CrimeReads

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.

Jess Kidd, Murder at the Spirit Lounge
(Atria)

“The colorful cast of characters, including several carry-overs from the series debut, is com...

If I remember correctly, I first read a review of Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance in the New York Times Sunday Book Review section when the novel was published in 1984. Internet research reveals this had to be the July 29, 1984 piece by Denis Donoghue. The review, overall, is unfavorable, with Donoghue saying, among other things, that what he mostly felt ...

I think it’s fair to say that most authors begin their first draft after asking themselves, What if? Those two words can be innocuous, even benign. But a few years ago I was at the LA Times Festival of Books and heard the great James Ellroy emphatically state that anything we write is autobiographical. Crime writers, by design, lean hard into the horrible things people...

A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend.

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Cape Fear
(Apple TV)

I’ll admit to being a little tor...

Forty-five years ago, Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in theaters and introduced the world to the swashbuckling hero known as Indiana Jones. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s creation, a whip-cracking archaeologist played by Harrison Ford, has evolved since that time into one of the most enduring characters in the history of popular fiction. Five films, a television s...