CrimeReads
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A daily culture site featuring the best crime, mystery, and thriller writing. From the makers of @lithub.
Dogged cops, angry housewives, and passionate revolutionaries... who are also growing children in their wombs. crimereads.com/top-5-pregna...
Top 5 Pregnant Women in Crime Movies and TV
Featured Image: TCD/Prod DB/Alamy You know what’s hard? Pregnancy. I know this now because I am pregnant. And it’s hard. I won’t go into the details, but I’ll just sa…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Dogged cops, angry housewives, and passionate revolutionaries... who are also growing children in their wombs. crimereads.com/top-5-pregna...
The OG Bad Grandpa. crimereads.com/boss-brooks-...
Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death
May 4, 2015, Boss/Brooks My fellow passengers on the flight from Dallas to San Angelo were an interesting mix of people: oil company men, dressed in jeans, T-shirts and dusty boots, headed back to …
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November 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The OG Bad Grandpa. crimereads.com/boss-brooks-...
“The Far Side” is the best. crimereads.com/the-five-fun...
The Five Funniest Far Side Cartoons About Detectives
The Far Side is the funniest comic strip in the world. It just is. I’ve already waxed on about my favorite Far Side cartoon for this website, but what about the others? There are a slew of cr…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“The Far Side” is the best. crimereads.com/the-five-fun...
It's still noirvember! crimereads.com/american-car...
American Carnage: Hammett’s Red Harvest and Mass Violence in the United States
In 1929-30 Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, along with the author’s two other novels, The Dain Curse and The Maltese Falcon, which quickly followed it, struck the landscape of classic my…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's still noirvember! crimereads.com/american-car...
Tis the season... for murder! crimereads.com/10-perfectly...
10 Perfectly Plotted Murder Mysteries That Take Place During Christmas
Given the enduring passion of the reading public for Christmas murder mysteries, I am prompted to ask, What is it about Christmas and crime? It can’t just be the alliteration (although I love me so…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tis the season... for murder! crimereads.com/10-perfectly...
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For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
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10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s
The domestic blowback of the Vietnam War. The sleaze and corruption of Watergate. The incipient rollback of the counterculture and many gains of the 1960s. Economic recession. The upheaval and unce…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
L. Wayne Hicks in conversation with the legendary author. crimereads.com/michael-conn...
20 Years Strong: How Michael Connelly Keeps “The Lincoln Lawyer” Series Fresh
A chance encounter at a Los Angeles Dodgers game got Michael Connelly thinking. Already a successful novelist with a series of books about LAPD detective Harry Bosch, the author had been considerin…
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November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
L. Wayne Hicks in conversation with the legendary author. crimereads.com/michael-conn...
Nothin' like a little atmosphere! Or a lot. crimereads.com/atmospheric-...
Atmospheric Settings in Murder Mysteries
When I look back on my favorite murder-mysteries I find that I loved them as much for their sense of place as their elements of suspense. I especially appreciate when a series of books is set in th…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Nothin' like a little atmosphere! Or a lot. crimereads.com/atmospheric-...
Rick Pullen on how Bruce DeSilva got his start!
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My First Thriller: Bruce DeSilva
“For most of my career as a journalist writing a novel was not something that occurred to me,” says Bruce DeSilva. Not until, that is, he received a note from Evan Hunter, better known by his pseud…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Rick Pullen on how Bruce DeSilva got his start!
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Dean Jobb on a classic show business heist. crimereads.com/ziegfelds-fo...
Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
The overnight train from Baltimore rattled and clanked as it passed through the outskirts of Cleveland and neared its destination, Union Depot. In one of the Pullman sleeper cars, members of the ca…
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November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Dean Jobb on a classic show business heist. crimereads.com/ziegfelds-fo...
And now… TV! crimereads.com/which-intern...
Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?
A longstanding and lately neglected tradition here at CrimeReads demands that with a big weekend (in the States) coming up, I go through some of your options for 6-20 hours of streaming television …
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November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
And now… TV! crimereads.com/which-intern...
Don’t let great books get lost out of translation. crimereads.com/the-best-fic...
The Best Fiction in Translation of Fall 2025
Hi folks! It’s been a long fall season, and I’m just now catching up on all the good crime fiction in translation. That means the following list is extra-curated, and also, extra distur…
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November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Don’t let great books get lost out of translation. crimereads.com/the-best-fic...
On mobs: crimereads.com/conspiracy-t...
Conspiracy Theories and The Lure and Terror of Group-Think
From the Salem Witch Trials to the Satanic Panic of the 80s to the narratives spread by online conspiracy theorists today, group think has been around for centuries. I’m not sure what drives it—the…
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November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
On mobs: crimereads.com/conspiracy-t...
Need a laugh, this weekend? crimereads.com/the-five-fun...
The Five Funniest Far Side Cartoons About Detectives
The Far Side is the funniest comic strip in the world. It just is. I’ve already waxed on about my favorite Far Side cartoon for this website, but what about the others? There are a slew of cr…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Need a laugh, this weekend? crimereads.com/the-five-fun...
