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Dwyer Murphy January 8, 2025

Dwyer Murphy

Dwyer Murphy's new book is The House on Buzzards Bay, available June 24, 2025 from Viking Books. He is the author of An Honest Living and The Stolen Coast, both of which were New York Times Editors’ Choice selections. He is the editor in chief of Literary Hub‘s CrimeReads vertical

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Dwyer Murphy

Crime Reads Brief

Jennifer Givhan on Monstrous Mothers, Headless Women, and Writing Symbolic Horror

Max Doty on Concepting, Erasure, and Building a House in His New Novel

Brianna Labuskes on Reckoning and Using Memory as a Tool in Crime Fiction

Charles-Henri Lavielle on Toulouse, Settings, and Seeing Cities Anew Through Noir

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