THIS WEEK: In 1982, Knight Rider, a show about David Hasselhoff and his sentient car solving crimes, premiered on NBC.
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- How Dateline‘s Keith Morrison became—and stayed—the granddaddy of true crime. From Gabriella Paiella. | GQ
- This year’s McIlvanney Prize for excellence in Scottish crime writing goes to Manda Scott, as part of the kickoff to the Bloody Scotland festival. | The Scotsman
- Mick Herron is writing the loser-spy novels fit for a broken England, and James Parker would like to urge you to read them. | The Atlantic
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A look at the very best new international crime fiction hitting US shores this month, including new Scandinavian thrillers and also a Nobel laureate. | CrimeReads
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The story of Martin Scorsese’s gangland epics is the story of American social mobility. Zach Vasquez gives us a close viewing of the director’s work, just in time for The Irishman. | CrimeReads
- “I’ll be the first to admit that 90% of my success is rooted in trying to flip off the rest of the world.” Angel Luis Colón and Désirée Zamorano talk Puerto Rico, horror, and the Bronx. | CrimeReads
- Celebrating first-time novelists—our editors select the best new debut fiction in crime, mystery, and thrillers. | CrimeReads
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Bringing crime and pulp fiction to readers in South India: Miriam Alexander-Kumaradoss talks with the founders of Blaft, the groundbreaking small press based in Chennai, India. | CrimeReads
- Tori Telfer from “Criminal Broads” takes a look at the life of Joan Little, and how a jailhouse killing became a civil rights rallying cry. | CrimeReads
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Author Tess Gerritsen celebrates seven crime novels and thrillers that take place in Maine—America’s land of the Gothic. | CrimeReads
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“Plagues and infestations are the original noir and set the stage for the morally ambiguous hero.” Heather Harper Ellett on “hog noir” and a scourge in Texas. | CrimeReads
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Oyinkan Braithwaite talks with CrimeReads about sisterhood, serial killers, and Lagos. | CrimeReads
- Gilly Macmillan on the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who wrote a lost classic of crime fiction, Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel. | CrimeReads
- Welcome to Budapest, city of beaux-arts architecture, cobblestone streets, tragic history, political turmoil, and many, many mystery novels. From Paul French and “Crime and the City.” | CrimeReads
- Take a journey to Monte Carlo with international jewel thief Diamond Doris. | CrimeReads
- Coups, scheming businessmen, and a hidden treasure known as “Yamashita’s Gold”: Steve Anderson on the many conspiracy theories about General MacArthur. | CrimeReads
- A look at the best crime movies new to the streaming services. Because it’s been too long since you watched Out of Sight. Even if you saw it last weekend. | CrimeReads
- Steve Vogel takes us through the CIA’s plan to build a tunnel between East and West Berlin after the Soviet switch from radio to landlines jeopardized the US military’s ability to gather intelligence. | CrimeReads
