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    Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores

    Massimo Carlotto

    "Max reappeared a half hour later wearing a sponge robe  and cradling a fruit-and-veggie smoothie."

    February 17, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    A Crime Reader's Antidote to Valentine's Day

    12 psychological thrillers to read this Valentine’s Day if you (like me) will be spending the evening at home, alone, drinking wine on the couch, with your cat next to you.

    February 14, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    True Romance: 7 Noir Love Stories

    This Valentine's Day, consider some noir counter-programming.

    February 14, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Violent Delights, Violent Ends: 5 Savage Cinematic Visions of Romeo and Juliet

    Shakespeare's great romance is also a wickedly violent story of tribalism, vengeance, and blood.

    February 14, 2020  By Zach Vasquez
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    The Pleasure (Reading) of Impending Doom

    A selection of books from the end of the world.

    February 14, 2020  By Tosca Lee
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    The Chill

    Scott Carlson

    "Deshawn Ryan came out of one hole in the ground and walked thirteen blocks through the rain to reach the next."

    February 14, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Cold Cases of History: The Murder of Juan Borgia

    500 years ago, a scion of the infamous Borgias was murdered. Plenty had reason to murder him, but the exact culprit has never been discovered.

    February 13, 2020  By Alyssa Palombo
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    How Charles Dickens Presaged the Rise of True Crime Podcasts

    Barnaby Rudge was a new kind of 'crime' story, with an unresolved murder tale which unfolded orally and serially. Today's podcasters are chasing the same magic.

    February 13, 2020  By Susan Cook
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    The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

    Stories of waiting, of hoping, and of half-lives.

    February 13, 2020  By Kathleen Donohoe
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    The Ruins

    Mat Osman

    "I was about to start the earthquake when the phone rang. It wasn’t to be a big earthquake—I was thinking of two, maybe three hundred dead."

    February 13, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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