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    Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

    Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

    "Forgiveness is not about forgetting; it is about understanding."

    By Adam Mitzner | August 27, 2024

    Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

    Love Kills the Demon: 30 Years of Natural Born Killers

    Looking back at the controversial reception and tangled legacy of the blood-soaked 1994 film.

    By Martyn Conterio | August 26, 2024

    Dark Desert Highway: My Favorite (Scary) Road Trips In Literature

    Dark Desert Highway: My Favorite (Scary) Road Trips In Literature

    Anna Downes goes on a winding journey through the best horror novels set on the road

    By Anna Downes | August 26, 2024

    An Ode to Charles Willeford

    An Ode to Charles Willeford

    First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of American crime fiction fans.

    By Michael Ledwidge | August 23, 2024

    Criminally Beautiful: Crime Novels with a Focus on Nature

    Criminally Beautiful: Crime Novels with a Focus on Nature

    "Nature can be a helpful accomplice or a wicked adversary."

    By Ayla Rose | August 23, 2024

    Of Psychopaths and CEOs

    Of Psychopaths and CEOs

    On the rise of entrepreneurs who act like "Greek gods—mercurial, sometimes destructive, and murkily in control of our lives."

    By Elisabeth Eaves | August 22, 2024

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    William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

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    Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

    Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

    A list of books featuring characters whose "willingness to transgress...can be both horrifying and thrilling"

    By Kailee Pederson | August 21, 2024

    On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

    On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

    Some decisions we make. Some are made for us. Fiction needs to acknowledge what we can (and can't) change.

    By James Wade | August 21, 2024

    The Dynamism of Growth: William Kent Krueger on Milestones and Making the Familiar Fresh Again

    The Dynamism of Growth: William Kent Krueger on Milestones and Making the Familiar Fresh Again

    The author discusses 20 novels with Cork O'Connor

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    Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

    Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

    "All fiction is speculative....But somewhere there is a line between reality and fiction, a gap filled with imagination rather than truth"

    By Bridget Collins | August 21, 2024

    The Admirable Uncertainty of the Antidetective Novel

    The Admirable Uncertainty of the Antidetective Novel

    Cousin to the metaphysical detective novel, the antidetective story casts doubt on "detection itself"

    By Eugenie Montague | August 20, 2024

    Thrillers in Which Characters Actually Get to Have Fun

    Thrillers in Which Characters Actually Get to Have Fun

    Rachel Koller Croft on crime fiction characters who can chill

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    Genre Drift: Mysteries with Speculative Touches

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