Rachel Jackson reviews Amanda Jayatissa’s new novel, “My Sweet Girl.”...

Matt Lewis reviews “Five Decembers,” a globetrotting noir from James Kestrel....

Gabino Iglesias takes a look at the grief and guilt that propel S. A. Cosby’s “Razorblade Tears.”...

Collin Mitchell examines the hazy disquietude of Sébastien Japrisot’s “Rider on the Rain.”...

The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers....

Tara Cheesman reviews “Tokyo Redux,” the final installment of David Peace’s Tokyo Trilogy....

Jack Mearns explores the life and work of John Sanford, an oft-neglected 20th-century American writer who wrote incisive novels addressing American society....

Désirée Zamorano reviews Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division,” a novel set in a community of Japanese Americans recently released from an internment camp....

Daneet Steffens talks with Julia Dahl about the inspiration behind “The Missing Hours,” her latest novel....

Savy Janssen scopes out two new noir novels with female leads, S. A. Lelchuk’s “One Got Away” and Halley Sutton’s “The Lady Upstairs.”...

Larissa Dooley reviews Lou Mathews’s “Shaky Town,” a novel made of several interlocking stories set in East L.A....

Halley Sutton interviews Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, editor of the upcoming anthology collection “Palm Springs Noir.”...

Carissa Chesanek examines the close quarters that form “Intimacies,” Katie Kitamura’s latest....

Daneet Steffens talks with Chris Offutt about how his hometown in Eastern Kentucky inspired “The Killing Hills,” his first crime novel....

Naomi Elias talks to Nekesa Afia about her debut novel, “Dead Dead Girls.”...

Gabriel Hart takes a ride with the late Dan Fante, author of “Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets.”...

Jung Yun reviews Willa C. Richards’s “The Comfort of Monsters,” an “artful examination of the relationships between sex, power, violence, and identity.”...