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Expand Your Mind with These Psychedelic MysteriesAcid has had a long and colorful—way too colorful!—relationship with crime fiction. LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide was first synthesized by...
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When Romance Is a Mystery: Books Where Finding Love Is Like Solving a WhodunitIf you’ve spent any time at all on the singles scene, you’d be forgiven for thinking it would be easier to solve a murder mystery than actually...
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Why Books Set at Resorts Are So Fun to Read (and Write!)There’s nothing quite like going on a vacation with a good book. And when the story is set at a resort or on a yacht, well, it’s a bonus. And it...
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The Death of Mr. Dodsley is a Charming Biblio-Mystery From a Master StylistDeath of Mr. Dodsley , first published in 1937, is a “biblio-mystery” from a Scot who combined ministry in the Episcopalian church with a varied...
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The Best Debut Novels of the Month: May 2024The CrimeReads editors make their picks for the best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Nicola Solvinic, The...
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Lily Samson on the Great Rise of Suburban NoirI remember seeing a clip from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet as a teenager: Kyle MacLachlan reaching down into a grassy field and discovering a...
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How to Have Sex in Historical FictionWith Bridgerton Season 3 hitting our screens and as we prepare to drop everything to binge-watch Lady Whistledown’s love story, it’s worth...
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The Five Best Amateur Sleuths of All-TimeAmateur sleuths have been a staple of the mystery genre since the first detective crawled out of the ocean. But to be honest, I think there’s...
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Reading Photographs as Texts for Narrative InspirationPictures tell stories. We learn this from our earliest days. Our parents read to us—lulling us towards sleep in that sing-song cadence we know so...
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Bound for Betrayal: The Crime Films of Elaine MayWhen considering the career of Elaine May, who turned ninety-two on April 21, 2024 and remains one of the brightest lights of twentieth-century...
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When the Past Finally Catches Up With You…in a ThrillerDear Mom: I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the bad things I did in high school when you thought I was studying. A scorching trope in...
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How a Family Secret Inspired Author Maureen Marshall’s New Historical MysteryBe warned that if you ever invite me for a dinner party, I’ll be taking notes about your family gossip. Not for any malicious reasons, and I...
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Knives Out 3 has a title!Yes!!!!!! The sequel to Knives Out’s sequel Glass Onion has a title and a rough release window . The film will be called Wake Up Dead...
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The Persistent Power of ‘Prima Facie’I am a writer driven by rape. My first foray into fiction featured a girl charged with murder for killing her rapist in self-defense. It was...
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Planet of the Apes Is Cinema’s Most Consistent FranchiseThe Planet of the Apes series, which has just released its tenth installment with Wes Ball’s new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes , is...
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Off The Deep End: Noir Cinema’s Eternal Fascination with Swimming PoolsYou could call it Chekhov’s swimming pool: catch sight of a pristine , turquoise pool in the first act of a noir or crime film, and you’re likely...
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Nature and Human Nature in FrankensteinI now own two editions of Frankenstein whose cover illustrations prominently feature icebergs. The first one I acquired, a Broadview Edition, I...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer 2024Summer is here! Or, at least, pool season is officially starting (it’s been summer already for many of us working remotely). There are, of...
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Hit Man is a Surefire DelightHit Man, the new film from director Richard Linklater, isn’t really about a hit man. It’s about the myth of the hit man, or at...
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Why Harlan Coben Decided Now Was the Time to Bring Back a Beloved CharacterSometimes authors mine their own hallowed grounds, looking to the past in search of today’s treasures. In that spirit, #1 New York Times...
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Escape from the Totality: Seeing the Future, Fueled by the Past“The author should die once he has finished writing,” wrote Umberto Eco. “So as not to trouble the path of the text.” I’m a fan of this open...
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Bizarre and Shocking Real-Life Heists!Here at CrimeReads, we love a heist, genre of crime that’s definitely a lot cooler and easier to pull off in movies. But there are heists...
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Beyond the Aesthetics of Dark AcademiaDark academia is a literary genre that has its origins in Donna Tartt’s seminal 1992 novel. The Secret History is set in the elite Hampden...
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Was the Real-Life Prototype for Ian Fleming’s Bond a Triple Agent?One day in July 2021, while failing to read yet another book during Australia’s never-ending COVID-19 lockdown— nothing much was grabbing me—I...
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Why Is True Crime Still Negating Black Victims and Their Loved Ones From the Story?Recently, the true crime genre has experienced a significant surge in popularity, captivating audiences with its nail-biting narratives of...
