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An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries

An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries

These books start out as noir, then take sharp left turn...

By Nick Mamatas | November 9, 2021

Class in Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

Class in Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

Adrian McKinty, Laura McHugh, Angel Luis Colón, Julia Dahl, Joe Ide, and Lisa Levy take one of the least discussed issues in fiction.

By Lisa Levy | November 9, 2021

6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

Fictional families can be messy and twisted, but these books are dedicated to exploring complex and tender relationships over the destructive and perverse.

By Kimi Cunningham Grant | November 3, 2021

Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

By William Boyle | November 2, 2021

A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

"I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

By Eloísa Díaz | November 2, 2021

Ed Brubaker on 1980s Los Angeles, Private Eye Fiction, and the Changing Face of Graphic Novels

Ed Brubaker on 1980s Los Angeles, Private Eye Fiction, and the Changing Face of Graphic Novels

In the latest installment of Graphic Content, Alex Segura talks with Brubaker about the new Reckless novel, Destroy All Monsters

By Alex Segura | November 2, 2021

Best Reviewed
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Lee Child and Andrew Child on Border Towns, Villains, and the New Jack Reacher Novel

By Dwyer Murphy | October 26, 2021

October's Best International Crime Fiction

By CrimeReads | October 26, 2021

8 Thrillers and Mysteries with Underlying Supernatural Elements

By C.J. Cooke | October 22, 2021

How Being a Firefighter Prepares You to Write Crime Fiction

How Being a Firefighter Prepares You to Write Crime Fiction

For starters, you better know how to pick a lock.

By Tony Knighton | October 22, 2021

How to Flirt Effectively, According to Michael Mann Movies

How to Flirt Effectively, According to Michael Mann Movies

21 easy tips for finding love, gleaned from Mann's neo-noirs.

By Dwyer Murphy | October 21, 2021

8 Noir Novels Featuring Saps and Suckers

8 Noir Novels Featuring Saps and Suckers

These characters are in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong idea, thinking everything will be alright.

By Gregory Galloway | October 21, 2021

The Real Through Line from <em>The Godfather</em> to <em>The Sopranos</em> Is the American Family

The Real Through Line from The Godfather to The Sopranos Is the American Family

Mark Seal, author of a new book on the making of The Godfather, looks at the story's influence on David Chase's masterpiece.

By Mark Seal | October 20, 2021

John Banville Returns to Crime Fiction—This Time Under His Own Name

John Banville Returns to Crime Fiction—This Time Under His Own Name

Banville says his "Benjamin Black" pen name is done, finished, dead. So what is his protagonist Quirke doing in a new novel that moves between Ireland and Spain?

By Peter Handel | October 19, 2021

The Weird Intersection of Noir and Plastic Surgery

The Weird Intersection of Noir and Plastic Surgery

A character with a new face is one of noir's oldest, strangest conventions. Nick Kolakowski explores.

By Nick Kolakowski | October 18, 2021

Blood in the Desert: Six Books About Crime and Colonialism at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Blood in the Desert: Six Books About Crime and Colonialism at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The history of the borderlands is full of murder, theft, banditry, and violence—starting with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

By Bruce McCandless III | October 15, 2021

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