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    A New York State of Mind: The Unexpected Bonding Powers of Billy Joel's Melancholy Noir

    A New York State of Mind: The Unexpected Bonding Powers of Billy Joel's Melancholy Noir

    Michael Gonzales finds a lifeline to a city, a soundtrack for grief, and a way of remembering his father.

    By Michael Gonzales | July 17, 2020

    The Coen Brothers' Enduring Ties to Crime Literature

    The Coen Brothers' Enduring Ties to Crime Literature

    From Macbeth to Lebowski and Back Again

    By Zach Vasquez | July 17, 2020

    Bad Fathers, and the Readers Who Love Them

    Bad Fathers, and the Readers Who Love Them

    Lousy dads leave a trail of emotional scars and unhappy relations. In thrillers, there also tends to be a body count.

    By Glen Erik Hamilton | July 16, 2020

    How I Stopped Worrying About the Rules and Learned to Write a Mystery Novel

    How I Stopped Worrying About the Rules and Learned to Write a Mystery Novel

    Workshops, an MFA, and a pair of literary novels couldn't prepare him for the intricate workings of noir, so he turned to the masters.

    By Sung J. Woo | July 14, 2020

    Rethinking the Meaning of

    Rethinking the Meaning of "Border Noir"

    "Borders, like crime novels, let people be in many places at once: the familiar, the unfamiliar and the space between the two."

    By Alex Gilly | July 14, 2020

    10 New Books Coming Out <br>This Week

    10 New Books Coming Out
    This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | July 13, 2020

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • The Disappearers
    • The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
    • Agrippa
    • Under Story
    • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
    • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
    • I Liked Rex
    • Asmodeus
    • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 8

    By Otto Penzler | July 13, 2020

    The Massively Popular, Mostly Forgotten Craze for American Style Noir in WWII-Era Britain

    By Andrew Nette | July 9, 2020

    A Brief History of Queer Women Detectives in Crime Fiction

    By Kristen Lepionka | July 8, 2020

    Breathing Through the Wound

    Breathing Through the Wound

    Víctor del Árbol

    By CrimeReads Excerpts | July 7, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 9

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 9

    White Heat (1949)

    By Otto Penzler | July 6, 2020

    My Writing Will Never Be as Good as Charles Willeford's

    My Writing Will Never Be as Good as Charles Willeford's

    But I keep on writing anyway.

    By Chip Mosher | July 3, 2020

    Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

    Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

    The history of music is full of outlaws and criminals, killers and their victims, shady dealers and backstage dreamers...

    By S.W. Lauden | June 29, 2020

    Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

    Ottessa Moshfegh on Dreams, Nightmares, and a Rediscovered Novel

    The author of some of the darkest, most disturbing novels in years wants people to know: she's not April Ludgate.

    By Michael Seidlinger | June 24, 2020

    The Uneasy Noirs of <br>Stephen King

    The Uneasy Noirs of
    Stephen King

    From Bachman to The Outsider, King revels in subtly subverting the rules of mystery.

    By Nick Kolakowski | June 22, 2020

    There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

    There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

    The Great Disambiguation Project marches on through a crowded field of "girl" books.

    By Lisa Levy | June 22, 2020

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