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Bump In the Night: Vintage Horror Illustrations Gave Us the ShiversWhen I was a kid I was obsessed with horror films and horror stories. I’ve written about that before for CrimeReads . But I was also a...
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The Backlist: Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern NoirThere’s no one quite like Joe R. Lansdale. It’s hard to think of a writer who has taken so many chances in his writing career, or who’s had so...
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The Best Recent Horror Novels about Horror MoviesIt’s summertime! And, as everyone knows, summertime is for meta horror movies and books about meta horror movies. I don’t make the...
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Ice Cold Reads for a Hot Summer NightSummer isn’t my favorite season. Don’t get me wrong, I love the beach, barbecues, and the warm sun, especially after a seemingly endless winter...
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Alejandro Nodarse on Writing a Thriller About the Real MiamiMiami is a crime writer’s paradise. This city has seen it all, and her denizens have definitely done it all, so there’s no shortage of...
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Planning a Heist with Your SpouseOne of the first questions we get upon meeting other writers or discussing our profession among new friends is how do you write together?...
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What Caleb Carr Taught Me About the Families We MakeThere’s always a certain distance to eulogizing an artist you didn’t know personally. Without the firsthand connection, what you’re really...
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K.A. Cobell: Letting My Characters Shine the LightWhen I think of the thrillers that have stuck with me the most over the years, they are always the books that align closest with reality....
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Kat Davis Talks Pop Culture, Internet Obsessions, and The Dark Fairy Tale of ChildhoodIn 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the Wisconsin woods and stabbed her 19 times, as a tribute to the fictional entity...
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Crime Fiction’s Fascination with Fame“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.” Richard Price said that. His advice, which I think of often, was top-of-mind when Marilyn Monroe...
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Greg Iles On a Lifetime of Crime WritingFor years, I tried to find a book that would impress my grandmother, one of the most voracious readers I’ve ever known. Nothing would stick with...
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Quiz: Can You Identify These Classic Detectives from their Descriptions?All right, people. It’s the middle of the week, so I think we can all use something fun. Like a quiz! I like quizzes. If you’ve...
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8 Books Haunted by a Central AbsenceOne of my favorite narrative tricks is when a story coalesces around an absent character, someone the reader might never even meet but who...
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What the Story of Alvin Ridley Can Teach Us About Snap Judgements· Alvin Ridley, a one-time TV repairman who had run a TV shop in downtown Ringgold, Georgia, was not someone I felt I would ever be associated...
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Who Was Q. Patrick, the Golden Age Mystery Author?Peripatetic Anglo-American mystery writers from the Golden Age of detective fiction did their share of sailing over deep waters, not merely...
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Far From Home: Exile in FictionIn my novel, Holy City , Will Seems returns from living “in exile” in Richmond, to his family home in Southside, Virginia, to face the...
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Five Great Books About Maine, From Thomas E. RicksMaine is an unusual state, with a distinct identity and, in rural areas, a culture that remains distinctly pre-industrial. It borders more...
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How One Movie-Obsessed California Drug Trafficker Was Brought Down in a Massive International Sting OperationIn the early morning of September 9, 2015, Owen Hanson opened his Louis Vuitton bag and stuffed it with bundles of cash and three cell phones....
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Gary Phillips Reflects on His Reissued Classic Novel of the LA UprisingsCrazy it’s now three decades after the publication of Violent Spring featuring my PI Ivan Monk. In those days of the early ‘90s, changes were...
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The Other Border: Crime Fiction on the 49th ParallelIn “Soprano Home Movies” from season six of The Sopranos, Tony and Carmella are vacationing in upstate New York at the cottage of Tony’s...
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The FBI Believes There Are Multiple Active Serial Killers Working as Long Haul Truck DriversFrank Figliuzzi’s new book contains one of the more alarming pieces of crime data you’ll read this year. Over the last two decades, he writes in...
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Susan Elia MacNeal on the Conclusion of Her Series, Women’s Role in War and Coco Chanel’s Nazi CollaborationCrime fiction authors are often asked about the inspirational alchemy that sparked the idea for their central characters and where they see them...
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Felonious American Presidents in TV and FilmI’ve been thinking, lately, about the theme of “American presidents who commit felonies.” I don’t know why; it’s...
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: May 2024A look at the month’s best reviewed books in crime. * Abir Mukherjee, Hunted (Mulholland Books) “A welcome alternative...
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Eight Books By Authors Who Have Also Engaged in JournalismI’ve lived a dual existence for most of my adult life, and that’s given me a lot of pleasure. On the one hand, I’m a journalist who chronicles...
