• Genres

    Tana French Talks Westerns, Folklore, and The Comfort of Crime Fiction

    "I think one of the reasons we read (and write) crime novels is to understand and process dark places, and this year definitely counts."

    November 5, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    How to Gracefully Subject Your Detectives to the Vicissitudes of Time

    "A series in which the protagonist ages with the years becomes in effect a long novel, the record of a life..."

    November 5, 2020  By Dominic Martell
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    Erskine Childers: Gentleman, Spy Novelist, and Gunrunner for the IRA

    How did the aristocratic author of English’s first great spy novel end up dead in the Irish Civil War?

    November 4, 2020  By H.B. Lyle
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    6 Books Featuring Dark Anti-Heroines Who Test the Limits of Morality

    Who needs a traditional hero when you can have all that tortured, selfish, maybe fundamentally immoral striving?

    November 4, 2020  By Susie Yang
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    A Guide to Deciding Whether Your Fictional Character Is a Vigilante or a Straight-Up Killer

    Sometimes the line between serial killer and avenging crusader is perilously thin.

    November 4, 2020  By Layne Fargo
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    The War of the Poor 

    Éric Vuillard

    "And so, from the four corners of the empire surged the destitute hordes."

    November 4, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How the Discovery of a Rare Pink Diamond Led One Reporter into the World of Thrillers

    Matthew Hart wrote about diamonds and gold. One day, he got the call from Brazil—an 81-carater came out of the river.

    November 3, 2020  By Matthew Hart
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    A Few Thoughts and Speculations on the State of Irish Crime Fiction

    John Connolly on the current generation of Irish crime novelists and crime readers.

    November 3, 2020  By John Connolly
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    In a Pandemic World, We're All Engaging in Speculative Fiction

    Fiction writers have long tried to figure out how the world, and our relationship to it, might change after cataclysm.

    November 3, 2020  By Ariel S. Winter
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    A Galway Epiphany

    Ken Bruen

    "Danny Doherty called me, said he had news."

    November 3, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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