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    Michael Elias

    "From my bedroom window, I had a view of the woods behind our house, a Catskill forest speckled with tall red black spruce, thick balsam fir, and slender mountain ash."

    June 24, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Literary Visions of the Female Sociopath

    From Euripides to Gone Girl, fictional sociopaths have always given vent to feminist rage.

    June 23, 2020  By Nicola Maye Goldberg
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    How Modern Thrillers Are Exploring Kink and Pushing the Boundaries of Sexual Fantasy

    The lovers in these thrillers take “spicing up their relationship” to the dark side.

    June 23, 2020  By Robyn Harding
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    Five Novels of Insomnia, Sleepwalking, and Fear of Slumber

    Can't Sleep? These Suspense Characters Can't Either!

    June 23, 2020  By Megan Miranda
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    Crime Fiction and the Close, Sometimes Twisted Bonds of Sisterhood

    Whether searching for sisters or covering up their crimes, the bonds of family are tightest in crime fiction.

    June 23, 2020  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir

    These authors are using noir to capture a new era's zeitgeist.

    June 22, 2020  By Shelley Blanton-Stroud
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    The Uneasy Noirs of
    Stephen King

    From Bachman to The Outsider, King revels in subtly subverting the rules of mystery.

    June 22, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    There Are More Crime Books with Girl in the Title Than We Ever Imagined

    The Great Disambiguation Project marches on through a crowded field of "girl" books.

    June 22, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Can You Really Separate Edgar Allan Poe's Work from His Life?

    Sarah Weinman on "the Gordian knot holding together Poe's tumultuous life and fragmented personality with his body of work"—and an audacious biography.

    June 19, 2020  By Sarah Weinman
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    How to Write Legal Thrillers That Won't Drive Lawyers Crazy with Mistakes and Inventions

    I Object...To Unrealistic Courtroom Drama

    June 19, 2020  By Craig Pittman
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