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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

Allan Gaw on Setting Detective Fiction Before the Advent of DNA Profiling

These days everyone is an expert. With all the television dramas built around police procedurals, the plethora of crime fiction novels, and the explosion of interest in true crime,...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice by David Cairns

The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice takes a pivotal event from US history – the assassination of Abraham Lincoln – and reimagines it as fertile ground for mystery, doubt and moral u...

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activehistory.ca /1 month ago

Piecing Together Fragments: Historians and True Crime

Shannon Stettner As a child, on Friday nights just before 9:00 pm, I’d tuck myself under a living room end table. If I was quiet and hidden, I could usually get away with watching...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

6 Mystery Novels with Unorthodox Settings and Setups

There’s a universe of possibility in the crime mystery. While certain settings have become a staple of fiction—the Agatha Christie murder, the hard-boiled detective, the modern pol...

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killzoneblog.com /1 month ago

True Crime Thursday – Blurry Line Between Fact and Fiction

by Debbie Burke Here’s a familiar trope in crime fiction: an author protagonist details a fictional murder that the author is later accused of. The book they wrote is used as evide...

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thebigthrill.org /1 month ago

The Four Queens of Crime

In 1938 London, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime.

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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

How Jane Austen Influenced Modern Detective Fiction

At first glance, a Jane Austen cozy crime retelling may seem like a strange, hybrid monster, but look around and you’ll find plenty of examples. From Amelia Blackwell’s time-travel...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 week ago

June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month

Nine murders. One seemingly impossible disappearance. Nineteen burglaries. An adrenalin-fuelled car chase and an impressively grand theft. Plenty of domestic drama. A taste of pie-...

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crimereads.com /1 week ago

Crime and the City: Cologne, Germany

Cologne, or to the purists Köln, fourth biggest city in Germany, the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia, with just over a million inhabitants. Elements of Roman rule, then the combi...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Irish Crime Fiction and the Female Gaze

Ireland is the cadaver on the dissection table in these murder mysteries by five women writers. Their books are forensic examinations of the country’s social dysfunction; the pasts...

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dailymail.com /2 weeks ago

Artful plots abound in the best Classic Crime out now: The Double Turn by Carol Carnac, Golden Age Detective Stories Edi...

Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime novels out now.

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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

The Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of May 2026

This month’s latest entries in the crime fiction canon lean heavily toward multi-POV mysteries and high-concept thrillers, with some historical gothics and horror crossovers thrown...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Con Lehane On Writing a Red Scare Noir Against a Backdrop of Rising Oppression

In my travels to a few author events since my book, The Red Scare Murders, came out in mid-December, questioners have often asked if my story—set against the backdrop of witch hunt...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

3 Crime Short Story Collections with Interlinked Narratives

One of my greatest joys as a reader of crime fiction is diving into a new adventure featuring a favorite detective, amateur sleuth, or gang of lovable rule-benders. Crime fiction h...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

One of 2026’s Best Crime Novels

Plus, a stand out character in Young Sherlock, a fun thriller series getting adapted, award finalists, and more.

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crimespreemag.com /1 week ago

Behind the Scenes of Murder at Haddonford Manor

Growing up in the Soviet era, in a family of space engineers, meant imagination was part of my everyday life, though not always in the way people might expect.

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Crime Classics, Back in Print: A Roundup of Reissues

Here are 5 of the best novels to be reissued this spring, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. Len Deighton, Close-Up (Atlantic Crime) “Few authors writing in the rigorous and fi...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

State of Crime Novel, Part 1: Routines, Problem-Solving, and Faithful Companions

Ahead of the 80th Annual Edgar Award Ceremony, I asked the nominees for the Edgars (along with the special award winners) to contribute to a roundtable discussion on the state of t...

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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

Crime and the City: Ottawa

Crime and the City has ventured to Canada a few times previously—we checked out the crime writing of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto so it would be churlish of us not to pay the ca...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

The Dead Ringer by Dane Bahr

In 2024, Stag put Dane Bahr firmly on the radar of crime fiction lovers – a retro serial killer thriller that mixed violence and dread with a poignant relationship between the two...

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crimereads.com /6 days ago

Carmela Dutra on Why Public Crime Scenes Work So Well in Mysteries

It’s a warm Saturday afternoon, and the festival is in full swing. String lights sway overhead in the summer breeze. Music drifts between booths selling kettle corn and cotton cand...

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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

5 Brilliant, Lesser-Known Cozy Mysteries (Plus One New Novel)

The idea of the “cozy” mystery—stories that feature quaint settings, quirky characters, a bit of warmth, and most importantly the feeling that you’re in safe hands as a reader (tha...

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criminalelement.com /3 weeks ago

7 Creative Murders in Fiction

As a storyteller, creating a mystery is nightmare fuel. How do you come up with an original premise? How do you plant clues and red herrings without giving away the ending? How do...

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criminalelement.com /1 day ago

Featured Excerpt: The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies by Kate Westbury

Chapter 1 Oxford University, November 1950—Michaelmas Term, Week 4 Ginevra Bishop was a young woman who excelled at sneaking about. In her first month at Oxford, she had used this...

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