• Genres

    Noir in the Land of Enchantment

    "Conquered and reconquered, colonized and commodified, Santa Fe understands—from historical genocide to the murders of family members—the intimacy of violence."

    March 5, 2020  By Ariel Gore
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    The Rock Blaster

    Henning Mankell

    "A lamp on the bedside table casts a faint, pale light through its shade."

    March 5, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    In 1899, Arthur Conan Doyle Took Dictation for His Dying Friend's Mystery Novel

    Grant Allen was a bestselling science writer, almost done with his serial Hilda Wade when he fell ill

    March 4, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Sublime Isolation of the Scottish Isles

    Out of the way places make for the best mysteries, and other reasons why many a crime writer has heard the siren song of Scotland's 800+ islands.

    March 4, 2020  By Douglas Skelton
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    Online Sleuths, Cold Cases, and The Early Days of a Very Particular Hobby

    Lori Rader-Day and Deborah Halber discuss crime-solving communities and the Doe Network.

    March 4, 2020  By Lori Rader-Day
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    Fact, Fiction, and a DNA Surprise

    I usually take my plot ideas from real life headlines—but when a DNA test yielded an unexpected result, I decided to make my latest novel personal.

    March 4, 2020  By Betty Webb
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    The Body Double

    Emily Beyda

    "The plane is small, and I am the only one in it."

    March 4, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Double Indemnity isn’t
    about bad people—
    it’s about redemption

    It's not a movie about doing terrible things, it's a movie about making mistakes (and owning up to them).

    March 3, 2020  By Michael Ledwidge
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    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.

    March 3, 2020  By Daneet Steffens
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    She Lover of Death

    Boris Akunin

    "She spent several hours preparing for her meeting with Harlequin and left the house in good time, in order to make her first gala promenade through the streets of Moscow without hurrying and give the city a chance to admire its new inhabitant."

    March 3, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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