Lynn Tavernier on John Grisham, Stephen King, and literary inspiration. crimereads.com/craft-invent...
When Ideas Collide: How Asking Questions Can Help Writers Craft Inventive Thrillers
John Grisham’s debut was hatched early in his law career. A desire to improve his skills as a litigator prompted him to watch the docket for lawyers known for their legal prowess. Whenever possible…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lynn Tavernier on John Grisham, Stephen King, and literary inspiration. crimereads.com/craft-invent...
It's a busy long weekend! We've got a TV lineup that will help you relax. crimereads.com/which-intern...
Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?
A longstanding and lately neglected tradition here at CrimeReads demands that with a big weekend (in the States) coming up, I go through some of your options for 6-20 hours of streaming television …
crimereads.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's a busy long weekend! We've got a TV lineup that will help you relax. crimereads.com/which-intern...
S.D. House recommends some favorite literary locales. crimereads.com/atmospheric-...
Atmospheric Settings in Murder Mysteries
When I look back on my favorite murder-mysteries I find that I loved them as much for their sense of place as their elements of suspense. I especially appreciate when a series of books is set in th…
crimereads.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
S.D. House recommends some favorite literary locales. crimereads.com/atmospheric-...
Boss Brooks was a Depression era villain or a hero, depending on who you asked. The family he left behind still has questions. crimereads.com/boss-brooks-...
Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death
May 4, 2015, Boss/Brooks My fellow passengers on the flight from Dallas to San Angelo were an interesting mix of people: oil company men, dressed in jeans, T-shirts and dusty boots, headed back to …
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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Boss Brooks was a Depression era villain or a hero, depending on who you asked. The family he left behind still has questions. crimereads.com/boss-brooks-...
Robert T. Kelley explores hacking, cybersecurity, and the threats we will never see coming. crimereads.com/history-comp...
A Brief History of Computer Crime
In 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan screened the movie War Games at Camp David. He was alarmed by the movie’s premise—that someone could start a nuclear war with just a personal computer and a di…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Robert T. Kelley explores hacking, cybersecurity, and the threats we will never see coming. crimereads.com/history-comp...
Was Apple's Asian supervillian a set of harmful stereotypes, or just bizarrely crafted and terribly written? crimereads.com/elmer-apple-...
Elmer Apple and the Chang Gang, Or, A Microcosm of “Yellow Peril” Crime Fiction
In the waning weeks of the dreary Depression year of 1931, twenty-eight-year-old Yee Gow Suen of the little Mississippi Delta town of Dermott, Arkansas (Pop. 2942 in the 1930 census), an avid young…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Was Apple's Asian supervillian a set of harmful stereotypes, or just bizarrely crafted and terribly written? crimereads.com/elmer-apple-...
"'A Very Rocky Christmas': In this animated holiday classic, Rocky fights a child who has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas."
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A Guide to the Rocky Films, with some Minor Embellishments
There are so many Rocky movies. I know, this is a completely novel and original thought. But there are! Sometimes I have trouble keeping track of them all, so I made a handy guide. I thought I̵…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"'A Very Rocky Christmas': In this animated holiday classic, Rocky fights a child who has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas."
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William McIlvanney’s pitch-black noirs, featuring DI Laidlaw’s disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of #crimefiction
@ianrankin1.bsky.social remembers the man who created Tartan Noir – via @crimereads.bsky.social
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@ianrankin1.bsky.social remembers the man who created Tartan Noir – via @crimereads.bsky.social
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5/9
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McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir
It was August 1985 and I was a full-time student at the University of Edinburgh. When not studying, I was writing novels. By 1985 I’d written two. One had been rejected but the other had been accep…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
William McIlvanney’s pitch-black noirs, featuring DI Laidlaw’s disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of #crimefiction
@ianrankin1.bsky.social remembers the man who created Tartan Noir – via @crimereads.bsky.social
💙📚
5/9
crimereads.com/mcilvanney-a...
@ianrankin1.bsky.social remembers the man who created Tartan Noir – via @crimereads.bsky.social
💙📚
5/9
crimereads.com/mcilvanney-a...
The best part of Columbo? crimereads.com/how-many-act...
How Many Actors Played Different Columbo Villains Multiple Times?
One of the funniest things about Columbo is that, despite the endless roster of illustrious guest-stars, you do tend to see the same actors again and again. I love this. It’s a hallmark of 20…
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November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The best part of Columbo? crimereads.com/how-many-act...
Connelly forever! crimereads.com/michael-conn...
20 Years Strong: How Michael Connelly Keeps “The Lincoln Lawyer” Series Fresh
A chance encounter at a Los Angeles Dodgers game got Michael Connelly thinking. Already a successful novelist with a series of books about LAPD detective Harry Bosch, the author had been considerin…
crimereads.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Connelly forever! crimereads.com/michael-conn...