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    Ice Skating as an Education for Writing Crime Fiction

    It looks blithe and glamorous, but it's one of the most dangerous and cutthroat activities imaginable

    December 11, 2019  By J. D. Griffo
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    Every Stolen Breath

    Kimberly Gabriel

    "During advisory at the end of the day, while Mr. Mater drones on about a student council food drive and tryouts for the upcoming musical, I count three news teams on the school’s front lawn, waiting to ambush me the second I walk out the doors."

    December 11, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

    December 10, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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    7 Things Crime Readers Will No Longer Tolerate

    Crime fiction is getting harder to write—and that's a good thing.

    December 10, 2019  By Christopher Fowler
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    5 Mysteries Set Between the World Wars

    Why mystery writers are drawn to the 1920s and 30s.

    December 10, 2019  By Donis Casey
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    How Women Authors Are Reshaping the Horror Genre

    "The boogeyman in the closet isn’t an amorphous shape in the dark—It’s someone we know and trust."

    December 10, 2019  By Damien Angelica Walters
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    The Crime Novels of Christmas

    A merry rundown of crime fiction set during the holiday season.

    December 9, 2019  By Paul French
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    The Assassination of Thomas Doughty by the Brigand Sir Francis Drake

    Or, what the Doughty Affair reveals about piracy, superstition, and witchcraft in the 16th Century.

    December 9, 2019  By S.J. Parris
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    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    From the beginning, the novella has always gripped our attention.

    December 9, 2019  By Manning Wolfe
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    Anything For You

    Saul Black

    "When the intruder triggered the motion-sensitive security lights in his son and daughter-in-law’s backyard just after 2:00 a.m., seventy-four-year-old in-somniac Vincent Lyle was doing what he was always doing at that unforgiving hour; namely, sitting in the conservatory trying and failing to read Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections."

    December 9, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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