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  • June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month
  • Sleight of Crime
  • Carmela Dutra on Why Public Crime Scenes Work So Well in Mysteries

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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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thebigthrill.org /2 days ago

Sleight of Crime

What Magicians Taught Me About Murder

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crimereads.com /5 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 /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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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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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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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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churchtimes.co.uk /2 days ago

Analysis: Why is ‘cosy crime’ so popular?

“LIKE a hug in a book” was how the the Dublin writer Kitty Graham described it to The Irish Times. It is an odd way to describe a literary genre concerned with murder and the worst...

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killzoneblog.com /4 days ago

The Crime Fiction Evolution

By PJ Parrish As many of you regulars know, I have retired from fulltime novel writing. Still keeping my toes in the short fiction waters but the demands of turning out a novel per...

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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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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

True Crime To Stream and Read, From Moral Panics to Stolen Children

Learn about stolen children in Georgia and Argentina, femicide in Mexico, the harsh injustice of American prisons, and moral panics.

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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 /1 week ago

How ‘At Close Range’ Set the Tone for Rural Crime Storytelling

Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...

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crimefictionlover.com /2 weeks ago

On the Radar: Gimme some of that sweet, sweet mystery

Some crime authors are just too darned sneaky! I mean, getting us to read their books by tempting us with delectable delights – that really is criminal. But if you put the coffee o...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

State of the Crime Novel, Part 2: Issues and Recommendations

Below, you’ll find part two of our roundtable discussion on the state of the crime genre. 40 Edgar nominees and special award winners contributed to the following conversation, for...

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theamericanconservative.com /2 weeks ago

Making Murder Respectable

The language of the police robs crime and punishment of morality. The post Making Murder Respectable appeared first on The American Conservative.

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killzoneblog.com /1 week ago

Digital Detectives: The Role of Cyber Forensics in Modern Crime Stories

By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush When I was growing up, evidence meant fingerprints, fibers, and blood spatter. Today, we also find enormous amounts of evidence in our digital prints:...

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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

How a Career in Screenwriting Prepared Tim Sullivan to Write Crime Novels

I have spent the majority of my career as a screenwriter and only lately come to crime fiction. It’s actually something I wish I’d done so much earlier in my life. As a novelist yo...

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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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ekathimerini.com /4 days ago

Methodical work against crime

Crime is constantly “modernizing” and evolving. It is organized and operates in ways that exceed the state’s adaptation speed. 

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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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dailyrecord.co.uk /1 month ago

Criminal Record: Glasgow city centre 'stabbing' and unsolved underworld assassination

Criminal Record has brought together a round-up of today's biggest crime stories.

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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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