THIS WEEK: Audiences worldwide tune in to the hit show Dallas to find out the answer to the summer’s biggest question: “Who shot J.R.?”
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Sean Carswell takes a close look at James Gunn’s 1942 novel Deadlier than the Male and Gilles Deleuze’s essay “The Philosophy of Crime Novels.” | LARB
- “Some things just never go out of style. Like nostalgia.” Angie Barry looks back at the 1999 Edgar Award-winner for Best Novel, Robert Clark’s Mr. White’s Confession. | Criminal Element
- A Chinatown prequel is headed to Netflix, courtesy of Robert Towne and David Fincher, and the crime fiction world is abuzz. (Not really, but hopefully we’ll get there.) | Deadline
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Heidi Blake on how the Kremlin’s assassins sowed terror through the streets of London while British authorities raced to stop them. | Buzzfeed News
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“For a compelling story, something has to squeak.” Annaleese Jochems looks at literature’s most disruptive third wheels. | CrimeReads
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We’re ringing out the decade by rounding up the ten best true crime books of the 2010s. Featuring works by David Grann, Michelle McNamara, Jeff Guinn, and more. | CrimeReads
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“Social justice isn’t something that can be consumed—which is one of the limitations of Hustlers.” Aya de Leon on the movie Hustlers, how it works, and who it’s working for.| CrimeReads
- “Never had we been more affluent; never did the Apocalypse seem so imminent.” Troy Rondinone on film noir, asylums, and mid-century paranoia. | CrimeReads
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In the 1980s, L.A. was a mecca for street gangs. Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martinez on the complex and violent origins of MS-13.| CrimeReads
- Paul French marks a new golden age of European crime thrillers, and recommends some of the best TV shows European audiences are watching right now. | CrimeReads
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Win a copy of the deluxe illustrated edition of Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard, courtesy of Folio Press. | CrimeReads
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After much soul-searching and many spirited debates, the CrimeReads staff has selected the ten best crime novels of the last decade.| CrimeReads
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“The hippie had met the cowboy, and they’d found they were brothers.” Beau L’Amour on the rise, fall, and counterculture rediscovery of his Western raconteur father, Louis L’Amour. | CrimeReads
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Paul French takes us to New Delhi, India’s sprawling capital, where crime fiction thrives in many forms. | CrimeReads
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“Fifty-nine years after the film’s premiere, Psycho’s spoilers are nearly impossible to avoid.” Jesse Pasternack on Hitchcock’s elaborate ploys to outsmart his audiences and the history of spoiling the classic film. | CrimeReads
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Gus Garcia-Roberts on the two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel. | USA Today
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“Writing genre is not simply about meeting readers’ expectations, but managing them.” W. L. Goodwater on how to mix genres when writing. | CrimeReads
- “Regardless of whether you believe in the deck’s ability to divine the future, a plot is there.” Julie Mayhew on how tarot cards help us tell crime stories. | CrimeReads
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Where are the identity theft stories in the true crime boom? Axton Betz-Hamilton’s new memoir is a powerful start. Sarah Rosenthal makes the argument. | CrimeReads
- “Plants make for great thrillers—it took me, a gardener, years to figure that out.” Karen Hugg on the mystery and danger of plants. | CrimeReads
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