crime
Books In Which Rich People (Think They Can) Get Away With Murder
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Having money offers many privileges. Beautiful clothes, houses, and spouses. Glossy lives, glossy hair, and the odd glossy-coated pony. Better healthcare and a better diet full of perfectly balanced…
Fallโs Best International Fiction
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Sorry, folksโwe got a little behind with the column, but thereโs been so many wonderful new novels in translation coming out this fall, I had to do at least…
Learning to Be Lost (and Found) in Fiction and in Life
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Itโs 1986, and Iโm lost in the forest. Iโm ten years old, huddled at the base of a Ponderosa pine at the far reaches of Silver Lake, California, one…
Brave Women in Mysterious Circumstances: A Reading List
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When I was 12 or 13, I read a book called The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon. There wasnโt a ton of YA in those days…
The Backlist: Alex Finlay and Polly Stewart Revisit โI Am Pilgrim,โ by Terry Hayes
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Everyone who has ever tried to write crime fiction understands the importance of pacing. Itโs not enough to have a plot that sounds exciting on the jacket copyโgetting the…
Queen of the Supermarket
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Thereโs a wonderful world where all you desire And everything youโve longed for is at your fingertips Where the bittersweet taste of life is at your lips Where aisles…
Why New Zealand Noir?
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Several years ago, I was sitting in a cafรฉ with a group of fellow New Zealand writers, discussing books weโd recently read. With several of us, me included, working…
Five Books With Righteous Female Rage
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I didnโt intend to write a book about an angry woman. After all, furious, embittered charactersโdespite much progressโoften remained the province of men. To write an angry woman was…
5 New Books Coming Out This Week
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Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Femi Kayode, Gaslight (Mulholland) โKayode delivers another ensnaring, vividly realized, suspenseful, and witty tale of…