THIS WEEK: In 1982, Ridley Scott’s neo-noir sci-fi detective story, Bladerunner, (inspired by Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) premiered.
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- Matt Coleman and Alex Segura round up the essential reads of Florida detective fiction, from Miami Purity to Birds of Paradise. | BookRiot
- “[I]t’s impossible to understand gay life in twentieth-century America without reckoning with the dark stories.” Caleb Crain reviews James Polchin’s new true crime history, Indecent Advances. | The New Yorker
- Akemi Johnson on the murder of Rina Shimabukuro, and why one crime tells the story of U.S.-Japan relations in Okinawa. | Lit Hub
- The “Edgar Awards Revisited” series continues with a look at an innovative spy thriller about a Russian defector and a poet, William H. Hallahan’s Catch Me: Kill Me. | Criminal Element
- The summer solstice has come and gone, and the year is near half-over, which means it’s time to take stock of 2019’s best crime books (so far). | CrimeReads
- Michael Gonzales gives us a brief history of the heroes of black pulp fiction, from Shaft, to Ghost Dog, to Donald Goines’ Kenyatta. | CrimeReads
- “Invisible, dispensable and powerless all his young life, Udham’s promise of revenge turned him into a hero-in-waiting…” Anita Anand on Udham Singh and the long struggle for postcolonial justice. | CrimeReads
- Christin Brecher recommends mystery-inspired board games for the whole family, from 221B Baker Street to a vintage version of Murder, She Wrote. | CrimeReads
- “At its heart, therapy is about mystery.” Bev Thomas on the surprising similarities between detective fiction and therapy. | CrimeReads
- “In the Reena Virk case, the truth really was stranger than fiction.” Rebecca Godfrey on craft, the power of teenage rumors, and her classic true crime book, Under the Bridge. | CrimeReads
- “I think the gene is in my DNA.” David Morrell talks genre writing and the real-life hardships that have shaped his stories, interviewed by Mark Rubinstein. | CrimeReads
- Summer is the perfect time for international crime fiction, and we’ve rounded up June’s best new imports, from Swedish thrillers to Cuban detective novellas. | CrimeReads
- Felicity McLean on gothic literature in Australia, where the sun hangs heavy in the sky, the familiar turns to horror in an instant, and terror unfolds in broad daylight. | CrimeReads
- Tim Mason on Charles Dickens and the real life detectives who inspired his work (and also humored him when he insisted on tagging along for their investigations). | CrimeReads
- Adam Mitzner rounds up 7 financial thrillers about shadowy trades, shell companies, and the sometimes fatal games of high finance. | CrimeReads
- Nancie Clare on finding her name in Cara Black’s latest mystery, and the under-appreciated art of naming fictional characters. | CrimeReads
- Crime fiction, like real-life, is full of liars, and Sarah Gailey is looking at some of her favorite mysteries about dishonesty, deception, and truth-stretching tales. | CrimeReads
- Caroline Louise Walker examines the long tradition of doctors serving as the great villains of crime fiction, from Dr. Jekyll to Hannibal Lecter. | CrimeReads
