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"Literary Crime"
by BJW Nashe
1. Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone
Dog Soldiers may be the best thriller ever written by an American. Set in the tumultuous early 1970s, the story follows John Converse, a journalist on his way back to California from Vietnam, who […]
by Patrick H. Moore
All good things must end (and all bad things too). What is ending now is All Things Crime Blog. We’ve been hit with a frivolous lawsuit which Patrick H. is fighting, with the help of a highly competent young lawyer […]
by BJW Nashe
Abdulrahman Zeitoun’s roller coaster ride during the past decade — through the ups and downs of running a business, surviving a hurricane disaster, enduring injustice, and achieving fame — came to a screeching halt in July 2012 when he was arrested […]
by Darcia Helle
Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan is as much a cultural study as a true crime story. Author Mark I. Pinsky takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains of Madison […]
by Darcia Helle
“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” ~ Voltaire
If books and TV shows like the Rizzoli and Isles series are to be believed, then medical examiners are […]
by Robert Parmer
The successes of film giants such as The Godfather, Scarface, and even Bonnie and Clyde, havehelped shaped the scope of things to come in the crime/drama genre.
These classic movies instantly draw images of mob mentality, excessive drug trafficking, and […]
by Jimmy Macias
Prison gangs have been in the news. When the Aryan Brotherhood was recently suspected of having had a hand in the killing of two Texas District Attorneys, law enforcement publicly acknowledged that the power and reach of prison gangs goes […]
I am pleased to announce that crime novelist Darcia Helle of Quiet Fury Books Blog has very kindly posted a story I wrote about how my new novel, Cicero’s Dead, came into being. The piece is entitled “Nick Crane, Spirit Catchers and […]
Trade in exotic and endangered species is a multi-billion dollar industry. It stands as the world’s third largest organized crime—after narcotics, and arms running. In the state of Florida, it is second only to the illicit trade in narcotics. DARK ROAD, DEAD END: […]
by Mike Roche
Exhibit I: The Killing of John Lennon
In the darkness of a cold December night, the assassin waited for his prey to return home. He watched in silence as the limousine dropped off the celebrity couple in front of their exclusive […]
