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There’s a New Show Where Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel Solves Crimes...
A crime has occurred in the heart of old Europe. Technically some guy was killed, but the real crime might be the new German-made TV show Miss Merkel, where (and I kid you not) the former German...
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The Backlist: Rebecca Makkai on ‘The Murderess’ and Reading in Translation
There are words that we hesitate to use when describing women writers. Nice is certainly one, and approachable might be even more questionable. (Who exactly is approaching, and what are their...
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How a News Story About a Man with Geckos in His Pants Prompted Rose Carlyle’s...
When we read about a crime in the newspaper, we can usually guess the offender’s motive. Murder is often committed in a fit of rage, while robbery is driven by greed. But some crimes leave us...
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Crime and the City Treks High into the Himalayas
Every so often Crime and the City feels the need to escape the metropolis, head for the hills and breath some fresh air – we’ve done it before to the beautiful Scottish Highlands, the vastness of...
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Nilanjana Roy On Reporting on Gender In India
For some years between 2009 and 2013, I worked as a reporter on what was called, often dismissively, the “gender beat”. I had little experience of the crime beat, and had only two skills to offer: I...
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Outback Noir: Darwin and the Northern Territories
Darwin and the Northern Territories, or just NT, are just about as remote as you can get in Australia – you’re basically, once you get across the Torres Island Straits, up near Papua New Guinea. You’re...
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Crime and the City: Birmingham, Alabama
As Crime and the City has already done the other Birmingham – you know the one in the English Midlands, full of Peaky Blinders, warm beer, the famous “Curry Miles” and with more miles of canal than...
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Crime Writing in Sheffield: England’s Gritty Steeltown
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Northern England. Once the powerhouse of the British Empire’s steel manufacturing – hardly a house or hotel in the British Empire didn’t have knives and forks stamped with...
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Gullion and the Bullshit of Mythology
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains, it was just announced, have called off the search for Robert Nairac’s body. Captain Nairac was a 29-year-old Grenadier Guards officer...
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Shelley Burr on Small Town Mystery and Australian Crime Fiction
Grasping the multitude of characters introduced in the early pages of Australian crime fiction writer Shelley Burr’s second novel, Murder Town, seems daunting at first—but stick with it, as Burr weaves...
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Finish Out the Year with These Five International Thrillers
As the nights grow longer, the holidays grow nearer, and the seasonal depression takes ahold, why not while away the hours with an international mystery (or two, or five)? Post-election, we all need a...
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Lyon: A World Capital of Gastronomy and Crime Books
There is no doubting Lyon’s creds as a crime city. The Quais du Polar had been held annually in Lyon since 2005 and is now arguably the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest...
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Locked In
PROLOGUE I 2005 “Again with this crap?” Anker flung open the passenger-side door and reached one arm across the windshield. “Can’t see shit when they put it at that angle.” “Let me guess,” grunted...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of 2024
As America becomes an increasingly untenable place, reading widely from a variety of cultures and languages feels ever more essential, if only as an antidote to growing xenophobia. This year brought...
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Crime and the City: Botswana
Landlocked and composed mostly of the Kalahari Desert, the Republic of Botswana borders South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia. The size of France though home to only 2.5 million people, 85 per...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2025
2025 has barely begun, but it’s already shaping up to be a terrible year, full of incredible books. As per usual, we’ve assembled a great big list of all the crime, mystery, horror, and thriller titles...
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The Crime Fiction of Fiji
Hey, it’s a long winter for some of us! And so we start to dream of places like Fiji, that charmed South Pacific Isle, 1,300 miles from New Zealand, an archipelago of over 330 islands, about only a...
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Atlantic City: Crime Fiction on the Boardwalk
Atlantic City, AC, New Jersey’s fun city, the “Las Vegas of the East Coast” and of course the Boardwalk Empire. Who doesn’t know 1920s Prohibition-era Atlantic City from the HBO series? Just in case...
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Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer’s New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries
Here’s a confession: I don’t think about genre when I’m writing. Especially not during the planning, the research or the writing process. And mostly not after it’s finished, either. Look, I am...
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Khartoum and the Crime Writing of Sudan
Khartoum – the sprawling capital of Sudan with a population of six and a half million people. On the Nile (the city where the two Niles – the white and the blue – meet), by Lake Victoria. Famously a...
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