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The American Indian Code Talkers Who Helped Revolutionize Cryptography and Win WWIISometimes secret codes can be the poignant echoes of languages that have been suppressed by conquering powers. There are words and phrases and...
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How Megan Davis Went From Whistleblower to Crime NovelistThe whistleblower cuts a lonely figure. Disruptive by definition, the whistleblower is the ultimate outsider – a shadowy player who ignores not...
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Killer Chemistry: When Lovers Turn into Murderers“All the world loves a lover,” said someone (not Shakespeare, it turns out) expressing the universal appeal of romance and that enraptured state...
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The Complicated History of Crime Fiction in TanzaniaTanzania in East Africa has a complicated history. Sitting there on the Indian Ocean bordering Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia,...
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Kemi Ashing-Giwa On Empire, Intergalactic Espionage, and Queer JoyMolly Odintz: What did you want to explore in your novel about the experience of occupation? Kemi Ashing-Giwa: The aspect of occupation I...
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The Jewel Thief is an Intimate Portrait of a Criminal MastermindIt’s hard out there for the discerning true crime fan. Amid a glut of superficial rehashes of famous cases, or bloated limited series on...
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30 More Horror Books To Look Out For in 2023The horror renaissance continues! And the second half of the year brings plenty of new standout titles to add to your TBR. The works below twist,...
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The Light Side of MurderRomcom mystery is a genre that perfectly blends whodunit, wit, grit, romance and laugh-out-loud moments. With quirky female protagonists...
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Quo Vadis, Indian Noir?In an earlier article , I had written about the lack of Indian crime fiction when I was growing up. We had plugged that gap by turning to...
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Winnie M Li and Jordan Harper On Complicity, Confrontation, and the City of AngelsEarlier this year, Winnie M Li and Jordan Harper sat down at the legendary BookSoup in Los Angeles, to discuss their recent novels Complicit...
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Erin A Craig: Nine Gothic Horror Novels I Want to Spend My Summer ReadingAh, summer. There’s just something about these months of sun-soaked, sun-dappled, sunscreened sunniness that makes me long for the dark and...
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How to Assemble the Perfect Cozy Mystery MealThe Record Shop Mysteries aren’t food cozies per se, but main character Juni Jessup freely admits that food is the way to her heart, as she eats...
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James Renner: 5 Books That Changed the Way I Write True CrimeT.S. Eliot had it right. “Good writers borrow,” he said. “Great writers steal.” What he meant was that a writer aspiring to greatness should be...
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The Backlist: Revisiting Chris Pavone’s ‘The Expats’ with Danielle TrussoniOf all the subgenres of crime fiction, the one I know the least about is the spy novel. I will happily watch almost any Bond movie (especially...
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On Writing A Nuanced Take on Mental IllnessLike Dark Lover, the book that kickstarted my Black Dagger Brotherhood series, The St. Ambrose School for Girls is one of those “book of my...
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The Women Who Joined the Ranks of Latin America’s Top Narco-TraffickersStanding alone at the front of a Chicago courtroom, Guadalupe Fernández Valencia wore orange prison coveralls. Her long light-brown hair,...
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Shop Talk: Kelly J. Ford Absolutely Can Wait for the MuseIn a recent article for CrimeReads, Kelly J. Ford asserted that when asked about their favorite Southern writers, most cishet white men...
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Amy Engel On Eschewing Judgement for Moral Complexity and ContextBefore I became a full-time writer, I spent a decade working as a criminal defense attorney. It was rewarding, exhausting, heart-breaking work....
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A Constellation of Noir InfluencesThere’s a story in the Mahabharata: a young prince wants to become an expert archer, so he begs a guru to train him. Over and over, the prince...
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At the Cold, Still Bottom of the Lake: Five Mysteries Set in Still WatersWhen I was a little girl, my parents rented a lakeside cottage. The owners would be out of town for a year, and they needed someone to keep an...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2023This month’s international thriller releases showcase authors at the top of their game, split fairly evenly between Latin America and...
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James Lee Burke Reckons with History, the South, and the Hatred Burning Through AmericaJames Lee Burke, the modern master of all literature crime and noir, returns to shelves with his new novel, Flags On the Bayou ....
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Rebecca Turkewitz Tells Scary Stories in the DarkWhen Scream came out in 1996, it broke one of the cardinal rules of horror film––the characters in the movie watched and loved scary movies....
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On Horror Fiction and The “Ick” FactorAs a kid, I was absolutely terrified of horror flicks. Not an uncommon stance to have, really, but a lot of that was due to a pair of...
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The Chicago Mob vs. the World’s FairThese days, it’s hard to be an optimist. War, inflation and unrest seem to be steering us toward the dystopia we’ve been seeing in movies and...
