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    Heather Levy on Sex, Drugs, Chronic Pain, and Her New Novel

    Heather Levy on Sex, Drugs, Chronic Pain, and Her New Novel

    This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

    By Unlikeable Female Characters | July 1, 2021

    What Makes The Suburbs So Terrifying?

    What Makes The Suburbs So Terrifying?

    On The New Golden Age of Suburban Noir

    By Aggie Blum Thompson | July 1, 2021

    Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

    Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

    Housing projects are places of struggle, but also optimism; they are full of human lives, and alive with human stories.

    By Gabriel Krauze | June 30, 2021

    The PI of Color: When It’s About More Than the Crime

    The PI of Color: When It’s About More Than the Crime

    "I had to acknowledge that diverse characters, in whatever genre, straddle a fence. One side of the fence represents who they are, the other represents how society sees and accepts them."

    By Tracy Clark | June 29, 2021

    8 Books About Dark Desires That Will Crush You

    8 Books About Dark Desires That Will Crush You

    "Books allow us to push our normal boundaries within the safety of our minds."

    By Heather Levy | June 29, 2021

    The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction

    The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction

    Obsessives and eccentrics populate the fishing world. You better know your stuff if you're going to set your crime fiction there.

    By John Galligan | June 29, 2021

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    Immortalizing Jack Reacher

    By J.A. Crawford | June 28, 2021

    Barry Gifford on the History of Noir and Black Lizard Books

    By Zach Vasquez | June 28, 2021

    June's Best International Crime Fiction

    By Molly Odintz | June 25, 2021

    Bosch Season 7 Preview: In a Changed World, How Should We Feel About Police Shows?

    Bosch Season 7 Preview: In a Changed World, How Should We Feel About Police Shows?

    What to expect from the new, final season of the hit series from Michael Connelly and company.

    By Keith Roysdon | June 24, 2021

    Deadpool Creator Fabian Nicieza on (Finally) Finishing His Novel

    Deadpool Creator Fabian Nicieza on (Finally) Finishing His Novel

    It only took 35 years of writing comics to learn that 35 years of writing comics would help him write his debut mystery.

    By Fabian Nicieza | June 24, 2021

    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    6 Debut Novels You Should Read This Month

    The best new debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | June 22, 2021

    It's Time for Crime Fiction to Respect Sex Workers

    It's Time for Crime Fiction to Respect Sex Workers

    "Historically, female sex workers are often portrayed as victims, easily used and discarded as plot fodder..."

    By V. Castro | June 22, 2021

    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    By Paul French | June 21, 2021

    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Queer Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

    Authors join together to discuss the state of queer identity and representation in today's crime fiction.

    By Lisa Levy | June 21, 2021

    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not <em>Not</em> Noir)

    A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

    "[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

    By Paul Neilan | June 18, 2021

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