THIS WEEK: On July 30th, 1935, the first paperback books were released. The new format was introduced by Allen Lane and his new publishing house, Penguin.
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- Wondering what to read on that cross-country road trip? Tina Jordan and Ross MacDonald recommend a true crime book for every state. | The New York Times
- True crime fandom can offer family members of the murdered and missing incredible resources in solving cold cases. Britt Peterson reports.| Washington Post Magazine
- Laura Miller on the 1995 murder that may have influenced one of the year’s biggest books, Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. | Slate
- Tobias Carroll identifies a new literary trend with a series of books chronicling secret histories and mysterious societies. | Mystery Tribune
- The CrimeReads staff rounds up some of the best crime and mystery books to read this August, featuring new works from Lisa Lutz, Ruth Ware, Alex Segura, Rob Hart, Javier Marias, and many more! | CrimeReads
- “There’s an internal kind of claustrophobia that translates to any setting.” Shari Lapena on the nautre of suspence. | CrimeReads
- “Gunfights are chaos events. They make no sense, can never make sense. They are over in seconds.” Stephen Hunter gives us six pointers on how to write realistic gunfights. | CrimeReads
- Grisly-looking fruit, flesh-covering flora, and ominous swingsets: here are July’s most eye-catching book covers. | CrimeReads
- “Expect investigations proceeding on rainslick streets at night; elaborately choreographed gun duels and all-out brawls with everyday items.” Tanner Tafelski gives us a primer on the essential cinema of Korean Noir. | CrimeReads
- Mobsters at the docks, detectives on the frontier, and bunch of people in Miami: the CrimeReads staffers pick our favorite stories of the month. | CrimeReads
- Carrie Stuart Parks on the little-known facts and widely-believed fictions of forensic art, from courtroom sketches to facial reconstructions. | CrimeReads
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“The Evangelical pastor is just another shade of the American cowboy, whose latter-day shadow is the American detective.” Patrick Coleman on noir and spiritual striving. | CrimeReads
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Kalisha Buckhanon on growing up amidst an epidemic of missing black women, and gradually coming to understand the dangers of an indifferent system. | CrimeReads
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Chandler Baker on the rise of workplace thrillers, corporate noirs, and all the other new crime books that will make you feel a little better about your own job. | CrimeReads
- ”The killer is gone, evidence is scarce and there are no eyewitnesses to the crime.” Megan Goldin puzzles out our enduring fascination with locked-room mysteries. | CrimeReads
- Lisa Levy traces the evolution of the true crime memoir, from Anne Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me to Leah Carroll’s Down City. | CrimeReads
- In the 50th installment of Crime and the City, Paul French takes a look at the crime novels of Buenos Aires and a long tradition of socially incisive noir. | CrimeReads
- The Edo Tokyo museum is a researching crime writer’s paradise. Susan Spann takes us inside. | CrimeReads
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