THIS WEEK: In 1896, Dr. H.H. Holmes, the notorious serial killer who lured dozens of victims to his Chicago “Murder Castle,” was hanged in a Philadelphia prison.
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- A sunny place for shady people: 12 essential Miami crime novels, from Willeford to Hiaasen to Garcia-Aguilera |CrimeReads
- Araminta Hall on silenced women, the psychological thriller, and subverting the male gaze. | CrimeReads
- Otto Penzler continues his exploration of mystery’s sub-genres with the eternal question: What is a thriller, anyway? |CrimeReads
- Motherhood Noir: 10 books that explore mothers’ fears and anxieties. | CrimeReads
- The nominees for the 2018 Anthony Awards are announced… | Bouchercon
- The making of a literary juggernaut: a history of the police procedural. | CrimeReads
- How Vancouver’s housing crisis gave rise to ‘real estate crime’ fiction. | Vice
- May 3, 1960: the day the world discovered America’s spy program. | CrimeReads
- The 20 best literary adaptations on Netflix, featuring lots and lots of crime. | Lit Hub
- Kristen Lepionka on finding inspiration in female detectives. | Criminal Element
- Jon Land prepares to take over a cozy gem: Murder, She Wrote. | Crime by the Book
- Spy games, house swaps, and trouble in Tangier: 9 debut crime novels to discover this spring. | CrimeReads
- The Texas biker lawyer who maybe belongs to a gang, and is also the Nueces County District Attorney. | Politico Mag
- What is a traditional mystery? The legendary Otto Penzler guides readers through mystery’s sub-genres. |CrimeReads
- Celebrating noir’s greatest outsiders, from Parker to Gravedigger Jones. | CrimeReads
- The New York attorneys who tried to make a racket out of wrongful conviction suits…by paying murder witnesses to recant their testimony. | The Marshall Project
- Stuart Neville and the evolution of Northern Irish crime fiction. | CrimeReads
- How the Iowa Lottery was infiltrated and cracked. | The New York Times Magazine
- Charting the long, tortured history of the hard-boiled novel. | CrimeReads
- The wonderful world of murder mystery comics. | Book Riot
- 10 mysteries that strike the perfect balance of story and history. | CrimeReads
- “Women can be strange and sexually active…it doesn’t make them ‘bad.’” Araminta Hall on exploring society’s double standards in her US debut. | Publishers Weekly
- 10 mysteries that strike the perfect balance of story and history. | CrimeReads
- The Christmas gift that freed Harper Lee to write To Kill a Mockingbird. | Lit Hub
