happens when these people wield that power in destructive ways?"

    November 18, 2022  By Aaron Philip Clark
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    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.

    November 17, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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    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.

    November 15, 2022  By Craig Henderson
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    The Unspoken Criminality of the Female PI

    Why The Girl Friday?

    November 14, 2022  By Emily Edwards
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    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."

    November 14, 2022  By Nancie Clare
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    A Moment of Racial Reckoning in Crime Fiction

    Ausma Zehanat Khan on the need to deglamorize policing in the age of Black Lives Matter.

    November 11, 2022  By Ausma Zehanat Khan
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    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.

    November 10, 2022  By Tobias Carroll
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    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..."

    November 10, 2022  By James Wade
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