THIS WEEK: In 1988, Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis and based on Roderick Thorp’s 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, premieres at the AVCO theater in L.A.
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- Matthew Cox conned his victims out of millions. Now, he’s in jail, trying to make a career in true crime, writing his fellow inmates’ stories. Rachel Monroe reports. | The Atlantic
- Joe Brosnan reports from the front lines of Thrillerfest, where the best and the brightest of the world of thrillers gathers once a year. | Criminal Element
- The “secrets of the librarian” series meets Xhenet Aliu, who went from being a private investigator to a librarian, and the shift wasn’t as strange as you might think. | Book Marks
- Daniel Palmer picks up the “Edgar Awards Revisited” series with a closer look at the 1981 winner, Whip Hand, by Dick Francis, the master of the horse racing mystery. | Criminal Element
- Just in time for Longmire Days, your guide to author Craig Johnson’s long-running, fiercely loved Walt Longmire mysteries. From bookseller Scott Montgomery. | CrimeReads
- “These books function as both provocative power fantasies and feminist cautionary tales.” Layne Fargo recommends 8 thrillers featuring driven, ambitious women. | CrimeReads
- “The producers of Miami Vice had pulled off the Florida dream: They told a lie that came true.” Craig Pittman on the bright colors, cool attitude, and transformative power of Miami Vice. | CrimeReads
- Nile Cappello on Kate Warne, America’s first female detective and spy, who foiled an assassination attempt and paved the way for generations of women sleuth. | CrimeReads
- Nathan Ward on the life and crusades of Pete Panto, the longshoreman who fought for New York City’s workers and was killed because of it, making his name a rallying cry. | CrimeReads
- On the latest episode of Criminal Broads, Tori Telfer dives into the life of Nadezhda Popova, a commander of the Night Witches and the women who took on Nazis in WWII. | CrimeReads
- Maddie Day on the draw of the Midwest, America’s bread-and-butter, where small towns, community, and family make the perfect setting for a cozy mystery. | CrimeReads
- Sarah Weinman investigates the life of insatiably curious police-beat-reporter-turned-
crime writer Edna Buchanan, who defined an era of Miami—and crime—history. | CrimeReads - What makes true crime podcasts so binge-worthy? Alison Gaylin on her love of oral storytelling, and the similarities between your favorite podcast host and an unreliable narrator. | CrimeReads
- Two crime authors—one from Cuba, one Miami Cuban—talk noir, politics, and bridging cultures: a conversation between Leonardo Padura and Alex Segura. | CrimeReads
- Crime and the City’s Paul French heads to Bali looking for an island paradise and finds a growing crime literature exploring drugs, organized crime, and expat misbehavior. | CrimeReads
- With new adaptations of Pop. 1280 and Nightmare Alley announced, Zach Vasquez investigates why Hollywood will never stop making hardboiled noirs. | CrimeReads
- Forget clear purpose and resolve. Laura Purcell explores the crime fiction of doubt, from Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin to Emma Donoghue’s The Sealed Letter. | CrimeReads
