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Larks and Katydids: On Hearing Inspiration From the Other SideAs a kid, I was mesmerized by the eerie tales my grandmother told about ghosts from her childhood in Croatia. My older sisters and friends...
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14 YA Horror and Thrillers To Read This Summer (And Beyond)There’s a vast number of good YA thrillers and horror novels out this year, most using genre tropes as wider metaphors for the human...
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10 of the Best Horror Novels to Read in the Summer SunEveryone knows that horror novels are meant to be read on a winter’s evening, curled up in the dark while the wind howls and rain drums the...
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New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary RegionGrowing up in New England, you learn to worry that you’re not sufficiently of the region. That your roots aren’t deep enough, your attitudes...
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Crossing the Streams: Novels That Will Thrill and Chill!As a guy who loves mysteries, thrillers, and horror, my favorite types of books are the ones that crisscross genres, mixing classic thriller...
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Hot Pursuit: The Brief Rise of 1970s Hixploitation CinemaI have described my new novel Lowdown Road (out July 11 from Hard Case Crime) as the ‘70s drive-in movie playing in my mind. In telling...
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Five Great Books from the Borderlands of Mystery, Horror, and the Psychological ThrillerThere’s a region touching on three areas of fiction that I like to explore when writing. It’s the region where mystery story meets horror story...
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Over the Edge: Cliffs, Coasts and Liminal Spaces in Crime FictionIt is not the greatest moment in Hitchcock’s Suspicion but it’s a good one: when Joan Fontaine fends off Cary Grant as their car skirts...
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Dying Onstage: Performance, Theater, and Deception in Classic Murder Mysteries“Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.” –Hercule Poirot in “The King of Clubs,” by Agatha Christie I often think of...
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Armed to the Teeth: Healing Through HorrorThere’s this family I used to babysit for who lived in the hills overlooking the lowly riff raff of greater Los Angeles. Their pride and joy was...
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How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own MasterpieceIt’s 1965. Truman Capote was a known figure on the literary scene and a member of the global social jet set. His bestselling books Other Voices,...
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Honoring a Fictional Lineage of Women DetectivesWhen I was a child, I opened a detective agency with my best friend. We had an office (the space under my father’s desk), a filing cabinet...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of JulyThis month’s psychological thrillers are fast-paced, intricate, and deliciously shocking. With new books from May Cobb, Rachel Howzell...
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The Hot Spot: The Making of a Sweaty Neo-Noir with a Soundtrack That Stands as an American Masterpiece“The Hot Spot” is a movie of dark joy – dark because it immediately pulls the viewer into a sweltering world of illicit lust, desperation, and...
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The Aesthetics of Noir: Ed Brubaker on His Latest Crime Graphic Novel, ‘Night Fever’A new Brubaker/Phillips original graphic novel is always reason for crime fiction fans to celebrate, but there’s something particularly special...
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How To Balance Between Imagination and FactsOn July 15th, 1976, in a small farming town in California’s central valley, three men wearing pantyhose masks and brandishing guns boarded a...
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The Bizarre Story of the ‘Cowboy Mutiny’I n July 1902, a fully rigged English merchant ship, the Leicester Castle , arrived from Hong Kong at San Francisco, its iron hull heavy...
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Cheating Hearts: On James M. Cain and InfidelityMany noir tales feature infidelity as the motive behind mayhem and murder. More than a few of my favorite novels, films and songs have been...
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Why Cozy Mystery’s Amateur Sleuths Are Not Just Busy-BodiesThere’s nothing quite like a cozy mystery novel for me. From the charming small-town settings to the quirky cast of characters, there’s just...
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Heather Levy On Writing Sex, Kink, and AgencyHeather Levy is the author of Walking on Needles and a nonfiction series on human sexuality and BDSM, as well as the forthcoming Hurt for Me....
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10 New Novels You Should Read This MonthThe CrimeReads editors select the month’s best novels in crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers. * Colson Whitehead, Crook...
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Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime WritingThe most powerful piece of true crime–related art I’d seen in years was tucked away in a difficult-to-access corner of a downtown New York City...
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Why Comedy and Crime Novels Are a Perfect MatchI’ve often likened the writing of a crime novel to a stand-up comedy performance and I still believe that they have much in common, for me, at...
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The Metropol Hotel: A Brief History of Moscow’s Legendary (and Notorious) HotelThe most generous thing you could say about the Metropol Hotel in 1941 was that it had seen better days. When it opened in 1905, it stood as a...
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Vengeance Shall Be Mine, Saith the Women in These NovelsDon’t get mad, and for God’s sake, don’t get weepy. Get even. These words become the motto of Kelly McCann in my latest novel, Her, Too...
