• Genres

    Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

    Deepa Anappara

    "Our school is locked up behind a six-foot wall with barbed wire on top, and an iron gate that has a door painted purple."

    February 7, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Great Los Angeles Crime Novel—And the Women Who Are Revitalizing It

    2020 Brings a Dazzling Array of Women-Authored LA Mysteries

    February 6, 2020  By Wendy Heard
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    Secret Histories: Eight Compelling Crime Novels About People Haunted by Their Pasts

    The past is never dead. Especially in a good crime novel.

    February 6, 2020  By Harry Dolan
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    The Novelist and the Medical Examiner: A Love Story

    A Married Couple Talks Collaborative Writing, Expertise, and Finding Your Niche

    February 6, 2020  By Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
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    My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy

    In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

    February 5, 2020  By Kathy Peiss
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    Concrete Jungle: Nairobi's Unique Brand of Noir

    In a city of the displaced, searching for crime fiction is an act of excavation.

    February 5, 2020  By Peter Kimani
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    Real Life

    Adeline Dieudonné

    "One summer evening, my mother had made peaches stuffed with tuna, which we ate on the blue stone terrace overlooking the garden."

    February 5, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

    The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

    February 4, 2020  By Sam Wasson
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    The Creepiest Families in Fiction

    "What could be more commonplace, or more potentially toxic, than family life?"

    February 4, 2020  By Sophie Hannah
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    Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

    From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.

    February 4, 2020  By Sarah Pinborough
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