• Noir/Hardboiled

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

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

    April 20, 2022  By Samantha Jayne Allen
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    Ten Crime Novels with Isolated Settings

    These books ramp up the tension by placing their characters in impossible-to-escape scenarios.

    April 14, 2022  By Nell Pattison
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    Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

    A few good mystery novels help to pass the long winter nights on this North Atlantic archipelago.

    April 11, 2022  By Paul French
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    Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

    The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

    April 8, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    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?

    April 8, 2022  By M. Chris Fabricant
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    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.

    April 7, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    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."

    April 4, 2022  By Carol Lawrence
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    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..."

    March 30, 2022  By Candice Wuehle
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    Crime and the City: Palm Springs

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

    March 28, 2022  By Paul French
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    Payback is Forever

    Nick Kolakowski

    "The morning newspapers offered precious few developments about the amusement park massacre."

    March 24, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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