Noir

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

A Complicated Canada
In "The Language of Secrets," Ausma Zehanat Khan vividly shares a complicated Canada few of us, with our naïve perceptions, pause to consider.
Désirée ZamoranoMay 27, 2016
- Noir
A Proper Crime Novel
Katrina Niidas Holm interviews Lisa Lutz about her new novel, "The Passenger".
Katrina Niidas HolmMay 25, 2016
- Noir
Takes a Tall Gallows to Hang a Big Man: The Novel Behind “Out of the Past”
Geoffrey Homes’s "Build My Gallows High", the novel that served as the basis for "Out of the Past", is every bit as good as the film. Better, maybe.
Colin FlemingMay 21, 2016
- Noir
The Sins of the Father
Lawyers by trade are storytellers, and good lawyers tell good stories — Anthony Franze’s book is a case in point.
Don FranzenMay 20, 2016
- Noir
Terrified and Exhilarated and Desperate
Chris Holm interviews Matthew Quirk about his new novel, "Cold Barrel Zero," and how he researches his stories.
Chris HolmMay 17, 2016
- Noir
Anatomy of a Prosecution
Anthony Franze interviews writer and lawyer Jonathan Shapiro about his new novel, "Deadly Force", and his upcoming Amazon show "Trial".
Anthony FranzeMay 7, 2016
- Noir
That Razor’s Edge
Liz Brixius interviews Nina Sadowsky about her new novel, "Just Fall", a noir set in St. Lucia
Liz BrixiusMay 5, 2016
- Noir
The Unacknowledged: Black Crime Fiction, the Roaring ’20s to the 1930s
The breadth of crime fiction gives all of us entry to any venue we desire — to retroactively acknowledge the unacknowledged.
Gary PhillipsApr 25, 2016
- Noir
Graphomania: A Life in Words
Walter Mosley: "I find my books more interesting than me."
Kate BurnsApr 15, 2016
- Fiction
- Noir
The Hollywood Ladies of Série Noire
Sarah WeinmanApr 11, 2016
- Noir
The Sin Eater: Alice Thomas Ellis and the Gothic Tradition
Abby GeniApr 9, 2016
- Fiction
- Noir
Something’s Rotten in Mammoth
Nancie ClareApr 4, 2016
- Noir