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  • How ‘At Close Range’ Set the Tone for Rural Crime Storytelling
  • Indigenous-Centered “Dark Winds” Adds Depth to the Crime TV Genre
  • On the Radar: Forgotten towns and lost souls

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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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dailyyonder.com /1 month ago

Indigenous-Centered “Dark Winds” Adds Depth to the Crime TV Genre

Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, enterta...

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crimefictionlover.com /4 weeks ago

On the Radar: Forgotten towns and lost souls

Across the new crime novels we write about this week you’ll visit some pretty remote places – forgotten mining towns, backwoods places and the fringes of cities where tourists neve...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 day ago

On the Radar: Botanical noir is a thing!?!

In Britain, across Canada and the US, all over the Northern Hemisphere flowers are blooming… foliage is flourishing… vines are creeping… plants are proliferating… and in some cases...

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japantimes.co.jp /1 week ago

Nordic noir meets Japanese occult in ‘Blood and Sweat’

The Finnish-Japanese coproduction evolves from a classic detective drama into a fun, pulpy thriller, blending Japan's folklore with sharp plotting.

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thisishorror.co.uk /1 month ago

Look Out For … Neon Moon by Grace R. Reynolds

“With her debut novella, Reynolds pours a mean mix of slasher and western in a gruesome package primed for a bloody and satisfying finish.” For over a year, Darlene Boone has been...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

Where Everyone Knows Your Name: The Best Small Town Thrillers

These thrillers set in small towns will have you wondering if these places are idyllic or sinister.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Rural Crime Rates

Whether it is central London or rural France, looking at crime statistics is only ever a very rough guide. What is better is to look at things from a thief’s point of view as to th...

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kirkusreviews.com /4 days ago

THE BODY IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN

Daphne Brewster has come to cherish the slow, soothing, picturesque corner of Norfolk, England, that includes Cranberry Farmhouse, her cottage; Pudding Corner, the village in which...

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survivefrance.com /3 weeks ago

Rural Crime Rates

Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...

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survivefrance.com /3 weeks ago

Rural Crime Rates

Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...

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survivefrance.com /3 weeks ago

Rural Crime Rates

Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Heather Harper Ellett on Narrative Therapy, Southern Noir, and “Re-authoring” Our Lives

In the fall of 2019, my debut novel came out: Ain’t Nobody Nobody—a quirky, small town literary crime novel set in East Texas. It was reviewed well. I got compared to Carl Hiassen,...

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

Our Wee Town’s Violent History Is Having Its Hollywood Moment

An excerpt from Prestige Drama by Séamas O’Reilly We heard about Monica Logue going missing same as everyone else. It was in the Gazette and I’d know the editor, Deirdre, very well...

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reactormag.com /1 week ago

Seven Works of Suburban Folk Horror

When something sinister's lurking in every sunny backyard or seemingly innocent sub-basement... The post Seven Works of Suburban Folk Horror appeared first on Reactor.

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crimereads.com /2 days ago

5 Mysteries Set in the Rugged Wilderness (Plus a Quiz)

A misty seashore, a scented pine forest, or a foggy woodland river. Any of these set the tone for mystery and suspense. But why do they trigger our primal urge to venture off into...

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rogerebert.com /3 weeks ago

How “In a Lonely Place” Changed Noir’s Direction

A look at how feminine intuition shaped the noir genre through Dorothy B. Hughe's 1947 novel and Nicholas Ray's beloved film adaptation.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Rural Crime Rates

Evening Team SF, Hands up, working in risk management has ruined my life. In my planning to retire to France I’ve had to examine flood risks, landside risks, forest fire risk, drou...

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thisiscolossal.com /1 month ago

Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles’ Noir Side in ‘The City Unseen’

The forthcoming book from Hat & Beard Press leans into the dualities of Los Angeles. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support...

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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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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

The Backlist: Reading Kem Nunn’s Seminal ‘Surf Noir’ with Jordan Harper

Every reader of this genre knows that there’s no noir like California noir. Southern California is the exemplary place where beauty and death sit side by side, and it’s produced a...

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metro.co.uk /4 weeks ago

‘Gritty and dark’: The best British crime thrillers on Netflix right now

Gritty, darkly humoured and occasionally bleak.

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

White Picket Mayhem: 6 Thrillers Set in the Suburbs

We’re curious. It’s part of being human. But there’s an added layer to this—let’s just call it nosiness—when it involves matters happening behind the tony doors of the well-to-do....

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