‘Not Long Ago Persons Found’ Destroys Order
The narrator of Not Long Ago Persons Found says “a detective story is supposed to be about the restoration of order”, yet this Kafkaesque tale does not do so.
crime fiction
Who Will Be the Next Harry Hole? The 5 Best Norwegian Actors for the Role
The complex detective in Norwegian noir writer Jo Nesbø’s novels needs the perfect actor for the upcoming series. Who will be – who can be – the next Harry Hole?
Trigger Warning: Fuminori Nakamura’s ‘The Gun’
Fuminori Nakamura’s neo-noir The Gun picks apart the mental machinery of a potential shooter and puts him back together, piece by piece, to identify the fatal components.
Stephen Graham Jones on Exploring Morality and Ecology with ‘Earthdivers’
Stephen Graham Jones’ horror/sci-fi lays eggs in your head. With his latest project, the Earthdivers (Kill Columbus), his ideas for an alternative America crawl out.
Robert Grindy’s Community College Noir ‘Iced’ Is Seriously Comic
Iced works as a crime novel, a mystery, a satire set in low-rent academia, and its own movie treatment.
The Continental Op Finally Gets the Book He Deserves
The 28 stories and two novels of Dashiell Hammett's iconic hardboiled detective are now compiled into a long-overdue, accessible paperback.
Surveying the British Thriller Landscape with ‘Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang’
Mike Ripley's "reader's history" may only occasionally leave you shaken or stirred, but it does provide a lot of titles to consider for your reading queue.
Library of America Rethinks Women and the Hard Boiled Tradition in New Set of Women’s Crime Writing
This box set represents a nuanced perspective not only of the crime fiction genre, but of women's contributions to mid-century American culture.