THIS WEEK: After more than 40 years, Sacramento police announced they had arrested a suspect in the Golden State Killer case. Public interest in the case was recently sparked by Michelle McNamara’s book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
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- Jean-Patrick Manchette, the man who revolutionized crime fiction and exposed the chaos and hypocrisies of postwar France. | The Paris Review
- How pop culture made serial killers into celebrities, and why that should frighten all of us. | CrimeReads
- Neighbors recall strange and frightening incidents from the man arrested on suspicion of being the Golden State Killer. | Sacramento Bee
- Glamorous nights on the town and exotic vacations with the New York City socialite-heiress who turned out to be a serial con artist. | Vanity Fair
- Joe R. Lansdale talks with Scott Montgomery about religion in the South, a divided nation, and the evolution of his crime fighting odd couple, Hap and Leonard. | CrimeReads
- “He affixed Post-It notes over his computer’s webcam so that the CIA couldn’t spy on him. He invested in gold. Most of all, he hatched plans to escape.” The wakeboarder and con artist who who wanted to disappear. | GQ
- How a Rothschild scion amassed the world’s largest collection of birds, then lost it all to blackmail.| CrimeReads
- Michelle McNamara’s researcher, Paul Haynes, on the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, and how he thinks the Golden State Killer case was cracked. | Slate
- Can Grit Lit make the move from rural America to Britain? | CrimeReads
- Inside a movement of sheriffs who believe they are the last and final word on constitutionality. | The New Yorker
- Inside a legendary Sherlock Holmes extravaganza. | CrimeReads
- Diplomacy Noir: the international bureaucrat as sleuth, from Graham Greene to Javier Marías to Hilary Mantel.| CrimeReads
- On 4/20, we looked at 17 of the greatest Stoner Mysteries of all-time. | CrimeReads
- Korean Noir: Crime and the City travels to Korea and looks at crime fiction in the South and the North, Seoul and Pyongyang. | CrimeReads
- On Margaret Millar, the author “who more or less invented the mystery subgenre dubbed ‘psychological suspense,'” and the new omnibus edition of her works. | The Wall Street Journal
- The yoga class that became a cult led by women. | CrimeReads
- “For women writers, the genre is an apt tool for subversion against the crimes they are subjected to”: The women crime writers changing the landscape of Indian detective fiction. | The India Times
- A history of Mediterranean Noir, from Cain to Camus to Khadra. | CrimeReads
- The legendary judge who reformed California’s notorious prison system, and is now watching from the sidelines as the fight swings the other way. | The Marshall Project
- How a family memoir became a global true crime investigation. | CrimeReads
