December 7, 2023ByCrimeReads The CrimeReads editors make their picks for the year’s best fiction. Article continues after advertisement * Jessica Knoll,Bright Young Women (Simon & Schuster) Jessica Knoll’s brilliant, blistering third novel is a tart new addition to the growing oeuvre of novels...
The CrimeReads editors make their selections for the best crime anthologies released in 2023. * Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (eds), Never Whistle at Night (Vintage) “Spine-tingling and suggestive storytelling. . . . Entertaining and thought-p
and thinking hard about the murder of 15-year-old Said during a police identity check. As he considers the life and death of Said, he puts together the larger puzzle of oppression in the heavily policed suburbs. Mehdi’s writing conjures the best of French noir, and reminds us w...
PostedMarch 23, 2023 Is Robert Altman’sThe Long Goodbyethe most overrated crime film of 1973? For that matter, is it one of the most overrated crime films of the 1970s? When I recently posed this question on social media, it was interesting to see how ...