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An Unconventional Christmas Novel by an Unconventional WriterThe Christmas Egg , first published in 1958, is an unconventional Christmas crime novel by an unconventional writer. Mary Kelly was one of the...
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The Best Horror Fiction of 2023This year’s top horror novels distinguished themselves not only through quality but with their use of metaphor to approach societal ills...
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The Best Crime and Suspense Anthologies of 2023The CrimeReads editors make their selections for the best crime anthologies released in 2023. * Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst...
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Shop Talk: A Year of Writing Advice and Stories from the TrenchesIt’s that time of the year again, and, no, I’m not talking about the holidays. I’m talking about year-end-list time. Just like the holidays,...
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Sherlockian Collaborations and the Joys of FandomBonnie MacBird is regarded as one of the top Sherlock Holmes writers, and her five Sherlock Holmes Adventures for HarperCollins have developed...
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The Queen of Grit Lit has a New NovelWhat I told her was this: “Read Once Upon a River. ” Let me explain. I was at an event promoting my own new novel, Once These Hills ,...
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I Can’t Believe I Actually Found 10 More Crime Movies You Probably Forgot Take Place at ChristmasI’ll say it again: I actually can’t believe I found another ten crime movies that take place at Christmas. I really, really thought I...
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Ausma Zehanat Khan on Oppression, Rage, and Crafting a Palestinian DetectiveAt its heart, Blood Betrayal is a novel about fathers and how they shape our sense of belonging. Two separate police shootings take place in...
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The Best True Crime Books of 2023The CrimeReads editors make their selections for the year’s best true crime books. * Jillian Lauren, Behold the Monster...
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The Best Historical Fiction of 2023The inspirations and concerns informing this year’s historical mysteries and thrillers may be grim, but the fiction crafted to explore them...
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The Mystery of Oak IslandOn Oak Island, everybody gets up early. By dawn, with the fog turning into a drizzle, the crew is hard at work. I’ve taken refuge inside the...
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The Best Crime Movies of 2023It was a very good year for movies. It seems like everyone made a movie, this year. We got new movies from veteran auteurs like Martin Scorsese,...
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Uptown Gothic: The NYC Photographs of Thaddeus WilkersonGrowing-up in upper Manhattan, on 151st Street between Broadway and Riverside, I always thought of my neighborhood as Harlem or Sugar Hill. Mom,...
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5 Books for Mystery Lovers Who Want to Be TransportedLooking for a gift for the mystery lover who adores a smart heroine whose adventures will viscerally transport the reader somewhere else?...
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Alexis Soloski on Theater, Criticism, and the Mystery of PerformanceVivian Parry, the main character of Alexis Soloski’s Here in the Dark , is a perceptive theater critic for a New York magazine. She’s...
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Spiritualists and Tarot Readers Are Having A MomentIf you like fiction featuring spiritualists and their brethren, then you’re in for a treat, as 2023 has brought a host of new crime novels...
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Tony Shalhoub and Andy Breckman on Monk’s ReturnMonk has returned! That’s right! An original Monk movie, entitled Mr. Monk’s Last Case , has just been released. And to mark...
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And They All Died Happily Ever After: Cozies, Grimdarks, and Modern MoralityThose familiar with Game of Thrones will recognize the hallmarks of “ grimdark ” storytelling. In a grimdark world, morals are...
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The Best Noir Fiction of 2023The CrimeReads editors make their picks for the best noir fiction of 2023. (As is our annual tradition, we decline to define...
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Crafting Creepy Crime Fiction in the Danish CountrysideSo there you are, sitting in a cozy café in Odense, the hometown of the great fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen, enjoying a flaky Danish...
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Travel Thrillers That Will Make You Reconsider Your Vacation PlansIf you’d told me thirty-one years ago that the Los Angeles backpacking hostel I was living in would one day become the centerpiece of a...
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The Best International Crime Novels of 2023Well, it’s a horrible year in world history, but it’s a great year in international fiction! Specifically, international thrillers...
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Ferrari Performs an Opera of Capitalism and Comes Up LoudMovies are loud. They are often written and written about in clamorous verbiage: they leer and loom, assault, pummel, and thunder. They are...
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Delusions of Grandeur: The Scandalous Crime of a Los Angeles MillionaireThe couple walked on the beach at Santa Monica that September afternoon in 1903, then stopped at a shop to buy postcards. Once they were back in...
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The Discovery of ‘Wind Sprints,’ the Lost Ralph Dennis NovelNearly a decade ago, I fell in love with the twelve, out-of-print, Hardman crime novels by the late Ralph Dennis… an obsession that led me...
