• Genres

    Columbo's First Case: How One of TV's Most Iconic Detectives Got His Start

    “Columbo” got a trial run on “Alfred Hitchcock” – and so did his first quarry.

    November 4, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

    November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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    10 Novels You Should Read This November

    New fiction from Alison Gaylin, William Boyle, and more.

    November 3, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

    "Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

    November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

    November 3, 2021  By Dietrich Kalteis
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    6 Great Books Featuring Father-Daughter Relationships

    Fictional families can be messy and twisted, but these books are dedicated to exploring complex and tender relationships over the destructive and perverse.

    November 3, 2021  By Kimi Cunningham Grant
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    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

    November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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    A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

    "I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

    November 2, 2021  By Eloísa Díaz
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