Noir

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

• The Roughneck’s Lament

  Would you want to spend your leisure time with this kind of darkness?

  Keith RawsonNov 19, 2014

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• The Apotheosis of Envy

  "Malice" is both a "well-written, well-plotted police procedural" and "the story of two writers."

  Neda SemnaniNov 18, 2014

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• The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round of Cape Town Noir

  In the past 15 years there has been a blossoming of noir in South African literature — see Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.

  Glenn HarperNov 1, 2014

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• A Rabbi and a Hit Man Walk into a Subdivision

  Tod Goldberg has decided to put his own absurd twist on old mafia tales with his novel "Gangsterland."

  Adam RosenOct 19, 2014

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  Andrew Coburn: The Understated Noirist

  Andrew Coburn writes the suburb’s voyeurs, misfits, the covetous, the deranged, and the eccentric.

  Woody HautSep 28, 2014

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• Something Rotten in Denmark

  Bill LoehfelmSep 27, 2014

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  Troubled Narrators, Troubled Times

  Scott AdlerbergSep 27, 2014

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• Viral Murders

  Serial killers can be pretty garish characters

  Steph ChaSep 21, 2014

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• LA Women

  You’re going to have a tough time if you invoke Philip Marlowe in your LA-noir novels.

  Estelle TangSep 13, 2014

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  The Rabbi Who Knew Too Much

  The 50th anniversary of the Rabbi Small series.

  Adam RosenSep 4, 2014

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• Cool Characters

  Clarke C. Cooke on the evolution of black crime fiction.

  Clark C. CookeSep 3, 2014

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  The Domestic Terrorism of Tana French

  Tana French always asks: how do we become adults?

  Lisa LevyAug 31, 2014

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