How the voice of Harlem became the king of crime fiction
Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...
5 Vintage Crime Novels Spiked With Peril and Pitfalls
Paperwork is Mitch’s biggest bane until he’s summoned, along with the mercurial lab technician Jub Freeman, to the scene of a hit-and-run; together they link that crime with a dead cat and a murdered ...
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World famous Lanarkshire whisky firm's charity crime fiction collection is perfect tonic
Fitt, a Scottish, crime fiction author based in Hampshire ... "A fine dram of whisky in a Glencairn Glass is the perfect ...
Crime fiction: John Banville’s Strafford and Quirke return, though lesser characters almost steal the show
Book lovers will find the sharp observations delivered by the ... £26.99), though its 11 tales, by an eclectic group of crime ...
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‘This is how you write a book!’: nominees for the An Post Irish Book Awards crime fiction prize on the novels that inspired them
With the clock ticking down to the An Post Irish Book Awards, we asked the six nominees for this year’s Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year to tell us about their favourite reads in the ...
Fiction: Richard Price’s ‘Lazarus Man’
The author of “Clockers” and “Freedomland” returns with the story of an East Harlem neighborhood in the wake of a catastrophe ...
I Sat in Court the Day an Infamous Cold Murder Case Finally Broke Open
The Lindenhurst bar where Hoff sat and where he met his victim was a dive joint tight to the railroad tracks called the ...
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PW Close-Up: Scott Turow Brings Back Rusty Sabich for One Last Case
With 'Presumed Guilty,' the final book in his Presumed Innocent trilogy, publishing in January 2025, PW talked with Scott ...