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Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: The Woman Who Brought the Cuban-American Experience to Miami Noir
In 1980s Miami, she was a mother of three who wanted to write crime novels. So she got herself a job as a private eye.
By
Craig Pittman
| January 8, 2021
The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021
89 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to get you through the year.
By
Molly Odintz
| January 7, 2021
My First Thriller: Lawrence Block
Sixty years later, Block says writing midcentury erotica was an "ideal apprenticeship" for a life in crime fiction.
By
Rick Pullen
| January 7, 2021
Hollywoodland: The Best Neo-Noir You Probably Haven't Seen
Fifty years later, the investigation into the mysterious death of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman, still resonates.
By
Sabina Stent
| January 7, 2021
Irving "Gangi" Cohen: The Man Who Escaped Murder, Inc. and Hid Out in the Movies
Nobody saw Cohen back in Brooklyn. Until a few gangsters went to the movies and saw their old colleague on the silver screen.
By
Michael Cannell
| January 6, 2021
PI Storytelling Through the Ages: Books, Blogs and Podcasts by Real Private Eyes
If you want to stalk real private investigators and learn their secrets, all you have to do is read, listen, and subscribe.
By
Kim Green
| January 6, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Hemingway's Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel
By
David Masciotra
| January 5, 2021
Passing Noir: Nine Novels That Explore Secrecy and Deception in Racial Identity
By
Zach Vasquez
| January 5, 2021
This 1970s Film About Ross Macdonald Is Fascinating and Unexpectedly Beautiful
By
Dwyer Murphy
| January 4, 2021
The Russian Pink
Matthew Hart
By
CrimeReads Excerpts
| December 30, 2020
Why Classic Crime Fiction Was Obsessed With Fashion
Every suit, every dress tells a story.
By
Tara Moss
| December 29, 2020
The John Jovino Gun Shop: The Closing of a Noir Landmark in Downtown New York
Patrolmen took target practice in the basement. Weegee snapped portraits from the fire escape. This spring, in the early days of the pandemic, the shop closed its doors for the last time.
By
Michael Cannell
| December 18, 2020
Walter Mosley on
Devil in a Blue Dress
, Thirty Years Later
"He has been stopped by a thousand disrespectful policemen and he has brought to light the truths that America, from white nationalists to the Ivy League, has tried its best to hide."
By
Walter Mosley
| December 17, 2020
Graphic Content: Into the Crime-Riddled 1980's Los Angeles of Ethan Reckless
Ed Brubaker on private eyes, pulp thrillers, and his latest collaboration with Sean Phillips,
Reckless
By
Alex Segura
| December 16, 2020
The Lost Art of the "Cast of Characters" Lists That Opened Midcentury Mystery Novels
Wordplay, witty insults, and the occasionally lurid remark rounded out a popular feature of paperback crime novels.
By
J. Kingston Pierce
| December 15, 2020
How Many of the Greatest Crime Books of All-Time Have You Read? (Wait, Which Books?)
Spelunking the must-read lists for crime, and checking them twice
By
Gray Basnight
| December 15, 2020
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