Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

All About History

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During her lifetime Frances Glessner Lee had become well-known in the field of forensics and criminal investigation. And it was the Nutshells and famous seminars that brought her to the attention of one of the world’s most widely read authors, Erle S

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She is an Aucklander who has had international success with her paranormal romances, including the Psy-Changeling series. This is her first crime novel. I wanted to write a murder mystery because… “I was inspired by the West Coast and its stark, stun

TIME

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TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s murder and the recent disappearance of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s teenage daughter. Yet most of the suspense in this thriller has to do with

The Atlantic

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Many thrillers trace a strange or catastrophic event back to its surprising source. But what catalysts lead to those stories being written in the first place? Walter Mosley’s mystery-writing career was set off by a single simile from an older giant o

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writing Magazine

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The Book Folks has operated as an independent publisher of crime, mystery and thriller fiction since 2013. ‘We mostly publish British crime fiction,’ said publisher Erik Empson. ‘We especially like murder mystery series with a good sense of place, me

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writer's Digest

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“It can be lonely. … And there have been times when I’ve retreated to my hotel room, emotionally exhausted from being visibly invisible all day.” That’s a line from Rachel Howzell Hall’s 2015 essay, “Colored and Invisible”—the inspiration for this ar

Hemmings Motor News

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This particular ad series, assembled from cast members of the Perry Mason television series, might have eluded fans unless they were astute enough to tear themselves away from the tube in 1958 long enough to peruse a proper print magazine. The Libby-

Writing Magazine

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Write to: Letters to the editor, Writing Magazine, Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD; email: letters@writersnews.co.uk. (Include your name and address when emailing letters. Ensure all letters, a maximum of 250

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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This is the third novel from Sydneysider Tania Blanchard inspired by her German grandmother’s tales, and we start in Australia in 2019 with a letter from Berlin. It’s about a deceased estate and its recipient is the biological daughter of the letter

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

New Zealand Listener

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Massachusetts author Peter Swanson has a bibliography packed with fiendish twists, strong characters and clear nods to past crime greats such as Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock. In his latest novel, RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS (Faber & Faber, $

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

NPR

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Some great noir fiction has been written about Los Angeles, but what happens when a different genre bleeds through? We've got three tales of murder, magic and robot detectives to cool your summer.

Writing Magazine

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How do you follow up one of the most fiendishly high-concept murder mystery novels ever written? If you are Stuart Turton, the author of prize-winning, bestselling, mindboggling debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, the answer is that you don’

Literary Hub

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Signal Loss, Gary Disher (Soho Crime) It’s Christmastime in this seventh installment of Disher’s Hal Challis and Ellen Destry series, set on the sunny Melbourne peninsula. Challis is busy investigating crimes related to the widespread meth (or ice) u

The Atlantic

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The HBO remake offers a grim depiction of Los Angeles—but it hardly keeps pace with the reality of police abuses in the era.

The Paris Review

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Reading Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you’ve discovered a delicious and

Britain

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She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time. Her 66 murder mysteries have sold more than 2 billion copies worldwide. Her super-sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are household names. But the inimitable Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime, migh

Country Life

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IT sounds as if it couldn’t possibly be true, but it is: the only books to outsell Agatha Christie’s are Shakespeare’s plays and the Bible. The woman labelled the queen of ‘cosy crime’ (quite wrongly; more on that later) is the world’s most translate

Literary Hub

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I once tried to write a crime novel—a gritty noir that I hoped would be fast, pulpy, and fun. But I had trouble making all the pieces come together, and each revision seemed to add complications without solving any of the story’s problems. After five

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writer's Digest

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According to Publishers Weekly, more people read crime fiction than any other fiction genre—by far. For those of us who write crime fiction, that’s great news. However, to capitalize on the opportunity, you need to know where your work fits within th

Literary Hub

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Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of CrimeReads, a new website showcasing the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers.  Readers ask questions, lots of them. Every time we turn a page, there’s a kind of interrogation hap

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Literary Hub

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Given the sultry temperatures that envelop Singapore pretty much all year round you might not expect the city’s crime fiction to be dissimilar to other Southeast Asian noir, the strength-sapping humidity leaving everyone wrung out and tense. While th

The Rake

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Dashiell Hammett, a Pinkerton National Detective Agency gumshoe turned author, was described in his New York Times obituary as “the dean of the… ‘hardboiled’ school of detective fiction”. Dorothy Parker once described Sam Spade, the anti-hero in Hamm

Literary Hub

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I was, as usual, in my little writing studio at Reimersholme, one of the beautiful small islands that make up Stockholm’s inner city, when my private phone rang. A number I did not recognize. I did not answer. I never do when the caller is unknown be