CrimeReads

5 days ago | crimereads.com | David Masciotra

James Lee Burke is one of the most prolific authors in the United States. Averaging a book a year throughout his sixty-years in literature, he is also one of the most profound, riveting, and stylistically beautiful. His new novel, Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie, acts as both a companion to his other work, exploring violence and the quest for justice through the lens of a courageous protagonist. It is also a departure, demonstrating that Burke is still full of surprises.

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Olivia Rutigliano

Gather round, gather round! The Thursday Murder Club movie has released a teaser trailer!Article continues after advertisementHere it is! It’s a minute and a half, so it doesn’t reveal too much (thankfully). But it does present the world of Cooper’s Chase, the luxury retirement community home to four impressive senior sleuths, to satisfying detail.

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

“I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar, on my desk.”Article continues after advertisementRobert Bloch wrote those words a couple of decades before I was born and long before he became best known as the author of the 1959 novel “Psycho,” the basis for the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock suspense and horror film. Those words were pretty much the first thing I knew about Bloch.

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Kevin Canfield

Rich Cohen’s Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story is about a crime that stunned one of America’s richest towns. The 2019 disappearance of the New Canaan, Connecticut mother of five drew extensive news coverage—an example, some said, of “missing white woman syndrome.” Once again, the media was obsessed with a privileged suburbanite in mortal peril. Meanwhile, crime victims from other racial and socioeconomic backgrounds were largely ignored.

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Olivia Rutigliano

I’m on an airplane right now, about to go on vacation. Well, actually, I assume by the time this article is published, I’ll either be on or have returned from vacation. But at the time of composition of this piece, I am on board an aircraft, 34,997 feet in the air. I’ve worked a full day, really, up to the last moment before my vacation begins. Soon, I’m going to fold up my laptop, sling on my neck pillow, and watch a movie on the tiny screen embedded in the seatback in front of me.