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The best noir fantasy have a particular vibe: it's the essence of black-and-white films with moody, anti-hero main characters.
Spider-Noir revives hard-boiled detective fiction with a stylish superhero mystery steeped in classic noir aesthetics
This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?
An Attempt at Exhausting the Color Pink* (A Tribute to Georges Perec and Gaspard Chauvelot) (Dedicated to Alban Bensa) Like many book lovers, I read my Dashiell Hammett, my James...
Every great action story begins the same way. Someone is in trouble. The clock is running. The police cannot — or will not — solve the problem.Then comes the name.This is not simpl...
Recently I’ve been watching my former Chelsea, NYC neighbor Ethan Hawke in the cool FX neo-noir series The Lowdown, which is streaming on Hulu. Though I won’t get into the plot of...
Sometimes an especially compelling story can be told in a novel or movie when pretty much all of the characters are morally irredeemable. We all love a literary or cinematic hero f...
An LAPD detective travels to coastal Alabama to investigate the death of the father she hardly knew in this straight-shooting, no-nonsense noir from the author of You Were Never Re...
James Ellroy, the boss of concisely-written fast-on-the-draw prose, returns with another slice of relentlessly gripping Los Angeles-based noir. The post Nixon, Hugh Hefner and Bobb...
The legacy of colonialism casts a long shadow over the Virgin Islands. Although the enslavement of native people is consigned to the historical past, the current status of the isla...
Poppy Leathers is a burned-out, bright-eyed sociopath who won’t let the retirement of her hitman boss take her out, too; cue chaos as she creatively negotiates her way to the top.
The writer has been on a 30-year murder spree—imaginative and imaginary, but oh so successful. Better get up to speed with his work now, because it’s all going Hollywood soon.
Zaza’s intriguing noir procedural moves kaleidoscopically, with themes far more provocative than a traditional whodunit. At the center are three police detectives, all in different...
Beggars of Life: The hobo memoir that helped invent hardboiled prose
Cozy mysteries revolve around amateur sleuths solving crimes in their close-knit communities—historic towns and villages, the intimate enclaves of urban spaces. A popular niche wit...
If you adored the off-kilter genre mashup in 'Sugar' and want more noir, there’s one movie that you’ll love.
From gritty noir to grit-your-teeth suspense, these thrillers will get your heart racing.
“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” — Dix Steel In A Lonely Place. By PJ Parrish I was sleepless in unsettlement — it...
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...
Authenticity is such an important quality in a police procedural crime novel. It’s an elusive quality in writing, too. As readers, we want to be captivated by the world the author...
If you’re a fan of the private-eye genre—from Sherlock Holmes to Magnum P.I. and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot—you’re going to want to pick up a copy of The Last Lawman: True St...
There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel.
When the son of a decorated police chief clashes with the grandson of a serial killer, nobody comes out unscathed—and some won’t come out alive.
There is an annoying tendency of mainstream publishing to examine underground subcultures through a highly distorted, sanitized, and
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