Searching for What’s Walled Off: On Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division”
Désirée Zamorano reviews Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division,” a novel set in a community of Japanese Americans recently released from an internment...
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett
Désirée Zamorano reviews Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division,” a novel set in a community of Japanese Americans recently released from an internment...
Désirée ZamoranoSep 15, 2021
Daneet Steffens talks with Julia Dahl about the inspiration behind “The Missing Hours,” her latest novel.
Daneet SteffensSep 15, 2021
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.”
Savy JanssenAug 27, 2021
Larissa Dooley reviews Lou Mathews’s “Shaky Town,” a novel made of several interlocking stories set in East L.A.
Larissa DooleyAug 24, 2021
Halley Sutton interviews Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, editor of the upcoming anthology collection “Palm Springs Noir.”
Halley SuttonAug 8, 2021
Carissa Chesanek examines the close quarters that form “Intimacies,” Katie Kitamura’s latest.
Carissa ChesanekJul 20, 2021
Daneet Steffens talks with Chris Offutt about how his hometown in Eastern Kentucky inspired “The Killing Hills,” his first crime novel.
Daneet SteffensJul 20, 2021
Naomi Elias talks to Nekesa Afia about her debut novel, “Dead Dead Girls.”
Naomi EliasJul 10, 2021
Gabriel Hart takes a ride with the late Dan Fante, author of “Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets.”
Gabriel HartJul 7, 2021
Jung Yun reviews Willa C. Richards’s “The Comfort of Monsters,” an “artful examination of the relationships between sex, power, violence, and...
Jung YunJul 3, 2021
Glenn Harper reviews “The Measure of Time,” the latest from Italian crime writer Gianrico Carofiglio.
Glenn HarperJun 28, 2021
The pulp fiction of Basil Heatter is a sweaty exercise in unusual punctuation.
Robert FrombergJun 26, 2021