• Noir/Hardboiled

    The Essential Crime Novels of Los Angeles

    34 novels every lover of LA Noir should read as soon as humanly possible.

    March 11, 2020  By Katie Orphan
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    Searching for James M. Cain's Los Angeles

    Where have all the roadhouses gone?

    March 10, 2020  By Katie Orphan
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    Briarpatch May Just Be the Coolest Show on TV

    A new series returns to a bygone era of strange, slick crime fiction.

    March 10, 2020  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Crime and the City: Saigon

    In the long shadow of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a city's crime fiction scene thrives.

    March 9, 2020  By Paul French
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    Michael Koryta and Alma Katsu on Horror, Craft, and Reinvention

    Two authors discuss their greatest fears and the weight of history

    March 9, 2020  By Michael Koryta
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    Sixteen of the Most Perfect Murders in Crime Fiction

    Reading and re-reading mystery novels in pursuit of the platonic ideal of the undetectable, unsolvable crime.

    March 6, 2020  By Peter Swanson
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    The Art of Letting Your Heroes Get Beat Up Now and Again

    Sometimes the most powerful thing an author can do is kick a guy when he's down.

    March 6, 2020  By John McMahon
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    When The Casinos Came To Atlantic City...

    Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Resort Town Reinvented as a Gambling Den

    March 6, 2020  By Caitlin Mullen
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    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    March 5, 2020  By William Boyle
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    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    March 5, 2020  By Russ Thomas
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