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Murder Ballads, the Original True Crime

On the long tradition of folk music about crimes, used to help communities process trauma and memorialize victims.

September 19, 2023 By Janet Beard

Crime Novels Featuring Interpreters, Transcribers, and Other Invisible Law Enforcement Professionals

These thrillers aren't about the detectives.

September 19, 2023 By Brooke Robinson

Port-au-Prince: Crime Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Soul

Crime and the City visits the Haitian capital.

September 18, 2023 By Paul French

When Characters Fake Their Own Deaths

Exploring pseudocide in fiction and film.

September 18, 2023 By Manning Wolfe

Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations

"As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a tightrope dance deciding what to present to the outside world."

September 18, 2023 By Deborah J. Ledford

A Haunting in Venice is the Best of Kenneth Branagh's Poirot Adaptations, and an Engaging Film On Its Own

Olivia Rutigliano on the newest Agatha Christie adaptation.

September 15, 2023 By Olivia Rutigliano

Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?

On finding empowerment and autistic representation in an unlikely source: Friday the 13th's iconic slasher

September 15, 2023 By Mark Wheaton

The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin

"Behind the terse style, there is a poetry to the ironies of Levin’s plots, and there is a brutality that emerges from his intricate imagination."

September 15, 2023 By James Reich

Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer Novel

Hughes' masterpiece was fresh, feminist, and ahead of its time.
It's also extraordinarily chilling.

September 15, 2023 By Laura Picklesimer

The Dark Humor of Millennial Crime Capers

30-somethings can laugh in the face of anything—including death.

September 14, 2023 By Alice Bell

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