• Genres

    The Comfort of Crime Novels

    “Crime novels are comforting not in spite of their darkness, but because of it.”

    March 8, 2018  By Emily Winslow
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    The Temptation of Forgiveness

    Donna Leon

    "On his desk, Brunetti found what he did not want to find, a file that had been accumulating pages ever since its first appearance in the Questura."

    March 8, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Laura Lippman on James M. Cain's Transgressive Noir

    Crime Fiction’s Most Reluctant Icon

    March 7, 2018  By Laura Lippman
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    Scott Turow: Trials Are All About Storytelling

    On War Crimes, Trial Lawyers, and Courtroom Drama

    March 7, 2018  By Mark Rubinstein
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    Jim Crow Stories Made Me Want
    to Write Spy Fiction

    Spy Fiction and the Black American Experience

    March 7, 2018  By Jason Overstreet
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    The Winter Station

    Jody Shields

    "When Andreev said two bodies had been discovered outside the Kharbin train station, the Baron had an image of the dead men sprawled against snow, frozen in positions their bodies couldn’t hold in life."

    March 6, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Woman in the Window

    A.J. Finn

    “My French leçon today, and Les Diaboliques tonight. A rat-bastard husband, his “little ruin” of a wife, a mistress, a murder, a vanished corpse.”

    March 6, 2018  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Neither Vamp Nor Victim: Sara Paretsky on the Feminist Awakening That Led to V.I. Warshawski

    Fighting for Equality, from a Kansas Campus to the South Side of Chicago

    January 4, 2018  By Sara Paretsky
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    Why I Turned From Writing Romantic Comedies to Thrillers

    On Switching Genres and Discovering a New Way of Writing

    November 17, 2017  By C.L. Taylor
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    Cold War Noir: 10 Novels That Defined an Anxious Era

    From Greene to le Carré to Putin v. Trump, Cold War Stories Are Still in the Air

    October 26, 2017  By John Lawton
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