THIS WEEK: On July 23rd, 1888, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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- Norris Eppes looks at the rise of rural noir, and talks with some of the authors helping the genre thrive, including Attica Locke, Ace Atkins, Karin Slaughter, and many more. | The Bitter Southerner
- On Paul Gonzales, the freeloader who got his online dates to pay for their expensive meals together, only to have his former paramours seek vengeance. Jeff Maysh reports. | Daily Beast
- Rehashing the Genre Wars: Crime writers respond to Colm Tóibín’s dismissal of “genre fiction” and its supposedly boring, arrhythmic prose. | The Irish Times
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Zach Vasquez rounds up the best Hollywood-set noirs, just in time for this weekend’s premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Hollywood. | CrimeReads
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Rachel DeLoache Williams on the bizarre and uncomfortable experience of being conned by Anna Delvey, the pretend heiress who took Manhattinites for thousands. | CrimeReads
- Daniel Nieh recommends all the international crime fiction a globetrotter could need, from Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, to John Burdett’s Bangkok 8. | CrimeReads
- From a high school reunion in France, to a crooked house in the mountains of Japan, here are all the international crime books to check out this month. | CrimeReads
- “Why couldn’t I have been born at least a century sooner and witnessed history? Somehow, I failed to grasp that I was doing so.” Wendy Corsi Staub on writing about the recent past. | CrimeReads
- Maggie Gee dives into 5 crime novels out this year that use dark comedy to grapple with “the mad, anarchic, adversarial Brexit spirit.” | CrimeReads
- Owen Matthews looks back on 5 Cold War espionage classics that capture the high stakes and moral murkiness of a shadowy conflict. | CrimeReads
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“To me, it’s a unicorn of a book—a so-called women’s novel, written by a man, that takes its heroine very seriously.” Laura Lippman on the subtle magic of Marjorie Morningstar. | CrimeReads
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“The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.” We’re celebrating Chandler’s greatest opening lines. | CrimeReads
- Lisa Levy looks at crime writers who worked across genres and forms, with a closer study of Sara Paretsky’s dissertation, Vera Caspary’s memoir, and more surprises. | CrimeReads
- Ashley Dyer, a partnership between a writer and a forensics expert, celebrates the literary and investigative merits of The Silence of the Lambs, the seminal serial killer novel. | CrimeReads
- After 20 years of Aimée Leduc mysteries, author Cara Black reflects on Paris, chic crime fiction, and finding inspiration in the city’s distinctive arrondissements. | CrimeReads
