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    June's Best International Crime Fiction

    Post-Soviet noir, Egyptian social criticism, Japanese metafiction, and a thriller from France

    June 13, 2024  By Molly Odintz
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    The Lure of Faraway Places in Crime Fiction

    Kimberly Belle on great expat thrillers.

    June 13, 2024  By Kimberly Belle
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    Quiz: Can You Identify These Opening Lines of Classic Mystery and Crime Novels?

    How well do you remember these famous first sentences?

    June 12, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Lovely, Dark and Deep: Why the Pacific Northwest is the Perfect Setting for Murder 

    Sarah Crouch on a perfect mystery region.

    June 12, 2024  By Sarah Crouch
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    The Lure of the Jailhouse Confessional 

    From 'Lolita' to 'The Stranger,' confessional novels draw readers in only to upend expectations.

    June 12, 2024  By Carol LaHines
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    The Spy Who Helped Bring the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back from the Brink of Nuclear War

    "In 1983 a man named Oleg Gordievsky saved the world."

    June 12, 2024  By Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood
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    James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against Fascism

    Another wide-ranging conversation on the state of a nation's soul.

    June 11, 2024  By David Masciotra
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    Queering Crime Stories: Establishing a New Order in Mysteries and Thrillers

    "What if, by the end of a mystery, we don’t want to return to where we were but to a new place of openness and acceptance"

    June 11, 2024  By John Copenhaver
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    On Body Shaming, Women's Rage, and the Power of the Thriller

    Channel your anger at Diet Culture with these fiercely defiant works of psychological suspense

    June 11, 2024  By Lori Brand
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    Why Humor is one of the Sharpest Tools in a Writer’s Arsenal

    Levity doesn't undercut the power of a novel—it amplifies the emotional weight of a scene

    June 11, 2024  By Rob Hart
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