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It’s Always the Boyfriend: On Domestic Violence and Young Adult FictionStatically speaking, when someone hurts a woman, her intimate partner, whether current or former, is the most likely culprit. We don’t protect...
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Small Town, Big CrimeThe phrase “people often ask me” sounds like a setup here, but it’s true that people often ask me why it is I’ve chosen to write about small-town...
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How the CIA Set Up Shop in Miami – And Immediately Started Plotting to Kill CastroIt was an introvert’s paradise. Two weeks after Fidel Castro forced Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959, Justin Gleichauf found himself...
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The Heyday of Pulp Fiction“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows …” / Insert sinister laugh here. The Shadow, a proto-Batman who,...
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10 Great Books About BooksI recently came across the first pages of a crime novel, written when I was eleven. It was called The Hair of the Dog and was about an author...
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Matthew D. Lassiter On What We Miss About White America and the War on DrugsWhen I first picked up Matthew D. Lassiter’s groundbreaking new text, The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs , I knew I...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of April 2024Each month, CrimeReads/me celebrates the art of the translated novel with a roundup of the best new international crime fiction releases. The...
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The 15 Best Sunglasses in Crime Film and TVIt’s spring. It’s officially spring in New York, where CrimeReads is based. Maybe you, like me, wear sunglasses year-round. But maybe...
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The Los Angeles Wine World’s Enduring Murder MysteryWhen Prohibition came into force in 1920, it was meant to end the production, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Instead, it...
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“My Mind Had Been Fired By Reading Cheap Detective Stories”Part One: An Unkindness of Ravens It was almost three years to the day after the great quake had laid waste to so much of San...
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The Best Debut Novels of April 2024The CrimeReads editors make their choices for the best debut novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers. * Sasha Vasilyuk, Your...
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Farewell, Prague: How I Had to Leave the City of Inspiration to Write My Spy NovelPrague in the 1990s was a magical place. Communism had fallen, a seat at the opera cost a few bucks, the city’s magnificence had yet to be...
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Dying Cities: On the Lone Book of ‘Lost’ Novelist Elaine Perry“The city is strong in the memory, no matter how much it decays and gives way to the sea.” – Elaine Perry, 1990 Since I’ve started...
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Philip Miller On Using Ouija Boards to Fuel CreativityAt the beginning of my new novel The Hollow Tree , a man stands on the roof of a Scottish hotel. It is night, and the distant mountains are...
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2024: A Year of Literary True CrimeOver the past few decades, we’ve seen exponential growth in both creative writing programs and the true crime storytelling industry, so...
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Michael Dirda on curating stories for a Folio Society anthology of “Weird Tales”The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda has chosen 12 of the best weird tales ever written for a new...
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Heather Graham on Ancient Texts and the Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseThe Reaper Follows arrives out in the world this week, and I’m certainly hoping that it’s a suspenseful novel readers will enjoy! It’s...
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Anthony Horowitz on Giving Himself a New Role in His Latest MysteryAnthony Horowitz is missing. Not the real Anthony Horowitz, of course. He’s exactly where you’d expect him to be—hunkered down at his...
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How a Hollywood Fixer Played Both Sides of a War Between Frank Sinatra and the TabloidsBy the 1950s, Wheaties had gained massive popularity as the “Breakfast of Champions.” Packaged in a bright orange box with famous sports figures...
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On Writing a Book When The World is On FireThe world is terrifying. It seems like such an obvious thing to say, right? Of course, the world is terrifying! Turn on the news! Look...
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Megan Campisi on the Wild Tales of Allan PinkertonAllan Pinkerton is a storied figure in the American imagination. Most know his agency for its violent anti-union mercenary work, but few realize...
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A Bloody-Minded Business: Julian Symons’ Evolution as a Crime Fiction CriticMost of the generation of authors that produced the Golden Age of detective fiction–that brief era when the puzzle plot purportedly reigned...
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‘I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You’: The Con Artist Who Peddled the Brooklyn BridgeThe prisoner hauled before a Brooklyn judge in 1928 did not look the part of one of the most notorious criminals in history. He squinted at the...
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The Crime Novel That Wouldn’t, Or Writing As ProcessingI can’t write crime. That’s the troubling discovery I made while drafting my second novel Sing, I. As a disciple of the crime genre for...
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10 Queer Crime Novels To Check Out This SpringSpring is here, summer is coming, and June is Pride Month. What does this mean? Lots of great new queer mysteries and thrillers to read on the...
