THIS WEEK: In 1892, the Borden family was killed in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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- From Christi Daugherty, an in-depth look at Elmore Leonard’s classic Miami Noir, La Brava, which won the 1984 Edgar Award for Best Novel. | Criminal Element
- Sarah Weinman on Ed Sanders, the poet, folksinger, and activist who became an unlikely authority on the Manson Family murders. | Poetry Foundation
- Brad Willis has spent 18 years digging into a double murder from 1975. Here, he details his investigation—and the numerous attempts to stop it. | The Bitter Southerner
- A.M. Stuart relays a brief history of fingerprinting in the 19th century, a technological breakthrough on par with some of the century’s best achievements. | Criminal Element
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Lisa Levy rounds up the best new psychological thrillers coming to a bookstore near you this August. | CrimeReads
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Laura McHugh didn’t see her life reflected in pop culture—until she found rural noir. On culture, honesty, and belonging. | CrimeReads
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For all the writers out there checking their reader reviews, take heart: Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment gets plenty of one-star reviews, too. We collected the best 25. | CrimeReads
- Halley Sutton on macabre historical sightseeing, an evolving city, and Los Angeles’s Charles Manson-inspired bus-tours. | CrimeReads
- “The story of the madman genius who never sold a painting in his lifetime, cut off his ear and shot himself is compelling. It is also, for the most part, untrue.” Clare Clark on Van Gogh and his many forgers. | CrimeReads
- Curtis Evans revisits Anna Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case, once the most popular mystery novel in the world, then the subject of a century’s worth of criticism. | CrimeReads
- Radha Vatsal guides us through Kitab Khana, Mumbai’s biggest English-language bookstore, where the crime is shelved amongst the classics. | CrimeReads
- Priscilla Royal on the complicated art of staying historically accurate while writing a mystery novel set in the Middle Ages—and still appealing to readers in the twenty-first-century. | CrimeR
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Derek Milman on how North by Northwest’s meticulous set-pieces, bewildering action, and an iconic gray suit changed action movies forever. | CrimeReads
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“Nothing is ever easy in the world of crime fiction, so why should parenthood get a pass?” Haylen Beck on 8 books where psychological terror stems from parent-child dynamics. | CrimeReads
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Hallie Ephron celebrates crime authors who use unreliable narrators and warped realities to tell mysteries that readers still have a chance to solve. | CrimeReads
- Authors Carolyn Murnick and Alex Segura discuss the trope of the Dead Girl and grapple with the role of violence against women in literature. | CrimeReads
- “War is hell. It’s also a gut-wrenching mystery, a band of brothers, a life-changing gate of fire.” Siobhan Adcock on fiction that explores the experience of veterans. | CrimeReads
- “By the time Gotti took over as boss, the FBI already had some key informants close to his inner circle.” Anthony DeStefano on the capture of crime boss John Gotti. | CrimeReads
