THIS WEEK: In 1929, Ira Levin, best known for his books Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, was born.
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- Joe Ford, car detective, searches for valuable stolen vehicles all over the world. Stayton Bonner reports on Ford’s current quest to track down a $7 million stolen car. | Esquire
- Gabino Iglesias looks at how horror maestro Laird Barron bridges the gap between “cosmic horror and pulpy noir.” | LARB
- “By the time Michael killed Bridget, everyone else knew that she was a real person.” Sady Doyle on the 19th century man who believed his wife was a changeling. | Lit Hub
- For those who think that grit and humor go together like chalk and cheese, here’s a list of 15 books as gritty as they are funny, as selected by Greg Levin. | Criminal Element
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Danny Caine, owner and operator of the Raven Bookstore, talks to CrimeReads about books, Sara Paretsky, books, handselling, books, Amazon, and more books. | CrimeReads
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Academia is brutal. Here are twelve campus mysteries and research noirs to cushion the back-to-school blow. | CrimeReads
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“When I write women I’m thinking about what I want to put out in the universe.” Lisa Lutz, interviewed by Olivia Rutligliano, talks feminism, puns, and her new novel, The Swallows.| CrimeReads
- Radha Vatsal on five iconic visual motifs from Hitchcock, and how the director used these signifiers to create suspense. | CrimeReads
- A police officer’s widow, a war nurse, and “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes”: a look at the trailblazing women detectives of the 19th century, from Olivia Rutigliano. CrimeReads
- Edwin Hill on the best books to understand Boston’s most infamous crimes of the past 60 years. | CrimeReads
- In the latest episode of Criminal Broads, Tori Telfer presents the story of Kathy Kleiner, the young woman who survived an attack by Ted Bundy. | CrimeReads
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From the 1850s to the present day, Paul French gives us a brief history of Madrid’s many crime writers in the latest installment of Crime and the City. | CrimeReads
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J. L. Doucette had just finished her first mystery novel when a startling discovery changed her perspective on writing about violence. | CrimeReads
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Brenna Ehrlich on the death of a beloved teacher, and how Robert Cormier’s dark YA novels helped her grieve and heal. | CrimeReads
- Luc Sante on Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada, a classic caper novel with revolutionary overtones, and a response to violence and radical politics in the 1970s. | CrimeReads
- John Marrs recommends seven novels that remind us that “there is virtually nowhere on earth where you can truly escape from technology.” | CrimeReads
- L.A. Chandlar takes us on a tour of turn-of-the-century New York City’s forgotten Art Deco treasures. | CrimeReads
- Rob Hart, interviewed by Lisa Levy, on the rise of corporate noir, finishing his Ash McKenna series, and writing his new breakout thriller, The Warehouse. | CrimeReads
