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    The Best Live Episodes of Your Favorite True Crime Podcasts

    The Best Live Episodes of Your Favorite True Crime Podcasts

    These charismatic hosts know how to pull off the trickiest feat in showbiz: the live radio show.

    By Emily Stein | December 5, 2019

    The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan

    The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan

    Its motto was “the smallest village with the brightest future”—until the massacre.

    By Shōko Egawa | December 3, 2019

    Alaska: Northern Noir

    Alaska: Northern Noir

    Crime fiction has found a strange home in the cold wilds of Alaska.

    By Paul French | December 2, 2019

    The 10 Best True Crime Books of the Last Decade

    The 10 Best True Crime Books of the Last Decade

    A literary genre evolves—and gets its moment in the spotlight.

    By CrimeReads | November 21, 2019

    How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13

    How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13

    In the 1980s, L.A. was a mecca for street gangs. When civil war drove thousands of Salvadorans there, a violent new culture grew.

    By Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez | November 21, 2019

    A Tale of Two Sex Worker <br>Heist Stories

    A Tale of Two Sex Worker
    Heist Stories

    Aya de Leon on Hustlers, social justice, and the complicated intersection of feminism and crime.

    By Aya de Leon | November 21, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
    • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
    • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
    • Queen of Lombard Street
    • Paradise Burns
    • Doppelgänger
    • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
    • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
    • The Turning of Sally-Mae

    True Crime, Identity Theft, and
    the Long Shadow of
    Family Fraud

    By Sarah Rosenthal | November 18, 2019

    25 Years Later, Reconsidering the Fallout from Heavenly Creatures

    By Nile Cappello | November 15, 2019

    Richard Jewell and the Night of the Atlanta Olympics Bombing

    By Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen | November 15, 2019

    Brooklyn Bad Boyz: <br>The Night I Was Shot

    Brooklyn Bad Boyz:
    The Night I Was Shot

    In 2011, Michael Gonzales was shot on his doorstep in Brooklyn. Unexpectedly, the bullet traced back to a legendary hip-hop feud.

    By Michael Gonzales | November 13, 2019

    Escape from Berlin! <br>Zookeeper Edition

    Escape from Berlin!
    Zookeeper Edition

    Gerd Morgen wanted out from East Germany—so he hatched an ingenious plan to stow away with a moose on its way to the West.

    By J.W. Mohnhaupt | November 12, 2019

    What to Watch in November: Your Guide to the Month's Essential Crime TV

    What to Watch in November: Your Guide to the Month's Essential Crime TV

    The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.

    By Camille LeBlanc | November 8, 2019

    5 True Crime Books to Read This November

    5 True Crime Books to Read This November

    Public Safety Crises, Accused Innocents, and Kremlin Assassins

    By CrimeReads | November 7, 2019

    7 International True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

    7 International True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

    The true crime podcast phenomenon has officially gone global.

    By Paul French | November 7, 2019

    On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century

    On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century

    How the salacious double murder of a minister and a choir member in 1922 inspired one of the earliest legal thrillers.

    By Hank Phillippi Ryan | November 4, 2019

    CrimeReads Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of October

    CrimeReads Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of October

    Charles Willeford's Miami, Richard Wright's crime novel, and the cultural legacy of Nancy Drew.

    By CrimeReads | October 31, 2019

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