By Molly Odintz | December 7, 2020
Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers
Manchette's translator reflects on the legacy of an author who revolutionized French noir (twice).
By Donald Nicholson-Smith | December 4, 2020
A P.I. in Paradise: How ‘Magnum’ Set the Standard for ‘80s TV Detectives
The Hawaiian shirts. The short-short shorts. In 1980, CBS was in need of a Hawaii-set hit, and they found a P.I. for a new era.
By Keith Roysdon | December 4, 2020
By Tessa Wegert | December 4, 2020
My Heart Is a Chainsaw:
Cover Reveal!
By CrimeReads Excerpts | December 4, 2020
Who gets to be a sympathetic character in The Undoing?
By Olivia Rutigliano | December 3, 2020
Why the Serial Killer Novel Is the New Feminist Fiction
By Chelsea G. Summers | December 3, 2020
Suffer the Little Children: Why Kids Under Pressure Make for Great Thrillers
The literature of gifted schools, swim meets, and ballet recitals.
By Harriet Tyce | December 3, 2020
The Unconventional Private Eyes of Stanley Ellin
A master of the short story, Ellin's detective novels are now mostly forgotten. They shouldn't be.
By J. Kingston Pierce | December 2, 2020
