THIS WEEK: William Golding was born in 1911
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- A profile of Attica Locke, whose star is rising in Hollywood and in the literary world, and whose new book has everyone in the crime community enthralled. | The Washington Post
- Susannah Grant, showrunner for the new Netflix series Unbelievable, talks with Lila Shapiro about crafting a true crime story without resorting to “rape porn.” | Vulture
- “You can’t have a Final Girl without her counterpart. For one girl to be left standing, the others must fall.” Lindsay King-Miller writes a love letter to the girls who die first in horror movies. | Electric Literature
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2019 has been an incredible year for crime fiction—and there’s still plenty more to come! Here’s 85 (more) books to look forward to in 2019, including new works from Attica Locke, Craig Johnson, John Grisham, and many more. | CrimeReads
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“Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of Ralph Dennis.” Lee Goldberg gives a lost series of the 70s a new chance in print. | CrimeReads
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Three years after the TV series wrap, Craig Johnson is still crafting complex worlds for Walt Longmire—and readers are still connecting.| CrimeReads
- Scarlett Harris gives us a side-by-side reading of two new books that capture the true crime zeitgeist: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, and Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites. | CrimeReads
- “Of all the actors in the human drama, none is expected to be as benevolent, as self-sacrificing and noble, as the Mother.” Evelyn Toynton gives us a miscellany of monstrous mothers. | CrimeReads
- Reed Farrel Coleman on “borrowing from the headlines” to continue a beloved Robert B. Parker series. | CrimeReads
- Ryan Steck rounds up all the best action thrillers to read this month, including new releases from Kyle Mills, Craig Johnson, Reed Farrel Coleman, and more! | CrimeReads
- Paul Doiron offers a close read of the 1990 Edgar Award winner, Black Cherry Blues, from crime master James Lee Burke. | Criminal Element
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Martin Edwards investigates the revived passion for Golden Age detective fiction, and what it says about today’s readers. | CrimeReads
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Ryan Steck rounds up the month’s best action thrillers, including new books from Sean Parnell, Kyle Mills, and Reed Farrel Coleman. | CrimeReads
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Zach Vasquez on “sleaze noir” and the (mostly) forgotten crime classic, Vice Squad—“one of the most underrated and underseen thrillers of the ’80s.” | CrimeReads
- “Do you ever really know those closest to you? How much do you truly know about your spouse?” Gina LaManna on twisted marriages and dangerous thrillers. | CrimeReads
- Matthew Pearl on the isolated anxieties of artists, and what writers ought to learn from Dante. | CrimeReads
- Sarah Lotz looks at eight novels about detectives who live on the fringes and investigate as outsiders. | CrimeReads
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is having a moment on TV. Nile Cappello looks at some of the rare real-life examples of this chilling phenomenon. | CrimeReads
- S.D. Sykes on Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic masterpiece “The Masque of Red Death” and why it will never die. | CrimeReads
