• Genres

    In the Shadow of Vesuvius

    Tasha Alexander

    "Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others."

    February 10, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

    HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

    February 7, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    American Dirt Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars

    American Dirt may be trauma porn, but that doesn't mean that a novel engaged with politics has to be literary—on the contrary, commercial fiction reaches a far wider audience.

    February 7, 2020  By Aya de Leon
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    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    February 7, 2020  By Christina McDonald
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    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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