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Crime and the City: Panama CityPanama City, capital of the Republic of Panama. Nine hundred thousand people with rather a lot of banks and lawyers as well as being, of course,...
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125 Years Later, Why The Turn of the Screw Still Haunts UsThis year marks the 125th anniversary of one of the most influential ghost stories ever written. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a...
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7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This SummerAre you worried about the future of, well, just about everything, given the decidedly-not-creeping rise of AI? The way concepts like “deep...
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The Moms of Mystery: Six Books About Motherhood and CrimeIf I could have one person with me in an emergency, it would be a mother. Mothers, shepherds of the toddlers, the most chaotic group to herd....
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Top 6 Fictional Serial Killer BooksI have a confession to make: I can’t watch horror films. As an author of dark and violent novels, you would have thought I would devour them but...
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How to be a Regency Lady SleuthSleuthing in Regency England is a tough gig, especially for a lady. And even more so for that that lady’s creator. Namely me. Like most writers...
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12 New Novels You Should Read This JuneThe flowers are blooming, the temperatures are climbing, the schools are out and summer reading season is officially in full swing. These June...
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The Country House Murder Mystery…in AmericaAs essential to the world of mystery novels as arsenic-laced sugar cubes or blackmail from beyond the grave, the remote country estate pops up...
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Killer Puzzles: 8 Books Featuring Locked Rooms and Deadly PuzzlesImagine you’re trapped in a locked room, forced to use your deductive reasoning, cunning, and wit to escape. Now up the ante with a ticking time...
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Dangerous Rhythm: Five Noirs at the Corner of Hollywood and MusicIt’s no accident that Los Angeles is the ultimate home for unmoored detectives—even on a good day, the Big Orange is a noir maze of jungle...
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White House Plumbers Tells the Whole Story of all the Really Stupid, Very Dirty Stuff That Went Down During WatergateTwo impeachments and one insurrection ago, comedian John Oliver described a then-fresh scandal–the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with...
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Scenes from the Wild Wild East: Snapshots of Post-Soviet RussiaI’ve got a novel called The Siberia Job coming out June 6th; it’s a based-on-real-events recounting of the insane world of Russia in the 90s...
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Books and Murder: The Perfect MatchIf you consume any kind of media these days, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll find some level of meta contained within it. Movies about movies?...
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Megan Abbott on Dreams, Dangers, and Going to Strange Places in Her Newest NovelGraham Greene famously called Patricia Highsmith “a poet of apprehension,” a phrase that kept returning to mind as I read Megan...
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How “Manifest Destiny” Launched the American West into a Fateful, Bloody SummerWhether or not General Sheridan knew of the concept of Manifest Destiny or had heard the term, he was a believer. Newspaper editor John...
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What The Quiet American Teaches Us“I’m not involved… It had been an article of my creed,” Thomas Fowler boasts in The Quiet American , Graham Greene’s magnificent novel of...
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HBO’s Barry is Wile E. Coyote with a GunRoad Runner & Coyote Law #3: “The Coyote could stop anytime— if he were not a fanatic.” Open on a southwest desert vista, desolate...
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Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener Doesn’t See the Forest for the TreesMaster Gardener is the third in Paul Schrader’s “God’s Lonely Men” trilogy, in each film of which a weary middle-aged man who has previously...
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Which Elmore Leonard Adaptation Should You Stream This Weekend?In the US it’s Memorial Day weekend, which could well mean you’re planning to spend some time outdoors, maybe at a cookout or in a...
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The Intersection of Punk and Crime in Pop Culture and IRLPunk and crime go together like boots and broken glass, 53rd and 3rd , Sid and Nancy. Since the first squall of feedback ripped through an...
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How The Dirty Dozen Went From Latrine Rumor to Influential Blockbuster1967 saw the release of such recognized classics as Bonnie & Clyde , The Graduate , Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? , Cool Hand Luke , and...
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The Many Sins of Maurice E. BalkA Remarkable Case of Plagiarism Fictitious plagiarism figures more than occasionally in Golden Age detective novels, but only a tiny number...
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Vengeance Becomes Her: 5 Great Thrillers About Women Getting RevengeI was born in 1972 into a family of women. We lived in the city and could walk anywhere: to school, to the store, to the huge park across the...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of Summer 2023While it is Northern malarkey that summer begins in June (it’s been hot in Texas, where this editor lives, for months now), it is...
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Wicked Ways: Da Deuce in the 1980sAs a native New Yorker, I can recall the first time I walked down the wild streets of Times Square with my mom in 1972. I was a nine year old...
